Chapter 655: Let Everything Remain as It Was
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Kunlun Immortal Palace Underground Palace.
Hua Jin the True One stood trembling before the faceless statue.
Standing here, the majestic will's oppression on her soul beca even more ferocious, as if facing an unfathomable abyss.
Her soul was shaking.
Her mind went completely blank.
Fortunately, that will only inspected her entire body once before receding.
A cold, hoarse voice echoed in Hua Jin the True One's heart.
[Hua Jin, how did you end up in this state? Foundation damaged, cultivation completely lost?]
"Replying to Your Lordship—" Hua Jin the True One lowered her head, trying to calm her breathing and make her voice sound steadier: "This humble servant has always followed your command to open the Well of Heaven and search for the variable, but inevitably encountered so dangers during this process, along with the competing force Great Thunder Temple, so..."
[Excellent!]
The cold voice carried a hint of amusent.
[Now Great Thunder Temple is in complete disarray—they failed to seize the Celestial Jade Marrow, the Golden Scale Heaven-Piercing Python suffered defeat, and that one is so furious he sent two Demon Immortal avatars down to help rebuild their forces... Hua Jin, you've done very well!]
Hua Jin the True One never expected to receive praise and couldn't help feeling flattered.
"These are all things this humble servant should do..."
[You've developed mortal feelings?]
Hua Jin the True One shuddered violently, her face turning deathly pale. Her lips moved slightly, but she didn't dare speak.
[No need to be so afraid. For ants like you to develop desires is perfectly normal—we don't interfere with such matters. Just as you wouldn't care when pigs in a pen mate?]
The analogy was crude, full of insult and belittlent.
But Hua Jin the True One simply bowed her head and accepted it, even feeling a trace of relief.
[I have high hopes for you. You must understand that since you've developed desires, achieving immortality will require greater effort.]
[With your cultivation completely lost, you can't continue opposing Great Thunder Temple. You still need to search for the variable for us. Co closer!] S
Hua Jin approached the statue as instructed.
The originally featureless face of the statue suddenly cracked open from the center of its forehead, revealing a golden vertical pupil.
The mont she t the vertical pupil's gaze, Hua Jin seed to see the magnificent cosmos.
Her entire consciousness imrsed itself in the vastness of the starry universe, and above the endless cosmos, indescribably majestic beings gazed down upon her.
Her soul trembled, almost on the verge of being crushed!
[Lower your head!]
A low roar exploded in her heart.
Hua Jin the True One quickly lowered her head, and the feeling of her soul being crushed finally disappeared.
Imdiately after, massive energy began pouring into her body.
This energy rapidly repaired her not yet fully recovered foundation.
Simultaneously, her lost cultivation visibly rose at an astonishing rate.
Within just two or three breaths, she had returned to the Void Shattering realm peak, not only recovering her strength but becoming even stronger than before.
[Your strength has been restored. Continue serving , and you won't lack rewards!]
After speaking, the voice transmitted two vague impressions.
[From those few, I've already learned the characteristics of the variable. I've transmitted them to your mind. Your target is to capture these variables, strip their souls, and use secret thods to sacrifice these variables to !]
[Don't be slower than those two Demon Immortal avatars from Great Thunder Temple! I believe in you!]
The voice seed to have finished its instructions and paid no attention to the still bewildered Hua Jin the True One, as the majestic will gradually detached from the statue.
The vertical pupil on the faceless statue's forehead closed and disappeared.
Only after the majestic will had been gone for a long ti did Hua Jin the True One's legs give way, causing her to collapse sitting on the ground.
"So they really are the 'variable'!"
Hua Jin the True One had entertained this thought before.
She just hadn't wanted to believe it.
She didn't want to believe that the people who had saved her and Wang Shouyi's lives were the targets of those great beings.
The information the majestic will transmitted to her was vague.
It showed two old n walking away side by side—the figure on the left robust like an iron tower, the figure on the right carrying a sword at his waist, emanating immortal aura.
Even if she were completely blind, she would recognize them.
The left one was Zhang Yibai, the right one was Gu Changsheng.
These two were the variable!
Hua Jin the True One's mind was in turmoil.
On one side was her lord's command, on the other were her lifesavers.
What frightened Hua Jin the True One even more was—she shouldn't be hesitating.
She had long ago devoted her soul to those great beings. She shouldn't have excess emotions, shouldn't feel panic and heartache. When facing such choices, she should have resolutely sacrificed Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng for her own ascension to immortality.
Complete the task assigned by her lord, receive her lord's rewards, beco a true immortal.
Hadn't this always been her goal?
But now, she was hesitating.
She was actually... hesitating?
She actually entertained thoughts of defying those great beings.
Hua Jin the True One's face pale, she knelt before the statue clutching her head.
Chaotic thoughts rampaged through her mind.
One side shouting to obey her lord's command, the other shouting to protect her lifesavers, to protect Little YiYi...
These thoughts almost consud her soul.
Just as Hua Jin the True One's soul was about to be completely torn in two.
Tap—!
The sound of a Go stone placent echoed in her mind, vibrating deep within her soul.
The next mont, Hua Jin was swallowed by a void of nothingness.
"This... where is this place?"
Hua Jin the True One looked around bewildered. Everything around was dark nothingness, with only the area three zhang around her illuminated.
Within the three zhang of light.
A peach tree, stone stools, a Go board, and soone holding a stone.
The stone-holder wore white clothes, his features unclear, sitting opposite her staring silently at the board as if she didn't exist at all.
Hua Jin warily watched the stone-holder: "You, who are you?"
Hadn't she just been in the Kunlun Immortal Palace Underground Palace?
Why had her consciousness been suddenly dragged into this mysterious place?
Fortunately, although she'd been pulled in, the chaotic thoughts in her mind were no longer warring with each other.
The feeling of her soul being torn apart had quietly disappeared.
She glanced at the peach blossom-strewn Go board where the black stones were full of weaknesses while the white stones advanced triumphantly.
The stone-holder held a white stone, contemplating where to place it.
"Did you bring here to play Go with you?"
Hua Jin the True One sat opposite the player but couldn't see a black stone container by the board.
She... wasn't qualified to play against the stone-holder before her.
[You should continue cultivating the Heavenly Demon... hmm, it should be called the Divine Body Tempering Technique.]
The stone-holder suddenly said sothing that baffled Hua Jin the True One.
[Don't you like Wang Shouyi? Then continue liking him.]
[Don't you want to repay Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng's kindness? Then continue repaying them.]
The stone-holder looked up.
Beneath the blurred features, Hua Jin saw a pair of brilliant yet completely emotionless eyes.
[Let everything continue as before.]
The stone-holder placed his stone.
As the white stone landed, the black stones faced complete defeat.
The peach tree, stone stools, Go board, and stone-holder vanished one by one, like bubbles popping.
Only the sound of the stone placent still echoed deep within her soul.
Hua Jin returned to awareness.
She was still in the Kunlun Immortal Palace Underground Palace.
But she... no longer felt any hesitation.
"I'm sorry... Your Lordship." She glanced at the faceless statue, then turned and left the underground palace.
Her slender shadow stretched long in the dim light.
"I am a living person, I... I still like Little YiYi."
Hua Jin silently repeated in her heart: "I still want to repay everyone's kindness, so... I'm sorry..."
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