Who is not a warrior these days?

Chapter 519 An Immense Taboo

The morning sunlight streamed through the wooden lattice windows of the farmhouse restaurant, casting warm dappled light on the tables covered with blue printed tablecloths.

The air was filled with the aroma of rice porridge and the tangy smell of homemade pickled vegetables. Occasionally, the quacking of ducks could be heard from the backyard. Everything seemed peaceful and ordinary.

However, the atmosphere at the dinner table was somewhat subtle.

Wang Li was engrossed in preparing a piece of tender and flavorful duck meat, seemingly focused, but in reality, a grand narrative about "filial piety" was unfolding in his mind—a wisp of his mind was firmly locked on his younger brother opposite him, or more accurately, on the remnant soul of his father, the "Black Martial God" from a parallel world, which was attached to his younger brother's mind.

"Oh, Dad, why can't you just stay put in your hopeless future?"

Wang Li shook his head inwardly, but maintained his honest expression on his face. He picked up another piece of duck neck and began to gnaw on it with relish. "If it weren't for your son's great sense of justice, and the fact that I endured the pain in the River of Time and punched you three times to shatter your restless body and sever your demonic karma, who knows where you'd be causing trouble right now!"

He reminisced about the three punches he delivered last night, fueled by his "filial piety," while listening to his family members discuss the strange phenomena of the previous night.

"Speaking of which, Ah Li, last night was really scary." Li Yuanzhu said, breaking the silence at the table, while taking small sips of porridge.

She frowned slightly and said:

“The changes in the sky were extremely strange. My dad said that in all his years, even during the war ten years ago when the alien world invaded Earth, the celestial phenomena were chaotic and spacetime was shaking, he had never seen anything like what happened last night.” She paused, her delicate eyebrows furrowing slightly, her slender fingers unconsciously stirring the porridge in her bowl. “One moment it was as if countless stars were about to fall and smash onto our heads; the next moment it was as if boundless darkness was swallowing everything, even the moonlight had completely disappeared, as if the whole world was about to be digested by that darkness; not to mention the rumbling, as if it came from the depths of the world’s foundation, which made people panic.”

She described the terrifying celestial phenomena of the previous night, her voice still tinged with lingering fear.

The sunlight outside the window seemed to dim a bit because of her description.

“My dad said that no matter how many people he asked around and used his connections, there is still no definite answer from the higher-ups. They only said that they were conducting some kind of ‘special climate phenomenon observation’.”

Li Yuanzhu shrugged helplessly. "That excuse is too flimsy. Even I can see that it's not an ordinary weather phenomenon at all."

Indeed, last night, Wang Li ambushed the god-slayer Wang Li who was heading towards his end in the depths of the River of Time. The two beings with the power of "Ω" clashed fiercely, and the aftershocks were like a boulder thrown into a calm lake, stirring up the sea of ​​laws of the entire world.

Furthermore, later on, various versions of themselves from different timelines emerged to mediate the conflict.

Various bizarre and illogical celestial phenomena have been unfolding around the world, with an energy level and a wide range of influence that are unprecedented in a millennium.

It stirred the hearts of countless perceptive and powerful individuals, keeping them awake all night, and also caused countless ordinary people to spend long nights in inexplicable panic.

Upon hearing this, even though there was a subtle competitive atmosphere at the dinner table because of Wang Li, Huo Qingfu, who had been eating quietly, couldn't help but put down his spoon.

A hint of seriousness appeared on her cool, pretty face, and she nodded.

“Yuanzhu is right,” her voice remained steady, but a subtle undercurrent could be detected upon closer listening. “Last night’s phenomenon was indeed too unusual, and too… terrifying.” Unlike Li Yuanzhu, who focused on sensory descriptions, she added from another angle, her slender fingers lightly tapping the table, producing a rhythmic sound: “It wasn’t just visual and auditory anomalies. According to some scattered information I’ve received, energy monitoring stations in multiple regions around the world recorded abnormal energy peaks last night, and the fluctuation curves completely contradicted any known natural laws or known characteristics of extraordinary forces.”

Huo Qingfu paused, seemingly choosing her words carefully. Her gaze inadvertently swept over Wang Li before she continued, "It's more like... an 'echo' produced after some higher-level rule was forcibly disturbed and torn apart. This level of energy disturbance is beyond the comprehension of most current monitoring equipment."

As she spoke, the scene of her trying to contact her master last night flashed through her mind.

As the Holy Maiden of the contemporary Red Dust Demonic Sect and a direct disciple of Chen Mulin, Huo Qingfu's first reaction when faced with such an incomprehensible major event was naturally to seek help from her all-powerful and knowledgeable master.

After much effort, I finally managed to contact my master, who had been doing something unknown ever since he came to Laijun City.

However, to her surprise and confusion, her master, who had always answered her questions and even often took the initiative to analyze the general situation of the world for her, reacted unusually vaguely and...evasively this time.

On the other end of the communication, Master Chen Mulin's voice still carried that unique, seemingly worldly-wise languor and charm, but there was a hint of awe and unspoken reverence in his tone that Huo Qingfu had never felt before.

"Qingfu." Chen Mulin's voice came through the secret technique, carrying a strange rhythm, as if each syllable contained a special power. "Last night, the stars changed, and the world lost its color. I also sensed it. This is... a sign of changes in the heavens and the reconstruction of cause and effect, which is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people."

Her words were vague and unlike her usual style.

When faced with such a major event, Master would usually analyze with great interest the possible attitudes of various forces, speculate on the secrets that might be involved, and even make a few sarcastic remarks about the Federal government's inept response.

But this time, her attitude was clearly different.

Huo Qingfu was naturally unwilling to give up and pressed on, "Master, is it possible that even you cannot deduce the root cause of last night's anomaly? Such a large-scale upheaval in the world is no small matter, and this disciple is truly uneasy."

She rarely expressed her worries so openly, but last night's visions truly made her feel more uneasy than ever before.

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the communication line, a silence that seemed to last an exceptionally long time.

Then, Chen Mulin let out a soft sigh that seemed to have a strange meaning. The sigh seemed to contain a little helplessness, as well as a sense of belonging that Huo Qingfu could not understand, almost a devout one.
"The root cause... heh, the Qingfu,"

Chen Mulin's voice suddenly became exceptionally gentle, as if afraid of disturbing something, "Some beings, wherever their gaze falls, there is destiny; wherever their breath goes, there is law. The changes last night had far more implications than you can imagine."

In the void, Chen Mulin's image seemed to shake his head slightly: "It's not that the teacher is unwilling to tell you, but... it cannot be said, should not be said, and need not be said. You only need to remember to observe the changes quietly and keep your true heart."

These cryptic words not only failed to answer Huo Qingfu's questions, but also made her even more convinced that there was a shocking secret hidden behind last night's events.

She could even vaguely sense that when her master said those words, he seemed to be suppressing something, as if mentioning that "root" itself was a great taboo.

(End of this chapter)