Wandering Gods of Day and Night-Chapter 872 - 360: Triple Consciousness
Being both a Heavenly Ghost and a Heavenly Venerate, is this the mystery of Zhou Xuan’s bloodline?
"Your words are too mysterious for me to believe," Zhou Xuan shook his head, expressing disagreement with Li Changxun’s words.
Li Changxun pointed to the only relatively full cocoon among the cocoons and said, "Great sir, you became human because of blood, you excelled because of blood. The most astonishing secret of Laijing Country lies within your blood. If you don’t believe me, sprinkle your blood on that cocoon, and you will receive the answer you seek."
Zhou Xuan also looked at the cocoon, which seemed to have a living creature inside it, causing the whole cocoon to tremble gently.
"It is also the offspring of the Earth Abyss, Residual Dream, but like other unsuccessful offspring, it cannot be released... but it can inform you of some secrets."
Hearing this, Zhou Xuan turned his head and whispered to the Painter, "There might be deception; instruct the You Shen of Mingjiang Prefecture not to be careless."
Preventing any living creature from escaping the Earth Abyss was Zhou Xuan’s bottom line.
The Painter agreed, sending a secret letter and advising everyone to keep vigilant and be on guard for any major changes in the Earth Abyss.
Zhou Xuan then approached the cocoon, using a nail on his right hand to cut his left palm, and held his left hand above the cocoon.
"Drip!"
"Drip!"
The enchanting blood dripped onto the cocoon, and the sound of dripping blood was originally faint but reverberated in Zhou Xuan’s ears, louder than the drums during ancestral worship.
The blood stirred a resounding noise while igniting the cocoon.
Engulfed in flames, the cocoon began to twitch continuously, like a giant meat worm being scorched.
The cocoon was connected to the Ginkgo Ancestor Tree by a thread, which usually hung loosely, allowing the cocoon to rest peacefully on the ground. But now, as it caught fire, the thread retracted rapidly, pulling the cocoon up to the tree, leaving it hanging.
However, hanging it did not quell the flames,
the cocoon continued to burn fiercely, and the creature inside made horrific noises akin to gnawing bones and flesh, sending chills down one’s spine.
Yet these sounds crystallized into an androgynous voice in Zhou Xuan’s ears: "Chaos foretold you would return... and you have indeed returned... but alas... you betrayed Chaos."
Hearing this, Zhou Xuan performed a Dragon Walk and Tiger Step, using a gust of wind to lift himself to where the cocoon hung, his right hand glowing with a bluish hue penetrated the flames, reaching inside the cocoon to grab the creature within.
The creature was covered in short fur, round and chubby, possessing a physical form unlike more abstract entities such as "dreams" or "blood droplets."
Zhou Xuan gave a forceful tug, extracting the being from the cocoon, revealing it to be a fat rat.
The rat’s long tail was already singed, and its two forepaws covered the injury on its tail.
At this moment, Zhou Xuan could see clearly that the rat was blind—it had no eyes... or rather, it had no concept of eyes, nor did it have a nose or ears, just a fat face with a large mouth and two rodent teeth.
"Does the Child of the Earth Abyss also have a form?"
Zhou Xuan looked back to ask Li Changxun.
Li Changxun smiled and said, "It originally did not, but this fat rat was not meant to be a Child of the Earth Abyss meant for release; it was prepared for you." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
"In what way was it prepared?" Zhou Xuan inquired.
"You betrayed Chaos... during the Promotion Ceremony of the first incense stick, you killed the chaotic will within your soul,"
the fat rat said venomously.
This statement jogged Zhou Xuan’s memory.
When he lit the incense, the Divine Revelation Secret Realm opened, and the first incense stick was the storyteller.
While cultivating this incense fire, Zhou Xuan was placed at the head of a boat with a boatman at the stern, traversing the Secret Realm Black Water.
During Zhou Xuan’s Promotion Ceremony, the boatman intended to kill Zhou Xuan’s consciousness to become the controller of Zhou Xuan’s body, but at the crucial moment, the boatman was counter-killed by Zhou Xuan.
At the time, Yuan Buyu and his sister speculated that the boatman was Zhou Xuan’s "dark consciousness."
The Blood Well Spirit Communicator awakens both light and dark consciousness simultaneously.
But now, hearing the rat’s words, Zhou Xuan understood—the boatman was the will of the Heavenly Ghost "Chaos."
...
Looking back on the past, Zhou Xuan began to understand the previously incomprehensible connections.
"Where do I come from, where am I going, and what am I doing?" These philosophical questions held an extra layer for Zhou Xuan—why did I come to Laijing Country?
Amongst the countless souls, why did the Nuo God instruct the Ancestor Tree, grandfather, to bring him to the Zhou Family’s Troupe in Soul Shepherd City?
Now it was clear: the Nuo God saw through that droplet of blood which drew Zhou Xuan’s true soul to Soul Shepherd City.
As Zhou Xuan ascended to the second incense stick, the Nuo God was watching his every move—if Zhou Xuan met a bad fate and was killed by the boatman, losing his own will, Zhou Xuan would become the "Zhou Xuan controlled by Chaos."
The Heavenly Ghost "Chaos" would be truly resurrected,
and if it reached that stage, the Nuo God would intervene to slay Chaos.
...
Li Changxun noticed the intense fluctuation of Zhou Xuan’s emotions, and after the death of the Primal Brain of the Ancestors, the restriction on releasing "Perception" within the Earth Abyss was lifted.
Zhou Xuan unintentionally released an extremely strong Perception.
The Perception, like an impermeable vast oilcloth, enveloped the entire deep layer of the Earth Abyss, suffocating even Li Changxun of the Ninth Incense Stick with an overwhelming intensity.
