Yama Reborn

Chapter 651 648: As You Wish

"So, devour you?"

Chen Nuo still couldn't quite understand the concept of death for these spiritual life forms—logically, he could grasp the rationale from multiple perspectives, but emotionally, he couldn't empathize.

If it were Chen Nuo himself, he would never choose to be devoured for the sake of evolution, to willingly become part of another...

The other progresses, thus I progress.

This sort of thing, Chen Nuo just couldn't emotionally relate to.

Zero lightly flicked his finger, an invisible force entered the space between Chen Nuo's eyebrows.

"This is my timeline, but according to the rules of the timeline, it's a one-time use.

After you've finished devouring the other seeds, you can use it to go back billions of years, and then... eliminate the Mother.

Make the source of everything disappear.

And then... this world will no longer have the Mother, or us, the seeds.

Chen Nuo, you'll be completely liberated. You can restart the cycle and return to a time and space where there's no Mother, no seeds."

Chen Nuo seriously looked at Zero, then nodded.

He then bypassed Zero and walked to his back...

On the ground, the Mother Clone was lying there, already unconscious.

"So, interact spiritually with him?", Chen Nuo frowned, "How should I do it? I need to regain strength, to have spiritual power again, must I first kill him? Then, interact spiritually with him? That's not right either...

If I kill him, he's dead, who am I supposed to interact spiritually with?"

Zero said nothing, tossing over a dagger.

Chen Nuo took it, looked at Zero.

"The power of causality will start from your action... don't be too quick in the killing process. As he dies, the backlash you suffer from reversing time will slowly dissipate. Your abilities will begin to recover.

Before he completely dies, before his consciousness completely dissipates, you use the part of your spiritual power that has recovered to complete the interaction with him.

Only one chance to try, if you fail... consider our deal canceled."

Zero spoke coldly.

Chen Nuo sneered.

Only one chance?

·

The dagger was stabbed into the Mother Clone's thigh—this is the artery.

Blood flowed swiftly, and Chen Nuo gently squatted beside the Mother Clone.

He saw the eyelids of the Mother Clone tremble slightly, as if awakening bit by bit due to the trauma on his thigh.

"I've cut your thigh artery, which will cause you to gradually lose blood and ultimately lead to death.", Chen Nuo looked at the Mother Clone's eyes, speaking calmly, "It's not that I'm cruel... after all, you're not human."

The Mother Clone seemed to realize his situation, just looking at Chen Nuo with cold eyes.

Chen Nuo asked, "Anything you want to say? Like last words."

The Mother Clone slowly shook his head, his face showed no expression of pain, nor did he speak, just stared peacefully into Chen Nuo's eyes.

The light of life slowly faded from his gaze.

Chen Nuo took a deep breath, suddenly feeling that he could gradually perceive the existence of his consciousness space.

As if in some mysterious way, the ropes that bound him were untying bit by bit with the life force of the Mother Clone draining away.

He could now sense his spiritual power, his abilities were beginning to return slowly.

The Mother Clone seemed to sense something as well, his lips moving slightly.

"Anything to entrust?", Chen Nuo asked.

"Help me...", the Mother Clone seemed to sigh lightly, leaving half a sentence: "...kill all the seeds."

Chen Nuo paused, hesitated for two seconds, then nodded.

A wisp of Spiritual Force Tentacles was released, swiftly entering the Mother Clone's body...

·

This spiritual interaction gave Chen Nuo an unprecedented different feeling.

Originally, in the interaction process, as the main party, Chen Nuo could perceive the strength of the opponent's spiritual power.

This time, in the interaction process, from the spiritual feedback of the Mother Clone in front, Chen Nuo sensed a peculiar complexity.

Nearly endless and strong, yet almost indescribably weak.

Two feelings eerily conflicting, yet simultaneously blended together.

The spiritual energy provided by the Mother Clone was very weak, comparable to a normal human.

But, at the same time, incredibly strong, that powerful feeling caused Chen Nuo to shiver from deep within his spirit.

It was a powerful presence at a high life level.

A dying dragon is still a dragon, strong.

The most robust ant is just an ant, weak.

As the interaction continued, Chen Nuo immediately felt his consciousness space beginning to change rapidly.

The previously strong life level seemed to instantly merge into his consciousness space.

Originally the 17/17 cracks, one of which belonged to Diamond Queen Lillian, was torn away without hesitation by Chen Nuo.

Countless spiritual powers began to pour out, rushing forth, but soon, under the interaction, this crack was re-integrated in another manner.

This integration differed from using any membrane-like seam to cover the cracks before.

It was an enhancement from the origin of life, at a high life level.

The crack began to completely heal, and this healing power rapidly permeated into Chen Nuo's consciousness space, spreading out, gradually transforming his entire consciousness space.

Just like sand turning into jade.

Just like bronze becoming gold.

It's like glass turning into diamonds.

Chen Nuo felt a dizzying sense of instability, his consciousness suddenly blurring, as if he were drunk.

Before his consciousness completely blacked out, he heard a sentence from Zero beside his ear.

"Go, finish everything, eliminate the Mother, and then you can be reincarnated into a time-space without the Seed War."

Chen Nuo laughed slightly at these words.

Then, everything fell into darkness.

·

The enormous construction site was silent.

Tens of thousands of laborers had been dismissed.

And in the huge pit that had been dug out, underground water continuously gushed forth, eventually forming an artificial lake.

Lu Xixi once considered draining this water... but it was impossible to achieve.

After the underground aquifer was penetrated, the continuous flow of underground water was unmeasurable.

The scale of this water reservoir was beyond the technological means of this small African country to drain.

Moreover... persuaded by Corot and the Gray Cat, Lu Xixi abandoned this idea.

The Gray Cat's reasoning was simple: "If he can come back, this water won't stop him. If he can't come back, draining this water won't dig into another time-space."

After confirming that the Gray Cat's life was unharmed, Lu Xixi stopped paying attention to the cat.

She even couldn't be bothered with Corot.

The Star Sky Empress dismissed the laborers and troops from different tribes and even ignored the Enke, who dreamed of becoming the King of Africa.

As for the Son of the Sun and the Wizard lying in the hospital, she had no mind to care about them anymore.

Lu Xixi built a simple house by the edge of this artificial lake, near the cliff of excavation, and then lived there.

Every day, from dawn till dusk, this woman would sit cross-legged by the lake, staring calmly at the lake surface.

·

That evening, Corot cautiously drove some drinking water and food to the site himself.

He didn't disturb Lu Xixi, only stood by the simple house, quietly watching Lu Xixi's back for a while.

Afterward, Corot turned around, preparing to leave.

But as he turned around and took his first step.

Suddenly, he shuddered all over! An invisible force seemed to envelop him instantly, an overpowering, soul-quaking sense of familiarity...

He felt every muscle in his body fell out of his control!

As Corot struggled and twisted, attempting to regain control of his body, a familiar voice that chilled his soul came from behind him.

"Surprising, you don't look that bad in human form."

Corot's body instantly turned from rigid to limp.

He fell weakly to the ground.

A figure slowly stepped out of the air.

The familiar thin little boy, curly-haired, with those bright eyes...

This image was devil-like in Corot's eyes.

"S-S-S-Seed..."

Seed walked up to Corot, his eyes fixed on Corot: "Although I've never kept a pet, I've heard at least that for you humans, pets shouldn't just run away for no reason, right?"

Corot's teeth began to chatter.

Seed chuckled lightly, showing his snow-white teeth, then leaned closer to seriously sniff around Corot.

"Oh... you smell like that cat... so, it helped you escape, helped you regain human form, right?

Hmm... there's another familiar scent. Your power comes from a life level that doesn't belong to you.

Let me think, besides the Seed... it's only from the creator."

Seed lightly sniffed, sighed: "Seems complicated. Didn't expect to wake up and find such complex, interesting changes."

Corot's teeth clattered loudly: "Don't, don't, don't kill..."

"I'm not interested in killing you." Seed waved a hand: "Alright, I didn't come to find you."

After speaking, Seed turned around, heading towards Lu Xixi.

He walked up to Lu Xixi's side.

Lu Xixi remained calm-faced — her eyes seemed more dazed, no trace of expression, just staring at the lake.

"Excuse me, can you tell me where my Chosen One went?" Seed softly asked Lu Xixi as he reached her side: "I woke up feeling he disappeared."

Lu Xixi didn't respond, lifting her eyelid slightly to glance at Seed.

She didn't even have the interest to ask Seed why he appeared or came here.

She merely glanced at him and let her eyelid fall.

Seed frowned, staring at Lu Xixi for two seconds: "Are you... grieving?"

He easily sensed Lu Xixi's emotional state: "No, it's not pure grief, not just sadness.

So, Chen Nuo isn't dead. If he were dead, your emotion would be complete despair.

But your current emotion is merely sadness, mixed more with anxiety and unease."

Lu Xixi finally spoke.

She asked only one question in a hoarse voice: "Can you find him?"

Seed thought for a moment, shook his head slowly: "Sorry, I can't... I'm looking for him too.

I'm curious about what could cause me to lose my sense of his presence. Normally, as my Chosen One, if he's alive, I should easily find him anywhere on this planet."

Lu Xixi's eyes finally showed some emotion, a flicker of anger: "He's not dead!"

"...I hope so." Seed's tone turned genuine, even sorrowful: "I've actually grown a bit fond of him.

At least, I've secretly gone to Jinling, and he's taken good care of Fox."

Lu Xixi's face returned to the expression of a living dead: "If you can't find him, don't bother me, don't disturb me waiting here for him."

Seed heard the words and fell silent.

He just stood beside Lu Xixi, staring at the surface of the lake, saying nothing more.

Then, strangely enough, neither of them spoke again.

Just like that, Lu Xixi sat cross-legged on the ground while Seed stood beside her. Both of them kept their eyes on the lake, just gazing quietly.

And in this gaze, a whole day passed.

The sun set, and then rose again.

Lu Xixi didn't say a single word, and Seed remained silent as well.

It wasn't until noon the next day that Lu Xixi stood up, waved her hand, and a loaf of bread flew to her from behind the carriage in the distance, followed by a bottle of mineral water.

Without uttering a word, Lu Xixi tore open the bread and ate it, then drank the water.

Then she sat back down, continuing to gaze at the lake again.

Just like that, another day passed.

By the time darkness descended again, Seed suddenly turned around and waved slowly toward the dark wilderness behind him: "Since you're here, come over and have a chat with me. This woman won't say a word more, and I'm quite eager to talk to someone else."

Out of the darkness, the emaciated Gray Cat slowly emerged.

Gray Cat stopped a mere three steps from Seed.

"Seed, you're stronger than before." Gray Cat blinked: "You... reached the critical point?"

Seed chuckled: "Frankly speaking, I'm not sure myself... I thought I'd sleep for a long time to digest those powers.

But the sleep was clearly much shorter than I'd expected.

More surprisingly, my power has increased beyond what I had anticipated...

So, can you tell me what has happened?"

Gray Cat looked into Seed's shining eyes, its body quivering as it instinctively took a step back.

"What surprises me more is... when I woke up, I discovered something I couldn't understand.

That Octopus Monster has disappeared?

I can't even sense its presence now."

Seed said, shaking his head: "Obviously, some very interesting things happened during my slumber?"

"...You say you can't sense it?" Gray Cat looked at Seed in shock: "How… how powerful have you become? You couldn't sense our presence before... if we wanted to hide..."

"Now you can't hide anymore." Seed seemed to smile happily: "I've certainly changed; it feels like I've reached the end.

However, maybe there's just one step left, but I still don't know how to take it.

But what is certain is that now, under my perception, anything I want to know, I can know.

This world is completely within my perception.

Gray Cat, the Octopus, that annoying Fourth Seed.

Now if you all want to hide from me, you can't do that anymore. For instance...

Upon waking, I immediately knew you were here.

And I could easily sense that the Fourth Seed is hiding in some place in Greenland—he still loves the cold climate."

Gray Cat's body continued to tremble, very violently so.

But while its body shook, Gray Cat's tone turned calm: "So... Seed, has the time come?"

Seed was taken aback at these words, then looked at Gray Cat with a hint of apology in his eyes: "Yes... although I don't wish for it myself. But I must acknowledge, you are correct.

Time has come."

Gray Cat's body ceased trembling.

Instead, it seemed to relax all at once: "Well, you're right, any of us reaching this critical point would choose the same as you.

So, yes, time has indeed come."

Gray Cat seemed to ponder for a moment: "So, can you tell me? You...

Standing just one step away from the end, what do you see?

How beautiful and magnificent is the scenery of that step ahead?

That realm... how wonderful, how grand is it?"

Gray Cat asked sincerely, while Seed earnestly considered the question, then shook his head.

"Sorry, I truly cannot answer.

Because... although I stand just one step before the end, I still cannot see what lies beyond."

As disappointment appeared in Gray Cat's eyes, Seed supplemented with another line.

"However, I've seen something else; more precisely, I've seen myself clearly...

No, to be more precise, I've seen us clearly.

We... refer to us, these Seeds."

Gray Cat raised its eyebrows: "What do you mean?"

"The road has ended."

Seed sighed softly.

Seeing Gray Cat's perplexed expression, Seed raised his hand and pointed to Gray Cat, then to himself: "We, the mightiest form, I've already reached.

Just like I am now.

We, the Seeds, this is the utmost form we can evolve into; I've already reached it.

Yet, we haven't reached the end we desire.

One step remains, but beyond that step, there is no path."

Seed spoke gently: "We are... incomplete. Born incomplete.

Perhaps, we spiritual life forms were incomplete from the start."

Gray Cat frowned: "...Even if we learn human emotions to foster feelings within ourselves... this way still can't mend our incompleteness?"

Seed laughed.

He looked at the Gray Cat: "How long have you been developing human emotions? Have you filled in the gaps?"

The Gray Cat remained silent.

Seed slowly said: "It's not that developing emotions is useless.

To be precise, without developing emotions, I wouldn't have been able to come this far.

But it's still not enough."

After a pause, this time without waiting for the Gray Cat to question, Seed surprisingly explained patiently, almost kindly:

"Developing emotions only allows me to see the distance of the final step ahead, what this step looks like.

I can see that this last step is broken.

Therefore, a spiritual life form cannot evolve into the four-dimensional—this is the conclusion I've reached, standing at the end of this dead end.

I don't like this feeling either.

Clearly seeing the desired endpoint is just one step away, but there's no path for this last step."

Seed, still patient, even proactively asked: "Is there anything else you want to know? Or any other questions?"

The Gray Cat pondered for a moment and shook its head slowly: "No more. Since you've seen it, you know best. Besides, I trust you."

Seed nodded: "So... anything else?"

The Gray Cat thought: "My cat servant... can you not kill him?"

"Corot?" Seed chuckled: "You've clearly cultivated more positive emotions in your human feelings.

Can't you sense the Mother's aura on him? Your cat servant might have betrayed you."

The Gray Cat shook its head: "It doesn't matter anymore... after all, he hasn't harmed me, and... he has been dutifully serving me these past days.

He is of no use to you, spare his life."

Seed looked at the Gray Cat: "Okay, I promise you. Any other requests?"

"... Let me be the last one.

I have always disliked that Fourth Seed guy.

Let him go before me, I want to see him with my own eyes... being taken down by you."

Seed smiled: "Such emotions are dull."

The Gray Cat rolled its eyes: "Many human emotions are dull in nature."

"Alright, I promise you too." Seed replied straightforwardly: "Then in exchange, satisfy my curiosity, what exactly... happened these days? This woman's emotions are terrible, she refuses to communicate. Out of respect for Chen Nuo, I don't want to make things too difficult for her at the last moment."

The Gray Cat took a deep breath: "It's simple, our group was swayed by the Octopus Monster to confront an awakening Mother Clone here together.

The Octopus Monster's group sacrificed themselves, aiming to revive and repair the Mother Clone, he couldn't win, but he didn't want you to win either, so..."

"Hmm, got it, revive a Mother Clone and then... count on that Mother Clone to kill me?" Seed touched his forehead: "Understandable, a kind of human negative emotion."

"During the combat, there were a series of unexpected events, then Chen Nuo's power broke through.

Maybe he absorbed the power you gave him, or maybe the Mother Clone's power stimulated him, I'm not sure.

But in any case, the result was that the boy's power suddenly exploded.

He later grew powerful enough to single-handedly take on the Octopus Monster.

I mean truly one-on-one, on the level of life, he almost matched the Seeds like the Octopus Monster, possessing the ability to infinitely transform matter and life."

Seed froze for a second and then smiled wryly: "No wonder... my power has increased so much.

Chen Nuo is my Chosen One, his strength enhancement brings a huge boost to me too.

So, Chen Nuo shouldn't be dead, right?

If he had died, my power would have weakened instead."

"He used time ability, clutching the Mother Clone, and leaped to another time and space." The Gray Cat chuckled: "But I guess he should be able to come back."

Seed laughed: "Time ability huh. Seems he really improved a lot."

Seed thought for a moment, turned around, and looked at the back of Lu Xixi.

"I'm really sorry. Thanks to your husband, I've gained such powerful strength and reached the last step now.

I should be grateful for this.

But what I'm going to do next will inevitably take away your life.

Please believe me, emotionally, I don't want to do such a thing.

But I have no choice. Since my birth, the pursuit I was given was to finish this race, to pass through the door of evolution.

So, I have to do this."

After speaking, Seed slowly bowed to Lu Xixi's back.

Lu Xixi didn't move, nor did she turn her head.

But she coldly opened her mouth to speak a sentence:

"Whatever you want to do, whoever you want to kill, it's up to you.

I am thoroughly fed up with this matter, whether it's you or the Mother.

The Seed's war, four-dimensional evolution...

These things have disgusted me incredibly.

My husband has struggled sixteen times to save me from this vortex, and this time he is trapped again.

Now, I don't even know if he can come back alive."

As she spoke, Lu Xixi's voice grew colder: "So, if it's death, please do it quickly. I am truly fed up with this.

Maybe if I had died earlier, he wouldn't have been so deeply involved, again and again!"

Seed nodded: "Do you... have any requests?"

"..." Lu Xixi thought for a moment: "The Fourth Seed! Because I am his Chosen One, I am stuck in this mire, my husband is stuck in this mire!

Therefore, when you kill him, I will inevitably die. But I want to see with my own eyes, to see him die, die in front of me.

Can you?"

Seed nodded: "As you wish."