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The two discussed it for a while before sharing this information with their other friends.

Everyone was very surprised, but Nilu remained calm: "If the Flower Goddess can awaken through me, and it is all preordained, then I am willing to sacrifice myself... after all, it was all destined long ago."

“I’ve been very familiar with the Flower Goddess’s dance since I was a child, and now that I know all this… perhaps this is my destiny.” Nilu looked calmly at her feet and said with a slight smile, “It is said that when the Flower Goddess dances, real Patissalans bloom at her feet. It sounds so beautiful, and I’ve always wanted to see it…”

“But now I know that I am the goddess of flowers, so when I danced just now, Patisha flowers grew under my feet.”

"I have no regrets. Besides, it's impossible for the Flower Goddess to really devour my memories."

She laughed, a relaxed and peaceful smile on her face, and began to dance. The entire dream environment spun with her movements, and melodious music filled the air. As she danced, crimson Patissal orchids bloomed at her feet, and the aura around her spread continuously, creating a strange atmosphere throughout the space.

“Obsession itself is not pain and memory, but acceptance!” She danced while smiling at everyone who was feeling down. “Moreover, when everyone can feel the beauty and value of art from dance, isn’t that the meaning of my existence?”

At that very moment, Yunxiu suddenly closed her eyes.

Countless fragments flashed through his mind—the scene of the Emperor naming him 6,400 years ago, the brutal war between the Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Principles, his daughter Serania's smiling face, the past that Kukulkan told him, the entrustment in the letter from the Great Compassion Tree King, and his long-standing confusion and pursuit of the "Severing the Three Corpses" method.

Whether it's "severing the three corpses" or "cutting off self-attachment," whether it's severing or cutting off, or even the Emperor's saying "only by severing the three corpses can one achieve a pure self," it all seems to emphasize the word "severing."

He kept thinking whether he needed to relinquish his desires, obsessions, and notions of good and evil, and abandon his past entanglements, in order to reach a higher level.

But Nel's words suddenly made him realize that it wasn't like that!

Chapter 353 Old Couple, New Alliance: Vows

Yunxiu suddenly opened his eyes, and in an instant he understood everything!

The so-called "severing the three corpses" is not about cutting off and abandoning, but about accepting and embracing! Accepting one's own original desires, accepting all entanglements, letting go of obsessions and guilt, and using one's own "true heart" as a guide, one can peel away the so-called "corpse of obsessions" and truly achieve single-mindedness, breaking through one's own shackles!

“So that’s how it is… I’ve been wrong all along.” Yunxiu said softly, his aura gradually becoming more and more powerful. The aura of the origin of magic stirred up huge waves, merging with the Seven Dragon Staff to form a dragon-shaped flame. He closed his eyes and actually stepped forward to dance with Nilu.

Nilu was slightly surprised, but quickly smiled. She guided Yunxiu's actions, and the two of them gradually began to merge.

Yunxiu's aura grew increasingly intense. Looking at the smiling girl before him, his aura began to merge into a unified whole. A phantom gradually peeled away from his body. This phantom looked remarkably similar to Yunxiu, but it possessed an aura of desolation and bewilderment. It held a seven-dragon staff in its hand and had dragon horns on its head. To everyone's astonishment, the moment this phantom appeared, a gentle breeze swept by, carrying the phantom away and causing it to vanish!

The Seven Dragons Staff in his hand was the same one in Yunxiu's hand, but the Seven Dragons Staff inside Yunxiu's body had become a phantom. Although it still possessed the same power and effects, its duration was reduced to only three years.

“Istaru…” Yunxiu murmured.

He knew perfectly well where his first corpse had gone. It was sent by Ishtar to 6,400 years ago, where it was reborn as a soul among the dragons. He would marry an angel, lead the dragons through that war, give birth to Serania, send her to the Abyss Palace, and finally, single-handedly plug the gap in Kanria.

After severing the first corpse, his strength did not increase much, because "severing the three corpses" itself has little to do with increasing strength, and may even reduce it. This is because the Seven Dragon Staff in his body is now just a projection. If the staff is not returned in three years, his strength will drop significantly.

"This is..." Laila was the first to realize what was happening. Looking at the scene before her, she exclaimed, "Which deity is this?"

"The current ruler..." Suddenly, a voice abruptly interrupted, sounding very much like Nel, but with a hint of sharpness: "But it doesn't matter to you. Being able to see her once is already an honor for you mortals."

"Who!" Everyone turned around and saw that the Flower Goddess had already awakened and was sitting on the crystal, crossing her legs and looking at the group of people: "Oh, isn't this my husband in his original form? How come you're so weak now? Back then, you could defeat all eight of us archangels by yourself. How come you can't even beat me now?"

"Forehead……"

Yunxiu suddenly felt that it wouldn't be a bad thing if the Flower Goddess could be awakened in Nilu's body.

The personalities of the three corpses are completely different! Although the ultimate limit of the Sumeru Slash Technique should be the four quadrants, judging from the fact that the first two corpses are obsession and origin, the third corpse should also be the self, and the incarnations slashed out will naturally have completely different personalities.

Just now, when Yunxiu slashed her first corpse, she sensed it slightly. Compared to her own personality, that one should be more domineering and more aggressive. By analogy, her second corpse should be a master of magic research, most likely the kind of person who really likes to study magic... most likely the third descendant, Yunxiu.

Such a being would naturally have no problem defeating the eight archangels.

"You must be much weaker now than you were back then, right? I don't believe you've been dormant for so long without any consequences. Besides... what exactly is this lingering attachment of Nilu's?" Yunxiu asked with a smile. "Even if your physical bodies might not be related, we were still 'husband and wife' after all. You can at least tell me these things, right?"

"Tch... If my true self hadn't told me you were indeed a very important person in Teyvat, I wouldn't have told you all this." The original form of the Flower Goddess still had a rather arrogant expression, but her gaze towards Nel was much gentler. She looked at Nel for a while before speaking, "After so many reincarnations, this obsession body's obsession probably only has talent for dancing and cultivation left. However, she hasn't made good use of this talent at all, otherwise, how could she only have this much strength?"

"Ah... I just like dancing." Nilu looked at her body in surprise, and it took her a while to react: "So, the will of the Flower Goddess won't awaken in me?"

"How could your meager strength possibly bear the weight of such an ancient will? The true form's status surpasses that of your so-called ruling gods." The flower goddess's avatar waved her hand dismissively, saying, "However, the true form never achieved the Four Quadrants in the end, otherwise she should have survived that blow. Fanes truly shows no mercy, no wonder even her own avatar has many complaints about her..."

"Then will you leave with me now? I have something to tell you about this time." Yunxiu said seriously, "I think I am now on the path of 'going against the natural order'. You must have seen what happened just now, so I really need your help. This is what one of your angel friends told me."

"An angel? Oh? My friend, what do you want?"

"I want to resurrect someone who perished in the war between demons..."

"I understand. You must have sent you to find me, right? I think I only told her about this." The Flower Goddess's clone looked helpless. "She has similar abilities herself, but if she's the one who sent you to find me, then she must have fallen so low that she doesn't even have a physical body anymore..."

"Also, my name is Marikarin, you can just call me by my name."

Marikalin rolled off the ground and looked at the people around her, saying, "Let's go see the Great Tree King first! If I'm not mistaken, Buyer must have made some arrangements. I don't believe she hasn't done anything all these years. Back then, she was a master strategist."

"You, conjure up a portal for me." She looked at Yunxiu and said, "You knew how to use it back then, you can't use it now, can you?"

“I can open a portal, but I can’t guarantee the stability of the space. The space in Teyvat is too unstable right now.” Yunxiu waved her hand and said, “The anchor points established in your era are no longer usable by many people. Teyvat is becoming more and more incomplete.”

"It's okay, you drive, I'll keep things steady."

Since Marykalin had already made her promise, Yunxiu had nothing more to say. Nine-ring spells were now almost instantaneous for him, and he quickly opened a portal leading directly to the Palace of Wisdom. Marykalin gently blew a breath, and the entire portal stabilized immediately. This was probably her "Dream" power.

Dreams are essentially a form of wish power, even more powerful than the wish power that Yunxiu can utilize.

The group crossed the spatial portal and arrived directly at a corner of the Order of the Church. The moment they arrived, the figure of the Great Tree King appeared beside them, smiling at Yunxiu and Marikarin, saying, "You two, you've finally reunited again? It's a good thing Ahmar isn't here right now, otherwise he would have turned into the God of Love again."

"Ugh... Ahmar really has some issues with his head. Even if my true form wasn't with that person, I wouldn't be interested in him." Marikalin readily acknowledged Yunxiu's relationship with her, but instead began to criticize Ahmar: "What kind of god of love is he? Besides being a little good at fighting, does he have any other merits? And he can't even beat the Dragon King. Is the Dragon King's strength comparable to ours, angels?"

“That’s not necessarily true. The Rock Dragon King has been taught by the Rock Lord Tianxing, so his strength should be much greater than the other Dragon Kings. However, the others are indeed not as good as you.” The Great Tree King looked at Marikarin, who seemed to be in a very good mood. After a moment of thought, she continued, “Then let’s go to the Pure Good Palace to discuss important matters. These people can be received by Elhesen and Seno. Hmm… Nel should come along too.”

“Me?” Nilu pointed to herself in surprise, but Yunxiu quickly pulled her over: “Even if you don’t care whether the Flower Goddess awakens in you, these are things we must pay attention to. Do you really want to die? Come with us.”

“Okay…okay.” Nilu followed Yunxiu quietly to the Jingshan Palace. Although it was a place she had never been to before, it was indeed a sacred place in the dreams of every Sumeru person. However, this sacred place was not one that humans could enter.

Most of the time, apart from legendary powerhouses, the lowest-ranking sages who can come here are usually instructors. Yunxiu himself has actually come here once or twice, but he is the ninth sage of the Order of the Church, personally conferred by Buyer, and is not on the same level as the other powerhouses.

The Great Tree King didn't think too much about it. She led Nilu, Marikarin, and Yunxiu to the very core of the Pure Good Palace. Only after confirming that there was nothing around that could hinder her did she wave her hand and set up a barrier. She looked earnestly into Marikarin's eyes and smiled:

"At this point, there's no need to pretend too much, right? Lady Flower Goddess, could you tell me about what happened back then, and then tell me how you managed to escape?"

Chapter 354 The Secret of the Heavenly Abyss: Breaking Through Sinful Nature

“You’re still holding a grudge about what happened back then, Buyer, or should I call you by another name…” Marikalin licked her lips, glanced at Yunxiu and Nilu, and continued, “The Red King himself is a fool. My original self did want to use his identity to do some things, but I didn’t expect Fanes to be so ruthless to the offspring of Sky Island.”

"But that makes sense too. That Langya Nao persuaded me to retreat, and he was like a ghost, a cunning and ruthless man ...

"So, back then you caused the desert to be hit by the Sky Nail... The core of the attack was the current Eternal Oasis?" The Great Tree King was not surprised at all, as this was actually the information he had been searching for: "But I have not found where the Sky Nail is. Although part of it seems to have been used to build the Eternal Oasis, the other part has not been found no trace."

"The other part, of course, you can't find it. I've hidden it, hidden it in the cracks of time."

"A...crack in time?"

"Angels are actually incapable of cultivation. We are born with this kind of strength, so neither 'Severing the Three Corpses,' 'Severing Self-Attachment,' nor even the 'Sin-Breaking Nature' taught by Jin Feng, nor the 'Attaining Bodhi' modified by the Eternal God Inazuma, can be cultivated."

A hint of melancholy crossed Marikarin's face. Then, she reached out and pulled out a quill pen from somewhere, gently drawing two circles in the air as she said, "One can only cultivate outside the laws of Teyvat, but as you know, the laws of Teyvat are only completely ineffective on angels for a fleeting moment."

"You mean, the moment you were punished by Heaven's justice, stripped of your identity, and the Heavenly Nail descended?"

“There are many other opportunities, but this is definitely the easiest to discover.” Marikalin nodded: “I don’t know many of the specific circumstances at the time, and my original body didn’t retain many memories of me, but one thing I am certain of is that the Flower Goddess did not die immediately. She hid a part of the Heavenly Nail and left it to me.”

"This matter is indeed known only to a few of us surviving angels... not including Nicole, of course. She has lost a part of herself and is no longer a complete angel."

The Great Compassion Tree King nodded. This matter had indeed solved part of her mystery, and in fact, it had exceeded her imagination. Everything that happened back then was too sudden. Although as the Great Compassion Tree King, she knew a series of secrets about the cultivation of transcendent beings, and knew that Zi Bai might have severed his three corpses, she really didn't know what exactly happened or what was left behind.

It's not exactly a secret that angels themselves cannot cultivate these secret techniques. Most of the angels' strength and methods come from Sky Island itself, so the angels' strength is mostly locked.

Just like Zibai, many people believe that she could never sever her own three corpses no matter what, and only at the last moment of destruction did she truly sever them with the help of Ishtar's power. This is actually a misunderstanding.

In reality, Zibai herself could not have severed her three corpses. At the moment the Heavenly Nail fell, the Heavenly Nail itself defined her as a rebel, and the laws on her body completely failed. In that instant, Istaru's time was extended by tens of millions of times, and she severed her three corpses in the process... Moreover, she escaped with the help of the Emperor.

The Flower Goddess is in a similar situation now, but the price she paid was the complete loss of her original body, leaving her with only two clones.

The obsessive body completely consumed its memories and became Nilu, while the original body was only one-third of its original form.

"So... I really am an incarnation of the Flower Goddess... but she disappeared during the long cycle of reincarnation?" After listening to all the information, Nilu asked with considerable doubt, "If that's the case, is it also because of this that I was pulled into the secret realm this time? I don't usually go to the desert, but I suddenly have a feeling that I have to go there once."

“The obsessive body itself will have some strange thoughts. This is probably because we angels have some kind of premonition. So your perception will prompt you to come and find me... As long as you dance the Flower Goddess Dance, I will be awakened. Of course, it will only work if you dance it.”

“This means that Teyvat is indeed at its most dangerous moment, and Fanes has most likely lost the ability to restrain it. Otherwise, even if the angels could awaken, they would have to operate in the shadows.” Marikarin glanced at Yunxiu and said calmly, “This is what my husband said. Although I am not Marikarin, I have to say that what he said makes sense.”

"What exactly did he say back then?" Yunxiu wasn't surprised by Mary Karin's attitude. The Three Corpse Gods themselves were very different from their original selves, and she had no interest in having anything happen with Mary Karin... She already had too many messy emotional debts, and having another angel would be a death wish.

Marikalin looked at Yunxiu with a half-smile, as if trying to discern something from his face, but Yunxiu remained expressionless.

It has to be said that even goddesses are not much different from women. Yunxiu, who has been through a hellish situation, naturally felt no pressure. Her composure and occasional chat with Nilu made Marikalin completely lose her composure.

Finally, after this strange atmosphere had lasted for a while, she helplessly raised her hand and said, "I surrender. This matter is indeed a very troublesome one. If we were to explain it clearly, it would probably take too long. I want to confirm what you know. Have you read many of the surviving documents? For example, those left behind by the angels back then, such as... um, the 'Prayer to the North'?"

Yunxiu nodded; he was indeed aware of this matter.

Whether it's the "Prayer in the North" or the story in "The Melody in the Deep Corridor," they all tell the same story: the Third Advent descends upon a young boy, whose lover is the first angel...

It's not surprising that the relationship between the Descendants and the Angels is not surprising. It is precisely because of the Descendants' noble status that the Angels might have condescended to become lovers with that boy, which led to the story that followed. The Third Descendant was cut into seven pieces to make the Heart of God, which is how the current structure of Teyvat came about.

The Great Tree King nodded. Although she wasn't very clear about the information of the Third Descendant, as the incarnation of the World Tree, she naturally knew a lot of information. In particular, she had recorded a lot of things during the War of Burial Fire, and with the series of events that followed, she knew at least this level of information.

Nilu looked confused, but Yunxiu quickly explained it to her in a low voice, and Nilu soon understood.

“Very well… It seems I don’t need to start with the most basic things. Many people probably think that my original husband was the Third Descendant, who incarnated in the body of a boy and thus started a war…” Marikarin glanced around and then stared intently at Yunxiu, saying, “And that boy was actually a victim. At most, he cooperated with the Third Descendant, is that right?”

"Could it be that..." The Great Tree King suddenly showed a look of considerable horror on her face, and it took her a long time to suppress the turmoil in her heart: "The Third Adventist is the sacrifice?"

“That’s right, my true husband is that young man. The Third Descendant was persuaded by his ideology,” Marikalin said quite seriously. “And that young man is actually just one of his incarnations. I only realized this after I severed my own incarnation. If I’m not mistaken, he should be the middle corpse created by the ancient method of ‘Severing the Three Corpses,’ which is the body of desire.”

"That's why he took so many of our sisters, not including Taranis, though Taranis didn't manage to escape, hahaha!" Marikalin licked her lips before saying with great delight, "Taranis wasn't in that war. He partnered with the Fire Dragon King Shukutl and then married the Supreme Elder of the Dragon Clan. These two incarnations are one person!"

"Uh..." Yunxiu, who already knew the news, was also speechless. However, Marikalin's nasty personality was indeed a bit hard for him to get used to. Although they were both flower goddesses, the difference was too great. Marikalin was a very gentle person no matter what information he had. Marikalin was a very funny person. And judging from Nilu, this reincarnation of the flower goddess had a particularly strong obsession with dance.

One's own three corpses...

Well, judging from the three corpses of the Supreme Elder of the Dragon Clan that I cut off, this person's obsession was also terrifyingly strong. On the one hand, he continuously defied the laws of nature, and on the other hand, he could even sit in meditation for thousands of years, just to seal the huge gap that Kanria had created five hundred years ago by transforming his body into the Dao. His obsession was also top-notch.

As for the fact that his other three corpses even deceived the Third Descendant, that was within his expectations. His previous guess was that the two had reached a cooperation agreement, but at that time he guessed that the Third Descendant might be in charge. But now it seems that he might be in charge. However, according to the order, the Third Descendant should also have cleared up the fact that he is the Fifth Descendant.

When you reach the level of the Descendants, time itself is no longer an issue.

"Could it be that the Third Descendant might be resurrected in the future?" Yunxiu suddenly thought of the Ice Queen's series of plans to collect the Heart of God!

Chapter 355 True Words Bear Weight to Prove Bodhi

But what is the relationship between the Ice Queen and the Third Advent? There is very little information about this.

"Forget it, now is not the time to talk about these things. My purpose in coming to Sumeru this time is to find something to ensure the success of my resurrection of a demon god..." Yunxiu recounted the information about the Night God and the current situation before looking at Mary Karin and saying, "If I'm not mistaken, the Night God should be referring to those fragments in your possession, right? These are probably the best materials for creating a demon god's body right now, and they can also minimize the backlash?"

“Gui Zhong… is indeed a very special existence. Simple branches of the Silver-White Ancient Tree are simply not enough.” Marikalin touched her cheek. Of course, she had never seen Gui Zhong, but she had a lot of information during the Demon God War, so she naturally knew about the existence of this demon god. “But we can’t just give you such a precious material for free. What can you use to exchange for it?”

“Maricarin…” the Great Tree King stood up and said, but was quickly stopped by this avatar of the Flower Goddess.