[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-journey-to-the-end-of-the-night":3,"chapter-journey-to-the-end-of-the-night-journey-to-the-end-of-the-night-chapter-1375":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Journey to the End of the Night",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1716922,2193,"Chapter 1375 - 878: Parasite","journey-to-the-end-of-the-night-chapter-1375",1375,"\u003Cp>In Ying Xiu’s blood-red eyes, Baili An was reflected, containing deep hatred:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it weren’t for this coward ending his own life, plunging his dearest ones into boundless pain, how could his birth mother become maddened day by day!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For commemoration, she even went to the extent of using a strand of his hair and breath to create me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not for someone treating me as a mere replacement, how could I be so pitiable as to strive day and night to imitate someone else just to survive!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every word from Ying Xiu was filled with blood and tears: \"I sincerely tried to please Ying Ji, but her treatment of me was to utilize me to the utmost extent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She merely wanted to reminisce another soul through my façade! This is what you owe me! This is what you owe me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the hall, under Ying Xiu’s frantic accusations, the atmosphere was momentarily oppressive and silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baili An lowered his eyes; his gaze as clear as autumn water, icy like snow and frost, tinged with coldness: \"Has a dream lasted so long that not even you can differentiate between dreams and reality? If my mother truly considered you as my substitute, why would she name you ’Ying Xiu’?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Xiu froze for a moment, speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baili An said no more, flicking his fingers, sending a clear spirit light over, which fell into Ying Xiu’s spirit platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cool sensation spread from Ying Xiu’s forehead, his whole body shook, feeling his spirit platform suddenly clear; the dust-laden memories of two hundred years were breezed away by the spirit light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Memories hidden in dark corners surfaced slowly, like scattered light spots and foam from the depths of the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Xiu’s eyes were chaotic, sinking into distant and forgotten memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw his soul fragmented and mottled, for a moment glimpsing countless versions of himself, endlessly floating in space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was originally from the earth veins of Houtu, unseen by the world, a tiny microorganism wandering through life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without consciousness, without entity, even his soul was fractured and pale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the most primitive soul structure, unaware of time’s length, leaving no trace even within the Six Realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a mushroom spore, wherever it falls, it parasitizes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life for microorganisms like him, smaller than dust, is always brief; with stronger winds, they vanish without a trace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unwilling to accept his inherently weak and small existence, like a fish dying for water, a tree parched to death, a strong will to live drove him to see hope in a Puppet’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unhesitatingly, he absorbed Soul Power from his kind, weakly and frantically striving to merge and parasitize the empty shell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, he wished nothing else, hoping for God’s mercy to obtain this body, to attain rebirth, altering his obscure Life Plate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems there really is a god in this world...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was his thought when he opened his eyes, seeing light from a colorless world!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was overjoyed, feeling as the most favored and fortunate being in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew this shell was called human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Created by the highest, yet infinitely lonely ruler of Central Netherworld as a mourning artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He claimed it as his own, then learned to walk, eat, cultivate, eventually growing into a youth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he changed this shell beyond recognition, that woman gave him a name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Xiu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, the woman with sorrowful eyes said he had received what he desired, now he could travel far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew he had personally destroyed the last semblance of her son, leaving no trace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But facts proved, after becoming human, the heart beneath the shell grew increasingly unsatisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That once sky-high Wish, contrasted by desire, became insignificant, worthless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he wanted was not merely a parasitic shell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, he wished to deceive all, to become Baili An.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He made a Wish, and the divine spirit appeared again, fulfilling his desire once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone, including himself, also believed that he was the Crown Prince of Central Netherworld, the deceased and resurrected Baili An.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Xiu lay on the ground, watching the dust and sand slowly float under the light; his breathing gradually slowed, heart dulled and numb from the penetrating wounds, body temperature dropped, feeling as though dying again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His pale lips muttered: \"This isn’t real?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His origins, his birth, born from his life’s pursuit, how could it be a deceptive and fraudulent life?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So laughable, so tragic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a dwarf in lead actor’s costume, singing grand scenes momentarily, Star Sea vastness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While in secret suffering confusion and vicissitudes as a clown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Xiu laughed deliriously, tears streaming into his sideburns; he raised his blurred and mottled face, eyes vacant, looking in Baili An’s direction, chuckling: \"It shouldn’t be this way... my ending shouldn’t be like this, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the National Governance Hall, silence prevailed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd seemed to understand something, looking at Ying Xiu with eyes of pity and tragic compassion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baili An looked down at Ying Xiu, eyes profoundly dark, serene to the extreme, like lake water without ripple or wave; he slowly squatted, speaking: \"Do you still not understand? It’s not my mother who owes you, but your strong survival desire parasitized upon her solace, thus accomplishing who you are now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",883,"2026-06-06T15:17:03.408Z",1,"novelbin.me","11690441d51d5d8a3f5ffba5f6d23402a74ac61ff29453bc6e5b0665cffaa405","journey-to-the-end-of-the-night-chapter-1376","journey-to-the-end-of-the-night-chapter-1374",1594,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fjourney-to-the-end-of-the-night-cover.jpg"]