Chapter 405: The Second Sun Rising Above the Rooftop

The second sun rising above the rooftop

"Hu... Hu Xuan?"

Cheng Shi looked up at the giant sun overhead, slightly at a loss.

But he soon noticed something strange — this newly born giant sun seemed to be one you could look at directly!

Though its light was as dazzling as a real sun's, this seemingly fierce radiance did not burn the eyes, and even the surrounding temperature did not change.

The sunlight carried no warmth at all on the body; compared to a real sun, it was more like a giant sun's phantom image.

As Cheng Shi kept gazing at the giant sun, in the center of his vision — that is, at the heart of the giant sun — the rolling, billowing heat slowly coalesced into a blurry figure.

He recognized at a single glance that this figure was Hu Xuan!

Long unseen, she was still the same as ever — a deep-V black slip dress wrapped around her graceful figure, and Cheng Shi's memories instantly flew back to that first meeting in Yuanmu Town!

And the moment Hu Xuan appeared, she smiled brightly and stretched out her hand toward Cheng Shi.

"Come."

Cheng Shi gave a start and instinctively retreated a step.

Seeing him still so resistant, Hu Xuan chuckled softly, shook her head, and said:

"Strange — I've seen that everyone fears Did Zhen Yi but not me, yet you, Cheng Shi, don't fear Did Zhen Yi, only me.

It was you who sent me to this height, so why are you unwilling to walk hand in hand with me even further?"

Cheng Shi forced a stiff smile and said:

"We don't have to hold hands — walking side by side can take us just as far.

Besides, you said the whistle wasn't for good fortune, so just say what you have to say. I don't want others seeing an extra sun on my rooftop."

"No matter — they can't see it."

?

Cheng Shi's brow furrowed as he suddenly realized he had been mistaken — that Nightfall Spring Whistle had not been a real summoning, but had influenced him into producing an illusion?

But producing illusions is the domain of 【Void】 — how could a prop tied to 【Nurture】 have such an effect?

Hu Xuan read the confusion on Cheng Shi's face and patiently explained with a smile:

"If the birth of life is called 【Nurture】, then why wouldn't the birth of illusion be as well?"

"Boom—"

With just that one sentence, Cheng Shi's mind began to ring.

He suddenly understood — the domain of 【Nurture】 was not limited to 【Life】, nor was it some 'pushover' whose authority could be plucked at will.

It was clearly one of the gods in this divine melee; while the other deities led by 【Truth】 were seizing Its authority, It too was seizing the authority of others.

And this 'other' now seemed to be... 【Void】?

No, sis — why do I get the feeling you're like someone who stole my chicken, sold it, then came back to split the profits with me?

Cheng Shi's heart gave a sudden lurch, and he wondered again whether 【Deceit】 and 【Nurture】 had struck some unknowable-to-mortals pact, which was why It allowed 【Nurture】 to seize authority from Its hands.

Otherwise, based on his understanding of the Fun God, Its authority wouldn't be so easy to take.

Hu Xuan had no idea Cheng Shi's mind was running so wild — she assumed this illusion-born 'miracle' had simply stunned him for a moment, and quickly broke the silence with a smile.

"I won't waste your time. I really do have something to give you. Just before you called me, I had just finished my audience with It.

It said It had found another child, but this child is still trapped somewhere and cannot come out, so It first handed this child's belongings to me for safekeeping."

A child!?

"No, wait!" Cheng Shi's pupils contracted, and without even listening to the rest he said sternly, "What child?"

"A child like me."

Cheng Shi's eyes went wide, and he asked in disbelief: "An envoy of 【Nurture】!?"

Hu Xuan nodded: "Yes, Its envoy."

"..." Cheng Shi's heart clenched sharply, and he instinctively felt this child had to be tied to him somehow — but what I clearly saw was an envoy of 【Corruption】, so how...

At that thought, a certain person suddenly flashed through Cheng Shi's mind, and the very instant that person's name crossed his thoughts, cold sweat broke out across his back.

He stared blankly for a long moment, then stammered: "That child — no, that envoy — who is it?"

Hu Xuan's expression grew solemn too, for to her, who had not yet become an envoy herself, that one was a true envoy of 【Nurture】.

"【Mother of the Sin-Breeding Nest】, Gollis — my Lord's first child, and also Its disciplinary whip."

"Who!!??"

Cheng Shi was stunned.

He confirmed he hadn't misheard, and confirmed he hadn't guessed wrong — the envoy of 【Nurture】 really was Tularadin's mother, Gollis!

Though it made sense — after all, she was a ruthless woman who tirelessly remade herself to draw closer to It.

It seemed that, in history, 【Nurture】 had accepted her?

But the question was — if It had accepted her, why had It then 'lost' this child?

Cheng Shi was deeply puzzled. He quickly sorted through his thoughts and asked the question — but Hu Xuan's next answer left him frozen on the spot.

"The situation of the 【Mother of the Sin-Breeding Nest】 is very special, because She is not only my Lord's envoy, She is also...

an envoy of 【Corruption】."

???

What did you say!?

Before the wide-eyed Cheng Shi could even squeeze a stunned "f*ck" from his throat, Hu Xuan continued:

"Her other identity is the envoy of 【Corruption】 — the 【Gate of Wanton Desire】, Aphlos!"

!!!

It really was him!

No, it had to be him!

When everything points to something being off, the most off thing should actually be the truth!

"You mean, Gorice, and Afloss, are the same... person?"

Hu Xuan was somewhat surprised by Cheng Shi's reaction, but she still nodded and said:

"You could put it that way, but They are the same... god.

It seems you might know Them?

No, have you met Them?

You called me just to talk about Gorice?"

Cheng Shi pulled himself together from his extreme shock, gave a wry smile and nodded: "Yes, but actually it was about Afloss."

How could Afloss be Gorice?

The moment this doubt arose, a gleam flashed in Cheng Shi's eyes, and he instantly thought of the answer.

Regardless of how in history She actually became Her own mother, in the trial he had experienced, she did seem to have had the chance to become his mother.

That would be......

The Oath-Breaking Old Day Hunter Scorpio sent that newborn Afloss back into the past history, and looking at it this way, that infant might, by a twist of fate, have become the original Gorice!

So Dorgard's story was far more abstract and insane than what he had witnessed!

It was Turalindon who gave birth to himself, then conceived a brand-new self with his future self, and went back into the past to become his original self!

From beginning to end, whether it was Gorice, Turalindon, or Afloss......

They were all the same person!