Chapter 315: Another Path of Choice

【Rolling thunderfire descends from the heavens; even if you already have an immortal divine body, it is truly hard to resist!】

【Especially when the gods have resolved to kill you, resistance becomes impossible: the Heavenly Emperor died obscurely, to avenge him and to give an explanation to the gods of heaven, you must be executed before everyone.】

【Of course, part of the reason also lies in the position of "Heavenly Emperor"……】

【With the old Heavenly Emperor gone, a new Heavenly Emperor is naturally needed to take his place; a state cannot go a day without a ruler, and the Heavenly Court, for authority and stability, is naturally no exception.】

【Among the heavenly beings present, who is not a peerless emperor who once ruled an entire era of the mortal world?】

【Having once been emperors, they might look down on mortal dynasties, but when it comes to ruling heavenly beings like themselves, that is another matter……】

【So, all the gods want to ascend!】

【And to lawfully and reasonably ascend to the throne, the best way is naturally to handle the late Heavenly Emperor's funeral properly and bring all the culprits to justice!】

【The harsher the handling, the more satisfying it is, the more it wins over the crowd, and the more advantageous the ascent becomes……】

【They are all too eager to advance!】

【So, you have successfully become a tool person, gathering the Heavenly Court's hatred and drive for progress on yourself, and can be called the most suitable political tool……】

【……】

【You died, as expected, under the boundless thunderfire!】

【Will collapsed, divine body shattered, dead beyond death.】

【After your death, everyone unanimously cast your ruined body out of the Heavenly Court, and to vilify you to the greatest extent, they specially chose Northern Kuru Continent, the most bitterly cold and impoverished of the regions, as the dumping ground……】

【Though your corpse is ruined, it is still a divine body, and thus possesses the miraculous.】

【Not long after, the natives of Northern Kuru Continent discovered your ruined body, and in panic they promptly reported it… layer by layer, the report eventually reached the hands of the Monkey who was overseeing the campaign against Xiniu Hezhou……】

【It is hard to describe the Monkey's astonishment at that moment; its first reaction was disbelief: "Wasn't the master supposed to have ascended and been ennobled by heaven? How could……】

【But all distracting thoughts vanished the instant it saw your ruined body with its own eyes.】

【It stared at you blankly, then trembled, then its face filled with ferocity…… until finally it fell silent……】

【It said nothing, merely silently gathered your ruined body and personally buried it beside your fleshly grave.】

【……】

【Ten years later, the states of Xiniu Hezhou collapsed; the Monkey fulfilled your last wish and held a grand sacrificial ceremony for you!】

【Twenty years later, the Monkey and the other six successively attained True Godhood!】

【But for some unknown reason, the Heavenly Court envoy who should have descended to proclaim the edict did not arrive on schedule—perhaps they were deliberately targeting your remnants……】

【They may choose not to come down, but the Monkey will surely go up!】

【That year, the Monkey and the seven True Gods held a covenant, called the "Seven Sages"! They widely accepted talented people in the mortal world and imparted the Contemplation Method to help them achieve True Godhood.】

【Over the years, under the Seven Sages, one True God after another gradually gathered……】

【Until, that fated war of rebellion against heaven erupted from the Four Great Continents!】

【……】

【You died, and the wrong choice brought about a wrong end…… You were born in mist, and you died in mist; you struggled all your life, yet never found the true clue in this mist‑like world.】

【In your confused death, you could only taste over and over the words the Heavenly Emperor spoke before dying…… Though you don't fully understand them, you instinctively feel that they contain the secret you have long sought.】

【Is the world a dream? Is another world the real one? Then what are you? Is someone else dreaming you, or are you dreaming someone else?】

【If the world is a dream, how can one awaken from it?】

【Although you hardly accept living your whole life in a dream, if you could truly awaken everyone together and go to that real world to start a new life, that would not be impossible: just think of it as a mass relocation, after all the people are still the same people, not much different……】

【Your dream is for all people to live happily, free from the torment of suffering; if we could reach the real world from this dream‑world, it would very likely fulfill your wish, after all people always hold a beautiful, filter‑filled expectation for places they have never been.】

【As for that so‑called real world, you long for it immensely; whatever it may be, having a chance to take a look would also be good.】

【It's a pity this life cannot go there……】

【Thinking of your own death, you cannot help but think of the Heavenly Emperor's death: this is truly regrettable!】

【You never imagined that hearing this would kill the Heavenly Emperor; it's such an ordinary name—who knows it could fell the exalted Heavenly Emperor……】

【Though dead is dead, however you say it, the Heavenly Emperor counts as killed by you; if he does not regain his memory, he will surely remain immortal thereafter.】【As the chief culprit who killed the Heavenly Emperor, you bear no resentment for your own death—one life for another, you barely offset the crime, there's nothing more to say; worst case, next time just don't go up to heaven.】

【Furthermore, the information you wanted to gather while in the mortal world has practically been collected in this short day: the world is a dream!】

【With this crucial piece of information, other details can be set aside; as long as you can lead everyone to break the dream and reach reality, then nothing really matters.】

【At the final moment of life, you thought of many things…… in the end, you thought of your disciple in the mortal world.】

【You let out a silent sigh: this mortal world can no longer be returned to; this time the master has also failed to keep the promise, wasting the disciple's wholehearted trust……】

【I only hope this does not implicate it; if possible, I still wish the Monkey could live happily in the heavenly realm in the future, even though that is highly unlikely……】

【Under the thunderfire, you closed your eyes.】

【……】

【Ding! Should time be rewound to return to the previous life node?】

Dead, died very decisively.

Zhao Si wanted to speak but held back, finally sighing:

"This is doing a confused ghost…"

Also blaming myself, for not telling him the known information from the first three chapters earlier; otherwise, Lin Liu would not have died so confused……

But this is also the result of Zhao Si being bewildered by the fourth chapter's strange plot; after all, the early part of this chapter bears no resemblance to a primordial background, causing him to keep guessing at riddles and never thinking to convey the first three chapters' information to Lin Liu.

"Never mind; when we restart, I'll directly hand him all the key information from chapter three—though I dare not say it will directly let him clear the game, at least it will help toward clearing."

Having made up his mind, Zhao Si clicked "Continue": "Time reversal!"

【Time has already been rewound……】

【At this moment of dilemma, you choose: (?)】

【A: Ascend to heaven—after fighting a lifetime, can't one enjoy some pleasure? Take this opportunity to indeed witness all the beautiful legends of the Heavenly Court; a True God not going to the divine realm would be like wasting all those years of training. B: Remain in the mortal world, continue toiling as an ox and horse; after all, you have an innate ox‑horse saintly body, and not using it would be a waste!】

A: Heaven, after fighting a lifetime of battles, can't one enjoy oneself? Taking this good opportunity, one ought to go and see all the beautiful legends of the Heavenly Court; if a true god does not go to the divine realm, isn't that equivalent to having wasted all these years of practice? B: Not going to heaven, staying in the mortal world to continue being a beast of burden; after all, one is born with a saintly beast-of-burden physique, not using it would be a waste!

Choose B!

You chose B, not ascending to heaven, remaining in the mortal world to continue being a beast of burden; after all, you have an innate beast-of-burden holy body—it would be a waste not to use it!

With a blink, you had already reopened from the Heavenly Court's Slaying God Platform back to the mortal world…… Feeling immense emotion, you lifted your head and looked at Li Ziliang sitting opposite you.

"Have you decided?"

He smiled and looked at you, seeming to have already determined that you would go up to heaven with him to be invested; after all, people only associate with their own kind, and in the eyes of true gods, ordinary mortals are no different from 'tools', 'ants', or 'paper people'……

Haha! How could anyone be willing to mix with a bunch of paper people?

You say, right?

You: ……

In his astonished gaze, you shook your head and refused this seemingly tempting heavenly edict: "I have decided, not going to the Heavenly Court…… I still have countless commoners needing governance; the Heavenly Emperor's edict…… I can only apologize."

Your strange choice left the Tai Bai Star Lord, the founding emperor of the previous dynasty, utterly stunned……

"Are you sure?!!"

After a moment, he still couldn't believe it: "Really, someone would want to spend a lifetime with paper people?" What a strange psychological notion……

"Thank you, Star Lord, I truly do not wish to go to heaven to bother the Heavenly Emperor and my fellow officials……"

Your sincere words left him speechless for a long while; finally he only sighed, said nothing, and turned and left……

Watching his back, you silently posed a question to 'another self' in your heart……

Ding! Faced with all kinds of information fog, you really want to know more; you crave every bit of useful information, especially information about the 'real world', which makes you especially curious…… You choose (?), please answer freely!

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(End of chapter)