Chapter 707

Su Lin's portion of existence as Lord Haotian in the Journey to the West world, at this moment, merged into the Celestial Phenomenon under the Origin Correction.

The First Celestial Realm once lacked a Mythic Origin God, but now it has gained a Mythic Origin Hun Tian Di.

Now, the original body holds the position of Deep Abyss God left by the First Celestial Realm; the avatar only needs to return to the Cycle Space, exchange for a Divine Seat, and complete the ritual to become the true Deep Abyss Hun Tian Di.

"The position of Hun Tian Di is mine, the position of God is yours—just abandon this avatar, let me enter the Cycle Space, and we won't have to keep wasting time."

"Lord Haotian. God damn it, the movie plot is still chasing me!"

Overcome with rage, Su Lin clutched his chest and turned away from the Abyss.

"Wait, we can still negotiate!"

Su Lin had no interest in listening to the other's babbling—the hidden meaning was clear: the other would remain in the God's position and be utterly transcended, while he himself would become Hun Tian Di, reclaiming his true self and living freely.

Where in heaven and earth could such a thing exist?

The Eternal was lifted; heaven and earth grew clear and bright. Compared to the instantaneous anomaly that had just occurred, even Baoyun Zi now stood frozen, staring at the spot where Su Lin and Huiye had vanished, her expression shifting between dark and light.

Yuyin Yonglin seemed to have had all strength drained from her body, her eyes holding neither anger nor sorrow.

Only now did the Mianyue sisters realize what had happened; Watazumi Fengji's face turned green as she staggered backward.

Fuji Mihong stared blankly at the spot where Huiye had disappeared, as if waiting for her archenemy to revive instantly with the exaggerated immortality of a Penglai being.

Yet in the end, everyone in the Fantasy Realm—including Bo Li Byakuren Lingmeng Lingmeng, whose eyes were growing increasingly panicked—turned to look at Su Lin.

"Did she really like you that much?" Watazumi Fengji spoke with difficulty.

Click! Crack! Click-crack!

Camera flashes flickered through the crowd; the stunned paparazzi opened their notebooks but didn't know how to write, even Lian Mingwan Wen's pupils trembled.

Indeed, at this moment, in this scene, with Huiye's final words left behind—what did it look like to others?

A beautiful, youthful old woman, scheming against everyone, exhausting every effort to give her power and eternal life to a man grievously wounded.

If this were on another channel or in a traditional xianxia novel, heaven forbid—

Never mind.

Su Lin drew the Tianqing Yu Xu Sword and aimed it at his chest, but since the blade was too long, the posture looked awkward, so he repositioned it against his neck and pulled out the Resurrection Token.

"Your Majesty!" The celestial court knelt in unison, their mouths opening but no words coming out; the Matchmaker glanced at the red thread in his hand and burst into tears.

"Think thrice, Your Majesty!"

Can you all just be quiet?

Yet before Su Lin could act further, a deep blue, star-strewn cosmic arm emerged from the Abyss—a layer invisible to the naked eye but undeniably covering the current plane.

Only then did Su Lin realize half his avatar had not returned; the 2.5 Celestial Phenomenon still within the Abyss was now surging with the Seven Primordial Evils.

Weak yet powerful, fallen yet holy, contradiction and dissonance permeated—the cosmic entity's arm seized the Devourer and yanked it into the Abyss.

The invincible Devourer—

Fell again?!

Pfft—! Red blood sprayed everywhere, but what fell was paint.

"Old Lu brought all these people, fine—he's gone anyway."

Su Lin looked at Loki, who held a phone and was still summoning others: "Can the God of Lies be deceived by lies?"

Under Su Su Tuoni Stark's horrified gaze, the superheroes and villains—including Mister Fantastic and Doctor Strange—and all their warships dissolved into paint.

"Actually, contacting them now is impossible—they're filming Avengers 5," Loki pouted, spreading his hands innocently: "But I truly couldn't tell the difference… you know, so I just helped out a bit, livened up the atmosphere."

"Say, Mr. President, could you please calm down? Don't grab me."

"Where am I excited?" Su Lin shrugged: "Both my hands are right here."

"Alright…"

Loki glanced at the deep blue, star-strewn arm gripping him, took a deep breath: "I'm actually very busy—the border wall's been repaired, and I still have to approve immigration. I simply had no time to attend the wedding."

"This illusion was made by Merlin."

As he spoke, Loki's form grew translucent, then vanished into thin air.

Plop. Plop. A monocle, a die, and a mask fell to the ground. The Celestial Phenomenon, deprived of sustenance from native Marvel beings, could only rage helplessly within the Abyss.

Well played, Old Loki.

Su Lin raised an eyebrow, then walked toward the figure beneath the gate of the Bo Li Shrine, amid the complex, soap-opera-like stares of the crowd.

"Let me report first," Su Lin waved to Yi Leina, who had appeared unannounced, her brow furrowed: "I'll be back soon."

"Can you save her?" Yi Leina's brow slowly relaxed: "No wonder it's you."

"See you soon."

Su Lin walked toward Meng Qi, who seemed ready to comfort him, ignored the protests and roars from within the Abyss, and separated Eternity and Moment, embedding them into the Divine Register capable of bearing authority.

Meng Qi: "Calm down."

The Tianqing Yu Xu Sword spun and flew, piercing Su Lin—and as it did, his Celestial Phenomenon and physical body dissolved together into specks of light.

Amid the stunned gazes of all present, a unified notification appeared in the chat group: 【Member Su Lin has entered death state.】

Are you serious?!

Lu Mingfei turned pale; he wanted to grab the immortals there and ask if today was even an auspicious day, but they were already on the verge of collapse, nearly ready to commit suicide with divine artifacts.

"." In Yuyin Yonglin's eyes, an emotion surfaced—perhaps disappointment, perhaps something else—she turned to leave.

Boom—!

From the spot where Su Lin's body had dissolved, a faint glow seeped from the space now rippling gently; after nine heartbeats, it swelled into a vast, boundless stream of light, piercing heaven and earth.

Winding like a river, vast as an endless ocean.

Finally, it collapsed with a thunderous roar.

【Rebirth from the Netherworld, Primordial Immortality, Reversing Cause and Effect, Reconstructing the Primordial—To this realm's history, I grant a second chance at rebirth!】

【Damn it, how messed up is this place's historical timeline? Who the hell picked this location?!】

【Everyone get up and hype! That dead dragon over there, you too. This dragon. Can be used for a bit.】

No one knew where this honey-lipped great power had come from, but after spewing fragrant words, the voice abruptly cut off.

In the sky, layers of spacetime mirror surfaces refracted, and dense gaps and fissures seeped out purple light like stardust.

Yakumo Yukari's pupils gradually contracted. Within the exposed gaps, inside uncountable crystals, girls wearing giant red bows and shrine maiden outfits in red-white or blue-white color schemes were sleeping.

Within some of the refracted Gensokyo, things long since vanished began to reappear.

"Don't kill me!"

Within a stretch of gloom, Li Sheng seemed to wake from a nightmare, but the next second, he realized there was no Yakumo Yukari sitting on a gap, looking at him with cold eyes.

【Master, the inventory has been re-tallied. Would you like to publish it?】

He remembered.

He had obtained a divine artifact called the All-Heavens Golden List. He only needed to publish the tallied content so that people from myriad worlds could see it, and he could obtain benefits.

By exposing the other party's past and future destiny in advance, disturbing and influencing the world's development, the tallied person's fortune would be absorbed by him, and there was also a probability of copying their abilities.

As long as the tally and exposure continued, sooner or later he would become incomparably powerful.

"Got careless."

The top ten incidents of Gensokyo tally had only reached halfway when, wanting to develop something with Hakurei Reimu who had resolved the Red Fog Incident, he ran out from the internal space of the All-Heavens Golden List, and the moment he stepped out the door he was caught by Yakumo Yukari.

He who had already tallied over a dozen different worlds had actually capsized in an anime world like Gensokyo?!

"Golden List, where's Yakumo Yukari?!"

【Don't know, but you've already died once.】 The Golden List emitted a voice without any emotional fluctuation:

【Even I couldn't escape the fate of being erased. The great existence who made me hopes you won't waste this second chance.】

"The maker?! Isn't the only master you have me?!"

No response.

After a difficult adjustment, Li Sheng faced reality. He spoke with difficulty: "What should I do?"

【Take me with you, win the resurrection match. Before that, you need to accumulate strength.】

"Alright." Li Sheng took a deep breath, a fierce and greedy glint flashing in his eyes: "Yakumo Yukari."

Once he grew strong, not a single one of these youkai and shrine maidens in Gensokyo would escape. The most important thing right now was to survive. He didn't care who the true master of this Golden List was, as long as it could let him obtain benefits.

"Publish!"

He hurriedly unfurled the Golden List, which could intercept spacetime images from the past based on causality and an individual's weight in the world.

【Now beginning playback of the top ten incidents of Gensokyo!】

He didn't know who started it, but since this Gensokyo was more formidable than imagined, the harvest would surely be richer too. Remilia's ability and Flandre's ability were quite nice.

【"When I was young, my sister died in battle. They told me her soul was undying, her spirit would ascend to heaven."】

Why is it a man?

What kind of incident could a man cause?

【There must be a... God of Light.】

Where did a God of Light come from in Gensokyo?!

The image gradually unfolded. A blond man in a Western suit stood in the sky, transforming into a brand-new sun, stepping up a long staircase cast of light step by step, with six wings of light appearing behind him.

【All I want is a future where Kallen lives.】

"Wait... who is the protagonist of this tally?!"

【Top ten incidents of Gensokyo TOP10, protagonist: Otto Apocalypse】

"Where did an Otto come from in Gensokyo?!!!"

"I see." Kaguya nodded as if suddenly understanding: "After all, from the moment the Hourai Elixir took effect, my soul had already been used as firewood to burn. It's just the power of eternity maintaining it."

"So to bring me back, and also to drag the stand with lingering spirit out of the abyss, you killed yourself to start the resurrection match."

"And my reputation." Su Lin said seriously: "Your mama and those people in Gensokyo are looking at me like they want to cut me to pieces, understand?"

She looked up, gazing at the spacetime-refracted Gensokyo, then glanced at the resurrection match countdown in Su Lin's hand.

"Are you stupid?"

Good heavens, these words actually came from the mouth of a woman who jumped into a fire pit on someone else's big day. Anyone who didn't know would think you had some deep grudge against Lu Mingfei and Emiya Shirou.

"Living happily yourself is what's important. Why care about others' gazes?"

Houraisan Kaguya slumped against the deadwood beneath her, staring at the embers in the campfire's remains, propping up her head with one hand, and said lazily:

"If you were moved to sit ten years in a dilapidated temple by a dim lamp, or if I were taken away by the moon, and you worked hard for a few years cultivating to break through to Dou Di, then came to the ancient Moon Clan to find me, that would still work."

"Not even an hour, and already can't wait to die for love."

"Is my power of eternity not fragrant anymore? The bamboo shoots are done, give me a piece."

"Not bad." Su Lin spoke truthfully: "If I hadn't been... uh, before that group of future people in the group chat went into the abyss, I could have even said 'I don't eat beef'."

A bamboo stick pried open the fire pile, fishing out a charred black object from underneath. Peeling off the burnt outer shell revealed snow-white bamboo shoot meat inside that emitted a fresh fragrance.

"Think about it, my way of doing things is no harm to anyone, right? It's scalding hot. Reisen only blows it cool before giving it to me."

Kaguya covered her tongue and said: "Could it be you have other ways to deal with injuries?"

"Besides taking down Su Su Tuoni Teacher or abandoning the stand, there aren't any right now." Su Lin glanced at the countdown:

"But I'm not in a hurry. Hmm, before you use Klein's movie setting to put pressure on me, I'm really not in a hurry at all."

"Then isn't that settled." Kaguya waved her hand in a shooing motion:

"Good luck with the resurrection match yourself. Eirin is absolutely super angry. I don't want to go back and face Eirin with her anger value at full capacity. I'll die."

Speaking of this, Kaguya, who thought of something, began hugging her legs, curling up her body and shivering.

Strictly speaking, you've already died.

It's just that after going back, you'll die even more miserably.

"So if I were to be resurrected, wouldn't your stand disappear too?" Kaguya sighed as she tried to persuade him.

"No." Su Lin's expression was strange as he said, "From the moment I entered this place, the stand was already gone."

It could be confirmed to still exist, under Su Lin's control, but its specific location could not be pinpointed.

"You see, this is superfluous." Kaguya rolled over and lay on the ground, gazing up at the sky, smiling:

"The hidden crisis in Gensokyo has been resolved, no need to worry about Yuyin Yonglin and the turkey, and I can still get a good sleep. You could stand on a skyscraper and tell the moon I'll do whatever I want because I'm God."

"Everyone gets what they want, so why bother?"

"Mm." Su Lin watched the countdown about to end and stood up: "But I don't like always owing others."

"Owing? Me?" Kaguya tilted her head to look at Su Lin and said, "Isn't Eternity and a Moment the reward I gave you?"

"Let me think, how long have we known each other?"

"I've long lost count."

"From the moment I entered Eternity, I originally planned to tough it out with a cultivation art, but later discovered that Gu Tianwang at that stage alone simply couldn't fully hold up the process of creation."

Su Lin recalled: "If you hadn't been by my side, apart from periodically using props to seal my memories or going mad, there should have been no other way for me to wake up from Caroso's Creation Chronicle."

"But if I sealed my memories, the law-inscription of the Primordial Light would inevitably be affected."

"So for me, this kind of grace of attaining the Dao is no small debt."

"Is that so." Kaguya was somewhat surprised, but after thinking for a moment, she retorted: "So, this is your reason for wanting me to live."

"No." A faint smile curved at the corner of Su Lin's mouth. He pointed at the painting scroll playing in the sky: "What I mean is, I'm not going back either. Let's die together."

【Yae! Why...】 The blond man shed tears as he held the cherry-haired shrine maiden lying in his arms.

【Fool. You and Karen, be happy.】

Social death.