Otherworldly Affairs Office-Chapter 870: The Wager Between the Primordial Bodies
Is Pei Yan angry at Lin Junzhao for acting on his own? No! He is merely dissatisfied with it. What truly angers him is his own weakness and lamenting the impermanence of the world. Just now, with a wave of his hand, he could make a family perish before him and another rise because of him. Yet, before the joy of holding such power could last, he was told that his fate was also in others' hands to be manipulated at will.
This sudden change was all because of the levels of power. At this moment, for the first time, Pei Yan's heart was filled with a desire to reach the pinnacle of strength, at least to the point where he could compare with the power of the Origin and master his own fate, rather than being used by others!
"A pawn, huh! Don't belittle yourself. Even if you're a pawn, you're an important piece enough to change the game, aren't you?" The young man didn't notice Pei Yan's growing ambition but just laughed it off as a young man's lament over the changing seasons.
"I understand what you're saying, but I still have one last question!" Pei Yan flicked the ash from his cigarette, trying hard to suppress this impulse for power within his heart, and looked up at the other asking, "Why me? I mean, why did you place your bet on an outsider like me? I believe that as long as you want, you can cultivate talents not inferior to me in the Hell Realm. Why choose me to invest your resources?"
"There are many reasons. First of all, you said something wrong. I could indeed invest resources in selecting another suitable candidate to join the fight, but there isn't enough time. In half a year, I could not create someone like Xila and her brother, who can compete against the disciples I have invested a lot of effort in. And the Xila siblings are my indispensable left and right hands at the moment, which poses my difficulty! The second point! Just like the cooperation I asked Xila to convey to you, in this game, I need to draw allies who can add weight to my words. Your good sister Lin Junzhao urgently needs a ticket to join this gamble as well. We hit it off immediately!"
While speaking, the young man finished the last sip of his wine from the bottle, tossed the bottle aside, got up and slowly walked to Pei Yan, squatted down and stared straight into Pei Yan's right eye curiously, "The main reason still stems from you, we are all curious about the changes in you, your eyes and your internal power?"
"My eyes and my power?" Pei Yan, who was feeling uneasy being stared at, instinctively touched his right eye. Having accidentally combined various powers of origin, this eye was no longer the key to Pei Yan's abilities and could only seal the source energy within opponents, but his current opponents were mostly Children of Origin or hybrid opponents with mutated abilities. The former already had mixed multi-dimensional origins internally, making sealing them a foolish dream, while the latter, despite being sealed, were powerful enough that it would merely limit them temporarily. It might be useful for surprising in battle but unlikely to determine the final outcome.
Is there something unknown to me about this power?
"Yes, your internal power! Don't underestimate it, eh?" The young man's breath with the smell of wine blew across Pei Yan's cheek as he stood up and sat back in his seat, speaking thoughtfully, "The mutation produced by your internal power intrigues us and we all want to see what it will become in the end. For that, we attempted to supplement our Child of Origin with blood slaying seeds, but none of them managed to form a cycle identical to your origin fusion. This might relate to the accident during your fusion, but we tend to think you are the first to bear the Power of the Six Paths Origin within a mortal, a breakthrough that might have touched the rules of the Heavenly Dao, causing some anomalies! Many such guesses exist, yet we can't make an accurate judgment now. What is certain is the power inside you is still in its infancy and its true potential has not been developed yet."
Upon hearing this, Pei Yan immediately perked up, with eyes glistening with excitement as he stared at the young man and asked, "Are you going to help me unlock this power this time?"
The young man first shook his head but upon seeing the disappointment in Pei Yan's eyes, chuckled, "It's not that I don't want to help you, but that I can't do it alone; to achieve this requires your own efforts. This is why I chose you for the competition."
While speaking, the young man pointed to his forehead, and as his finger rose, a black mist slowly drew out from his brain. The black mist gathered in his hand, forming a pulsating black energy body. He flaunted it in front of Pei Yan, who watched with undisguised greed. The young man then withdrew the energy body and swallowed it with a light laugh, "Origin seeds merely let you grasp the basic transformations of source energies of various planes, and law fragments allow you to master ways to use the energies, but these are superficial. The true core lies in the Power of Origin from our original bodies! It forms our most fundamental framework; it's what will nurture the budding power within you to grow strong." 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
"Don't bear too much resentment towards Lin Junzhao. Maybe she treats you like a pawn, but regardless of her intent, she has truly paid a high price to help you grow." Having said this, the young man stretched lazily and continued, "In the wager between us this time, a bet included injecting the Power of Origin into you. I don't know what Lin Junzhao and Lin Ruxue as well as the Candle Dragon discussed, but they persuaded them to award you with the Power of Origin if you can get first place in the individual competition, while the old spirit monster put forth another requirement, demanding you must visit the Spirit Monster Realm and complete something for him. If you succeed, he will grant you his power. As for K's power, which is more troublesome, if you can pass the other five people's tests, he doesn't mind sharing a portion of it with you, but the condition is that from now on you must not oppose the Magic Realm, and should withdraw every time you encounter the people from the Magic Realm, no matter the reason, not reacting against the Magic Realm. Naturally, this premise is provided that the people from the Magic Realm do not threaten you and your family's lives."
The young man raised an eyebrow and advised, "Pei Yan, I know you are crafty and like to exploit loopholes, but I urge you not to be too clever on this matter. This condition is limited to your family, so once you accept their condition, even if the Magic Realm wipes out your friends, you cannot react against them. A promise is a promise! It cannot be broken!"
