Chapter 67: Extreme Reincarnation

Since you have locked me in this world! Then open your eyes wide and watch, and see how I will reduce this world to utter ruin! Let you know what a heavy price one must pay for insulting a king!

Bài Lègāng did not know that this world had just recently insulted a man who called himself the Exterminator Master King, and he was the second King to come to this world! At this moment, Bài Lègāng had only one thing in mind: to exert all his strength to vent his anger.

Dong— dong— dong—

Just as Bài Lègāng was preparing to use their aging ability to corrupt a world, one bell sound after another suddenly rang in their ears.

Who is ringing the bell?!

Bài Lègāng stared with their empty pair of eyes toward where the bell sound came from, and saw in the dilapidated bell tower an elderly monk constantly ringing the bell; the monk was quite strange—although wearing a monk's robe, they had a head of pale short hair, a tuft of white beard under the nose, and a deep scar on the right eye, making them look nothing like a proper monk.

Hum!

Upon seeing the monk, Bài Lègāng immediately used Resonant Turn, instantly arriving inside the bell tower, and coldly stared at the bell-ringing monk.

One, two, three, go!

The elderly monk seemed not to notice Bài Lègāng beside them, or perhaps they simply did not care whether anyone was nearby, wholeheartedly ringing their own bell.

Don't ring it!

Seeing this, Bài Lègāng flew into a rage, grabbed the monk's swinging bell hammer, and shouted at the monk: "This bell sound is making me irritable and restless!"

You, benefactor, are not irritable and restless because of this bell sound; rather, you are inherently irritable and restless with nowhere to vent, and merely happened to hear the bell rung by this poor monk, which you then blamed on the sound.

The monk, upon hearing Bài Lègāng's rebuke, was unperturbed, gazing at Bài Lègāng with a calm expression and speaking softly.

Utter nonsense!

Upon hearing the monk's words, Bài Lègāng flew into a rage, waving a hand to kill the monk before them, but the moment their hand touched the monk, they hesitated.

Bài Lègāng also did not know why their heart wavered, nor could they understand why they could not bring themselves to kill the monk before them.

Get out of my sight!

In the end, Bài Lègāng merely pushed the monk aside, then waved a hand to annihilate this ancient bell.

Hahaha……

Bài Lègāng looked at the bell instantly destroyed by their aging power, and suddenly burst into laughter; their mood was exceptionally pleased.

Dong! Dong……

However, before Bài Lègāng could think further, the bell sound rang again in their ears, instantly stiffening their laughing face.

Damn it! Why are you still ringing the bell?!

Bài Lègāng pressed both hands against their head, enduring the headache as they turned their head toward the monk they had shoved, and asked angrily:

"Benefactor, you are attached to appearances! The monk's bell was clearly destroyed by you; how could it still be rung by the monk?"

The monk, after being shoved by Bài Lègāng, did not get up, but somehow produced a wooden fish, sat on the ground chanting an unknown sutra, and only when they heard Bài Lègāng's inquiry did they explain to Bài Lègāng:

Who is ringing the bell?

Bài Lègāng pressed hard on their head and continued asking the monk:

You!

The monk extended a finger, pointing at Bài Lègāng's cheek, which was nothing but bone, and smiled with a compassionate, filial expression.

Me?

Hearing this, Bài Lègāng froze for a moment.

Ridiculous!

Immediately afterward, Bài Lègāng felt they were being mocked by the monk and burst out in anger.

It is precisely you, benefactor, who is ringing the bell……

"You, benefactor, destroyed the monk's bell, and that bell ran from the bell tower into your heart! The monk's bell sits here, while your bell has grown in your heart and taken root there."

The monk sat cross-legged and began to explain to Bài Lègāng:

……

Bài Lègāng fell silent upon hearing this, calmly looked at the elder, and then extended their bone-white hand.

It is you who is ringing the bell!

Bài Lègāng looked at the elder and declared, believing that killing the elder would naturally stop the bell sound.

It is I who am ringing the bell……

However, who would have known that when Bài Lègāng's power symbolizing aging touched the elder, the elder laughed and openly admitted it.

Indeed, it is you!

Seeing the elder admit this, Bài Lègāng immediately unleashed their aging power without hesitation.

As Bài Lègāng's aging power was activated, the elder's flesh instantly withered, turning into a pile of dry bones!

Hahaha……

Seeing this, Bài Lègāng suddenly burst into laughter, but as they laughed, they found they could not laugh anymore.

Take a good look at who I am!!

All that could be seen was the elder, whose flesh had receded and turned into dry bones, not dying just yet, but smiling faintly at Bài Lègāng and speaking in a voice extremely familiar to Bài Lègāng, leisurely.

……

Bài Lègāng fell silent; no matter how foolish they were, they would not mistake what was before them, and at last Bài Lègāng realized why they felt so strangely familiar upon seeing the bell-ringing elder: because after the elder shed their flesh, the dry bones appearing before Bài Lègāng were none other than their own!

"Bài Lègāng, you boast that your power is invincible! But why does this invincible aging power also work on you?!"

Before Bài Lègāng could speak, the elder who had turned to white bone spoke first, slowly extending their hand toward Bài Lègāng, and then, under the ultimate aging power, gradually turned into drifting dust.

No!

Bài Lègāng wanted to save the constantly crumbling bones before them, but as their hand neared the sky-filling powdered dust, they stopped, gazing at the black aging power, and a sudden fear welled up in their heart, just as the deceased elder had said: if Bài Lègāng is invincible, why does this invincible aging power also affect them?!

Having witnessed with their own eyes 'themselves' being killed by their own power, Bài Lègāng suddenly felt a premonition that the elder's manner of death was their own future fate—success also through aging power, failure also through aging power; in the dark, everything is predetermined.

Thinking of this, Bài Lègāng suddenly burst into hysterical rage, shouting loudly: 'This is absolutely not my fate! None of this is real! Not real!! Vile Death God, you deceived me! You tricked me!'

Destroy it!!

Bailegang's words fell, and the endless Aging power directly destroyed the entire bell tower.

"Hahaha! Hahahaha…"

After destroying the bell tower, Bai Legang suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, "The false will always be false; the false can never become true!" His destiny is controlled by himself.

"Dong~ dong~ dong…"

However, the instant the bell tower was destroyed, another bell sound rang up...

Bai Legang looked up and saw the old monk, who should have been dead, appear again inside the bell tower; he still calmly wielded the bell hammer, striking the ancient bell.

"…"

Bai Legang fell silent, silently watching the old monk, his heart a mixture of many emotions.

Yet the old monk who was ringing the bell seemed to sense Bai Legang; he stopped his ringing hand and gave Bai Legang a kindly smile.

"Boom!"

That smile from the old monk made something seem to explode in Bai Legang's head; he suddenly felt a chill and an endless eeriness rose in his heart.

"Destroy it!!"

Bai Legang no longer hesitated; he once again wielded his Aging power and completely annihilated the bell tower.

"Dong…"

Before Bai Legang could catch his breath, the bell sound rang loudly! This time the sound did not come from in front of him, but from all directions.

Bai Legang looked around and saw one bell tower after another appearing around him, and in each tower stood an identical old monk, all showing him a kindly smile.

"…"

When Bai Legang saw this scene, a chill seemed to surge to the top of his head; he did not see kindness in the monks' faces, only an endless eeriness.

"Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!!"

Bai Legang roared, releasing his Aging power in all directions, determined to see how long the bell towers would keep ringing...

For a moment, endless darkness shrouded the entire Pure Glass.

"Bai Legang, have you realized?!"

After an unknown amount of time, the same bell tower, the same old monk; Bai Legang still stood inside the tower facing the monk, but this time the monk did not ring the bell, instead looking at Bai Legang he asked softly.

"Hmm?" Bai Legang heard the monk's voice, gradually regaining his senses, and asked softly, "What did you just say?!"

"Bai Legang, I ask you, have you realized?"

The old monk tapped a wooden fish in his hand, as if an unnamed scripture slowly entered Bai Legang's heart, and at this moment the monk asked again the question he had posed before.

"Realize? I can't grasp it!"

Bai Legang gave a wry smile; he had lived in this world for ten thousand years, and in those ten thousand years he did not know how many times he had witnessed his own annihilation. He was now completely bewildered, unable to distinguish the illusory realm he previously lived in from this Pure Glass land, not knowing which side was the real world!

"I can't tell! I can't tell at all!"

Bai Legang's voice revealed helplessness; he was no longer the former Illusory King.

"Bai Legang, when you cannot grasp it, you have already attained sudden insight! When you cannot tell, you have already discerned!"

When the old monk heard Bai Legang's words, he suddenly smiled; his voice was exceedingly gentle and increasingly ethereal.

"Where are you going? Don't leave me!"

Bai Legang looked at the fading old man with a hint of panic; the reason he hadn't gone completely mad over ten thousand years was the old man's companionship. If the old man left, leaving him alone in this world, it would be no wonder he went mad.

"Bai Legang, look closely at yourself. Have you forgotten what I said before? Look closely at who I am..."

The old man smiled calmly at the flustered Bai Legang.

"Hm?!"

Bai Legang looked down and saw that, somehow, he was now wearing a monk's robe; he looked at his hands and saw a round wooden bell hammer had appeared, and before him stood a bell radiating an ancient aura.

"This..."

Bai Legang was stunned; he looked at the bell, then at himself, and finally realized!

It turned out there was never really an old monk; the old monk was just himself in his own eyes, and the bell he kept striking was merely the "heart bell" that grew within his heart!

Since this bell was born in his heart, it naturally could not be destroyed by him; no matter how many times he shattered it, it would regrow in his heart, slowly sprouting...

Endless life, countless cycles, also immortal!

"So that's it!"

Bai Legang's expression showed sudden comprehension.

At the moment Bai Legang attained sudden insight, the sky suddenly burst with crystal light, and a "Boundless", "Formless", also "Immortal" and "Majestically solemn" "Wheel Saint King" slowly manifested in the heavens.

"I've realized! Please, Holy Sovereign, grant me a name!"

Bai Legang looked up at the Saint King, slowly kneeling in reverence; before the King of Ten Thousand Kings, the Saint of Saints, even an "Illusory King" would sincerely seek the Dao.

"Your true name... Bi Jieluo!"

The Saint King in the sky, seeing this, spoke slowly.

At this point, Yi Ji Si Ji Ba and Bai Legang·Lui Sen Bang—one obtained the true name Gong Bi Luo, the other obtained the true name Bi Jieluo, one symbolizing "the sky", the other symbolizing "Heaven One", from Hai hour to Zi hour, from the four seasons to the twelve months, from beginning to end, forming a brand‑new cycle...

Thus, these two, representing the two extreme evolutionary directions of the Great Void, are the oldest voids, a head and a tail echoing each other from afar!

Next chapter! Bai Legang has been subdued~ Brothers, seeing how hard I've worked, please give me some votes~

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