Chapter 64: The Purification Begins! The Price Is Five Thousand Years

Stepping into the Biyou Huahai, you are quickly engulfed by it.

Your gaze gradually becomes hazy.

Your life is like a revolving lantern, constantly rewinding, with past scenes flashing in your mind.

Stepping into the flower sea, you glimpse a cage, Nü'er Guo Wang, an invincible path, Magpie Shapeshifting, being revered by the law elder, encountering Monkey, Tianshui Guojie, Shifu's ascension…

Your memory rewinds at high speed.

It finally stops at the moment you fell to the ground, babbling.

At this moment, the entire world collapses, centered on you, and the world rapidly reshapes.

Brand-new memories cram into your head.

Boom!

The world erupts with a thunderous blast!

In your consciousness, your hands and feet are all bound; you open your eyes, and eighteen Jin Fu stare at you.

People say the Jin Fu are majestic and resplendent, yet at this moment they appear so eerie to you.

The Jin Fu seem to be casting some secret technique to refine you; black vapors continuously surge from your body, fall onto them, and turn into golden Merit.

They appear unaware that you have awakened, merely greedily siphoning your Calamity and converting it into Merit.

As for why you bear endless Calamity, an answer emerges at this moment.

Because you killed almost an entire world's people.

In another memory, after being born to your parents, you were discarded like trash in a cave.

All around are infants just like you.

The mysterious Heiyiren, in a brutally simple manner, raise you infants as if feeding livestock.

Until your intellect first awakens.

From then on, no one feeds you; you and those children become each other's food.

In the dim, lightless world, there is nothing but bloodshed and slaughter.

Those days passed for an unknown length of time, until only you remained in the Darkness.

The Heiyiren reappears, taking you to a larger world.

Awaiting you here is still endless slaughter.

Only after you annihilate everyone here will another appear, leading you into a broader realm.

The people you encounter become increasingly formidable.

They, like you, are people who emerged from endless, cold‑blooded slaughter.

In your world there is no emotion, only survival; it has become instinct, and you trust no one.

In such a world, you keep killing upward.

You do not know how many you have killed, not just humans; any living being that appears in your sight perishes.

Your strength has reached an inconceivable level.

Finally, you see a group you have never seen before, dressed in bright, splendid attire, starkly contrasting the Darkness.

They call themselves Gu Breeders.

And you are a captive Gu Insect.

They say, "Now you, having earned the qualification, may come to the new world and choose to serve one of us."

You choose one of them.

Then you kill the person you selected, and every person you encounter.

Even the brightest world cannot illuminate your heart, already covered by blood scabs.

Endless slaughter continues, and you see no living being ever again.

You lie in the Darkness, ending yourself within it.

Memory cycles again; you are reborn in the Tianshui Huangchao, your parents slain, you descend the mountain for revenge, Shifu ascends, Tianshui Guojie, encounter Monkey…

Until you reach the Biyan Shijie, stepping into the flower sea.

The ever‑present image in your mind is the eighteen Jin Fu continuously drawing Calamity from you and converting it into Merit.

"So that's it! This is me?"

At this point, how could you not understand?

From start to finish, you have been a tool for exploitation; the Jin Fu gather Calamity onto you, then have you reincarnate to be purified, turning into Merit that belongs to them.

Even this world's existence is solely to turn you into Merit.

Or rather, to turn people like you into Merit; after you leave, new beings bearing Calamity will arrive here, becoming tools for the Jin Fu to acquire Merit.

Only the Jin Fu did not anticipate that you would awaken and perceive their deeds.

When you open your eyes again, two scenes already fill your mind.

The first scene shows the center of the Biyou Huahai, where a White Lotus blooms, emitting a power that repels evil.

The second scene depicts the eighteen Jin Fu continuously drawing your karmic energy and turning it into Merit.

The former is before your eyes, the latter in your heart.

You think, since your heart and eyes can see these, you can decipher them.

In this world where the Jin Fu dominate everything, every being's actions seem to be tools for them to obtain Merit.

But you know they do not fully control this world.

Otherwise your memory would not awaken.

According to the Jin Fu's predetermined path, you will obtain the Pure World Lotus, return to Eastern Land, and let the people of Tianshui Huangchao receive protection again.

Thus, the Calamity on you will transform into massive Merit, absorbed by the Jin Fu.

They first cultivate the cursed insects, then kill the cursed insects, and throughout they enjoy the people's reverence and offerings in the guise of a savior.

But this time, you must make the Buddha tumble from the divine throne!

You stand within the Biyou Huahai, no longer moving forward; you intend to make the Pure World White Lotus wither, plunging the Tianshui Huangchao into chaos.

You led the Monkey, who had been waiting outside the Hua Hai, into the Hua Hai.

You used your spiritual perception to convey a message to the Monkey about the world's conspiracy, telling him not to show any abnormality.

The Monkey chose to trust you.

The Monkey said, "You are, Monkey, the Master Fa I respect most, and also my Shifu; I am willing to sacrifice everything for Master Fa's plan."

You can only trust the Monkey; alone you cannot shatter the world's cage.

Sure enough, after your 'loss of control', a Fomen Daneng roamed the heavens beyond, requesting the Monkey to take the Pure World Lotus and return it to the Tianshui Huangchao.

If this scheme succeeds, you will be hailed as a great achiever, and your Calamity will still be purified.

To unravel this, it all depends on the Monkey's daring; the simplest method is to have the Monkey completely destroy the Pure World Lotus.

You dare not determine whether the Monkey will heed you; if he betrays you, your plan will be washed away.

The Monkey cradled the Pure World Lotus and departed.

That departure lasted three years.

You silently waited in the Hua Hai for three years, until one day you sensed a change in the Shi Jie, and the heavenly and earthly rules became more balanced in an instant.

You know it was the Monkey who destroyed the Pure World Lotus.

What result will await the Monkey?

Magpie told you, saying, "The Monkey is pressed beneath a Foshan, to be suppressed for a full five thousand years!"

This is the price the Monkey pays.

It is also the true beginning of the Pure World!