Chapter 161: Vivian: My Family's Li Cheng, Is He Really the Child of Prophecy?

In the history of this epoch on the Tianming Continent, a story once spread called the Child of Prophecy.

This was the prophecy left by the last astrologer, Karlisovich, on his deathbed.

It is said that when the bleak darkness is about to completely devour the flame, the dim, lightless stars will shine anew, and the person destined to save this world will be born.

He will expel the Abyss from this world, opening a brand new dynasty belonging to him and his deity.

He is a divine human, he is hope, he is the Savior, he is the Mandate of Heaven.

This prophecy has existed on the Tianming Continent for several thousand years.

At first, all life on the continent waited for the arrival of this Child of Prophecy.

Not only mortals, but even the True Gods of Order, Furnace, Shadow, and so on waited with bated breath.

Yet what they waited for was only endless disappointment.

They gave support to every person who might become the Savior — teammates, secret arts, divine artifacts… everything they could give.

But these people believed to be the Child of Prophecy all failed to return this world to the right track.

The most recent Child of Prophecy appeared 800 years ago, and this one was a heavyweight.

He directly defected to the Abyss, transforming into an Abyss Demon Race.

The various divine weapons and relics he carried naturally all fell into the Abyss's hands.

Most terrifying of all, even the deployment map of the key Fortress Leviastan was grasped by the Abyss.

No one on the Tianming Continent realized this betrayal.

Thus, that most tragic war began.

Oh no, that wasn't a war, it was a slaughter.

Fortress Leviastan fell, tens of millions of Tianming citizens lost their lives.

Even three Tenth Rank powerhouses perished; from that day on, the Tianming Continent could no longer counterattack the Abyss. Aside from holding a corner and building all kinds of fortresses with Rune Stone Barriers to preserve vital force, there was no other way.

It was also from that day on that no one on the Tianming Continent spoke of the so-called Child of Prophecy again.

Everyone realized this prophecy might just be a lie.

Or perhaps merely an intangible wish.

And now, this youth appearing before Vivian and Anna, though he didn't say it outright, the meaning in his words all hinted that he is that Child of Prophecy.

Is this possible?

A sense of absurdity flashed through Vivian and Anna's minds.

If someone else said this, no matter how talented that person, Vivian and Anna would only think this is another liar, or rather, another person propped up onto a position they shouldn't be on.

But the one now revealing he might be the Child of Prophecy is Li Cheng.

At this moment, both ladies fell silent.

This isn't just because Li Cheng saved their lives in the City of Deception, rewriting the trajectory of fate.

More because, since entering Full Moon Academy, the things Li Cheng has done exceed everyone's understanding.

He not only possesses various unheard-of abilities, a Divine Favor Fate never heard of, but also fixed a segment of history inside the World Tree into his own shape.

Not to mention the things he did 10,000 years ago.

The other Legendaries, powerhouses, as well as professors and teachers, only roughly know that Li Cheng accomplished a feat unimaginable to ordinary people inside the World Tree Gate.

But only Vivian and Anna know clearly that what Li Cheng accomplished inside wasn't a feat, but an inconceivable miracle.

He calculated all life in the City of Deception, calculated the few near-Demigod-strength individuals inside the City of Deception's City Hall.

Calculated the Regeneration Witch! That witch who had reached the Demigod Realm was exiled by him to the bottommost layer of the Abyss, never again having the right to transcend.

And the Regeneration Power she relied on most for survival even became Li Cheng's power.

This is a scene that couldn't appear even in the most inconceivable, wildly imaginative novels.

After all novels need logic, but reality doesn't.

And most terrifying is that he, who accomplished such an unimaginable feat, is only Third Rank.

On the Tianming Continent there has never been anyone who could reach this step at Third Rank.

No, it should be said it simply doesn't exist — not even one person who could successfully scheme against a witch.

After all a witch is an existence transcending the mundane world, an ineffable, incomprehensible Divine Favor creature.

Does this also mean in some sense that Li Cheng is an even more incomprehensible life…

Thinking here, Vivian and Anna both lifted their heads to look at Li Cheng.

They suddenly realized, if a Child of Prophecy truly exists in this world.

Then it can only possibly be this youth before their eyes.

This youth who moved the gears of their fate 10,000 years ago.

"What's wrong? Why do you two have this expression?" Li Cheng said with a smile: "Didn't I say? No matter who I am, in front of you two, I'm just Li Cheng."

"I just didn't expect Li Cheng Brother, your background is actually this big." Vivian was a bit embarrassed.

Although she is the noble Full Moon Queen, called the Human True God, she knows her own affairs best — Vivian is very clear that everything she has was given by Li Cheng.

If not for Li Cheng, Vivian might have long since died in the City of Deception, become nourishment for the Regeneration Witch.

"I just feel, if you really are the Child of Prophecy, you'll be drawn into endless strife." Unlike Vivian, Anna's tone was full of sorrow: "Prophecy, prophecy — that's a game between deities."

"Thinking of you being drawn into that kind of dangerous matter, I'd rather you not become this Child of Prophecy."

Hearing this, Li Cheng raised an eyebrow; he truly hadn't expected Anna to say this kind of thing.

"Drawn in then drawn in." Vivian suddenly laughed: "10,000 years ago it was Li Cheng Brother who protected us; 10,000 years later, it should be our turn to protect him."

Hearing this, both Anna and Li Cheng froze.

"What? Did I say something strange?"

"No, just didn't expect you, this love-brain idiot, could also say this kind of thing." Anna sneered.

"Hmph! Well, I've reincarnated many times and lived through ten thousand years—I must have improved by now. Big Boss is the same; you can rely on me more. Don't treat me like that little girl from the City of Deception."

"Mm, even without you saying so, I'll rely on you more. After all, your combat power is far stronger than mine..."

"You're my ultimate worker now."

"Can you kill Dian Huo in the First Act? Everything depends on you."

Li Cheng thought for a moment and asked again: "If that's the case, you two should be able to get along now, right?"

"Tch, with him? Impossible!" Anna said without hesitation.

"Same here. Who wants to get along with that bad woman!" Vivian was not to be outdone.

Li Cheng: "..."

How to put it? In a sense, these two heavyweights are quite in sync.

"By the way, you just said you know about that flame, right?" Anna asked.

As she spoke, she released a Soundproof Barrier.

"Yes, that flame is called Dian Huo." Li Cheng nodded. "Actually, all the murders that happened inside Full Moon Academy were done by him."

"Ah, really or fake?" Vivian was stunned. "It really wasn't done by Anna?"

"You seem to hope it was done by me..." One corner of Anna's mouth twitched.

"Cough cough, then why? Why would he do that?" Vivian asked doubtfully. "Why deliberately carry out a slaughter inside the academy and frame me?"

"Your question is the answer." Li Cheng explained. "This slaughter has already attracted righteous men, hasn't it?"

"You mean..." Vivian looked at her own chest.

She already knew who Li Cheng meant by righteous men.

"So you know the person who assassinated us? You know that woman?" Anna narrowed her eyes.

"Mm, I suppose I know him."

"Suppose you know him... What relationship?" Anna's cheating-detection radar immediately started running.

"As for the relationship, they should be brothers—the kind who would die for each other." Li Cheng told the truth.

He indeed had not yet tasted the Abyssal Eye Witch, and now it was only at the level of brothers.

"Oh, just brothers?" Anna's gaze grew more dangerous. "No thoughts of wanting to develop further?"

"Oh my, Anna, don't think like that." Before Li Cheng could answer, another voice came from her body: "Big Boss Li Cheng also needs normal social interaction, right?"

"We like him, so we should give him respect and give him freedom. You keep managing him like this, and Big Boss Li Cheng will be unhappy!" Vivian said as such.

"I'm afraid that if I give him freedom, give him this and that, he'll run into another woman's bed."

Anna laughed mockingly.

"That's no problem either. If Big Boss Li Cheng doesn't want to come to our place but wants to go to another woman's bed, then it only proves we weren't good enough!" Vivian corrected.

Anna:??? Vivian spoke righteously: "Think about it. If we're good enough and Big Boss Li Cheng is happier staying with us, won't he come to our place?"

Anna:??? Vivian spoke decisively: "So all our problems with Big Boss Li Cheng aren't his problem, but ours. Do you understand?"

Anna: 6 Can't this love brain just die!

You'll turn your boyfriend into a scumbag like this, you know!

Anna was speechless.

She was clearly already trying her best to c, so why was there always a pig teammate dragging her behind? And Li Cheng quietly looked at Vivian and sighed in relief.

He silently thought: If all female NPCs were designed with Vivian's personality, that would be great.

Just thinking about Anna and Liuli's possessiveness gave him a massive headache.

"Alright, let's skip this issue." He sighed and continued to Vivian: "Whether it's the Abyssal Eye Witch's assassination or the murders at the school, all of this is Dian Huo and the Furious Father God causing trouble behind the scenes."

"Their goal is to kill you and destroy the entire Full Moon Academy."

"The Academy is the deepest fortress of Tianming Continent, sealing the greatest Gate of the Abyss. If you die and the Academy is destroyed, then the Abyss invading Tianming Continent will be unobstructed."

"So that's how it is..." Hearing Li Cheng start talking about serious matters, Anna also collected her thoughts.

The murders at Full Moon Academy, from the first case until now, had already passed over two months, with a total of five victims, all of whom were nobles of the real power faction of the Tianming Court, including one who was a royal heir.

Even Vivian was starting to find it hard to suppress this matter.

Actually, Vivian had always thought these cases were done by her second personality.

It was because the second personality had been eroded by the Abyss that she committed a grave mistake.

So she had always been trying to find ways to lock up the second personality. Hearing Li Cheng reveal the truth now, she also felt embarrassed.

"Um, Anna, I'm sorry... I misunderstood you before."

"Hmph, who cares about your apology."

"Ugh..." The half face controlled by Vivian was about to cry.

"Fine, fine, don't let it happen again." The half face controlled by Anna was also a bit red.

"So, make up?"

"Who wants to make up with you..."

Li Cheng watched them perform crosstalk on one face, feeling both amused and exasperated.

This time playing the Brain-Computer Version, he discovered one thing.

It seemed that in this game, the stronger the righteous character, the more mentally unhinged they were.

Especially the female characters, each one more heavyweight than the last.

"However..." Vivian dry coughed twice. "Big Boss Li Cheng, I naturally believe the truth you said, but the problem is there's no evidence."

"The King's Court investigation team has already arrived at Full Moon Academy. To be honest, they have indeed listed me as a key suspect."

"They still dare to suspect you?" Anna sneered. "Never mind that you didn't kill them; even if you did, so what? Do they dare to lay a hand on you?"

"You are a Human True God, a top-tier strong one who can enter the Abyss in the flesh. Do they have a death wish, trying to arrest you and bring you to justice?"

Come to think of it, whenever this kind of thing comes up, Anna's bad-woman side comes out.

"They naturally wouldn't dare lay a hand on me," Vivian shook her head, looking mentally and physically exhausted, "but they dare lay a hand on my students."

"What do you mean?"

Hearing Tata's name, Big Boss became interested.

In the original plot, Tata was indeed taken away by the Tianming Divine Court after the Sixth Murder Case in Chapter 1.

But this part of the plot, because players were doing Luli and Full Moon Queen's side quests and main quest, did not directly intervene.

After the Chapter 2 main quest went to the Tianming Divine Court, rescuing Miss Ratania who had been arrested in the dungeon could open his restoration side quest.

"The Tianming Divine Court has been collecting royal blood of non-human races; Gordaan's Orc Kingdom and the Red Moon Blood Clan Empire are their targets," Vivian sighed, "if not for me protecting Ratania, the Court would have already laid hands on him."

Big Boss nodded: "That's natural, after all, the Court's Crown Prince now wants to find ways to graft those races' limbs onto his own body."

"Brother Cheng, how do you know about this too..." Vivian was greatly surprised.

Those who know the secret of the Tianming Divine Court's limb grafting across the entire Tianming Continent add up to no more than 10 people.

And they are all big shots above Ninth Stage.

"Is this the astrology of the Child of Prophecy... truly a terrifying ability," Anna couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

Besides astrology, there is no ability in this world that can explain Big Boss's foreknowledge.

"Well, for now, although the Anti-Abyss Alliance is nominally formed, actually, the Tianming Continent is divided into three factions."

Vivian patiently explained to Big Boss:

"The Magic Faction led by Full Moon Academy and non-human races such as Blood Clan, Werewolves, and Ying Hun; the Noble Faction led by the Tianming Divine Court and several great Dukes; and the Orthodox God Sect Faction led by several great sects."

"Although my strength is strong, the Academy's overall level compared to the Court has a huge gap, after all they hold more than seventy percent of the Tianming Continent's army in their hands."

"And the Court's limb-grafting Crown Prince, although his strength is somewhat inferior to mine, has recently vaguely had a breakthrough opportunity."

"If the Court insists on defining Ratania as the culprit of these serial murder cases..."

"Then in the end, it will definitely still be left to the sects to decide."

"And as for the sects..." Saying this, Vivian revealed a bitter smile.

Those Orthodox God sects hate Blood Clan and Werewolves and other foreign races the most.

Big Boss also nodded thoughtfully.

He knew more than Vivian did, very clearly that the Blood Clan's destruction of nations was all done by the Order Sect; if they took action, not kicking someone when they're down would be strange.

So, the full picture of this plot,

should be after the Sixth Serial Murder Case, the Tianming Divine Court sent people.

And Full Moon Queen happened to be caught up in the assassination by players and the Abyssal Eye Witch, having no time and energy to protect Ratania.

The Court took the opportunity to define Ratania as the culprit, bring her back to the Court, nominally for trial, actually planning to offer her to the Crown Prince as material for limb grafting.

But unexpectedly, Full Moon Queen died or faked her death, demonic fire burned the world, the Tianming Continent fell into darkness, the Abyss's curse spread across the continent, the Tianming Divine Court could not take care of itself, and simply had no time to attend to Ratania, locking her in the dungeon.

So, the Brain-Computer Version even filled in this part of the plot.

Terrifying indeed, terrifying indeed.

Big Boss recalled that in the underground dungeon where Tata was imprisoned, there were no important items, nor any monsters worth farming.

If there were items in that dungeon that required her to squat in to obtain,

Big Boss planned to personally send Tata in.

Hmm, looking at it this way, Master's luck is not bad, she can squat in the big prison one less time.

"Anyway, if evidence can be produced to conclusively prove the culprit is someone else," Vivian hugged her arms, "then this matter will be readily resolved."

No, this is not the true solution.

Big Boss shook his head with a bitter smile.

The truth simply doesn't matter.

The Tianming Divine Court simply doesn't care who the real culprit is; they just want Ratania.

To resolve this matter, first is to let Full Moon Queen survive from the first act's plot.

Second is to let...

the people of the Tianming Divine Court die here reasonably.

Hehe, actually dare to bully my Tata Master...

You have brought death upon yourselves!

"Ah!!!"

Just then, a scream pierced the dawn's morning mist, awakening the entire Full Moon Academy.

The Sixth Murder Case has arrived.

(Chapter Complete)