Chapter 67
Chapter 67
Amid the sea of flames stood Yun Jianyue in a blue-and-white summer school uniform, her face smeared with blood and her hair cut short. She held a chainsaw with a slightly nicked blade in her right hand, and the towering flames were reflected in her bright black eyes.
Although she stood in the middle of the crowd, she was the first person anyone would notice.
The fire burned for a long time. It was almost dawn before the flames gradually died down. Apart from the school field, the entire school had been reduced to ashes, leaving only those of them from the real world behind.
“So why are we still in the Inner World?”
Lu Changxue was about to lose her mind. Everything had burned down, yet they still had not escaped. Surely the core of the Inner World could not be a single grain of sand on the school field?!
Everyone fell into deep thought. This was completely inconsistent with their understanding of the Inner World.
Even the most insane Inner World would not make its core a grain of sand.
After all, anyone could step on it while walking. One stomp would crush the grain, and the Inner World would collapse immediately.
While everyone else was baffled, Mo Chen alone remained focused on his phone screen. Audio from a video about trimming donkey hooves continued to blare from his phone.
“Could you show some basic decency and stop playing that out loud? On a high-speed train, someone like you would be nailed to a pillar of shame.” Yun Jianyue reached over and muted his phone.
Everyone else was thinking hard, while this guy alone was happily scrolling through videos. He was completely ruining the atmosphere.
Mo Chen turned the volume back up. There was a faintly self-righteous edge to his voice. “I’m the Evil God. Having no sense of public decency is only natural.”
Yun Jianyue decisively started up the chainsaw. “Come on. Let’s die together.”
With a light snap of his fingers, Mo Chen froze Yun Jianyue in place.
The next moment, Si Wuming drew a talisman in the air and tapped the center of Yun Jianyue’s brow. “Break.”
Freed from the restraint, Yun Jianyue raised her chainsaw and was about to bring it down on Mo Chen when he snapped his fingers again.
Si Wuming repeated the trick. “Break.”
“Are you two insane?” The Evil God frowned. The Evil God was displeased. The Evil God wanted to kill everyone.
He had only been playing short videos out loud. He had not gone on a killing spree or made trouble for these Xuanmen practitioners. Yun Jianyue should have been secretly thanking her lucky stars. How dare she try to hack him with a chainsaw?
And then there was Si Wuming. He had lived for so many years and been perfectly normal for so long. How had meeting Yun Jianyue made his brain just as abnormal as hers?
Yun Jianyue ground her back teeth. “I just wanted an excuse to hack you.”
Mo Chen: “…” He knew this woman was up to no good.
“Isn’t that right, core?” Yun Jianyue tilted her head and stared at Mo Chen with a half-smile.
Mo Chen raised an eyebrow. In a rare move, he willingly put down his phone and tucked it into his pocket, then regarded Yun Jianyue at his leisure. “So you figured it out.”
The sudden reversal left everyone completely confused.
What was going on? Why was the core the Evil God?
Normally, shouldn’t the core of an Inner World be something that already existed within the Inner World itself? The Evil God, like them, was an outsider!
Yun Jianyue clicked her tongue. “Everything here has been burned to ashes, and we still haven’t found the core. That leaves only one possibility: the core is on one of us.”
“And you guessed it was me?” Mo Chen realized that he really did hate this woman. Sometimes, she was so clever that it was infuriating.
“But aside from the clothes everyone is wearing, everything here was created by you. I’m not saying it’s impossible for everyone’s clothes themselves to be the core, but that would be a little too perverse. I don’t think the creator of this Inner World is as perverse as I am.” Yun Jianyue had a remarkably clear understanding of herself.
Only the sweet and naive Lu Changxue was still confused. “Then how can you be sure it’s your husband?”
Yun Jianyue said, “I just remembered that he once praised the creator of this Inner World for having good taste. When have you ever seen him praise anyone? A narcissist like him can probably only bring himself to praise himself.”
Lu Changxue suddenly understood. “So your husband created this Inner World!”
“Only halfway right.” Mo Chen curled his lips. “A dozen or so years ago, I merely happened to leak a sliver of Evil God’s Power to a little ghost drowning in resentment.”
He simply hadn’t expected that little ghost to use that sliver of Evil God’s Power to create an Inner World like this.
And because the Inner World had been created with his Evil God’s Power, after he accidentally entered it, he became the new core of the Inner World.
The original core should have been Fei Dan.
Lu Changxue had finally managed to be clever for once. “You can get out by destroying the core of the Inner World, but if he dies, won’t you die too? Then why were you about to cut him down?”
“That’s why I said we’d die together.” Yun Jianyue smiled sweetly.
“Are you crazy? You can’t!” Lu Changxue glared furiously, practically itching to crack open Yun Jianyue’s skull and see what was inside.
Si Wuming let out a long, mournful sigh. He glanced at Lu Changxue, but ultimately said nothing.
Lu Changxue scratched her head in confusion. “Show-Off King, what did that sigh just now mean? I feel like you were calling me stupid.”
Cai Zeyu kindly explained, “Be confident and remove the ‘feel like.’ He was calling you stupid.”
Even Mo Chen, the Evil God, couldn’t stand watching anymore. He asked Yun Jianyue, “Did this female ghost save your life when she was alive?”
Otherwise, how had a little fox like Yun Jianyue ended up hanging around with a sweet, naive idiot like Lu Changxue?
No, wait. Just an idiot. There was nothing sweet or naive about her.
“What do you mean?” Lu Changxue was utterly baffled. Why did it seem like everyone understood except her?
Du Minghao patted Lu Changxue on the shoulder. “When we get back, I’ll burn you a few books. Read them carefully. To destroy the core of the Inner World, you just need to damage it. Do you even know what ‘destroy’ means?”
Lu Changxue said, “Kill him?”
Du Minghao: “…”
“Good girl. If you talk less, you can still pretend to be a cool, aloof beauty. Keep this up, and you’ll only qualify as a complete idiot.” Yun Jianyue patted Lu Changxue on the head, then raised her chainsaw and looked at Mo Chen. “Come on, let me cut you once. Hurry up!”
Mo Chen said, “What does it have to do with me whether you can get out or not? Why would I let you cut me?”
“You’re so long-winded.”
A trace of impatience flashed through Si Wuming’s eyes. He drew his Tang saber in a backhand grip and slashed at Mo Chen at astonishing speed.
The Evil God’s reaction speed was just as fast. He shifted slightly to the side, perfectly avoiding Si Wuming’s strike.
Just like that, the man and the Evil God started fighting over a disagreement. Both of them moved at a speed that defied human limits. Even Lu Changxue, a ghost, could barely see how they were exchanging blows.
Lu Changxue stared in shock. “I can understand why the Evil God is nothing but afterimages, but isn’t Show-Off King human? How can he keep up with the Evil God’s movements?”
She turned her head and saw Yun Jianyue picking her nose, looking as though she was wondering why the two of them still hadn’t finished fighting.
“Why are you picking your nose?” Lu Changxue was beside herself. Could her Darling please pay a little attention to her personal image?
Yun Jianyue casually flicked the booger away and said with a straight face, “I washed my hands before burning down the school. They’re very clean.”
“I’m not asking whether your hands are clean!” Lu Changxue screamed.
“Oh, I get it. You want someone else to pick my nose for me!” Yun Jianyue said, suddenly enlightened.
Lu Changxue: …Let this trash world be destroyed.
The battle between the two continued at a stalemate. Then, all of a sudden, Mo Chen’s movements paused. He didn’t even bother with Si Wuming anymore, flashing in front of Yun Jianyue with a dark expression and gritted teeth.
“You actually flicked a booger onto me? Yun Jianyue, let’s die together!”