Slayer of Gods: I lied; I became the agent of the Nine Gods.

"The gods of Takamagahara have almost all gone mad."

Lu Yu sheathed his sword and recounted the corruption of the Japanese gods by the Red Moon and the current situation.

"After Susanoo was corrupted, he killed all the gods."

She glanced down at the "Kusanagi Sword" she had taken back, and handed it to Lin Qiye with a smile.

"Captain, this divine weapon will be yours to use from now on."

They are about to go to Takamagahara to do that heinous thing, and all of this should come to an end.

"Godslayer".

An Qingyu raised her hand and adjusted her glasses.

"Or a god who has lost his mind."

[Nightfall] The team members were talking here, but Gojo Satoru, who always loved to join in the fun, was silent at this moment.

Xia Youjie glanced at his friend and suddenly laughed: "So you knew all along, didn't you?"

The white-haired patriarch's expression remained unchanged: "What do you know?"

“I know…they don’t actually need to go to Takamagahara…”

Gojo Satoru smirked, "Ah... as expected of Gon, you guessed right... but there's no reward~"

These young people do not need to go to the land of gods, nor do they need to go through countless hardships to slaughter the mad god.

Because twelve years ago, a guy had removed all obstacles and troubles for them... no, for her.

And now that guy...

"Where is Yan Zhe? Why has his presence become increasingly less noticeable lately?"

Xia Youjie glanced around but didn't see the familiar figure.

Gojo Satoru lowered his head, recalling the scene that "Six Eyes" had seen earlier, his expression calm.

"I'm going back..."

It all comes back to Lu Yu.

He and the child were one, yet they were about to be separated.

Wu Xiangnan walked up from behind the group, about to speak, when a clear, muffled cracking sound rang out from the sky—

Everyone involuntarily looked up.

The sky is broken.

Starting with a tiny crack, it then spread to the entire sky, and finally shattered with a deafening roar!

What greeted everyone's eyes was not the unknown universe they had imagined, but a dilapidated palace building.

That is……

Gao Tianyuan.

Lu Yu opened his eyes wide and watched as the divine kingdom, which could no longer bear the weight, began to collapse from a corner, turning into dust and falling to earth.

"Takamagahara... what happened?"

Wu Xiangnan voiced the question that had been on everyone's mind.

It is disappearing, and being completely erased without a trace.

Before anyone could react, a streak of light plummeted from the ruined divine kingdom, landing directly in front of them...

"...Get out of the way!"

As the dust settled, the full picture of the fallen object was revealed.

It was a man with a red magatama pendant around his neck, but his ashen face and blood-stained clothes clearly told everyone that he was on the verge of death.

"...Susanoo..."

Wu Xiangnan looked at the things on the ground, a deep-seated hatred surfacing in her eyes.

"This is Susanoo!"

The executioner of Takamagahara, one of the three noble children, is also the target of his revenge!

Why...did he become like this?

"Is he going to die?"

Gojo Satoru teleported over, seemingly not regarding the being on the ground as a god at all, and directly reached out and poked his shoulder.

"Lu-chan, doesn't that guy have anything to say?"

Lu Yu: "??? Who?"

Gojo Satoru straightened up and looked at Shikao with a leisurely air: "Speaker, that guy is still by your side, isn't he?"

The girl froze instantly, looking up at the person in front of her, but dared not meet their eyes.

"...Ah, what does the speaker have to say?"

No, the speaker has realized something?

[...He should have sensed it long ago, ever since I appeared beside you.]

The speaker appeared in the second year after Shika arrived in Japan.

It came to earth as a guardian deity for girls.

Since the system upgrade, it has known that it will not stay by the girl's side forever.

This is a child who will become a god.

It wanted her to be happy.

As the long night stretched on, the system itself was gradually tinged with color by the girl.

It is no longer a cold, impersonal program, even though its warmth is reserved only for the young girl.

Just like the sentence it said—

I will serve only you.

I will never hurt you.

It came to Shika's side and gradually made arrangements, reminding Gojo Satoru of everything happening here, so that these beings who suddenly appeared in Japan could blend in without any sense of incongruity.

It knew that the Japanese social order would inevitably be disrupted, so twelve years ago, it went alone to Takamagahara, leaving Susanoo with a fabricated illusion—

Japan was destroyed.

The gods, believing Japan to be gone, closed themselves off and fell into a deep sleep in Takamagahara.

A system deceived a god for twelve years.

He concealed all the beliefs within Japan, saving them until the very end, where they all transformed into the power of Shika.

Beneath this divine realm, it truly perfected the ultimate goal that the "Pure Land" had single-mindedly strived for but failed to achieve—

Creating gods.

However, the speaker was watching the child walk towards the throne that should have been hers.

Interfering with reality is something that those who speak out don't actually have that much authority over.

Not many people can even do that.

Perhaps Lu Yu will be able to in the future, but for now she is just a human.

However, "almost" does not mean "never".

The Way of Heaven is one of those few possibilities.

When the Great Heavenly Court began to be rebuilt, the Heavenly Dao had already recovered considerably.

But it hasn't appeared before Lu Yu for a long time.

"Have you discovered the truth since you haven't shown up for so long?"

Once the speaker takes on human form, he directly finds the Way of Heaven and gets to the point.

"So you're waiting, waiting for her to become a god, right?"

Heaven did not speak.

"...You want her to mend the broken Heavenly Dao, that's your ultimate idea, isn't it?"

The speaker sneered, saying that the way of heaven is selfish, and he had known this for a long time, but he wanted to apply this selfishness to Lu Yu once again.

"...She will eventually sacrifice herself to become the Dao. You know, this world has been restarted countless times."

The voice of Heaven was as ethereal as ever, as if its shape and direction were impossible to grasp.

Their world had long been ruined.

"In those countless restarts of the past, she appeared no less than ten times, but each time she inevitably died."

Either you align yourself with the Tao, or you perish along with the world.

"...None of us can save her."

As early as during the fasting period, the scene that Wu Tongxuan glimpsed through the divine ruins of Luyu [Remembrance] had already foreshadowed everything.

【Remembrance】is a skill that allows one to see the past. However, Lu Yu has no past, so what Wu Tongxuan sees is merely the memory before the world was restarted.

In their world, all beings suffer, repeating the original plot, with the girl burning herself out and dying.

Alternatively, she could choose to unite all living beings with the Dao, giving everyone a better option.

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There's something Baozi didn't understand here. There was actually foreshadowing in the earlier chapters. In the first chapter after the "Dream of the Yellow Millet," Qi Ye also had a dream. He dreamt of the world that had been restarted countless times before, but at that time he wasn't the black-haired deer cosplaying as a time-traveling character.

The two scenarios that Wu Tongxuan saw were both "what if" scenarios before the world was restarted. In the eyes of the Heavenly Dao, Xiao Lu was always destined to die.

Because she died (or merged with the Dao), the world was able to get back on track.

This is fanfiction, all author's own interpretations. Since the Heavenly Dao has already been revealed, don't worry about the original story's Qi Ye being able to resurrect everyone. (I already said it's fanfiction; if Qi Ye resurrected Xiao Lu in the finale, wouldn't it be no different from the original story?)