Chapter 187: Let the Wasteland Feel Pain!

You...... are a bit extreme......

Seeing this freshly baked little protagonist suddenly turn into a self‑destruct vehicle, Zhao Si stared, dumbfounded:

No...... this kid couldn't also have a character flaw, could he?

Looking at the protagonists of these three chapters, early Jin Bing was a heaven‑defying extremist—either sliding on his knees or launching a slaughter!

As for Jiao Ming and San Hao Xiao Niao, they constantly raised their own difficulty throughout, their mindset leaning negative, their overly high moral quality making every step of the simulation difficult.

Now the human kid 'Xue Xiaohei' is even more heavyweight—one extreme idea, and he wants to drag all the people of the Wasteland to die with him!

An eight‑year‑old kid holding an atomic bomb is bound to cause trouble......

Zhao Si's mouth twitched uncontrollably, and he silently shouted 'Extreme!' in his heart.

Even though that atomic bomb was actually sent over by his own hands......

He and Jiao Ming are two extremes—one insists on sacrificing himself for others' lives, the other, when he himself is going to die, drags the whole world to die with him...... What a way to make the world feel pain.

But having said that, if we look from the protagonist's perspective, his actions also make sense—after all, his family was destroyed and he was thrown into a private criminal court by the village, and at a young age he was sentenced to be buried alive.

His mind was already immature, and he directly felt society's darkness and despair, which almost inevitably led him to the result of turning dark.

Most importantly, he truly possesses the invincible power to make the world feel pain......

"You guys insisted on forcing him, well now everyone in the Wasteland has to carry a sack of rice up to the second floor!"

Zhao Family Village? Leaf Village!

Xue Xiaohei? Heavenly Dao surpasses!

【In the suffocating soil, you who were buried alive gave the Wasteland the most extreme revenge with your most extreme thought!】

【With one person's life, to make everyone feel pain, I would call you the most extreme!】

【The mighty Wasteland power erupted from the Seven-Colored Little Bird's body; on that day, all the survivors of the Wasteland saw their grandmothers......】

【The crimson red sun rose from the West Wasteland mountains, and you achieved the unparalleled feat of 'Sun Rising from the West'!】

【The sun instantly engulfed this West Wasteland mountain village, and then spread to the entire West Wasteland......】

【In the next moment, the latent Crimson Red Qi was stimulated by it, the Crimson Red Qi instantly spread throughout the West Wasteland; limited by it, this crimson sun could not exert its full power and could only regrettably disappear early.】

【But even so, this Wasteland power still blasted through the entire West Wasteland region, causing the survivors in various parts of the West Wasteland to be fewer than one in a hundred, almost completely destroying the future of the West Wasteland......】

【And your corpse, in the midst of this heaven‑earth power's turmoil, turned into a wisp of flying ash......】

【You died, the wrong choice led to a wrong ending...... Just as you had just started, you hadn't yet had time to learn more details and reasons of the changes in heaven and earth through the ages, when you fell into the mundane schemes and plots.】

【And you, being an eight‑year‑old child, already not fully matured, having suffered this great disaster, your thoughts inevitably turned extreme; coupled with possessing a weapon of mass destruction, your extreme ideology finally gave rise to an extreme result......】

【Should time be rewound, returning to the previous option node?】

Excellent, no wonder this is the protagonist chosen by the simulation game—after Wolong (Jin Bing) and Fengchu (Jiao Ming), the new heaven‑defying protagonist has finally emerged!

"Your this blood‑stained record......"

Zhao Si couldn't help but complain:

An eight‑year‑old kid dying for the first time, his combat record surpasses that of the Golden Heaven Emperor who underwent three cycles of reincarnation and the Myriad Spirits Common Ancestor; even the combined records of the two old seniors, totaling six lifetimes, can't match him!

Because no matter how loudly those two boasted, they never truly devastated a single Wasteland, whereas Xue Xiaohei, just starting out, used sheer strength to blow up two old fogeys......

Kid, you're invincible!

"But his explosion actually gave me useful information...... the Crimson Red Qi......"

Looking at the related descriptions of Xue Xiaohei after his extreme act, Zhao Si felt a bit surprised:

The apocalyptic power erupted between heaven and earth of the Wasteland; theoretically, someone should indeed come to resist this apocalyptic power, so he wasn't surprised that a sage's power would come to suppress it.

But why is this person's power manifested as Crimson Red Qi?

"Hongjun's power manifests as purple aura, and the Heavenly Dao, under its influence, is also purple aura."

"Among the Six Saints, the Three Pure Ones are immortal light, the Two Saints are golden light, and Nüwa...... is not Crimson Red Qi, right?"

Zhao Si narrowed his eyes:

"The Six Saints, who observe the Heavenly Dao and execute Heaven's actions, when facing the threat of apocalypse, should naturally be the first to rush forward, or Hongjun should be the first to rush, which is also normal...... and since this Crimson Red Qi is the first to declare itself, and it truly can suppress the erupting Wasteland power, that indicates its owner is also a sage."

"The prerequisite for becoming a sage is to possess Hongmeng Purple Qi; the only remaining purple qi in the Wasteland is that of Hong Yun...... could it be...... that Hong Yun has become a sage?"

This idea suddenly popped up; although Zhao Si thinks Hong Yun basically cannot become a sage, the qualification for sagehood is something only Hong Yun possesses!

Moreover, Hong Yun's color happens to match up against the Crimson Red Qi......

"I previously speculated that the Wasteland fell into this state only because the sages and the Heavenly Dao had problems."

"And now, the Six Saints and Hongjun's Heavenly Dao are silent, with only a sage resembling Hong Yun taking over their work......"

Could it be......

Zhao Si came up with a bold guess:

"Could it be that after Hong Yun became a sage, he knocked down the Six Saints and Hongjun's Heavenly Dao?!"

Although it's far‑fetched, this is currently the only guess that fits reality, and it can even be used to explain more problems.

For example, why did the Heavenly Court, representing the orthodox Heavenly Dao of Hongjun, fall?

Because Hong Yun uprooted the entire immortal Dao, naturally he would not allow the Heavenly Court to exist!

Another example, why did the Wasteland decline into this degenerate age?

Because Hong Yun killed the Six Saints and Hongjun, and on top of that he himself is lazy, unwilling to maintain Wasteland resources from nothing.

Furthermore, why did Hongjun clearly send purple qi to Hong Yun, yet Hong Yun could never become a sage?

Because Hongjun and the Six Saints know that Hong Yun is extremely formidable; once he becomes a sage, he will surely destroy the immortal Dao, so they deliberately prevented him from becoming a sage......

The more Zhao Si guessed, the more outrageous it became, even he himself thought it was far‑fetched!

But in a situation of complete darkness, he had no choice but to make such a bold guess.

And if that weren't the case, then perhaps there truly is some deus ex machina from Chaos, forcibly killing off the Six Saints and Hongjun's Heavenly Dao......

That's even more outrageous, right!

Bold assumption, careful verification…… Well, let's just do that.

After brainstorming for a while, Zhao Si shook his head, temporarily setting Red Cloud as the ultimate boss.

Is it a time reversal, returning to the previous life node?

Yes!

Time has already reversed……

…you have aided the 'Primordial Power from the Sage', detected that the 'Primordial Power from the Sage' was already used in the previous branch; due to time reversal, the system has automatically reset your usage count…

Fortunately, the reversion node can still reset the usage count of the collection……

Zhao Si couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief; after all, the upgraded Seven-Colored Little Bird, although it can 'self-charge', to fully charge the Sage's all-out strike would probably take several aeons.

Now that time has been reversed, the attack count has also been reset; naturally it couldn't be better!

When you opened your eyes, in a daze you discovered you had actually been reborn at the previous node; you couldn't help but feel relieved: although you had just been resolved to die, being able to start over is, of course, the best.

Right now, you're still about a day away from being caught; that means the great-granduncle's corpse hasn't been found yet, so you can take the opportunity to manipulate your fate a bit……

Although you deeply resent Muramasa and the villagers for their lynch burial of you, right now you have no strength to resist except to perish meaninglessly with them.

After thinking, you decided to temporarily avoid their sharpness, and after you achieve success in cultivating immortality, you'll return to settle the score!

Thus you immediately sneaked out of your empty house, full of hatred, you ran to the outskirts of the village and began cultivating immortality alone.

……

According to common sense, an eight-year-old child lacks the ability to survive alone in the wild, but you are different: you hold the Seven-Colored Little Bird, and strands of innate spiritual qi surge into your body, then are refined into magical power.

In just one day, you have gained considerable magical power; although you don't know any spells, simple use of magical power is no problem.

After three consecutive days of study, you are only one step away from the first realm of the immortal realm, the 'True Immortal'.

That night, your inner magical power was perfectly smooth; a light push before the gate, and you became a True Immortal!

Ordinary xianxia protagonists who want to become immortals need at least decades or centuries, and even those who take tens of thousands of years to touch an immortal position are not rare, whereas you only used three days.

This is not because your talent is extraordinarily monstrous, but simply because the conditions are too good: an endless flow of innate spiritual qi, plus the orthodox immortal method directly transmitted from the Dao Ancestor, achieving True Immortality is truly easy.

And after becoming a True Immortal, your first reaction is to take revenge!

Dark night, high wind.

A tiny figure drifted above the village, Xue Xiaohei's face twisted, his childish eyes revealing hatred unbefitting his age:

He won't forget being buried alive, nor will he forget how the villagers treated him!

I am wrong.

Xue Xiaohei murmured:

The pastry I gave poisoned my great-granduncle to death... but why should I die?

He doesn't understand the law, doesn't know if he committed a crime, and doesn't know whether he deserves to die.

He only knows that he cannot die!

So what if he's wrong?

If I'm wrong, must I admit it?

I can't die... whoever wants to kill me, I'll kill them!

Xue Xiaohei silently said to himself:

Because, I am the protagonist!

Everything in this world revolves around me; when others die, I can reload and revive them, which shows their life and death are fundamentally meaningless.

If so, why should I place their lives on equal footing with mine?

He closed his eyes, and the recent great explosion of the Seven-Colored Little Bird appeared in his mind:

Those who were killed can still be revived.

So……

【That night, the earth dragon turned over!】

【The earth shook violently, the whole village panicked, crying and praying for divine protection…… all sorts of things, but soon there was no sound at all.】

【Zhao Family Village was buried by the collapsing mountain, completely disappearing from the Western Wasteland!】

【You buried all your past underground, the lives of all the villagers were buried alive—this is your recompense for their great wickedness.】

【Everyone who participated in burying you alive received the same burial-alive treatment as you.】

【Let them feel the pain!】

【At the moment the village was leveled, a strange feeling welled up in your heart: seeming like exhilaration, also like emptiness, also like excitement…… In short, under this feeling of easily taking others' lives, your state of mind underwent a subtle change……】

【Having avenged your great grudge, you should be happy, but the revenge came too easily, leaving you feeling bored.】

【Mortals' lives are always this fragile; you, who have experienced being buried alive, deeply feel this……】

【Ding! You have doubts about your own existence and the value of others' lives; you think you are the protagonist, while others are regularly refreshed NPCs, but you're unsure if this is correct, so you can only seek answers from 'another self', hoping to obtain a guiding light; you choose: (?) 】

【A: This is wrong, my life is the same as others', so I should cherish others' lives! B: This is correct, I am the protagonist, others are NPCs, whoever blocks me dies!】

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(End of chapter)