Chapter 154
Chapter 154
A moment later, Di Xiulan said mildly, “The Calamity Heart Azure Dragon. So it was here all along.”
Koi: “…”
I’m dead.
Koi slowly flipped over, belly-up, and floated motionless to the surface.
Xiao Changye cried in shock, “Master, you scared this fish to death!”
Ye Piaoling immediately said, “You’re overthinking it. It does this all the time, pretending to be a dead fish…”
Then she turned to Di Xiulan and asked, “Lord Divine Venerable, what did you just say?”
Di Xiulan smiled. “This fish is the Calamity Heart Azure Dragon that escaped from Chonghua Palace.”
“What!?”
Ye Piaoling was stunned.
The dragon that had always wanted to eat her had turned into Koi and been living in her room?
Xiao Changye was surprised too.
According to Master, this stupid fish really was a dragon?
Ye Piaoling picked up the fishbowl, shook it, and cackled. “Stop playing dead. I’ll give you one last chance to choose: steamed or braised?”
Koi gave no response at all, as if it hadn’t heard a word.
Ye Piaoling scooped it out of the water and pinched it. Koi still didn’t move an inch.
“…”
Ye Piaoling fell silent for a long moment, then said, “It seems like it’s really dead this time.”
She sighed, remembering what Di Xiulan had once told her about this dumb dragon’s origins. It had originally been the Divine Dragon in the final round of the Eternal Life Origin Realm. Later, Di Xiulan had used Tianxie to mend its soul, and that was how it had become an Evil Dragon whose intelligence had taken a serious hit…
The dead deserved respect. This dragon had probably been seriously lacking in love, so Ye Piaoling handed it to Xiao Changye, the Love God. “Since you want it, it’s yours.”
Xiao Changye: “…”
Although it was already a dead fish, it was still a gift from Master’s wife. He didn’t dare refuse.
He could only accept it gratefully and say with sincerity, “Thank you!”
Then he casually put it into his storage pouch, together with his underpants.
After Xiao Changye left, Ye Piaoling tugged on Di Xiulan’s hand and asked shyly, “So, um… when are we getting married?”
The man raised a brow and chuckled. “Can’t wait?”
Ye Piaoling nodded bashfully. “I just want to hurry up and lock down that billion…”
Seeing that these two were about to begin a shamelessly happy life together, the Sand Sculpture System quickly shouted, “Wait a minute! There’s still work left to do in the Life Origin Realm!”
If this woman really got her hands on that billion, she would probably spend the rest of her life counting money and ignore everything else…
Ye Piaoling frowned. “What work?”
The Silly Prophet said in the most pleasant tone it could manage, “The Evil Lord has already been dealt with by you. As the spirit of the Divine Tree, shouldn’t you bring an end to the Eternal Long Night in the Life Origin Realm?”
Ye Piaoling thought it over. Though she had no desire to concern herself with the world, she wasn’t willing to let her homeland remain trapped in darkness forever either. “What should I do?”
The Silly Prophet said, “You now possess all the evil energy of the Life Origin Realm, and in the Soul-Departing Dream, you freed yourself from the danger of losing control. You have already become an Evil Deity. With a single slash, you can split the night apart and bring light!”
“That sounds pretty cool!” Ye Piaoling looked at Di Xiulan. “How about we go try it?”
Di Xiulan smiled. “As you wish.”
Through the Barrier inside the Secret Cave on Hundred Demon Mountain, the two of them and the Silly Prophet once again arrived in the Eternal Life Origin Realm.
After the Evil Lord disappeared, the Tianxie monsters lost the evil source sustaining them. They had all turned into specimens, frozen in place, and the atmosphere remained terrifying.
Ye Piaoling stood in the void and took out the Heart Demon Greatsword again.
This blade was seriously useful. It came in handy everywhere.
She focused her mind, gathered her energy, and slashed toward the sky.
“Go-”
Boom!!!
In an instant, a massive rift was cleaved through the boundless darkness!
Mountains collapsed, the earth split, and the entire world trembled!
The dark evil energy that had shrouded the Life Origin Realm for tens of millions of years began to retreat from the rift toward both sides, like the tide pulling back from the shore.
Immediately afterward, glorious light poured down from the sky.
The light gradually expanded, slowly illuminating heaven and earth. Everywhere it passed, the monsters scattered and vanished into nothingness…
In the end, the darkness disappeared, and long-lost sunlight enveloped the entire continent.
The world was absolutely silent, as if heaven and earth had just been born and primordial chaos had only just begun.
No righteous. No evil. No life of any kind.
From afar, Ye Piaoling saw the enormous Divine Tree.
It was the progenitor of all things, standing quietly at the edge of the sky, withering in silence.
Ye Piaoling walked beneath the tree and reached out to touch its rough trunk. An indescribable sense of intimacy and awe rose in her heart.
“Can the Divine Tree be revived?” she asked.
“Of course it can!” the Silly Prophet said excitedly.
This was its ultimate goal.
The darkness had dispersed, and Tianxie had vanished, but the Life Origin Realm was still dead. Only by reviving the Divine Tree and restoring the spiritual source of this continent could life evolve here once more, bringing back birdsong and blooming flowers.
The Silly Prophet said, “As long as you and Lord Divine Venerable stay here and water it with spiritual power every day, it will sprout again eventually.”
Ye Piaoling asked, “How long would we have to water it?”
“Well…” the Silly Prophet said. “At least a few thousand years!”
Afraid Ye Piaoling would refuse, it hurriedly added, “Sweetie, you’ve transformed from evil into a god. Like Lord Divine Venerable, you now have an undying body. A few thousand years is nothing to the two of you, right? Think about it!”
Ye Piaoling considered it for a very long time.
At last, she made her decision.
Then she took Di Xiulan’s hand. “Babe, are you willing to revive the Divine Tree with me and create a beautiful new world?”
Di Xiulan smiled. “As long as you are willing, I will stay with you.”
Originally, gods would not interfere with the karma and reincarnation of the mortal world. After destroying Tianxie, he should no longer meddle in the fate of this continent.
But if this was her choice, he would accompany her unconditionally.
Ye Piaoling said, deeply moved, “Wonderful! But before that, we still have to get our one billion back… That way, over the next few thousand lonely years, we can pass the time counting money!”
Di Xiulan: “…”
She really never forgot about that one billion for even a second!
Di Xiulan said, “If you want to count money, come back to the Heavenly Realm with me and complete our wedding.”
“The Heavenly Realm?”
At the mention of that distant, unfamiliar place, Ye Piaoling felt a little uneasy. But then she thought of the one billion and suddenly found her courage.
“Fine, let’s get married!”
Forget going up to the heavens to get married. She would go down to hell to get married if she had to!
Ye Piaoling said wistfully, “But speaking of which, now that I’m leaving the Glazed Continent, I do feel a little reluctant… I’ll miss my good friend Huahua, and my grandfather and grandmother…”
Di Xiulan said, “You and Hua Wuhuang both possess Immortal Pulses. In the future, you will meet again in the Heavenly Realm.”
“What does that mean?” Ye Piaoling asked in surprise.
Di Xiulan smiled. “The Glazed Continent is merely one of the three thousand tiles atop the Reincarnation Hall. Those who possess Immortal Pulses are gods and demons of the myriad heavens, reincarnated to undergo tribulations.”
After hearing this, Ye Piaoling stood stunned for a long while.
“Then the original owner of this body was also an immortal?”
Di Xiulan nodded. “Yes. Her will must not have been strong enough, so she failed her tribulation. Her Immortal Pulse vanished, and in the end, you picked up the empty shell.”
He smiled, then added, “But now that you have grown your own Immortal Pulse, this body belongs entirely to you and me. It has nothing to do with anyone else.”
Ye Piaoling: “…”
What did he mean, belonged to you and me? It belonged to her, all right!
She hurriedly asked again, “Then what about Hua Wuhuang? What tribulation was he undergoing?”
Di Xiulan said, “He was originally a divine Phoenix bird of the Heavenly Realm. His tribulation is most likely connected to Lu Yin, because Lu Yin reincarnated with him.”
Ye Piaoling was shocked. “But Elder Lu doesn’t have an Immortal Pulse. Since he’s a mortal, how could he and Hua Wuhuang…”
Di Xiulan said, “If a mortal dies for an immortal, they will reincarnate together with that immortal to undergo tribulation.”
Ye Piaoling said in astonishment, “You’re saying that in their previous life, Lu Yin died for Hua Wuhuang?”
“Yes,” Di Xiulan said with a nod. “For an immortal, owing a mortal a life is a grave taboo. It must be repaid in the next life.”
Ye Piaoling was amazed.
So Hua Wuhuang actually owed Lu Yin such a huge debt!
But was it ordinary brotherly affection, or the kind of brotherly affection that came with quotation marks? How could a mere mortal have given up his life for a Phoenix?
As for what exactly had happened in their previous lives, only the two of them would know…