From the end of the world

Chapter 763 Resurrecting Yuchi
"Tai Sui, you make it sound like you're different. Don't you have your own wishes in your heart?" I retorted.

Tai Sui seemed surprised by my counterattack, "Me?"

I said, "In this new world, let's not delve too deeply into the witchers. I imagine you wouldn't empathize with them anyway. However, they did have ordinary social identities and interpersonal relationships in their original world. And for the considerable number of ordinary people living in the world of common sense who have no connection with them in the new world, they must have had some degree of social relationship with them in their original world..."

“Of course,” Tai Sui said. “So, as long as we return to the original world, those broken bonds and feelings will be restored to their original state…”

“But those are different people. Different relationships, different memories, different personalities. To the people of this world, isn’t that equivalent to killing themselves and replacing them with other strangers?” I asked. “Or do you think that only people from the previous world have the right to live, and that people from this world deserve to die?”

"...I'll be honest with you, although I don't think they deserve to die, I might have unconsciously underestimated them, and I must also acknowledge their right to life," Tai Sui said in a deep voice. "But don't forget, this world is inherently beyond redemption and is destined for destruction. Rather than ending up with nothing, it's better to restart everything in advance; that's the true responsibility to human civilization."

“But I will fight this world to the very last moment,” I said. “Tai Sui, you seem to believe that I cannot become the Lord of the Doomsday Seal without your permission…”

"But have you forgotten that I can easily simulate the nature of a child of divinity now? With my Void Realm Apostle qualification... or rather, the authority to hold the seal, I can immediately replace you and become the new Divine Seal Soul."

"Immediately" might be an exaggeration, but once I reunite with Xiaowan and obtain three fragments of the Divine Seal from her, the number of Divine Seal fragments I possess will exceed half of the Doomsday Divine Seal, and my authority over the seal will also increase to more than half. As a character who can possess a Divine Seal, having such an advantage is enough to shake the position of Tai Sui.

Tai Sui must have anticipated this. Therefore, I am not saying this to show off, but to test Tai Sui's true strength.

Tai Sui remained unmoved and said calmly, "You cannot possess the divine seal."

"Is this related to the extremely poor compatibility between me and the fragment of the divine seal?" I asked. "So this was indeed a backup plan you set up?"

Tai Sui did not respond, which seemed to be an admission.

There might be something wrong. The compatibility issue with the fragments of the divine seal didn't begin after I attained enlightenment and manifested my power; the truth is probably something else entirely. However, this doesn't prevent the compatibility issue from becoming a reliance for Tai Sui.

I immediately had another question: Even if the compatibility issue would prevent me from taking control of the Divine Seal, it wouldn't prevent Xiao Wan. So, if Xiao Wan were to possess more than eighteen fragments of the Divine Seal, it could still threaten Tai Sui's position. Didn't Tai Sui take precautions against this?

The strategy itself is very simple; he must have realized it and prepared a contingency plan in advance. Unfortunately, my words weren't enough to extract information from him.

“Before the day of the end truly arrives, you have plenty of time to continue experiencing the hopelessness of this new world. However, I advise you to make a decision sooner rather than later, so that at least you still have a chance to save the lives of those important to you,” Tai Sui said.

"Didn't I say I wouldn't rush me anymore? Just sit still in the audience and stop wasting your breath," I said.

Tai Sui sighed deeply, then his voice turned grim as he said, “Remember: if you persist in your own way until the very last moment, unwilling to inherit my last wish and become the new Lord of the Divine Seal… then we will only be separated by life and death in another form.”

After saying that, he fell silent.

I landed back on the ground and sensed the location of the small bowl.

The little bowl carries my "firefly" with her, and her body is covered with my thermal energy markings. She is also connected to me by a blessing power. However, inexplicably, I cannot track her exact location; I can only confirm her existence.

The only entities in this world capable of blocking my tracking and perception should be Shan Liangyi and Lao Quanshen. Lao Quanshen has no motive for doing so, so could it be Shan Liangyi? Was Xiao Wan really taken hostage?

No, that doesn't seem to be the case... I can feel a force disrupting my tracking of the small bowl's location. Sometimes it feels like it's far away, and other times it feels incredibly close, with a cunning and unpredictable quality. While Shan Liangyi also has the air of a schemer, it also possesses a proud and ambitious spirit, embodying the balance of Yin and Yang. These two impressions don't quite match.

Lacking any clues to follow, I'm starting to feel the urge to rely on the power of the jinx again.

Speaking of the power of the jinx, there's a change that must be mentioned. After pushing open the third door, I felt the repulsive force that had been preventing me from contacting this unpredictable and strange world from the perspective of fate disappeared.

Tai Sui once mentioned that if the Great Impermanence were like an ordinary witcher, the stronger its power, the more monsters it would attract, and the consequence would be the extinction of all monsters in the world.

But if that were all, the Seal Master, Willow Shadow, wouldn't have needed to transform attraction into repulsion; he could have simply eliminated attraction from Great Impermanence. While Tai Sui didn't explicitly state this, I can deduce the underlying reasons.

Because there are still people like Fazheng in this world who are dedicated to "actively eliminating calamities," he may take the initiative to attack all the strange things in the world.

That's why Liu Shuying wanted to make things related to the supernatural automatically escape from Da Wuchang. This repulsive force is part of the new world's setting, and Da Wuchang, who pushes open the third door, can distort and overcome it.

Not only that, I can even recreate attraction within myself and amplify it further. If the Old Fist God was able to "luckily" find the divine seal of the mortal world through his intense desire, then I can certainly use my own intense desire to automatically draw clues related to the location of the small bowl to my side. This power of "making your wishes come true" is no less potent than Asahi's jinx in attracting clues to events.

All I need to do now is do other things while maintaining this strong intention, and let the clues come to me.

Then, I moved to the place where the portal from Luoshan to the afterlife had once been located.

The residential area that was originally built here is now nothing but ruins, transformed into a bottomless abyss. I hovered above the abyss, simulating Asahi's power of return, to restore the earth.

It was as if an invisible eraser appeared, instantly wiping away the scene of the abyss. What reappeared wasn't blankness, but a perfectly intact residential area. I landed between the apartment buildings and continued to activate the power of return. This time, it wasn't for repair, but for investigation.

I can now also use Asahi's ability to investigate historical records of time and space. A large number of historical scenes appeared in my mind, and soon I found the moment when destruction came.

About a month ago, on the day Yuchi saw us off, he closed the portal from this side as agreed, then checked all its settings to ensure it could be opened smoothly from the other side. The demon hunters patrolled the area as usual, preventing any suspicious individuals from infiltrating.

After the inspection, Yu Chi went to a nearby house to rest and pass the time by surfing the internet. Unexpectedly, not long after, a magical power powerful enough to incinerate mountains and boil seas descended upon the area.

This is the power of the two polarities of the mountain.

The overwhelming magical power created a "being in the mountains but not knowing the mountains" effect. The dimension in which Yuchi and his companions existed was insufficient to perceive this destructive magical fluctuation. The attack struck the location of the portal, and all the demon hunters present, including Yuchi, perished in the sudden destruction before they even realized they were dead.

Only a fragment of a divine seal remained in place.

This was a fragment of the divine seal originally bound to Yuchi. After his death, it floated and remained in this position. Then, a hand reached out, grasped it across an unknown distance of time and space, and then withdrew it. This was Shan Liangyi's hand; he had taken away Yuchi's fragment of the divine seal.

It turns out I was wrong before. Yama Ryougi didn't destroy the portal from the real world after returning to avoid my pursuit; he destroyed it from the very beginning. The reason, I suppose, was to prevent me from escaping to the real world while he was chasing me in the afterlife. Without retrieving the Vermilion Bird Seed, he didn't want to make any big moves in the real world that would attract the attention of the Old Fist God.

As for destroying the portal, he'd be entering the afterlife immediately afterward, so he didn't care if Old Fist God caught him.

However, I did not sense any killing intent towards Yuchi from the power of the Mountain Yin-Yang.

He seemed unaware, or rather, indifferent, of whether Yu Chi was near the portal; he simply wanted to destroy it first. Although allowing Yu Chi to survive would likely result in the portal being rebuilt within a few days, Shan Liangyi's original intention was merely to prevent me from returning to the real world in the short term, and he didn't care whether Yu Chi lived or died.

Both Fazheng and I, these Great Impermanences who entered the afterlife, possess a deep understanding of the chaotic spacetime of the apocalypse. Our Laws of Heaven and Earth have the effect of suppressing the chaotic flow of time in the afterlife according to our own understanding. Therefore, even if we lose connection with the timeline of the real world, the differences between us will not become significant in a short period of time. As long as we don't enter a place like the void, it's unlikely that we would lose connection one second and immediately reconnect the next, while a long time has actually passed on the other side... This information is clearly all in Shan Liangyi's grasp.

Yu Chi was simply caught in the crossfire. The fragments of the divine seal were likely an unexpected bonus in Shan Liangyi's eyes.

Fortunately, because Yuchi was implicated in the incident, I had the opportunity to revive him.

The method of altering history is unusable. If Yuchi hadn't died, Shan Liangyi wouldn't have been able to obtain the divine seal fragment. I can't change the history involving Shan Liangyi. However, besides altering history, there are many other ways to resurrect someone.

To revive someone of the Great Completion level like Yuchi, extremely stringent conditions must be met, and the magical power of more than ten Great Impermanences must be mobilized. Ying Lingyun had previously devoted himself wholeheartedly to reviving Yinyue, going through countless twists and turns, all to gather these necessary conditions.

For someone like me, who possesses immense magical power and the ability to distort the world order, this task is a trivial matter.

I pointed to the spot where Yuchi had died, where the power of return gathered like an invisible vortex. The light contracted and distorted, slowly outlining a phantom male figure.

Then, the figure changed from illusory to real, transforming into the appearance of Yuchi.

As the power of reversion receded and disappeared, Yuchi stood lifelike before my eyes.

He opened his eyes, still dazed, and the first thing he saw was me.

"Ah... Zhuang Cheng?" he asked blankly, "Didn't you go to the afterlife?"

(End of this chapter)