Chapter 502: Whose Child Are You?

The bar, esports area.

Lin Xuan from the other space finally walked to the entrance of the bar, and the real Lin Xuan transferred over.

The four of them were eating.

Divided into two tables.

Chen Ran, Qiu Yinong, and Jiang Zhe shared a table, eating ordinary home-cooked dishes.

Lin Xuan sat alone at a table, with an exquisite, small cut of steak paired with [Red Wine].

After the three finished eating, they glanced at Lin Xuan, who was eating his fifth steak, their gazes falling on the [Red Wine] in his glass that was still bubbling like soda.

The three of them turned their heads away, afraid that if they looked for another second, they would snort with laughter.

The four of them did not dare to return to the hotel, planning to spend the night here, so after eating, they sat in their respective chairs and rested with their eyes closed.

Qiu Yinong closed her eyes, not suppressing her Mental State, but adjusting her breathing to calm herself down, making it easier to think.

Initially, when she teamed up with Chen Ran, their division of labor was very clear.

Chen Ran handled tactics.

She handled strategy.

However, after several Instances, Chen Ran's growth was visible to the naked eye, while she... Qiu Yinong indeed needed to organize her thoughts.

Within the World of the Heart.

Looking at the vast expanse of white, Qiu Yinong strolled through her own Distance-Free Technique.

'Primordial Limitless is space and time.'

'I control the Wheel of Time, so there should also be a Space Wheel.'

'Perhaps, there is also...'

'A Reincarnation Skill.'

'In other words, the Ninth's Skill is fragmented into at least three Skills.'

'If I kill them, does it mean that my Liar-Slayer...'

'Will absorb their Skills, eventually becoming a True Self Skill?'

'But, this True Self Skill belongs to the 9th True Self Player.'

'It does not belong to me?'

'Looking at it this way, after I kill all of them, there will be an inevitable calamity of death.'

'My death will announce the return of the 9th True Self Player to this timeline.'

Simply put, Qiu Yinong had already realized that the timeline Chen Ran was in was the true timeline.

After all, if it were a timeline created by a Skill, Chen Ran had used Eternal Kingdom so many times before that it would have been broken long ago.

However, Qiu Yinong's memory had never experienced a one-hour vacuum of time.

This proved that Chen Ran's timeline was the true timeline.

'Looking at it this way, the flaw of the 9th True Self Player's Skill is...'

'After using it, she cannot return to the true timeline, or rather, even if she could return, she would face rejection?'

'Thus, she utilized the different characteristics of the Living World and Hell, dividing herself and reincarnating with different identities to return to this true timeline.'

'What is the difference between the Living World and Hell?'

'From the perspective of the lying attribute, no matter how many lies are told in the Living World, they are cleared upon arriving in Hell. It can be understood as deleting an account and starting over in a game.'

'But, her account deletion is only temporary; sooner or later, she will retrieve her account.'

'Since she is retrieving her account, her equipment will also return.'

'In other words, the moment my Skill becomes a True Self Skill...'

'It will trigger the life-and-death calamity the 9th True Self Player prepared for me. After all, she can travel through space and time to set things up in advance.'

Qiu Yinong's fists clenched tightly.

Chen Ran had his own Asura battlefield in the future, but how could the same not be true for Qiu Yinong?

If one were to rank the malicious mechanisms faced by various players in Hell...

Ordinary players would likely only face Tier 2 mechanisms, the malicious mechanisms True Self Players faced should be Tier 1, while people like Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong faced Tier 0.

'How could I, Qiu Yinong, possibly surrender without a fight?'

'In that case, there is no need for the 9th True Self Player to exist. There are only ten True Self Players in Hell? Then I insist on becoming the 11th True Self Player!'

At this moment, Qiu Yinong's ambition was vividly displayed. Simply put...

Regarding what she had deduced, she wasn't sad but rather delighted, simply because she knew clearly that on this chessboard of Hell, to become a Chess Player, a True Self Skill was the only ticket for admission.

Since she now had the possibility of becoming a True Self Player, how could she not be happy?

'My Ultimate...'

Feeling that her Mental State was somewhat unstable, Qiu Yinong sat cross-legged within her Distance-Free Technique.

She adjusted her condition again.

'Primordial Limitless, fragmented into at least three Skills, and the Underworld protects me.'

'This means that someone in the Underworld already knows my identity.'

'Yet I don't know who the holders of the other Skills are.'

In truth, Qiu Yinong didn't care about this at all. If the others were smart, they would also think of this and sooner or later seek her out to kill her.

'What I need to do now is improve my strength as quickly as possible.'

'From the current situation, the opponents we encounter are getting stronger and stronger.'

'If it is still solely the Supreme Perfect Enlightenment Mental Cultivation Method, encountering players two Star Ratings higher might be extremely strenuous.'

'I must open up a new path of Heart Cultivation.'

'The Highest Goodness is Like Water or Unity of Man and Heaven.'

'Hmm?'

Qiu Yinong stood frozen in place. She suddenly recalled a certain memory from the last Instance:

"I will only demonstrate it once."

The thin and frail Youth played an inexplicable tune within Qiu Yinong's Distance-Free Technique.

Judging from the changes in pitch, the Youth played four pieces—deep, sharp, subdued, and soaring—as if each piece was played under a different Mental State.

But what was strange was that after the song ended, Qiu Yinong could not remember what the Youth used to play it.

"You should cultivate the Unity of Man and Heaven. After all, your fate was arranged long ago."

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'Unity of Man and Heaven?'

'Indeed, if I want to break free from the 9th True Self Player's control, I can only cultivate this. Furthermore, The Highest Goodness is Like Water doesn't suit me.'

Thinking up to here.

Qiu Yinong emptied her mind and adjusted her condition again, simply because the Unity of Man and Heaven had no specific Mental Cultivation Method.

She needed to feel it herself.

'The ideology of the Unity of Man and Heaven is: respecting the laws of natural development and respecting the rules and order.'

'The Heart Cultivation of the Unity of Man and Heaven is: violating the aforementioned laws and rebelling against the rules and order.'

'No!'

'That's not right!'

Wishing to Buy Osmanthus Wine and Travel Together, Yet the Days of Our Youth Are Gone. Many truths are actually known to us early on, but only after experiencing them do we truly understand their meaning.

It is just like when we grow up and return to our hometown, seeing many unfamiliar children, and finally asking that phrase:

"Whose Child are you?"

When you ask this sentence, perhaps you will find that the person asking the question is you.

And the person answering this question is you on some afternoon in your childhood, playing with friends at the edge of the village, when you saw an unfamiliar uncle.

Only by experiencing this boomerang will one understand the truth within it.

By the same logic.

If Qiu Yinong wanted to achieve Unity of Man and Heaven, she had to accomplish her act towards the rules and order...

Submission and rebellion!

To see through its essence and let her thoughts leap out of the confinement of the fence wall.

Just like Shu Renjun, who was controlled by his mother for a long time, submitting in suppression, and ultimately killing his mother. This was a process from submission to rebellion. He had felt the changes within, so although it seemed like he completed the Unity of Man and Heaven Heart Cultivation in a short period, it was actually the result of long-term 'accumulation'.

If Qiu Yinong wanted to cultivate the Unity of Man and Heaven, then her life must have such a process, otherwise she would never be able to complete it.

'How should I go about feeling it?'