Douluo Continent: The Underworld Emperor Halosa Lets Three Fly

Chapter 270 Gu Yuena's Fall

"I am—Gu Yue?"

Standing at the Bridge of Helplessness, the woman, whose only remaining soul was now gone, unconsciously repeated the name she had been given.

Her voice was light and airy, like the last flicker of a candle in the wind, filled with utter confusion and emptiness.

Her long silver hair no longer shone, and her beautiful face lost all its luster, becoming like a delicate but lifeless porcelain doll.

From Harosana's deep, abyss-like perspective, Gu Yuena's soul was undergoing an irreversible transformation.

As those colorful points of light, representing different understandings of laws, drifted and peeled away from her soul like disturbed fireflies, her very existence became increasingly thin and illusory.

The radiance that constitutes the essence of her soul is dimming, her outline is blurring, as if she might melt completely into this hazy, cyclical mist at any moment, leaving no trace.

The very laws that she cherished as her lifeblood and that sustained her through the vast universe were now becoming catalysts to hasten her demise, relentlessly extracted and absorbed by the cycle of reincarnation.

She instinctively stopped and stood at the mottled and ancient bridgehead of the Naihe Bridge, looking down at the area below.

It was a murky, dark yellow river, the River of Oblivion, as if it had settled all the sorrows and forgotten memories of the world.

The river flowed silently, its stillness eerily unsettling. The smooth, mirror-like surface of the river now clearly reflected her beautiful, bewildered face.

However, the reflection did not remain still. Instead, it began to ripple like a lake surface tossed with a pebble. Within the ripples, all sorts of bizarre yet incredibly real scenes appeared!

These scenes are not a replay of her memories from this life, but rather—the life of another "Gu Yuena"!

Under Harosa's powerful divine control, which was strong enough to interfere with reality and distort cognition, he used the vague yet crucial fragments from his own memories of another world as a blueprint, combined with his understanding of Gu Yuena's personality and destiny, to materialize the trajectory that never happened in this world, belonging to the "original work," on the surface of the River of Oblivion in the most realistic and detailed way!

Gu Yuena's empty eyes were involuntarily drawn to the scene on the river.

She saw that "another version of herself" was actually foolish enough to actively seal away most of the Dragon God's power, and under the alias "Gu Yue," infiltrated human society!

The reason is so ridiculous and naive—"If you want to destroy humanity, you must first understand humanity"?

As a dragon god, wielding the power of creation and looking down upon all living beings as insignificant as ants, how could he possibly bind his own hands and feet to learn from, imitate, and even—integrate into those tiny creatures as insignificant as dust?

This is utterly self-degrading, abandoning one's greatest strength!

Even if there are restrictions in the Douluo Continent, so what? The Dragon Clan's foundation is so powerful that the Silver Dragon King's body is enough to sweep them away.

She saw that "Gu Yue" had become entangled with a human named Tang Wulin in the human world.

It wasn't the power struggle or factional conflict she understood, but rather a naive display of tenderness, pointless sacrifice, and even—disgusting "love"!

That "self" actually hesitated and retreated time and time again because of this ridiculous emotional entanglement, and even chose to die with that man at the most critical moment, throwing the future of the dragon clan, the hope of the soul beast clan, and the responsibility of being the common master to the back of her mind!

Where is the "Gu Yuena" in the river now, with even a trace of the dragon god's majesty and decisiveness?

She was indecisive and swayed by her emotions, like an ordinary woman caught in the throes of love, completely forgetting the meaning of her birth and the heavy expectations of the millions of dragons and soul beasts on her shoulders!

She gave up her power, gave up her responsibilities, and ultimately chose a worthless "love suicide" to fulfill her pitiful personal feelings!

"Is this...is this really me?"

Gu Yuena's last remaining sense of self, like a candle flickering in the wind, began to sway violently, giving rise to a faint yet extremely sharp doubt. A strong sense of absurdity and contempt assaulted her mind, which was on the verge of complete collapse.

She couldn't understand it! She couldn't agree with it!

Would I really make such a foolish, cowardly, and irresponsible choice and action?

To abandon power in pursuit of so-called "understanding"?

Abandoning one's community to indulge in ridiculous romantic love?

To give up one's life to complete a meaningless act of martyrdom?

Is it only through death that we can be together?

Every single choice she made seemed utterly absurd and incomprehensible to her! They were completely different beings from the Dragon God she was now, who was willing to detonate the Dragon Ascension Pillar and fight to the death to secure a future for the dragon race!

However, the moment this thought of doubt arose, it was like a small pebble thrown into the turbulent River of Oblivion, instantly swallowed up by the powerful force of forgetting and dissolving that swept over the soul.

Her sense of self-awareness had become blurred to its limit, like a wick about to burn out, no longer able to support any complex thinking or in-depth investigation.

"Hoh—" She let out a meaningless hoot, her soul becoming even more transparent, as if it would turn into wisps of smoke in the next second.

She began to dissipate.

It wasn't a simple disintegration of the soul, but a collapse of the very essence of existence. All the "information" that constituted her consciousness, memories, emotions, and even that last trace of resentment and pride, was stripped away, scattered, and returned to the most primordial soul particles under the influence of the rules of reincarnation.

In the final moment before completely dissipating, in the River of Oblivion, the image of "Gu Yue Na," who gave up everything for love, and the remnant soul of Gu Yue Na at the Bridge of Helplessness, who fought for her people to the last moment but ultimately perished, seemed to cross the boundary between illusion and reality and gazed at each other.

Or rather, it was Gu Yuena at the bridgehead who saw herself in that "possibility" through the river.

Just before those empty, blank silver eyes were about to lose all their luster, a complex and indescribable expression suddenly flickered in them.

Among them was a deep incomprehension and contempt for the "foolish self" reflected in the river;

There is an endless sense of desolation and resentment towards his life of struggle and battles, only to end up like this;

There is a lingering concern about the future fate of the dragon race;

There is also a kind of understanding—a realization that comes after piercing through layers of fog and discerning a cruel truth.

She seemed to understand why she had been defeated so thoroughly. It wasn't just because Harosa's cycle of reincarnation restrained her; perhaps—it was also because she had embarked on a path completely opposite to that of the "self" in the river, yet equally thorny, and even more lonely and difficult.

The two "Gu Yuena", in different ways, seem to have failed to truly reach their ideal destination.

This understanding is not relief, but rather a kind of resignation, a tacit acceptance of the ultimate fate that will ultimately lead to one's destiny.

Those eyes, brimming with a thousand final emotions, especially that one insightful look, were clearly reflected in the eyes of Harosa, who had silently followed and witnessed everything like the Grim Reaper.

As he watched the last glimmer of light in the eyes of the soul that was about to completely dissipate, a faint, yet absolutely cold and triumphant smile appeared on Harosa's usually calm face.

He spoke softly, his voice low, yet like a final epitaph, echoing in Gu Yuena's utterly extinguished soul: "The one who survived—was me."

The moment the words fell, at the Bridge of Helplessness, Gu Yuena's already illusory soul body, like a sand painting scattered by the wind, silently and completely vanished.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no angry roar of resentment, and not even the slightest trace was left behind.

She did not enter the cycle of reincarnation and begin a new life, but was completely erased and decomposed on the level of existence, transforming into the most primal nourishment that sustains this land of reincarnation and strengthens the laws of reincarnation of Harosa.

A god-king at the peak of his power, a dragon god wielding the power of creation, was thus—annihilated, body and soul.

Harosa slowly raised his hand, and in his palm, the dazzling, star-like specks of light collected from Gu Yuena's dissipated soul gently swirled and danced. Crimson, azure, emerald green, dark purple, chaos—each color represented an extremely precious understanding of the laws, the culmination of the Dragon God Gu Yuena's lifelong cultivation and power.

Of course, these are merely pure "insights" and "knowledge," the "Tao" and "principles" of laws, and do not contain any concrete energy. But their value is unparalleled for any god-king.

With a slight thought, Harosa drew upon these starlight rays, which seemed to possess life, like rivers flowing into the sea, and poured into the space between his brows. He carefully collected and sealed them deep within the core of his soul, to be slowly digested and absorbed in the future, so as to perfect his path of reincarnation and broaden his understanding of the laws of the universe.

Having done all this, Harosa's ethereal soul slowly solidified in this desolate land of reincarnation. He looked around; the hazy mist remained, the River of Oblivion flowed silently, and the Bridge of Helplessness stood unchanged through the ages.

The war between gods and kings, which swept across two star systems and determined the fate of countless lives, has now come to a complete end.

The rest can't cause any trouble.