The Spirit World

Chapter 378: The first day of the Great Devil Chapter [Greed and Carelessness Volume] begins!
1056 BC, Mount Gorgasso.

The height of Mount Gorgas is beyond description and comparison. It is more like a patchwork of stone mountains. Those strange rocks are like blades protruding. Under this dark sky, those "blades" rise into the sky! Glowing cold white light.

The platform for breaking gods.

It was the flattest platform on the mountain. However, even so, those knife-like stones were still sharp enough to cut iron like mud. A disheveled man was kneeling on the platform. His hands were fixed on the mountain of knives with golden chains passing through each joint. His clothes were tattered. They were fragments of golden armor. No matter how majestic the armor was at that time, now they were just some fragments dangling on the man's body.

He lowered his head, the wounds on his body were covered with new blood, and his flesh looked like blooming flowers, so terrifying that it was unbearable to look at.

【Boom! 】

The thunder was powerful and the voices were angry.

Thunder and lightning, like a long snake streaking across the sky, raged in the sky, its fangs cold and flashing with golden light.

【Boom! 】

One sound!
The crackling sound of lightning that penetrated his body made this lonely world suddenly seem dull to his ears.

The sky here is also low.

The owner of this body just gritted his teeth and endured the piercing blow of the thunder. His head of golden hair was loose and dancing like a twisted long snake. When struck by the thunder, his hair trembled in pain, and then, like his master, he stood up proudly again as if he would never surrender.

"You should...take a step back...Provence..."

A woman stood in the sky and said to the man named Provence earnestly: "As long as you take a step back... on Yeluan's side... we will all plead for you..."

【Boom! 】

As he spoke, another bolt of lightning came through and pierced the kneeling man.

The golden chain trembled, and Provence clenched his teeth, never uttering a single sound of pain.

His blood flowed down from his forehead, falling straight from his eyes like tears. The drops of blood with a faint golden glow became brighter red, thickly and slowly dripping onto the knife stone. The knife stone cut the blood, and it fell to the ground, splashing silently. This place had already become a pool of blood. The sound of the blood dripping again seemed to be there and not there, and finally disappeared...

"Thank you... for coming to see me... Yiqing..."

His voice was hoarse, and he was trying hard to hold back his gasps in pain.

"The more you act like this... the less I can help you..." The woman in the sky, dressed in gorgeous white clothes, shook her head. She stood upright, not daring to relax at all.

"You... don't understand..."

He coughed, as if a chuckle had choked his throat.

"You are still speaking for...humanity...you are hopeless...Provence...you have been bewitched too much by that devil..."

Yiqing's voice sounded somewhat helpless, and he could only continue to watch this body suffering from the thunder.

The thunderbolts suddenly penetrated his body, causing it to shake violently. He trembled and coughed up blood...

"No... He's a real hero... Unlike you cold-blooded monsters..."

He said it very calmly... saying these offensive words without a trace of emotion.

"You... are the devil to humans..."

After hearing what he said, Yiqing had no choice but to cross his hands and quietly look at this man who was already in great pain. If nothing unexpected happened, today would be the day he would be killed by this thunder.

He was almost unable to hold on... but he still refused to repent... and still stood on the side of the weak humans...

"Huh... Provence... I don't know why you have such an idea... but... this is the fact... the seven people under him have slaughtered tens of millions of humans! For humans! We are their saviors!"

Yiqing looked at her unrepentant expression and really didn't know how to persuade her, but... she still had to persuade her... maybe pretending would work... as long as he was willing to give in for a second, she would immediately be exposed to the thunder that would bring her eternal damnation.

"That's right! You're bewitching humans! You're hurting them!"

Provence roared!

He raised his head violently! Blood splattered! He was furious and ferocious!
At this moment, he was extremely angry!

Roaring, the chains rolled and clattered, as if they were all in the same rage!

"You guys! You don't even think about protecting humans!"

His roar seemed like a cry that carried through the thunder!
As if it were a last gasp, the veins on his arms, which were pierced by the chains at the joints, suddenly bulged and there were loud cracking sounds of bones.

Those gurgling noises!
Each section is as fierce as the final cry!
And then... there was a dead silence...

The sound of thunder gradually replaced this place... This thunder also seemed to be silent... dull... exploding...

"You...are not worthy...to be God..."

He slowly lowered his head again, and said these words weakly...

"You are obviously a god too... Why do you say that? Why do you always speak for humans? They are so weak! Yet you speak for them again and again! You are so kind in front of them, even smiling brighter than when you are with us! What about you? Where is your dignity as a god!"

Yiqing also spoke loudly as if she was furious. When she said the word "human being", she pointed at the ground below her feet, pointing downwards again and again.

There was only darkness beneath her feet, as tiny as an abyss.

"Don't say that! I really don't like protecting humans! Don't forget! Protecting them is not our responsibility!"

Yiqing breathed a sigh of relief.

He continued, "No matter what, you just need to apologize to Yeluan and the matter will be over. Your believers can also be forgiven and they will return to live in this world again. You just need to take a step back, even if you pretend to admit your mistakes, and you don't have to suffer like this. Did you hear me? Provence! Your believers are waiting for you to come back. Did you hear me? As long as you pretend, it's fine... Even if Yeluan is angry on the surface, as the Lord God, he will never pursue the matter again. What he lacks is an open admission of guilt. No matter how uncomfortable you are, it's fine if you admit your mistakes verbally, right? Provence! Are you listening?"

Provence bowed its head...

No words were said.

He opened his eyes and looked at his knees that were forced to kneel on the mountain of knives. He looked at his knees that were tattered and trembling slightly. He wanted to lift them up... but he was powerless. He could only lift them up a little bit, and then they fell down again...

"Will you do me a favor?"

As he spoke word by word, his hoarseness became more and more obvious, and his weakness became more and more evident.

"Of course!" She thought that maybe he agreed to her proposal. No matter how stubborn he was, he would not go against her divine body. Besides, he was better to his own people and closer to them. For them, he would never ignore them.

I can't use this reason to make him wise up... but I think it's possible to disguise it and make Yelu An calm down...

"I...want to...stand up..."

Provence spoke his request intermittently...

Yiqing was stunned for a moment... and then flew to Provence.

"I hope you get it now..."

Yiqing felt somewhat happy and breathed a sigh of relief...

She slowly squatted down and held Provence's arm with her hand.

Those legs, those two broken knees, stood up crookedly...

"Ah... if I had known this would happen... why would I have done it in the first place... you see... I've suffered so much..." Yi Qing said, sighing a little. Looking at the wounds all over her body, she sighed sadly, but she finally stood up... She also felt a rare sense of relief...

"Oh...thank...thank you...Yiqing..."

This sentence...

It seemed like he had used up all his strength...

The moment he stood up... he fell on Yiqing...

"We are good friends... What's the matter... Thank you or not... You will..."

Yiqing was stunned...

She didn't feel... that little thing that was always fluttering...

That little thing that symbolized life... stopped beating...

She seemed to know something...

She stood there in a daze, watching the countless thunders gather and dissipate.

She was stunned for a long time... couldn't believe it... looked at the sky with lightning flashing and white light shining...

【Boom! 】

A bolt of lightning rushed down with tremendous force!

Through her chest! "Ah ...

She screamed in pain!

It was like her soul was struck, suffocating her and she had no way to break free.

This painful sound echoed throughout the Gorgas Mountains
"Provence—"

"Provence—"

"Provence...why are you...so stupid..."

No matter how much you shout, no one responds, it is extinction...

You can think... never surrender... human beings...

A god...willing to sacrifice for you...even if you sacrifice tens of millions of your lives...you can't buy a main god...what a price this is...

My dear Provence...

He will never come back...including everything about him...

The world has changed so much... Things and people are no longer the same... The mountains and seas are vast... How many people still remember your sacrifice?
My Provence...

God...is it really necessary for you to protect humans like this?
Even if they knew the truth...what can they do to us?

Their weakness... is destined... and can never be changed...

You say we are unworthy of being gods... just because... we are unwilling to protect humans?
I do not know……

But... their stupidity, their ignorance, their arrogance... their greed... and even more shortcomings... too numerous to count...

I do not understand……

Just for these...

You are so...sacrificial...

This puzzles me...

Until... I traveled the world... and met... such a person...

He is very strange...

It's like reincarnation... I'm always with a little girl who never grows up...

It’s not that this girl can’t grow up...it’s that this girl...has to face so many disasters...

I watched them reunite again and again... and part tragically again and again...

My heartbeat... also trembles with theirs...

That's a feeling I can't relate to...

I don’t know how important that little girl is to that boy… but I know… this kind of unswerving love… is great… even makes me terrified…

do you know?

When the God of Fire and I traveled through the human world, we discovered a secret...

This little boy... is the demon king you mentioned... no... he should be called Lord Yilong... and that little girl... is the goddess we used to sow discord...

I think... I didn't recognize them... A big part of the reason... is that I've never seen them as children...

It’s amazing…

Even though... he betrayed her so thoroughly... he still resolutely searched for her reincarnation... and then... tried to save her... and prevent her from falling into the cycle of reincarnation...

What kind of feeling is this...

I don't understand……

I've never experienced...

And I will never experience...

But, I can still remember you...

do you know?

Humanity without God...

Instead of falling into the endless darkness, they formed groups, built their own homes, and fought against natural disasters and man-made disasters... and against the evil spirits that could not be contained...

This can also be considered as... a kind of greatness of mankind...

Maybe it's really like what you said...

We are indeed unworthy of being gods... We did not think about how to protect humans... but instead caused them to suffer a huge catastrophe...

do you know?

I really wanted you to admit your mistake to Yelu An at that time. I didn’t mean to pretend to admit your mistake. I felt that you were really wrong at that time... As a god... but you always thought about humans... This made me very angry at that time...

But now... I think... I might have been wrong at that time... I think... your choice... is also correct...

There is a saying in the world that goes, "A man has his own reasons, and a woman has her own reasons." I think... we can't really say which of us is right or wrong...

All I can say is... we didn't stop to think... or even discuss how we could coexist with humans...

But... this is the case now... maybe this is a good thing, isn't it? A blessing in disguise! Isn't it?

I think... on that day, you might have thought that humanity itself would grow through the sacrifices of its pioneers... those outstanding humans... who led their tribes to progress and led their weakness to march in the darkness, truly had some tremendous courage and determination.

This can be considered a hymn to humanity...isn't it?

Because you believe in humans so much...

anyway……

just now……

It's time for our gods to pay for the mistakes we made in the past...

The boy named Chang Yufeng...

With the rage of Xunhuangying, he marched forward without hesitation in the face of death...

This scares all the gods...

Even the thing called the future... is afraid of this lone wolf who can destroy everything in time and space at any time!

This may not be very important to you...

Because... your time has already stopped three thousand years ago...

If... we are wrong... then there is a punishment, I can naturally accept it... it's nothing...

But...even if I die...

There is no way to see you again...

This is the saddest thing for me...

I am now in the human world...

Like all human beings...feeling their every bit of suffering and happiness...

Sometimes it’s as simple as…

Sometimes it's so complicated that it makes people feel upset...

I was thinking... if Xun Huangying wants to play... then if we don't accompany him to the end... it would be unworthy of his title as the eighth demon...

So... this game... has just begun...

That's it...

(End of this chapter)