novelraw Chapter 374-2: Slaying the Wet Nurse, the Gaze Across the Endless Starry Sky (2)
Chapter 374-2: Slaying the Wet Nurse, the Gaze Across the Endless Starry Sky (2)
[You look around. You no longer see the twisted shadow, but you do see Kim, floating upon the Sea of Cultivation.]
[His Painbearer vessel could not withstand the mighty power of the war between the main gods and has long since been torn limb from limb. The primary body of the Parasite within is unconscious, rising and falling with the waves.]
[You know that if the Wet Nurse is not yet dead, you will most likely be unable to escape death, and Kim will also absolutely not be spared from the Wet Nurse’s slaughter.]
[Endless malice gathers into a giant hand, which scoops Kim up from the surface of the sea. Under your command, the hand throws Kim together with the Writ of Audience toward the boundary of the Sacred Nest Ninth Layer.]
[At this time, the entire Sacred Nest Ninth Layer faintly trembles. Along with Firefly’s fall, the Ninth Layer star-body that had been moved into Firefly’s divine domain is about to return to its original position and once more rejoin the Sacred Nest…]
[You do not know what the outside world looks like right now. You only know that if Kim has not left this place before the star-body returns to the Sacred Nest, then he is doomed.]
[As the Writ of Audience that was thrown along with him approaches the boundary, a large opening appears near the edge of the star-body, big enough to allow passage in and out.]
[Faintly, you seem to see a great number of surviving aberrated beings, and Kim is about to return to the embrace of his companions…]
[Just then, a swath of vast twisted shadow suddenly appears above Kim. The shadow is weakened to the extreme, yet it is not something the feeble and unconscious Kim can resist.]
[Without the slightest hesitation, you transform into a dark meteor, charging straight toward the twisted shadow.][The shadow is so weak that even its pounce toward Kim is slow. The vast distance is crossed in an instant before your overwhelming might…]
[You enter the range of the twisted shadow’s existence. Strangely, the Wet Nurse’s consciousness no longer lunges toward Kim, and you see Kim safely leaving the Sacred Nest Ninth Layer just as you wished.]
[After the passage opened by the Writ of Audience disappears, the only thing left within the star-body is you, covered by the twisted shadow.]
[The Wet Nurse’s voice once again becomes that of a gentle and loving mother, echoing by your ear…]
[Outsider, his soul and will have already weakened to the extreme, so weak that even someone as feeble as you can kill him.]
[But you seem to have forgotten that your soul is even weaker than his.]
[The body of Flanda that you now control is the perfect body she favors most.]
[The first half of the sentence still rings by your ear, while the second half echoes in your mind.]
[The twisted shadow disappears, replaced by a filthy and dirty, weakened soul that squeezes into your body, contending with you for control of the Shell.]
[You instantly understand. The Wet Nurse never cared about Kim’s life at all. What she wanted was Flanda’s body.]
[And although your soul has already undergone multiple enhancements and amplifications, compared to a main god, even a main god weakened to the extreme, you are still far from a match.]
[You can only gradually lose control over the Shell. You can only watch helplessly as you are bit by bit forced out of the Shell…]
The decay of Flanda’s Shell was irreversible. Lin Xun did not know whether the Wet Nurse, as a main god, had the ability to reverse such a death.
But even if Flanda’s Shell died, it was impossible to wipe out the Wet Nurse’s consciousness within.
The deaths of the clone Flanda and the Daughter of Evil were already proof of that.
Countless thoughts collided and intertwined in his mind.
Lin Xun realized that he had only one final method left to kill the Wet Nurse.
And that was… to fall into Extreme Evil.
[You know that you have no way out. You decide to fall into Extreme Evil.]
[Malice roars in surging torrents. Endless malice wells up from the depths of your heart and wildly spreads.]
[You forget the Wet Nurse who is fighting you for control of the Shell. You forget the purpose of your coming here. You only remember that you must kill her.]
[Your field of vision seems to be infinitely drawn upward, piercing through the Sacred Nest Ninth Layer, piercing through the Divine Kingdom’s boundary, then piercing through the ground and abruptly soaring into the vast void.]
[Deep in the ground of a scarred and ravaged planet, there is a wisp of deeply hidden malicious consciousness.]
[The faint malice is like water without a source and a tree without roots. It cannot spread and grow in this hollow that does not belong to it.]
[Even when deliberately spread by human hands, its rate of infection and corrosion is terribly slow.]
[Yet once the malice comes into contact with the web of consciousness that encompasses all things in the world, its rate of spread increases explosively.]
[Time flies by, and by now the entire planet has been covered by dense malice.]
[On that consciousness web of stark black and white, whether it is the consciousness of Ascended beings or aberrated beings, most have already been tainted by malice.]
[The two strongest consciousnesses on the planet have already seen one dissipate. The remaining one is incomparably weak, on the verge of vanishing.]
[Malice is, through the web of consciousness, corroding and corrupting all things, including the only main god left in this world.]
[However, the rate of corrosion by malice is too slow. It is like soldiers fighting separately and in disarray, without a general to command them. If it is to completely erode her, it will probably take countless ages.]
[Compared to her, your soul is still far too weak. But as long as you can proactively corrupt her, you will become stronger than anyone.]
[At last, you make up your mind.]
[You will fall into Extreme Evil. You will wield endless malice. Only thus can you destroy what you wish to destroy, save what you wish to save, and thereby rule over everything.]
By now, Lin Xun had completely lost control over the Shell.
Whether it was switching Shells or using skills, he could not do even the simplest action of opening the Inventory.
[You open your eyes. In your view, the once mighty Wet Nurse is nothing more than a despicable thief attempting to usurp your great authority.]
[Now that thief even dares to covet your body. Such a crime can never be forgiven, not even by a thousand deaths.]
[For you, who have already fallen into Extreme Evil, all the malice on the web of consciousness, all the malice in this world, is under your control and can return to your embrace.]
[You gaze at the Wet Nurse with boundless malice and cannot help but show an incredibly eerie smile.]
[Endless negative thoughts and pure malice fill your heart.]
[You allow the Wet Nurse to take over your Shell and squeeze your soul out.]
[It is rare for such an enjoyable toy to appear. You will not kill her so easily.]
[You will wait until she believes she has victory firmly in hand, until she believes she has become the master of the Shell, and at that very moment kick her from the peak of power off the edge of the cliff.]
[You will listen to the miserable screams she makes while falling into the abyss, and savor that ultimate despair when the light of victory is right before her eyes, only to suddenly plunge into darkness.]
[That is the most delicious flavor you yearn to taste.]
[You no longer need to absorb malice. You even empty out all the malice you absorbed, allowing the Sea of Cultivation beneath your feet to return to pitch-black.]
[Because you are the source of malice.]
[You are the Lord of All Evil.]
[…]
[The Wet Nurse slowly yet firmly gains control of Flanda’s Shell. You, who have been squeezed out of the Shell, have only a few extremely fine strands of soul-thread still connecting you to it.]
[Flanda slowly speaks, her voice gentle and loving. Outsider, the final victor of this battle is her.]
[And you are just a weak ant that tried to slay a god.]
[As long as she severs these few soul-threads, you will never again have a chance to turn the tables.]
[She gives you one last chance. Become her subject beneath her skirt and lead her across the endless starry sky back to your homeland…]
[In soul form, you ask in fearful reverence why she is so obsessed with your homeland.]
[Flanda’s eyes grow slightly hazy, as if there is something in them called longing.]
[She answers that the main gods have already reached the supreme realm, but above that realm, an even greater realm exists.]
[That is the transcendence she has been tirelessly pursuing…]
[Everything she has done is for the sake of transcendence.]
[Flanda comes back to herself and smiles once more. Outsider, have you decided? She will not give you another chance.]
[You nod, admitting your defeat, willing to yield and compromise and lead her back to your homeland…]
[Flanda’s smile grows even brighter. She opens her arms to pull you into an embrace and praises you, saying that not standing against her is a wise choice…]
[Before her words can fully fall, you begin to laugh in eerie delight. Your mouth tears open until it reaches your ears as you snarl hideously…]
[You are not standing against her. You are standing against all things in existence, against everything.]
[In an instant, all the individuals on the consciousness web that have been corrupted, all the beings in this world that have been stained, transform into the purest malice and surge into Flanda’s body.]
[At that very moment, not a trace of malice remains in this world. All malice gathers within Flanda’s Shell.]
[You instantly seize back control of the Shell. As the flood of malice pours in, the Wet Nurse’s last remaining, weakened consciousness struggles desperately, trying to flee the Shell, but is now nailed in place.]
[In a single moment, she plummets from the peak of victory into boundless darkness. You savor the most delicious, sweet despair, listening to her terrified, anguished screams…]
[You feel that this is the most ultimate pleasure.]
[Under your control, the raging malice instantly erodes the feeble consciousness completely.]
[The Wet Nurse’s wails finally grow quiet. The last main god in this world falls and perishes in your hands, becoming the most delicious source of strength for you.]
[At that moment, you touch upon the origin and true meaning of power. Foreordained by the unseen, your gaze crosses the endless starry sky and falls upon another planet that is completely covered in malice.]
[At the same time, the greatest mass of malice on that planet, malice even more pure than your own, sees you and locks onto you.]
[…]
[Flanda’s Shell has decayed and is erased from the Shell Slots.]
[You have defeated the Desire Wet Nurse.]
[You have obtained Desire Wet Nurse’s Special Spirit Essence (Spirit Essence item).]
[You have obtained Clone Cultivation Pod (mythic-grade item).]
[You have obtained True Wet Nurse Umbilical Cord (mythic+ grade item).]
[You have obtained Touch of Pleasure (immortal-grade item).]
[You have obtained Flesh Factor Mask (immortal+ grade item).]
[You have obtained Desire Divinity (Eternal-grade item).]
[…]
[Special final event A Gaze Across the Endless Starry Sky complete.]
[You are currently being teleported to the Library…]
[…]
[T/N: Damn felt like a cinematic ending there, with the author setting up some things for a future arc. I’m looking forward to how things are gonna progress but most of all I wanna see the loot!!!]