Chapter 1141: with translation of chapter title

"Heh… I hope our weight in his heart can be comparable to the whole world," Ge Naiwu Si sighed lightly.

Watching Ke Xia standing still, Se Xisi was also curious: "Child of man, did you see that illusion again just now?"

"Yes… or perhaps you and Ge Naiwu Si were discussing another person named Ka Ersi, probably your companion."

"Ka Ersi? That name is completely unfamiliar…"

"Fine, I think I have a clue. If I'm not mistaken, they aren't an illusion but… the form of someone's soul."

"Ah… if that truly is a dead soul spirit, then what am I?"

A flood of tangled information arrived, and Ke Xia waved a hand impatiently: "Hm, I don't know… perhaps you're the illusion I imagined before death. Let's go, as long as we can see more, hear more stories…"

Se Xisi advised: "Proceed within your limits—if you go too far among the dead, even I will be powerless."

Intense vertigo and pain struck again; Ke Xia clasped his head, inhaled deeply, endured the agony, and let out a near‑mad cackle: "Hehe, no problem… if it's really as I think, that would be fascinating."

Ke Xia kept climbing, and soon before the high steps he saw two "acquaintances."

"Nice to see you again… you don't mind having extra listeners, do you?"

Se Xisi was sitting on the steps, panting heavily.

"He… he…"

"Can you still hold on?"

Se Xisi was out of breath: "Of… of course… I just… sigh, really… had I known I'd have to climb this mountain, I would have declined your invitation…"

"This is also a side note of the Burden World's weight. If Weng Faluo Si has a next life, remember to train more."

"Stop the cold words…"

Although Ke Xia felt the dialogue sounded familiar, he couldn't extract any useful information.

Se Xisi raised a hand, pointing at the sheer cliff beside him, and shouted: "I… would jump from here, fall to the valley… and never train a single bit… otherwise… I, the famed Seven Sages, Ka Lupu Suo… how would I differ from the barbarians of the 'Yishi School'?"

(Ka Lupu Suo? She is one of the Seven Sages… from the Tree Court?)

Ke Xia shook his head quickly.

(Impossible, if she truly is a Seven Sage, I should remember her…)

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Honkai 3.

"Ka Lupu Suo…" Yi Dian whispered the name, brow slightly furrowed. Wasn't that the alias Se Xisi gave herself when she first met Xia Die? And it matches the 'Seven Sages.' The head of the Lotus Food Sect, also the chief of the Seven Sages.

Yi Dian watched the "phantom" in the sky that looked exactly like Se Xisi yet spoke unfamiliar words; an unprecedented sense of strangeness crawled up her spine, like a thousand‑handed centipede brandishing its claws.

"Strange." Ailixiya dropped her teasing expression, finger lightly tapping her chin, "Isn't the real Ka Lupu Suo right beside Ke Xia? He would know with a single question, and she has never heard of Ge Naiwu Si, which means this dialogue is false for Se Xisi."

Pado whispered: "Sister Ailixiya, could it be that Se Xisi's memories were altered? Perhaps some overwhelmingly powerful force forcibly rewrote her memories?"

"Unlikely, because beyond memory alteration there's a more puzzling issue." Su, who had been silent, suddenly spoke lightly: "Ka Ersi… a Demigod who doesn't exist in the Fire Pursuit Journey, and even which Titan he serves is unknown. Listening to their tone… hehe, do you think Ka Lupu Suo and Ge Naiwu Si could be Titans? Which Titan would regard a Demigod who killed their comrades as an 'old friend'?"

Su's words were like a bucket of icy water with shards, dousing everyone's heads, making them feel as if they fell into an ice cave.

"Unless…" Kevin's voice was low and iron, "Weng Faluo Si experienced some kind of 'mistake'."

"Mistake?"

"Hmm." Kevin continued, "If I'm not mistaken, these phantoms have nothing to do with the current Weng Faluo Si. They are like two branches split from the imaginary-number tree, both belonging to different possibilities of the Weng Faluo Si world. Just as our story could appear in another form in Weng Faluo Si, this Ka Lupu Suo… could very well be Se Xisi's counterpart."

Pado nodded: "Hmm… Kevin's hypothesis still seems more reliable. But if they're counterparts, why do they appear in Weng Faluo Si? And why near KefaLe?"

"That's why I think a 'mistake' occurred," Kevin said, looking up at the towering KefaLe in the sky, "Perhaps… the answer lies within KefaLe itself."

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"Hey, Se Xisi! Do you recognize the name Ka Lupu Suo?" Ke Xia turned around, only to find Se Xisi's figure had vanished.

"…Hm? Se Xisi?"

"Gone…?" Ke Xia clutched his increasingly painful head, gritted his teeth, "Hm, never mind… I'm fine alone. It seems we're already very close… to the dead's realm."

As Ke Xia pressed onward, climbing higher, Se Xisi's voice sounded again, this time reciting an unfamiliar ballad.

"Beautiful old world, where are you now?"

"Legendary Golden Age, return to the mortal world quickly!"

"Radiant gods once walked the path we tread; ah, that warm everything has left only faint phantoms."

Ke Xia muttered discontentedly: "Why are you reciting it too…"

After the long ascent, Ke Xia finally reached the core of KefaLe.

Never before had he been this close to the divine body of the Burden World Titan.

"Finally at the end. Can't question the Titan, but I've gained this unexpected joy… Fine, let me investigate…" Ke Xia's breath hung like a thread, yet his vision dimmed, and the KefaLe before him seemed to recede.

"Ah… still not…"

"…Hm?"

Ke Xia opened his eyes again, finding himself once more on the plain haunted by countless wandering souls.

"Heh, back again…"

"This…" He spun sharply, gazing toward the distance forever shrouded in endless night.

He heard it.

He heard it, in the deep tide, after the Gate of Nothing closed, there was a voice that would speak to him—

This time, that voice was unprecedentedly clear—