Chapter 118: CH 118

Chapter 118: The World Reborn

Hundreds of thousands of soul lamps were swaying against the rock wall of the Inextinguishable Peak. 

Since the start of the war, no matter whether it was thunder and lightning or the flames of war, nothing has disturbed the enchantment and the tranquility of this place.

Yue Wuhuan slowly walked forward and held up the first soul lamp. Inside was the soul named Xie Que. After three thousand years of torment, it had already grown numb from the pain.

Looking at this disgusting soul, the memory of struggling in hell resurfaced in his mind and the stink he was breathing in grew stronger.

But these past matters could no longer torture his heart. 

Yue Wuhuan lightly extinguished this soul lamp, letting the sinful soul turn into nothing, vanishing forever from the universe.

Deep inside his heart, there seemed to be a black shackle that was undone. After letting go of his hatred, his soul became free.

Yue Wuhuan extinguished the second soul lamp, the third lamp, the fourth lamp…

His revenge was over long ago and there was no need to look back.

As the soul lamp of memories went out one by one, the chains of hatred fell away. His soul became more and more relaxed, and his pace becomes more and more brisk…

In the end, Yue Wuhuan stood atop the summit and raised his hands. He released a powerful burst of spiritual thought and extinguished hundreds of thousands of soul lamps all at once.

The moment the soul lamps went out, the Phoenix locked in the abyss was finally free. The curse-like mole under the corner of his eye slowly disappeared along with his hatred.

Yue Wuhuan finally saw the true face of the world. Immeasurable foul demonic aura pervaded the air, corroding everything. This was the source of the stink he smelled. High in the sky, a black door leading to hell was ajar. Filthy demonic energy gushed forth from inside, manipulating and changing the entire world, turning it into a hellish nightmare. 

The demons realized that the seal had been undone. The situation was hopeless and they were in their death throes. A wail came from amidst the thunder.

Yue Wuhuan raised his head. “The usurper.”

……

In the divine realm, the Celestial Emperor and all the gods were gathered around the withering World Tree. 

More than half of the world-fruits nurtured by the Tree had been invaded by dark demonic energy.

The World Tree was a sacred tree that appeared alongside the Phoenix from a pure and flawless flame. It relied on the power of the Phoenix’s rebirth and reincarnation to grow.

The Phoenix meticulously cared for every immature world, waiting for the world’s rules to be perfected and the world’s operations to mature. It would then fall off and be released into the galaxy to turn into a true and proper world.

Because the rules of a small world weren’t mature enough, flaws would often appear, causing the world-fruit to die or wither. Therefore, the Phoenix god designed a magical artifact that could control fate, for the purposes of adjustment and refinement. It would select a suitable human souls to, in the form of missions, test the rules of the world or break the course of a world that has gone astray and bring it back to the right path. 

Because the development and culture of each world was different — there were different domains such as science and technology, magic, and cultivation — in order for everyone to easily understand and also so that the course of fate would not go so far as to wander down the wrong track, the mission briefings formally proceeded based on books, dramas, legends, novels, etc….

The artifact ran very smoothly, and the World Tree bore one small world after the other. Each world contained innumerable souls and resources.

The demons have long coveted these immature worlds, but the World Tree relied on the power of the Phoenix to grow, and the Phoenix god was the most perfect god, whether it was in power, wisdom, or will, he was powerful and invulnerable.

The demons schemed for hundreds of millions of years, and finally they found a way. They took advantage of the battle between the gods and the demons and set up a trap. They wounded the Phoenix god and took a small piece of his soul, throwing it into the World Tree. They then extracted a little bit of the delusions and desires that all beings had towards the Phoenix god and fused these together, turning into a teardrop mole seal, blocking off the Phoenix god’s memories. They then created a beautiful body with restricted power and placed his soul within it. 

The seal could also cause people to have blasphemous thoughts towards the beauty of the Phoenix. When his body was mature enough to sustain power, the demons then controlled the trajectory of fate and attracted evil person to his side, harming and violating this body, causing pain and hatred to emerge in his spirit.

It would take a strong world power to lift the seal.

The more the Phoenix god hated the world, the more the world rejected the Phoenix god.

And so, he could not wake up, could not control the world, and could not use the power of the world. 

This was a very simple and very shameless method.

At first, none of the gods thought that this was a major problem. Although this kind of thing was disgusting, gods all had formidable wills and wouldn’t be affected by this kind of damage. Moreover, the small worlds was also the home turf of the Phoenix god which made it even easier…… Therefore, they all believed that the powerful Phoenix would soon awaken, see through his false body, expel the demons, and return once again.

But the gods were wrong.
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The World Tree gradually began to wither. After the world-fruits started being contaminated one after another, they realized that the perfect Phoenix god had weaknesses. 

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His nobleness, his perfection, his earnestness, his intelligence, and his strength; all these were his virtues.

The demons turned all these advantages into sharp swords that pierced him.

The Phoenix god could endure any physical and mental torture, but he could not endure the shame of being defiled. His perfection, which he was extremely proud of was stained with small dashes of filth, like ink dots falling on white paper. He struggled desperately, trying to rid himself of it. But the ink dots expanded, they grew bigger and became even more conspicuous. 

He utterly detested the world and he was, in turn, rejected by the world. The demons took control of even more worlds and inflicted even more tragic torture. However, he could not get any help from any world. He was constantly deceived by fate. He grew to hate the world even more and finally, he lost himself. He was unwilling to see the truth.

This was an endless loop.

Through repeated cycles of reincarnation, the Phoenix fell completely into the mud. He was unable to break free. His power became nourishment for the demon to nurture the hellish worlds. Originally normal worlds turned into paradises for demons one after another. They rotted and were taken away.

The gods were anxious and furious. 

They tried to invade the small world to awaken the Phoenix god.

However, the magic artifact of destiny had already fallen under the control of the demons. To invade into the small world to rescue the Phoenix, it was necessary to pretend to be a human tasker and use the process of accepting the task to find the Phoenix god.

When the demons sensed their movements, they set a trap. They sealed off the mana and memory of the taskers, and handed them all kinds of strange rescue missions. If they failed, they would receive severe punishment.

All gods had innate talents and abilities and even within they cycle of reincarnations, they were much better than ordinary people. 

The Celestial Emperor branded the mark to rescue the Phoenix god in their soul, reminding them not to lose their way after entering the world.

One by one, loyal, brave, and clever gods entered the small world, trying to awaken the Phoenix god.

The demons targeted their weaknesses, opening tragic destinies for each and every one of them. The demons repeatedly tortured them, using countless false clues to lead them in the wrong direction.

For example, they gave a strong-willed general a reviled identity and a hideous appearance. They made him live forever under eyes filled with contempt and pain. It gave birth to hatred and indignation, deceiving his sight. The loyal and kind-hearted maid, they deprived of all happiness, misleading her through means of endless sadness, having her meet countless pitiful humans in need of help. In the midst of her constant mercy and life-saving, she finally forgot about the Phoenix god. As for those who once admired the spirit of the Phoenix god, they created extremely similar perfect counterfeits. The demons arranged a variety of romances that fit their tastes perfectly. The demons made them develop desire for the fakes. They indulged in love and lived happy lives. They could no longer see the true and now imperfect Phoenix who was being tortured to his last breath… 

The failure of one tasker after another brought even worse consequences.

The heart of the Phoenix god became sensitive and overly-suspicious. His personality became more and more extreme. He became more and more pathological. No matter who got close to him, so long as they harbored any other purpose, if they had even the slightest trace of desire towards him, or had the slightest trace of disloyalty, they would be met with a crazed attack. He would not hesitate dying to resist.

If taskers could not accomplish their missions, they would be unable to leave the small world.

The taskers could not obtain the trust of the Phoenix god. 

Most of the gods gave up the rescue after a few attempts. They completed the mission issued by the magic artifact and returned. A few who had very deep friendships with the Phoenix and wanted to contend against the demons, such as the guardian god of the demon border, General An Long, lost themselves in the endless failures. They lost their qualifications as taskers and their spirits fell into the cycles of reincarnation along with the Phoenix. The dragon was taken away and turned into a pawn used by the demons to torture the Phoenix.

The Celestial Emperor finally realized that this was an impossible task…

The small worlds were taken away one by one.

The entire divine realm was driven into a state of powerlessness. 

The petition submitted by Qingshi Shenjun to undertake the mission was something that none of the gods expected.

No matter how the Celestial Emperor racked his brains, he couldn’t think of how the Phoenix god and Qingshi Shenjun developed a friendship so deep that Qingshi Shenjun was willing to enter the mission world and try to save him even after all the gods have failed.

Qingshi Shenjun’s ascension had been an unexpected event and a coincidence for the divine realm.

His original body had been that of a white stone that was refined with the Red Lotus Fire by the Celestial Emperor hundreds of millions of years ago. It was placed on Mt. Song and used to suppress the flames of the underworld. Many years passed and no one remembered this stone. Who knew that this stone, because it had been suppressing the underworld flames for so many years, saving billions of lives, had accumulating immeasurable merit, leading it to suddenly ascend? 

When the Celestial Emperor saw that the stone he had refined had ascended to immortality, he was stupefied…

He tried to say a few polite words to ease the atmosphere. He then found that although this stone had assumed a human form, his heart was still a stone. It didn’t beat and it couldn’t feel ridicule, contempt, hatred, like, admiration…

The Celestial Emperor offered a lot of polite and intimate greetings but the stone simply looked blankly at him. The stone couldn’t understand anything. He also couldn’t speak.


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The scene was a bit awkward… 

The Celestial Emperor casually gave him a name — Song Qingshi. The god in charge of writing destiny misunderstood the Celestial Emperor’s intention and thus, he became Song Qingshi.  The Celestial Emperor looked at this name and thought that it was also good, so he made do with it. He then, with sincere words and earnest wishes, taught the newly-ascended Qingshi Shenjun.  He taught him to consult books on things he didn’t understand; once he’s read enough books, there wouldn’t be anything he didn’t understand.

He expended a lot of effort and finally, he got Qingshi Shenjun to understand words and language. He also got him to understand the importance of learning.

Because Qingshi Shenjun was unable to adapt to and integrate into the lives of the gods, a lot of problems cropped up. The Celestial Emperor pondered the matter. Whatever the case, this was the stone that he had refined. He had to bear responsibility. And so, he found a small courtyard high up in the clouds and here, he had Qingshi Shenjun stay. The Celestial Emperor sent people to teach him words and then gave him a lot of books, so that he could study them well. Once he has learned a bit more, then he can come and meet others.

As a result, Qingshi Shenjun stayed in the courtyard. He ran headlong into reading and never came out again. 

The messenger god came to report that he was reading and studying every day. He would occasionally sit by the window and watch the clouds. He didn’t want to attend any of the gods’ gatherings and he refused to talk to anyone.

This dull and tedious sort of life persisted for tens of thousands of years…

At first, the gods still met to discuss this silly stone, but as time went on, they forgot.

The Celestial Emperor saw that Qingshi Shenjun showed no signs of improving. He also didn’t understand loneliness and didn’t care at all about living alone. And so, he gave up on taking care of him. Every year, he simply remembered to give him more books when it came time to bestow rewards. This was the extent of consideration that the Celestial Emperor showed to him. 

After news of the Phoenix god’s mishap spread…

Qingshi Shenjun walked out of the small courtyard for the first time. He came to the temple, and asked to enter the mission world.

Even the powerful gods have failed. What can this stone that can’t even speak do?

However, Qingshi Shenjun was extremely stubborn and he simply couldn’t understand rejection or mockery. 

Who could depress a piece of hard rock?

The Celestial Emperor tried to persuade him until his heart grew weary. He suddenly had a thought. Qingshi Shenjun had been nothing but a stone who relied on merit to ascend. His luck must be astounding. Moreover, he and the Phoenix god had no emotional entanglements, no desires. He didn’t understand the seven emotions and the six sensory pleasures. He understood messy love affairs even less. Perhaps he would not fall into the demons’ traps. The Phoenix god had a hobby of collecting beautiful stones. Maybe this foolish stone would have a fool’s luck and succeed?

In any case, everyone has already failed. What was one more failure? If he runs into Nanshan, then he’ll just come back…

The Celestial Emperor, as though giving medicine to a dead horse, sent Qingshi Shenjun into the small world and asked him to try and rescue the Phoenix god. 

……

His soul recovered and his divine powers returned.

All Yue Wuhuan’s memories returned to his sea of consciousness. He remembered that in all of his many reincarnations of despair, he saw that figure that tried to enter again and again and failed again and again… During the first dozens of reincarnations, this figure walked unsteadily on his feet. He didn’t understand human emotions; he couldn’t speak. He met with obstacle after obstacle. To say nothing of completing the mission or getting to Yue Wuhuan, this figure would die even on the way to approaching Yue Wuhuan.

But, he didn’t give up. No matter how painful the fall, he would always come back. 

He persistently found one problem after another in his failures. He tried to compare and contrast the feelings described in the books with the feelings of human beings. He clumsily imitated and expressed. Finally, through a combination sheer persistence and his pure thoughts that were free from any demand or desire, he drew near to the sensitive and suspicious Phoenix.  He gave everything and so the Phoenix gradually surrendered his trust and surrendered his heart.

Humanity’s seven emotions and six sensory pleasures constantly polished this stone.

He, in different worlds, had read countless books, had tried different kinds of warmth, had seen all kinds of human life in various forms, had experienced all kinds of pain. He gradually understood what it was to weep, to smile. He understood what it was to be heart-broken and to be indignant; to be distressed and to be happy. He became animated.

In the end, the stone understood emotions, allowing the Phoenix to find his true self. 

……

Freed from imprisonment, his power returned, and the World Tree radiated with vitality.

The most dazzling Phoenix was reborn. With his nine golden red tail feathers of flame, he flew into the dimming sky, rushing towards the gate to hell.

Pure and holy light broke through the darkness and thoroughly cleansed this world defiled by the demons. 

All the filthy things were banished and foul air was purified. Amidst the unwilling roar of the demons, the gates to hell were closed forever.

The lightning stopped, the thunder ceased. The sky began to let out a continuous drizzle of rain. The cracked ground closed up. The dried riverbeds re-emerged. The trees split by lightning sprouted green shoots. The mountain flowers bloomed, letting out their sweet fragrance. The birds no longer fled and instead, turned to look for materials to build their nests. Animals hiding in nooks and crannies poked out their heads, carefully returning to their original homes.

The whole world was changing into a different life.

The demonized patients woke up amidst the rainfall. They were surprised to find that the black streaks on their bodies were disappearing little by little. A cry like heavenly music could be heard from the sky. When they raised their heads, it was a Phoenix flying by.  That pure and flawless beauty made them forget all about the war. They forgot the sorrow, the hatred, the killing… 

The horror shrouding their hearts disappeared and the constantly welling up dark desires faded away.

Looking back on what they’d done these past days, they felt so foolish.

……

Lingxin City’s city lord realized that the demonization disease was disappearing. He immediately stopped the fight. For the time being, he couldn’t attend to pondering this matter with Heaven Martial Sect. He left the matter of apologies and compensations to be resolved at a later date. 

He took the cultivators of Lingxin City and hurried back home at the fastest speed. In the courtyard of Lingxin City, he saw his beautiful and gentle daughter, just as usual, holding spirit tea and sweet-smelling fruit. She smiling at him, “Daddy, you’ve worked hard…”

It is said that real mean do not easily cry.

The city lord of Lingxin City held his darling daughter — his daughter who was lost and now, was regained — and cried his heart out.

…… 

On Xian Ling Island, Lady Nian lay on the grass, Duo Duo’s hand in hers, quietly waiting for the arrival of death.

Suddenly, Duo Duo pointed to the sky and exclaimed, “Look, what a beautiful bird!”

Lady Nian opened her eyes. She saw the phoenix dancing in the clouds. And then, the dark clouds gradually dispersed. Rays of gentle sunlight fell onto the earth, becoming more and more dazzling. After the Phoenix flew away, she woke up from this beautiful sight. All of a sudden, she felt her body relax. The black markings on Duo Duo’s face disappeared…

Behind them came the cheers of the female cultivators. 

“We survived.”

“Xian Ling Island has survived.”

……

The Phoenix flew over every corner of the world, and cheers erupted everywhere he went. 

All the demonic energy was banished.

Finally, the Phoenix then flew back to the Inextinguishable Peak.

Song Qingshi sat slantingly on a huge boulder, leaning against a giant pine. The Life Artifact in his body had already disintegrated. His dantian was destroyed. He had already exhausted all the power of his merits. His life was almost reaching its limit. His face was pale. His body didn’t even have the strength to stand. But he was still very happy in his heart…

The Phoenix landed and assumed his human form. The Phoenix’s eyes carried dignity, a nobility that tolerated no profanity. This was the god of the world, and all must bow their heads before him. 

He walked up step by step to Song Qingshi. With utmost sincerity, he looked into the clearest eyes in the world.

Song Qingshi raised his head and smiled, “Welcome back.”

Yue Wuhuan said softly, “Thank you, for never giving up.”

…… 

The world has been restored and the World Tree was brimming with vitality.

Yue Wuhuan raised his hand. He gathered together into his hand all of the millions upon millions of merits produced on the World Tree. He integrated them into Song Qingshi’s body, repairing his weak spirit for him. Afterwards, he re-amended the trajectory of the world’s destiny, allowing the little sphere that claimed to be the system to be reborn; this time without any of the filthiness within.

It cheerfully bounced about, making a ‘di-di-di’ sound. It proclaimed:

“Tasker Song Qingshi has successfully rescued the protagonist shou, Bai Zihao.  The 1,350th mission is successful.” 

“Tasker Song Qingshi has successfully rescued the protagonist shou, Bai Zihao.  The 1,350th mission is successful.”

“Breaking away from the world…”

Amidst the golden radiance, Song Qingshi’s body turned into countless beads of light and then disappeared into the sky.

The Phoenix spread his wings once again and chased after him. 

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