Chapter 742: The Truth of the Curse

Seeing the Ya Bo La Han before him whose eyes suddenly reddened and voices grew hoarse, Mr. Men let out a long sigh: "Yes, I have returned."

"I am not a qualified head of the family; the greatest crisis of the clan stems from me. If anyone therefore does not wish to resume the Ya Bo La Han identity, I have no objection; they may keep their current wealth, stability, and happily see out this final period."

Lao Lun Si and the other Ya Bo La Han shook their heads repeatedly and replied: "No, no one will blame you or resent you for this; it is not your desire, we already know the reason."

"At most, at most it's just a feeling of the unfairness of fate."

Mr. Men let out a light sigh, shook his head, his tone unusually heavy: "What you know is not the whole reason; that Erudite has partially redacted the information. However, I believe every member of the Ya Bo La Han clan has the right to know the truth, the part that does not involve great danger."

After a two‑second pause, Mr. Men continued:

"The babble during the full moon comes from my cries in the depths of darkness and storm, but it is not entirely due to contamination; part of it is my own will."

"As the Ya Bo La Han most closely linked to me, you are the most likely to establish contact, to be affected by my contamination and enchantment, and to rely on the clan's foundation to rescue me from the depths of darkness and storm."

"This is not the clan's redemption, but the beginning of disaster."

"Once the contaminated me returns to reality, my authority will become the key for the Primordial Moon to invade this world, bringing the apocalypse directly."

Lao Lun Si and the other Ya Bo La Han's expressions froze, their faces becoming bewildered as they seemed to struggle to digest the information, to find reasons to convince themselves.

After a long silence, Lao Lun Si finally asked:

"So, the clan will be plagued by the babble not only because of your post‑contamination madness and self‑rescue, but also as a protective measure to prevent any clan member from contacting you and endangering this world?"

Mr. Men nodded slightly, his tone lightened a bit, laden with deep guilt:

"Yes, but such a sacrifice should not have been borne by you; it was my selfish choice for all the Ya Bo La Han."

After a long silence, Lao Lun Si suddenly laughed: "If I had known the truth from the start, I might have hesitated and struggled, but in the end I would still agree with your ancestor's approach."

"At least I now know that our millennia‑long sacrifice was meaningful, even if no one knows, we have protected the whole world."

Above the gray mist, relying on the still‑unsevered link on Mr. Men, Ke Lai En also witnessed the scene.

After a moment of silence, he let out a long sigh, then began to laugh.

He laughed for a while, then stopped, looked at Lei Ke Dun's historical projection, and asked: "Did you know all this from the start?"

Lei Ke Dun lightly nodded: "More or less; although I didn't see the specific information, I could infer the general outline."

Ke Lai En nodded and exclaimed: "A phrase just came to mind: this world is tattered and broken, yet there are always people repairing it."

"Is this what we call humanity?"

"I suddenly feel less lost, having found reasons beyond self‑interest to oppose A Meng."

Lei Ke Dun looked at Ke Lai En with mild surprise, seeing his determined eyes, and chuckled: "I have a feeling that in the upcoming contest, A Meng will not be able to defeat you."

As the words fell, a few illusory stars above the gray mist expanded and contracted, sending out ring after ring of deep‑red ripples.

Layered prayers echoed around, coming from residents of the Divine Abandoned Land, from Moon City and Silver City.

After listening to the prayers for a moment, Ke Lai En turned his head toward Lei Ke Dun's historical projection and found that the other had already withdrawn his consciousness.

"That was quick," he remarked offhand, and Ke Lai En reached out to summon the black "Curtain," letting it transform into a cloak draped over him.

He then began to answer the prayers of Moon City residents, fulfilling their wishes by transferring them to Silver City, and then moving everyone together out of the Divine Abandoned Land to the Luo Si De Qun Dao.

After watching them for a while and seeing the orderly city‑building of Silver City and Moon City, he withdrew his gaze.

"The feedback from helping the Ya Bo La Han clan and the residents of Silver City and Moon City fulfill their wishes is very strong; my Miracle Master elixir is almost fully digested, the remaining bit could be completely digested at any moment, and we can now prepare the Mysterious Servant ceremony."

Muttering to himself, Ke Lai En let the cloak fall back into the corner gray mist, and his figure vanished directly into the mist.

Nan Yin Di Si's "Divine Gift City" Mai Rui Si, the top of a hundred‑meter‑tall building constructed of Steel, concrete, crystal and glass. Numerous plants are cultivated here, trimmed into various strange shapes, like an aerial garden.

On the terrace beside the garden, Luo Sai Er and Lei Ke Dun sat on a long sofa, each holding a game controller, with a crystal screen in front of them playing a video of an unusual art style.

Luo Sai Er shook the controller vigorously and exclaimed:

"Truly the embodiment of knowledge and technology, reproducing a console and display so effortlessly."

"I will have Bo Nuo Wa simplify and popularize these things, making games sweep the world; that's what young people should play."

On the other side, the now‑unfazed Bei Er Na Dai approached and continued: "Then you need to find someone to take over Bo Nuo Wa's duties; he now does in a day what he used to do in a month at the Steam Church."

Luo Sai Er nodded, turned his gaze to Lei Ke Dun and asked: "So the great Mos Ascetic Order can't find a few people who can work?"

Lei Ke Dun set down his controller, leaned on the sofa, and shrugged: "Half of Bo Nuo Wa's tasks aren't related to the Church; you slacked off and dumped them on him."

"Moreover, I have already informed Mr. Men; he will bring members of the Ya Bo La Han clan to share the Church's duties. Shouldn't you also expand the council's numbers?"

Luo Sai Er twitched the corner of his mouth, saying wordlessly:

"I am a person who died centuries ago and has just revived; what connections do I have? Just a pair of children, and they still need to work for you!"

"If my influence in Nan Yin Di Si weren't still decent, we couldn't even gather enough officials to keep Nan Yin Di Si running normally."

Hearing Luo Sai Er's complaint, Bei Er Na Dai pondered and said:

"Father, Jia De Li Ya is already a Tier‑Three Saint; I can ask her for help with some maritime affairs."

While they were talking, countless starlights surged from the void, swiftly constructing an illusory gate, and Mr. Men together with Lao Lun Si and several other Ya Bo La Han council elders appeared directly in the rooftop garden.

After a brief shock, Mr. Men quickly recovered, looked at Lei Ke Dun and Luo Sai Er seated before the crystal screen, and, surprised, exclaimed: "The style of this city clashes with the current era; my intuition tells me it belongs several hundred or even a thousand years later, not in this steam‑dominant age."

"Even though I have seen many civilizations across the universe, few have advanced technology to this level."

Mr. Men's words prompted Luo Sai Er to ask curiously:

"Do civilizations in the universe focus on technological development, or on aggregating extraordinary traits?"

Mr. Men shook his head, his expression somewhat complicated:

"We are merely an exception; most worlds with life lack many extraordinary traits, perhaps none at all. An angel is a rather rare existence throughout the universe."

"Of course, that doesn't mean that being an angel makes traveling the universe safe; on the contrary, for angels, the vast empty void is more dangerous, because they are no longer bound by environment and can encounter more things."

Luo Sai Er and Mr. Men did not delve deeper into the topic; lower‑tier Ya Bo La Han members were present, and knowing too much about the starry heavens would also be a latent danger for them.

After the small talk, Lei Ke Dun reached into the void and took out several crystal‑carved vertical‑eye ornaments, handing them to Mr. Men and the Ya Bo La Han members he brought.

"This is a portable signal receiver that lets you connect with the World Tree anytime, anywhere; it contains detailed explanations and data about this city, allowing you to quickly become familiar with it and adapt to life here."

Mr. Men nodded, reached out and took the ornament, infusing it with a bit of spirit.

The crystal‑carved vertical eye instantly burst with a clear radiance, a torrent of information streaming out, forming a wondrous link with Mr. Men's mental entity.

Behind him, the members of the Abraham Family also imitated Mr. Men's actions, infusing spiritual energy into the ornament shaped like a vertical eye.

Soon, Mr. Men finished the experience, and after a moment of contemplation, he spoke:

"This is very like the Stellar Empire's mental sharing, a tremendously vast force in the universe that welcomes anyone to join, with no barriers, claiming to embrace all."

"The spirits of all who join the Stellar Empire are merged together, forming a single entity—it's marvelous and also terrifying; I once suspected the Stellar Empire itself is a being of the mental realm, and all who join become part of it, though I have never verified this; the intuition of the astrologers makes me instinctively stay away from them."

"Oh, I've gone off topic again; this method of linking through information as a bridge is relatively safe and effectively avoids contamination from direct interaction between mental entities—it's a very brilliant idea."

(End of chapter)