Chapter 1319: Weng Faluos 3.4 (354)

Xing on one side, the Creation Vortex Heart.

Xing looked at the distant vortex heart and stopped.

Mimi looked at her with concern and said, "…What's up, partner? I feel like you seem lost in thought?"

"……"

(The Creation Vortex Heart… finally returned. This place has also become different…)

Deep within the vortex heart, floating structures are now visible everywhere; it seems this world of memory particles and data is collapsing and crumbling at a visible speed.

(Bai E, is he ready for the Recreation of the World…?)

"No matter what, we must see it through," Xing said firmly.

"Indeed, it's such a long, long road… If, as that Mr. Machine said, Weng Faluos is destined for a 'Destruction' ending… then I'll stay by your side until the very last moment." Mimi smiled, "After all, just as the train is to you and Dan Heng… Weng Faluos is also our hometown."

"Let's go witness the Recreation of the World."

"Alright! Together, let's witness the final spark returning to its place!"

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Death God.

Hey, wait… that's not right!

Miss Ye Yi, what's wrong?

Ye Yi rested a finger on her chin, her brows nearly knitting together, then slowly extended three fingers and tapped the void: "I've found another problem, not… Actually, since I learned that Weng Faluos is a world simulated by the staff, I've already uncovered three issues."

"Hm?" Pu Yuan Xizhu looked bewildered.

First, San Yueqi arrived at Weng Faluos, but that girl vanished without a trace, as if she evaporated." Ye Yi lightly tapped the table, "It's one thing to fool the Golden Descendants, but how did she deceive Laigushi, the staff operator? Something's definitely off!"

"Exactly."

Second, that little girl Xilian—why do the people of Yiting call both her and San Yueqi 'children of Memory'? Could Xilian also be walking the path of 【Memory】? Yet isn't she, like Bai E, merely a data life within the staff? Can a being without a physical form, completely ignorant of destiny, still follow a destined path?

The question made Pu Yuan Xizhu ponder for a long time; after a moment he replied, "Life in the universe takes many forms. Suiyang also lacks a physical body, yet it counts as life and can become a Supreme Extinction Lord. Also, Miss Ye Yi, do you recall what happened when Ms. Black Tower imprisoned that memory thief of Yiting?"

"Hmm… an automaton's attack?"

Automatons certainly count, but there's also a computational parasite—a 【breeding】 offspring born from attracted compute power." Pu Yuan Xizhu "swish" opened a folding fan, covering the lower half of his face, leaving only a pair of smiling eyes visible.

Suiyang is a pure‑energy life, and the computational parasite is a pure‑data life. Though they lack flesh, they still possess a 'self.' Miss Ye Yi, this means the forms of life in the universe are far broader than we know." Pu Yuan Xizhu lightly tapped his palm with the fan, "Alright, the final question?"

The last question… concerns Mimi." Ye Yi looked up, gazing at the lone pink, fluffy figure deep in the vortex heart, "Logically, Mimi should also be a data life simulated by the staff, so why can she be linked to Fuli? The mystery surrounding this little rabbit is no less than that of Laigushi."

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"Look, Bai E is over there! And… huh!"

(…Laigushi?)

(Remember… Luosi Gumu's words.)

As familiar footsteps echoed from the vortex heart, Bai E turned his face in surprise, "…Is that you?"

"Facing the thin thread of hope behind you, yet still resolutely moving forward… truly a 'Pioneer.'"

Xing said coldly, "No need to mock me."

"Hehe, you're overthinking. The world nears destruction, and the walkers of myriad paths have already embraced their destinies… As a Divine Gift Spectator, I am obliged to witness the world's future and, on their behalf, conduct the final spark ceremony—" Laigushi turned, looking up at the lone dim totem of the vortex heart.

"The 'Trial of the Burdened World'—the Recreation of the World ceremony."

Xing said bluntly, "Luosi Gumu said you're the mastermind behind the scenes."

Bai E was instantly bewildered, "…?"

Laigushi, when exposed, showed not the slightest panic: "Ah, I see. Before I intervened and erased his infiltrating traces, Your Excellency Xing had already met my compatriot."

"Xing, what does that mean?"

"Pull the secret out of his mouth!"

"……"

Bai E instantly became alert, his gaze stern as he looked at Laigushi, "I've also wondered why a native Antikythera person would know how to repair extraterrestrial vehicles. Laigushi—regarding the Recreation of the World, how much do you truly know? Answer honestly!"

"Heh…" Laigushi smiled lightly, "In that case, I no longer need to keep up the façade of a Divine Gift Spectator. You crave the truth, Bai E— you will also obtain it."

"As everyone knows: when the old gods fall, someone must bear the broken pillar and fill the divine office vacancy. To do so, the bearer of divine authority must overcome the trial to prove their qualification. Yet for KefaLe's Demigods, the chance of passing the trial is always zero, because the 'Trial of the Burdened World' is the divine office itself—'Recreation of the World' and 'Shouldering the World'—and unless it falls, it never ends."

"Exactly: the Recreation of the World ceremony is not a momentary rite but a long, arduous journey. When the sacrificial journeys of other Demigods conclude in this world, KefaLe must bear the divine sparks, bear all world memory, standing firm… until the next life… Heichi will utterly devour the Burdened World and everything on its shoulders."

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Xianjian Qixia 3.

So that's it… The hardship that Demigod Ka'ers of KefaLe experienced in the previous life wasn't declared over until this world's Heichi completely devoured him.

Jing Tian finds it hard to imagine how he endured those thousands of years; KefaLe fell into slumber at the moment the Age of Conflict ended and the Age of Illusion began, no longer answering people's calls, likely because the endless time wore its consciousness away.

In other words, if the Recreation of the World is initiated, Bai E will have to bear the world alone for millennia.

It's truly hard to bear.

This millennia‑long hardship turned out to be the best result that countless Golden Descendants fought tirelessly to achieve… Xue Jian's eyebrows narrowed slightly; this cruel ending was hard for her to accept even for a moment.