Chapter 1214: Who (1)

"Forgotten..."

"The future and past turn to ash, all become a sacrifice for rebirth."

Xiadie silently kneels deep within the Temple of the Three Aspects of Fate, where the scale representing Talandon hangs high on one side and droops low on the other, as if silently proclaiming the law of worldly imbalance.

The heavens tear asunder, and the Heaven's Punishment Edge, bearing the pressure that would level all nations, points toward the Heichi that surges like a tide.

On Dawn Cloud Cliff, Ke Xia, condemned by a thousand, stands at the center of the plaza to meet judgment; he lifts his head high and laughs aloud, as if scoffing at the blind fools and the world's unbearable false "truth".

Amid the collapsing ruins, flames blaze the night sky crimson. Saifei sits alone on the scorched earth, with the shattered walls of Stikokisia behind her.

———

The funeral of Fuli Lian.

"These lyrics... are they foreshadowing something?" Xiuta Erke replayed the newly heard female vocals, finding each line perfectly linked to the story already unfolding in Weng Faluos.

Could it also be a kind of oracle?

Xiuta Erke turned and saw Filien furrowing his brows, seemingly deep in thought.

"Filien, what are you thinking?"

"I'm wondering, since Laigushi says there is an Extinction Sovereign on Weng Faluos, could all other forces in the universe be unaware of it?" Filien lowered his eyelids slightly, his fingertips absentmindedly brushing the cold staff, "Lord Xiuta Erke, don't you find it odd?"

"It is very strange." Fuli Lian calmly interjected, "If Nanuk is likened to a demon king, then the Extinction Sovereign is akin to the Seven Collapse Sages under that demon king. In wartime, losing a Seven Collapse Sage often causes irreparable damage. Yet the Extinction Sovereign is far more conspicuous than a Seven Collapse Sage; could the organization have been oblivious to it?"

"Indeed that possibility exists, Fuli Lian." Zan Yin said lightly, "During the cosmic locust plague, Tan Tao clashed with Fan Yu, but later the Tan Tao star god vanished without a trace; no one knew where it went. If a star god's departure can be so secret, its disappearance unnoticed by everyone is impossible."

"The problem is, if Weng Faluos was a cage built specifically for the Extinction Sovereign, how was it captured in the first place? Who could have done that?"

———

"Fate exiles me, so what?"

"No shame, no regret; why unworthy, why must we kneel?"

"Right and wrong, truth and falsehood, choice is unrelated to correctness."

"Who sowed my karma, yet refuses to reveal the ending?"

At the center of the twelve ancient totems, Mimi serves as the sole anchor in this spacetime. Around it, the golden descendants reach out to her, as if conveying something.

As a fierce flame suddenly ignites at the heart of the formation, the once bright sky seems covered by an invisible giant hand, and Weng Faluos is shrouded in a deep night veil.

In the darkness, Star staggers to her feet. Beside her, Bai E grasps a sword with one hand, barely supporting her teetering body; the other golden descendants have all fallen silent.

Suddenly, Mimi flies in from afar, transforming in her hand into a radiant feather pen.

Star grips the pen tightly; the tip draws a brilliant ribbon of light across the air, and space cracks inch by inch like a mirror. The Xuanfengcheng beneath her instantly turns to dust, and for a moment time seems paused—shards, dust, Star... everything freezes in the void.

Then a wave of tenderness blankets her from behind.

Xilian's arm slips through Star's side neck, gently and slowly embracing her, as if to pass on his warmth.

"Birth is shackled, unable to break free."

"A disastrous defeat..."

———

Honkai 3.

"Xilian...?!"

Eden's eyes widened instantly; she stared fixedly at the familiar yet slightly unfamiliar face on the screen, her lips moving twice before she finished: "Wait... what's going on? Why does Xilian embrace Star? Isn't she already dead?"

"The answer is obvious, Eden," Ailixiya blinked at her, "If the scene shown in the heavens is a future 'prophecy', then it means Bai E has completed the Recreation of the World—Xilian has likely been resurrected in the new world according to Bai E's memory, right?"

"Resurrection..." Eden frowned, "Then... will Xilian still remember Bai E then?"

The room fell silent for a heartbeat.

The question was like a pebble tossed into a pond that had just settled; if Bai E completed the Recreation of the World, it means he would no longer exist in the new world.

"Of course not."

Meibiwusi leaned back, crossing his legs, his green eyes narrowing slightly: "In the new world, this life's Demigod became a Titan. The world reshaped, karma reset—likely just like Gnauus and Karupso of the previous life, neither remembers the other."

He paused, eyes shifting to the feather pen in Star's hand: "... but Star might be an exception; she was glanced at by Fu Li, and Mimi is beside her. I just saw the heavenly scene—Mimi sits at the center of the twelve totems, which likely indicates she plays a crucial role in the Fire Pursuit Journey, perhaps even more important than Bai E."

Moreover, as it follows Star, it occasionally pulls out its little notebook to record, likely also storing this life's 'memory' of Weng Faluos in its notebook. If Mimi...

"Could this life's memory be passed to the next life?" Eden took over.

"Ideally, that's the case," Meibiwusi shrugged, his tone reverting to the previously nonchalant manner, "But now...

———

"Hero, only a few lines of epitaph behind you"

"Legend, the beginning, development, turn, and conclusion are overly fictional"

"You think..."

"The prisoner laughs, asking the puppet, who is more absurd?"

Nicadoli's blade points straight at the Dawn Engine behind KefaLe, its tip's light even eclipses daylight, dimming Aohema's sky.

Bai E and Wandi coordinate, battling the fire thief. The next instant the heavenly scene shifts, reappearing in the memory spacetime of the original campaign against Nicadoli, where Star, in Xuanfengcheng, witnessed Nicadoli and Wandi's clash.