Chapter 169 The Fifth Day After the God's Departure (6) [Ah Tan, don't die...]
So, Ah-Tan willingly became the complete being to wash away all the bad endings and fulfill Mommy's beautiful wish?
[No! Ahhh, Ah Tan clearly didn't care about anything, didn't care about anything, but in the end, she did this...]
[Because he cares about Mommy, sob sob]
[I'm such a stressed-out student counselor!]
[Help me, I can't bear to watch this. Ah Tan is a misanthropic and world-weary person. Having witnessed countless apocalypses and tragedies, he probably feels that everything is meaningless, and he hates himself even more. He probably sees himself as "a nonsensical person," "someone who shouldn't have been born," or "a monster." If it weren't for his obsession, he would have ended his own life long ago. But this is the kind of person who ultimately chooses to be a savior-like sacrifice... Ahhhh, I can no longer tell if this is also due to his obsession or a sense of relief.]
How can I let this go? Mommy wants everyone to have the best possible ending, including you, Ah Tan!!!
[It's not just about including, it's about making you the most important person!!! Mommy might rather let her lucky baby live her own life despite all the imperfections.]
[And Lu Lu, ahhhhh, Atan, how could you be so heartless as to abandon him all alone? You're so cold-hearted, waaaaaah!]
[That's right, who wants your bad ending to make everyone else have a good ending? If you die, Lu Lu will never have a good ending.]
[Ah Tan, don't die! Waaaaaah!]
Why did it have to end like this...? It really ended like this! Sword God, I hate you... I hate you...
...
So, the time loop is happening again because Atan needs time to erase the "if" scenarios involving these people?
When the complete Eye of Observation was forged, shouts echoed through the mountains, and countless voices were swept into the whistle, causing the ceremony to pause for a moment. Then, after midnight, the pointer of the ceremony laid out in the mountains returned to the time when Xie Tan entered the ceremony.
In other words, their eyes are only fully formed after the cycle begins on the fifth day; they remain on the inauspicious day.
This was a time that the cult leader deliberately timed.
The entire city was plunged into darkness, without a single light.
The eyes formed of black flames blinked wildly, and the thick fog was pushed further away by the gale.
The tail of the flame curled into the shape of lips, as if surprised by the refinement of all the unexpected trajectories of fate, as if it had finally understood something.
Oh dear, that child...
Their smiles instantly twisted.
But soon, the lips stopped caring, watching this great sacrifice with a dance-like gaze, filled with condescending pity and even more mockery.
He watched the fire burn and the fog engulf the city, his laughter never ceasing, layer upon layer.
He and Su He had already been incorporated into the ritual, but the ominous day had not passed, and without the god, the power could not be recovered.
Because its power had nowhere to go, it was locked up on this fifth day, locked up in the city of Diqiu.
[What's Uncle laughing about again? Making it cycle for the fifth day, is he up to some dirty trick?]
Wasn't he trying to make Lu Lu's power complete, disdaining humanity and regarding returning to God's embrace as his highest ideal?
[They've crossed class boundaries, yet they despise those from humble, vulgar, and impure backgrounds.]
He was genuinely happy; it was the happiest episode for my uncle, when the whole city sang along to him off-key.
Why did he hold out for five days? How could he recover his power if Lu Lu didn't return?
[Holy crap, is it possible that he's not actually going to return the power to Lu Lu?]
[!! I suddenly remembered that the cult leader said he wanted to wipe Lu Lu away, but with Mommy around, he didn't succeed. So, in his mind, the Sun God might already be dead? He never intended to bring Lu Lu back!]
[There's an even more terrifying possibility: I think you're all underestimating your uncle... Does he really not know that there's only one consciousness in the mirror?]
Holy crap!
Holy crap!
[Everyone review the fake turtle word puzzle!]
[He's pretending he doesn't know, but actually he wants to take his place? And he even has a legitimate reason to do so!]
So he just wants to take it all back for himself? He wants to become a god?
[Yes, the gods aren't around on inauspicious days; he deliberately timed his attack at this time!]
[They really did teach us this, like the Black Goat did. That's what we learn at our underwater school.jpg]
[You guessed it! This is exactly what the leader wished for!]
The black mist, which resembled a multitude of tongues, spread out like small mirrors, reflecting the same scene, playing everywhere in the mountains throughout the four seasons.
As a child, before the cult leader was burned to a crisp, he bore a resemblance to Xiao Liu, with an obedient smile on his face. He was personally led by the patriarch to the front of the secret chamber.
He walked the path behind the secret room by himself, his smile unchanged, as he passed through the dark passage, which added a touch of eeriness.
He stopped in front of the huge smoky mirror, his eyes slowly changing, a frenzied obsession emerging from them. He looked at it as if it were the rarest treasure in the world, and even while devoutly bowing, he kept staring at the mirror.
The camera pans to his back, where his reflection is faintly visible in the dark mirror.
He wasn't looking in the mirror at all; he was looking at himself in the mirror!
"God, if you really exist... I want to become like you."
silence.
"I'm right here, why haven't you shown up yet?"
silence.
The boy suddenly realized and giggled, "I forgot, I am your incarnation on earth, I am you!!!"
The images in the mirrors vanished, and he suddenly opened his blood-red lips, his demonic voice causing ripples on the mirror surfaces. For a moment, he looked remarkably like his image in the Wonderland blind box, repeating the same phrase over and over.
[Wow, that's weird, Uncle, stop laughing.]
So this was the cult leader's wish. No wonder he was so excited to see other people's wishes come true.
I think I understand now. The brother's feelings for the sister are actually jealousy...
[So that's how it is. I always thought the brother treated his sister strangely! Including his treatment of her children.]
[Completely, Uncle was raised as an incarnation of God, and he wholeheartedly identified with this identity. However, God did not react to him. Instead, God was born because of his least talented biological sister. After a meeting with his sister, he became a sunny, cheerful, and philanthropic person. It is certain that Uncle would break down under self-doubt. His faith in God and in himself collapsed. He may even have thought that his sister and God betrayed him together.]
So he thinks God is disqualified? He's the rightful one? This whole "high-class" thing...
So that's how it is. Every betrayal he committed was a meticulous act of revenge. Wolf Dad was wrong. Compared to the patriarch, the leader hated everything related to Mommy even more, especially her child. Despite having a blood connection with him, the child's talent and coldness were just like his, making him a perfect match and filling the void left by Sixth Sister's existence. Yet, for Sixth Sister and Lu Lu's sake, he kept "going against" himself and even developed human qualities.
If Ah Tan's goal was simply to become the complete being and gain power, the leader would protect him to the very end. The purification of Lu Lu was the final test, but he was "betrayed" once again.
It wasn't a matter of anyone becoming the complete being; he wanted Ah Tan dead, to ruin his efforts, and to cause pain to both his deceased sister and the living "false god."
[Holy crap, so the cult leader was laughing so happily after realizing what had happened because he was sure he'd done the right thing. The child who should have been most like him actually did something like sacrificing himself for everyone. I hate him so much!]
Most importantly, there is no longer any threat. Ah Tan has merged into the solar fire and is gone; only his obsession remains.
[It's making me cry again, sob sob sob sob]
Furthermore, if the cult leader wants to become a god, he can't possibly be afraid of the eye of a single god.
[But that's not right, the ritual got stuck, he hasn't become a god yet, which means the Eye of Observation hasn't returned, does that mean Atan really has no consciousness at all? Waaah]
【!! Yes! I thought it was Ah Tan's body odor turning into mist because he's easily soluble in fire (not really), but this is Ah Tan attracting monsters!】
The scene that had played out many times in Xie Tan's life in the comics reappeared, this time covering the entire city. It was beyond description as a parade of a hundred ghosts or a chaotic dance of demons.
A dense horde of monsters surged toward Four Seasons Mountain, like billowing mist.
They smelled it! They smelled it!
Those are alluring monsters, flowers of evil, treasures that should dance with them forever in hell!
Who dares to take him away...who dares to take him away!
The cult leader realized something was wrong.
Another important reason for allowing Xie Tan to be refined was to use Xie Tan's unusual physique to draw out all the ghosts and monsters and extract the solar power from them.
But now, these guys are indeed being refined, but they are not trapped by the incantation. Instead, they ignore the solar fire and rush into the Four Seasons Mountain like madmen!
A swarm of moths, knowing full well it's fire, yet still drawn to it! All for the sake of the "light" that deceives their minds!
The cult leader realized that he had underestimated the extent to which Xie Tan's physique was capable.
No matter how powerful he is, he can't defeat all the monsters in the city that have been nourished by the sun's power for so long because of the mirror shards. Only a god can suppress them all at once; no one can do that...
The cult leader's face contorted as he once again clearly realized the gap between himself and God.
He sneered his whole life, opening his mouth.
When he drove Su He away, he took the opportunity to implant his lips into the spell on the hairband that his silly sister had left for Su He. Now the spell was activated, allowing him to summon the "knife" that he had refined earlier, just like summoning his pet.
He held the half-black knife in his mouth.
He muttered to himself, "I hope you didn't mess up and killed our good patriarch, but you're just an old dog, useless and one more time won't make a difference... Don't worry, leave it to me. Anyone who has been touched by the power of the sun must die. Do you think he can escape?"
His teeth pounded against the hilt of the knife as he raved, “It doesn’t matter. Dying like this is the most useful thing. What a fine knife! It can do more than just break prophecies… it can even cut down gods.”
He instantly submerged into the ritual, using the part of himself that had been refined by the ritual and synchronized with the Eye of Observation to forcefully urge the hands of the clock forward, waiting for this midnight.
He intended to control everything within the ritual within a single cycle, and when the black sun descended at the boundary of time, he would seize the tail of the ominous sun and strike it with a single blow.
The Black Goat and the Order have been tracing the cause of the sun's shattering. Su Huang, that old man, is the Eye of Observation, but because of its incompleteness, his observation of the future is weak. He always felt that the "cause" was in the past, but he has never been able to find out which time, place, or world line it was.
They believed that this "cause" had been hidden, after all, it was the weakness of the sun god.
But he wasn't some old-fashioned person who couldn't think straight; he knew his own desires and believed they would come true.
Isn't that clear enough?
You can't find it simply because it hasn't happened yet.
The smoke mirror will definitely shatter in the future!
How can we find it in the past?
As for why it broke.
Hahahaha—
Because the old god is stepping down, making way for him, the true god of night!
He must have shattered the sun with a "knife"!
The flock of tongues emitted a series of whistling sounds, as if calling to the sheep.
Come on, he had the cult prepare the human skin leaves that were hidden in the mountains and forests long ago, and they had already been infested with the black goats when they came up the mountain!
They're all his puppets!
The black goats, which had long since melted into mist, surged up at the command of the herd of tongues, attacking the monsters as another force.
If he could squeeze out even a tiny moment of space, he could…!
The black goat, transformed into mist, swept past the monster and rushed straight towards him, instantly entangling him.
Her bright red lips froze.
The fog shifted rapidly, and the faces of the entire Black Goat Clan, refined in the two rituals, rose and fell, forming a ladder to the sky, howling as they lunged at all the lips.
How could this be… Her lips trembled, and she suddenly stared at Jiang Linji!
That woman!!
And as he said, it only takes a moment's gap.
The flames of the entire mountain, representing eyes, suddenly locked onto his lips, which were his true form.
The monsters swarmed around him and devoured him.
Amidst the excruciating pain of his soul being gnawed away inch by inch, he heard someone whisper a sentence. Perhaps because the speaker had become part of the ritual, it was blurred and distorted, making it impossible to discern the original voice; it sounded like a summons from demons.
[I want you dead.]
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Author's note: This story will be completed this month.
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