From the end of the world

Chapter 397 Taoyuan Village Master Takes Action
The surrounding scenery was filled with illusory light, becoming transparent and melting in the light.

The basement on the fifteenth floor is the most central part of this dream. The moment I conquered it, the foundation of the dream was gone. This dream is coming to an end and will soon disappear. If I have the opportunity to enter Yingshen Yinyue - or Chang'an's spiritual world in the future, I will see other scenes.

Although I just told Xiao Chang'an the key to my strategy for the basement on the 15th floor, there are actually many complex factors that make this key effective.

Ultimately, the basement on the fifteenth floor is an alien space that should not exist.

First of all, the ritual array that was set up in the room on the fifteenth floor by the fallen demon hunter, Agent Kong, for unknown reasons, was something that should not be successfully activated. Zhu Shiyou mentioned to me that even if all the symbol lines of the ritual array were completed, the probability of successfully activating it would be astronomically low, almost impossible to achieve.

In reality, the ritual array still successfully opened the door to the other dimension. The reason for this, I think, is probably because of the power of the fragments of the divine seal. To be more precise, it should be the affinity between the fragments of the divine seal that is exerting the power. Only by being related to the fragments of the divine seal can this miracle that is infinitely close to the impossible be achieved.

This is also one of the reasons why I judged that the object of fate originally designated by the fragment of the divine seal was Chang'an. Because Chang'an may have originally had a fate with the fragment of the divine seal, this incredible fate made "the English letters on the carpet in the rental house coincide with the missing symbol lines of the ritual array", and then made "the complete ritual array open the door to the other space with an astronomically low probability".

Changan retreated from the door at that time, which made the fate with the fragment of the divine seal fall to me, who was in the second place. From the moment I picked up the fragment of the divine seal, the door to the different space had completed its mission and closed automatically.

I was able to become the second pick, not because of myself, but because of Ma Zao's bad luck, which might be an overstepping of my position. If it were Chang An, he might still have the destiny of "bringing the fragments of the divine seal back to the real world smoothly", but I had to find a way to leave it by myself.

Later, the reason why I was able to open the door to the other dimension again by completing the ritual array may be because the ritual array still retained a little bit of the power from its previous success, or it may be because the destiny I had usurped was just one step away from making a little effort, or even because Xiaowan’s wish was still exerting its power... There are many reasons I can think of, but I’m not sure which one it is, so I won’t think about it for now.

Moreover, my purpose of entering this dream is not to attack the basement on the 15th floor again.

Bringing Little Chang'an out of the fifteenth floor basement in the dream was something I was able to do last time, but just doing this is not enough to truly save Chang'an. I must strike while the iron is hot and complete the last stage of the work.

I picked up the stone collar and put it around little Chang'an's neck without saying a word.

The original purpose of this stone collar was to prevent the Ancient Moon God from physically leaving Yin Yue's Law of Heaven and Earth in the real world. Although it was a tool specifically used to seal the Ancient Moon God and Yin Yue, it did not have the function of sealing consciousness.

However, that kind of common sense does not apply to the great impermanence.

Now I can use my own hands to unreasonably touch things in abstract fields such as cause and effect, fate, and spirit. If I want to apply the material stone necklace directly to the spiritual realm, it only takes a single move for me.

After doing this, flames burst out from my hands and lit up Little Chang'an like a torch.

The flame did not seem to destroy Xiao Chang'an's body, as if it was just an illusion, but in fact it was constantly destroying Yin Yue's soul.

The self-awareness of Yin Yue as Yin Yue was severely damaged by the resurrection ceremony just now; and now, I release a fire that specifically destroys the self-awareness of Yin Yue as Yin Yue. Coupled with the sealing power of the stone collar, the memory that gave birth to Yin Yue's self-awareness will be re-sealed into Chang'an's unconscious ocean.

In such a broken and severely injured state, and under such a powerful seal, according to Mr. Zhu, over time, just like a spring that loses its elasticity due to fatigue, Yin Yue's self-awareness will gradually become irreversible.

Little Chang'an touched the stone collar and said to himself, "I will... fall into the dream again..."

“——No, you will become a dream of Changan.” I said.

"What is reality and what is a dream?"

Little Changan seemed to be looking at me, and seemed to be looking into an unknown depth. There was a trance in his eyes, and he continued, "...What is the real 'me'?"

After saying this, Yin Yue's temperament completely disappeared from Xiao Chang'an, as if it had finally been suppressed into Chang'an's unconsciousness by the stone collar.

"Then, see you next time in reality." I said the last words to Xiao Chang'an. In the illusory glory, the dream ended.
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My consciousness returned to the real world, to the huge metal room battlefield where I worked with Mingzhuo to suppress Ying Lingyun.

Chang'an's body was no longer changing, but was completely fixed in Chang'an's own form, which meant that my series of actions were successful. I took advantage of the situation to release my super-accelerated state of consciousness, and the flow of time around me returned to normal mode. All the sounds and movements on the battlefield returned to their original speed.

Ying Lingyun had been paying attention to Chang'an who was captured by me. He noticed the changes in Chang'an's body at the first time, and seemed to immediately think of what this meant. His face suddenly changed drastically, and he made a painful and desperate sound as if his dream was shattered: "No——!!!"

What he pursued was nothing but an illusion in Ying Shen Yin Yue's eyes. If it were Ying Ling Yun who was mentally normal, he might be able to realize his own illusion and distinguish the difference between the real Yin Yue and the Yin Yue in his mind that was beautified by his memory. As for whether he could accept it, I don't know.

But now he may not even be able to do this, his mind has already entered into madness and chaos. In order to obtain the power to revive Silver Moon, he has become himself who cannot distinguish the real Silver Moon. How empty this is.

It's time for me to draw the final curtain on this sad farce.

While Mingzhu manipulated the black and red mana to beat Ying Lingyun's defense step by step, "Eclipse" appeared again in my palm and fired in the direction of Ying Lingyun. This action was not to put down the last straw on the camel, but to put down another camel. After taking this blow, Ying Lingyun's restart power defense would definitely be shattered.

And at this critical juncture, changes occurred on the battlefield that may have been unexpected by no one.

Behind Ying Lingyun, the space was torn apart, revealing a vast area of ​​bottomless darkness.

There was nothing surprising about tearing the space. Mingzhu had done it before, and I could do something similar with Eclipse. The key point was what emerged from the space after it was torn apart—it was a giant hand, emitting familiar mana fluctuations.

This giant hand was composed of azure light, and its mana fluctuations were extremely similar to the power that Ying Lingyun had summoned earlier, a force a hundred times larger than mine.

The giant hand knocked "Eclipse" aside like a volleyball, and then grabbed Ying Lingyun.

Seeing this scene, Ming Zhuo was struck by lightning, his eyes widened, and he shouted in disbelief: "This is... the Taoyuan Village Master!?"

Even as he spoke, he did not stop moving. One hand continued to emit black and red power, while the other hand concentrated his magic power, which resulted in an unprecedented ultra-high density magic power reaction.

Did the giant hand that suddenly appeared belong to the Taoyuan Village Lord? The legendary Great Impermanence outside of Luoshan?

Why did the Taoyuan Township Lord appear here to rescue Ying Lingyun? Does the Taoyuan Township organization have a secret connection with the Humanitarian Department?
As for the source of the Seed of Heart - who is the original body of all the monsters? It has always been an unsolved mystery. We only know that it is at least a strong man at the level of Great Impermanence. I once suspected that it might be the legendary Taoyuan Township Lord. Since Taoyuan Township Lord really colluded with Ying Lingyun in secret, then the Great Impermanence who provided the Seed of Heart is really Taoyuan Township Lord?

The weirdo is the most important project of the Humanitarian Department, and the Seed of Heart is the key, and its source is actually the Lord of Taoyuan Township. So it seems that the connection between the Humanitarian Department and Taoyuan Township... No, perhaps it should be said that the Lord of Taoyuan Township and Ying Lingyun is probably deeper than one can imagine...

And seeing that the giant hand with green light was about to grab Ying Lingyun and drag him into the space crack, I did not sit idly by.

Killing Ying Lingyun is the biggest goal of this battle at the Humanitarian Department's headquarters. At the same time, Ying Lingyun is also an important prey for me personally. I will never watch him being rescued by a force that suddenly breaks into the battlefield.

This giant hand gives me a very powerful feeling. Its source is probably more powerful than me and the Fate Turbidity combined.

I had never imagined that the Taoyuan Village Lord was this powerful. However, the opponent's strength was obviously not as outrageous as the power that Ying Lingyun summoned when he resurrected Yin Yue. It was just that the nature of the power was very similar, but the scale was not on the same level. I didn't know what the specific connection between the two was, and I couldn't care less now, so I took action at the first opportunity.

There was still some of my heat remaining inside Ying Lingyun's body. Through the connection with the heat, I transmitted my flames towards the target in one breath.

(End of this chapter)