Chapter 164: Slaying Gods Is a Great Project

Amid the splashing sounds, Zhou Shuo rested his hands on the lookout platform, gazing at the red sun below, constantly washing the white sandy beach's sea surface, feeling somewhat wistful and longing, wondering how much splendor and mystery lay hidden in the endless seabed.

"Big Brother Zhou, it's getting dark soon." Feiyan Nü swallowed a stalk of Hell Lingzhi, her complexion fully restored to a rosy hue. Gazing at the distant beautiful beach and the red sun hovering on the sea surface about to set, she asked, although the daylight was still bright, dusk had already arrived.

"Hmm, that's right, what are you planning to do?" Zhou Shuo looked at the two girls whose wet clothes clung to their slender figures, blinked his eyes, and took a breath.

"Hey, where are you looking? We're definitely going to find the Great Sage." Ying Nüxia glared at someone's wandering gaze, feeling angry all over, relying on her light armor covering her body, she shielded the fully flushed Feiyan Nü behind her.

"Oh, then go ahead!" Zhou Shuo looked at the girl wearing armor, resignedly withdrawing his gaze.

"You're not going?" Ying Nüxia raised an eyebrow.

"No, I don't want to walk the night road; I'll rest on the beach for a while, then later go find the Water Curtain Cave." Zhou Shuo pointed behind him at the rock wall, where a white curtain hung above the high wall, the layered terrain cutting the water flow into a series of lake depressions.

"Water Curtain Cave?" Ying Nüxia followed Zhou Shuo's finger upward, seeing only a waterfall hanging across the high wall, beyond which the continuously flowing water curtain obscured the view.

"I can't really see anything!" Feiyan Nü leaned forward to gaze at the incessantly flowing waterfall, involuntarily blinking her eyes.

"That's because your eyesight isn't good enough; if it were, you could see it—the side of the water curtain bears faint markings—but for now we're not going over." Zhou Shuo pointed at the distant waterfall's rock wall behind.

"Why not go now?" Feiyan Nü's lively eyes blinked.

"Wait until you two dry your bodies and, by the way, fill your stomachs." Zhou Shuo shrugged his shoulders and turned his head away, not looking at the two girls whose faces were all red.

"You damn rascal." Ying Nüxia glared at the fellow who had turned his back, cursed harshly, then grabbed the flushed cheeks of Feiyan Nü and prepared to leave.

"Remember, meet up here later; I'll get you something to eat." Zhou Shuo couldn't help but glance back, tsk, these two girls have great figures.

"No peeking." Ying Nüxia snapped, then dragged Feiyan Nü away in a flustered escape, finding a patch of woods to hide in.

"I'm all wet and miserable, Elder Sister Ying, what should we do?" Feiyan Nü, watching Zhou Shuo disappear into the distance, blushed and asked Ying Nüxia.

"Use internal energy to steam it dry!" Ying Nüxia felt her heavy, wet clothes, equally uncomfortable, but with no alternative; in this deserted place there was nothing else to do—cultivators, just make do!

"Oh." Feiyan Nü looked at the suffering Ying Nüxia, stuck out her tongue slightly, then found a spot to sit cross-legged, activating the Daughter Village's internal cultivation method Jade Quality Ice Skin; the skin beneath her deep clothes instantly shone like fine porcelain, invisible heat rose from within her body, and immediately the moisture in her wet clothes, heated, turned into vapor and rose.

Watching Feiyan Nü activate her technique, Ying Nüxia likewise sat cross-legged, initiating Square Inch Mountain's secret heart method, using her internal heat to evaporate the moisture in her clothes; soon both were enveloped in a light mist of water vapor, like fairies.

Compared to the two girls drying their clothes with internal energy, Zhou Shuo went the opposite way into the woods, picking some fresh mountain peach and pear fruits, then packing them in large split leaves, after appreciating the scenery of Flower Fruit Mountain, he returned on his own to the meeting point.

"How comfortable!" Zhou Shuo bit into a peach, watching the golden crow completely set, the ice plate bright moon shining over the vast sea border, his heart filled with utter tranquility.

Gazing at the vast sea border while chewing on a peach, Zhou Shuo momentarily forgot his body again, his spirit returning to the boundless void, merging with the primordial spirit, scanning the myriad worlds, his focus fixed on Chiyou's trail.

"That Chiyou fellow..." Zhou Shuo scanned the Dreamlike World, his gaze finally settling on Long Peace City; in an overlapped space somewhere within the city, a mysterious altar bore a stone statue of Chiyou with three heads and six arms standing still, light flickering in its eyes, as if showing signs of breaking free and being reborn.

"Xiaoqiang!" Zhou Shuo slightly recovered his sense of time and could thus know that Chiyou, in the Dreamlike World, had over thousands of years been resurrected an unknown number of times; although each time was thwarted by some fated individuals, his immortal body allowed him to revive almost every few centuries, and each revival made him slightly stronger due to the corruption of mortal hearts; this utterly thorough Xiaoqiang seemed impossible to kill.

"Can't kill him..." Zhou Shuo's gaze swept over the Dreamlike World, then turned to the Qin Era World; likewise in the overlapped depths of time-space, that three-headed six-armed giant war god with copper head and iron brow was gathering strength, just as in the Dreamlike World, preparing to break through and return with the aid of mortal hearts' stain, but the Qin Era World has many powerful beings watching, so he will surely fail.

Zhou Shuo, with his transcendent gaze, surveyed everything about Chiyou, and couldn't help but curl his lips; unlike the deities of the Yang God World sustained by incense offerings, Chiyou is an innate deity born of the Qin Era World, his body bound to the world, aligning with the shadow and chaos within all beings.

To truly slay Chiyou, either defeat him head‑on and destroy him together with his world, or separate him from his world so he can no longer align with the stain in mortal hearts, leaving him powerless to be reborn.

Chiyou is strong because no one in either world can defeat him, precisely because he aligns with the shadow and chaos in mortal hearts; whether in the Qin Era World or the Dreamlike World, those who oppose him can only choose to seal him, but seals eventually open, just as mortal hearts, after continual experience, inevitably gather dust.

To detach Chiyou from the shadow and chaos of mortal beings is an immensely vast project: one must achieve greater mastery over shadow and chaos than he has, becoming a being of the same level as Chiyou, only then can it be done.

"Slaying gods is indeed a great undertaking!" Zhou Shuo pondered inwardly, unable to help but sigh in awe; although it's a great project, there's nothing wrong with it, after all it's a god, and he—well, undertaking this great project is also fine, anyway the primordial spirit avatar has already been sent out.

Besides his clone in the Dreamlike World, Zhou Shuo also sent a primordial spirit into the Qin Era World, dispatching a message; the primordial spirit avatar there naturally knows what to do, but the Qin Era World must be activated, and on the Dreamful Journey to the West side we cannot halt either.

"Hey, hey." As his vision cleared, two pretty faces were pressed into his view; Zhou Shuo tugged at his cheek flesh being pinched to one side by two small hands.

"You really can do it! Falling asleep after eating a peach." Ying Nüxia looked at the guy who had just woken up, her tone teasing, while subtly pulling her hand back.

"Well, the fruit is really delicious, Big Brother Zhou, you're truly a good person." Feiyan Nü, like a startled rabbit, withdrew her hand to grab a big red peach, her gaze wandering as she spoke with a flushed face.

Zhou Shuo looked at the two girls guilty of sneaking, rolled his eyes and rubbed his cheeks; there was a faint fragrance, but if the flesh on his face didn't hurt so much, lacking that spicy sensation would be nice; at least it hadn't swollen.

"Next time you wake someone up, please change the method." Zhou Shuo rubbed his face and let out a long sigh; whether Feiyan Nü or Ying Nüxia, they ate fruit while turning their bodies and gazes away, displaying an expression of 'none of my business'.