Chapter 91: Light and Tears

Ji Jue heard the miserable whistle, scream, and wail emitted by the boiling spiritual quality for the first time.

It was like being subjected to the punishment of slicing.

That blurry face emerged from between the surging spiritual bodies, terrified and twitching, wailing miserably, tearing its own body again and again, countless fragments scattered, but it couldn't escape the terrifying gravity coming from the darkness.

Until finally, it made a painful decision.

Formless, exploded with a boom!

Hundreds and thousands of blood lights burst out, toward all directions, but most of them were instantly swallowed by the darkness and disappeared, leaving only sporadic fragments escaping from that terrifying gravity, instantly fleeing in a panic without looking back.

Not even daring to look back.

Just like that, it brushed past the deer-headed strange shadow coming with blood, the strange monster's footsteps paused slightly for a moment, and it withdrew its gaze indifferently.

Just like that, it slowly walked into that dust-sealed door.

In the dead darkness, blurry outlines appeared from the eternal gloom, humming ancient tunes hoarsely and scattered.

Just like dead spirits imprisoned in an endless cycle.

Vainly, remembering the hometown.

"Thinking of hometown... thinking of hometown..."

The departed souls sang happily from hell: "Hometown is so cute..."

Thus, from the singing, a hair-raising aura sprayed out like a waterfall, sweeping, gradually drowning the entire Rift Realm.

And in the corner of the hub, Ji Jue's eyes went dark.

Feeling unprecedented trembling and fear... as if invisible cold palms were stroking through his soul, selecting materials, looking at them indifferently, but then slowly leaving.

What he felt was the terrifying gap between each other like heaven and abyss, the fear and hesitation of being fish and meat, without any ability to resist.

He still recognized the spiritual quality signal that was wailing just now, and precisely because of this, he became even more terrified.

Long Jihui?

What's going on? Are you serious?!

This hell just suddenly gave up?

No, Ji Jue had originally prepared to fight hard against such an out-of-spec monster in order to take down Non-Aggression; if they really fought, he had already thought of the strategy.

Using the operation of the hub, fighting while retreating, holding the hatred, retreating all the way to the sea of spiritual quality outside... then, directly stabbing the neck to open that crushing device!

He didn't believe that such a monster that was spiritual quality-fied all over could withstand the spiritual quality purification program in the Mercury Workshop!

As a result, he had prepared to fight a shepherd again, but the opponent just disappeared so simply?!

No way? Can't be? Can't be?

Ji Jue wasn't itchy for a fight, but the problem is... the shepherd of the Long Jihui was solved so easily and simply, could he, with his few pounds and taels, escape?

"Prophet—"

Ji Jue looked back and asked hoarsely: "What exactly is that?"

"What else could it be?"

The prophet was expressionless, feeling the gloomy fluctuation rising with the singing in the distance, "That is mercury, Mr. Ji Jue; the Embers once named mercury are instinctively leaning toward the unextinguished embers."

Boom!

The low muffled sound captured everyone's soul.

That is, the heartbeat.

From the deepest darkness.

In the spiritual quality solution, a shriveled heart jumped suddenly.

Then, another one...

"Damn it, crazy, all crazy."

Outside the hub that was constantly expanding and rising, in the Rift Realm where the earth was shaking, starlit spiritual quality remnants gathered from the corpses, blurry faces emerged, greedily devouring the spiritual quality that hadn't dissipated, barely restoring a faint outline, but like a candle in the wind.

Terrified and swaying.

When Formless looked back at the hub that was gradually rising at this moment, it could no longer hide its terror and trembling, cursing in confusion, muttering incoherently: "Fuck the sages... all liars... all crazy, all crazy!"

"Excuse me, sorry to bother you."

A gentle voice came from the darkness, accompanied by footsteps, making the blurry outline of Formless tremble suddenly, almost collapsing, not even caring about devouring the remaining souls, retreating rapidly, looking back vigilantly.

Then, it saw a disheveled face.

Just like it had just crawled out from some corner, carrying a heavy backpack, holding a map torn in half in anger.

The old white-haired woman took off her hat, fanned herself, raised her head and drank more than half of the water bottle, then relaxed and sat on the ground: "Fell down accidentally, the shitty map led the way, almost couldn't climb up... well, who is that, did you just come out from inside?"

She asked curiously: "May I trouble you to tell me, what is the current situation of mercury?"

Just mentioning that name, the outline of Formless swayed, almost unable to maintain, no longer able to restrain the fierceness and malice, staring fixedly at that face.

Actually... no matrix, no blessing, can't even see the ability, but the soul is condensed to the point that no aura leaks out, unable to identify any traces.

So strange.

However, it is so tempting.

The hungry appetite instinctively urged it, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat!

From the hiss, Formless flew out.

But the next moment, it stopped abruptly, from between the closed five fingers.

"So many years, why is the Long Jihui still this shitty?" She sighed lightly, like holding a dead dog, holding Formless in her hand, shaking it casually: "To get in, I even dismantled the matrix, at least be polite, don't fight and kill at every turn. However, since you are not polite first..."

From the flickering faint light, her face was shrouded in shadow, gradually changing, until finally, it faintly outlined the ferocious outline of a fierce bird.

The bloody strange mask slowly emerged, shrouded over that gentle smile, the void blood slowly dripped from the long beak, looking down fiercely.

"Then I don't need to pretend to be a gentleman."

Bai Xiao grinned, grinning silently.

Boom!

Amidst the loud noise, the earth collapsed and shattered, and thunder resounded through the entire Rift Realm.

The earth finally fell apart.

The hub bloomed, like a lotus, opened, pierced through the earth and the firmament, bathed in the eternal twilight sunlight, layers of complex structures unfolded from it, thousands of threads, flickering and faint, just like thousands of invisible big hands, reaching toward the sky and the earth, grasping everything in it.

And from the highest point, what unfolded was a pair of translucent wings.

Refracting the twilight of the sunset, so gorgeous.

Then the second pair, the third pair, the fourth pair...

Until the end, countless wings covered the firmament, and eyes opened on the wings, again, looking down at all, staring at the riddled earth and ruins.

Blood-colored tears fell like rain.

Can't hear the wailing.

But the sorrow was like a tide, making the shattered earth tremble again, swallowing everything...

Right in the countless wings, faint outlines of palms emerged, overlapping, entangled, stretching, thousands of palms unfolded from the center, outlining and intertwining into a strange giant ring.

【■————】

The hissing sound of thousands of people overlapping in one place resounded through the entire Rift Realm.

Crack!

The last remnant of the former shepherd completely dissipated from Bai Xiao's hand, not even having time to wail.

At this moment, she raised her head, looking at the countless wings covering the firmament, and even the millions of palms twisted into a ball in the wings, and couldn't help but gasp.

"Hey, old man—what exactly is this?!"

Bai Xiao pulled up the map in her hand, questioning angrily: "Before coming, you only told me to take a courier, but didn't tell me there was such an exaggerated thing in the Rift Realm!"

【That is mercury, haven't you already seen it with your own eyes?】

On the silent map, distant handwriting slowly emerged: 【This bitterness and despair is the sin and evil fruit that mercury bears on behalf of all Mohists.】

"…Sages' evil transformation?"

In the dead silence, Bai Xiao squeezed out a hoarse voice from her throat, unable to deny reality anymore: "Is the backlash of Tian Tian Yuan's rupture so exaggerated?

When those Mohists cut off the Tower of Tian Tian Yuan, didn't they anticipate the consequences?"

【The rupture of the Tower of Tian Tian Yuan is the worst consequence, but even the worst consequence is better than watching the Tower of Tian Tian Yuan complete.

There is no place for gods in the human world, and there should not be an eternal ruler and emperor in this world. If the emperor wants to make this world meaningless, then even if the world is destroyed, the emperor cannot be allowed to live.

The destruction of the Eternal Empire is essentially the counterattack of other Upper Goods against Tian Tian Yuan's attempt to control everything, and it cannot be triggered by a few Mohist Heavenly Humans.

Similarly, cutting off the Tower of Tian Tian Yuan is not mercury's duty...】

The handwriting on the map emerged like flowing water: 【But when breaking through the Empire's encirclement and arriving at the Tower of Tian Tian Yuan, forty-one Heavenly Humans were already half gone; among the survivors, the Giant was severely injured and dying, and only her blood could awaken the Blade of Reform.

If it were you, how would you choose?】

Bai Xiao was silent, staring at the huge outline wailing silently.

No longer knowing how to speak.

The last chance of the entire world, the accumulation and sacrifice of all Mohists for thousands of years, the fate and duty passed down through generations... when the road reached the end, the world was still dark, wind and rain swaying, and the ideal paradise was still so distant, like a dream.

When everything reached the end, the cruelest choice was placed before her.

Is it to turn back to the eternal dream promised by the emperor, sleep like a baby in the iron swaddling clothes, or ignite oneself, sacrifice everything, and hope for a future that may never be reached?

At that moment, right above the firmament, amidst the thunder, the phantom of the Tower of Tian Tian Yuan collapsed again. This time, she finally saw clearly the dazzling light rising from the darkness toward the sky...

This is the first sword that the sage mercury slashed toward the Eternal Empire four hundred years ago.

And what fell to the ground was only the sad light of tears. ===== CHAPTER 92 =====