NOVGO.NET Chapter 499: Ch 499 - I’ve Been Waiting for Him Through Countless Cycles
Chapter 499: Ch 499 – I’ve Been Waiting for Him Through Countless Cycles
“If you ask me, these cultists deliberately mobilized their forces to provoke us.”
Atop Liuli Sect’s city gates, Yino spoke coolly, making his assessment of Divine Abyss Gate’s outrageous maneuver.
At his words, the girl beside him raised her eyebrows in surprise.
“How do you know?”
“Because if this were purely about the holy maiden, starting a war wouldn’t serve Divine Abyss Gate’s interests. Liuli Sect is also a righteous sect with deep foundations. The more aggressive and ostentatious Divine Abyss Gate acts, the more Liuli Sect, concerned about their reputation, cannot possibly yield to violence and hand over their own disciple.”
As he spoke, Yino seemed to suddenly realize something, his cold eyes slowly widening as he stared at the Divine Abyss Gate Crown Prince.
The girl turned back, thoughtful. “So you’re saying Divine Abyss Gate deliberately doesn’t want to give Liuli Sect a way out… they actually want to provoke Liuli Sect into a fight?”
“Otherwise, how else would you explain Divine Abyss Gate’s constant provocations?”
“That makes sense…”
The girl listened intently, her phoenix eyes beneath the mask growing more worried.
Just as the two great sects remained at an impasse before Liuli Sect’s gates, the leading ancestor standing at the forefront of Divine Abyss Gate’s disciples finally lost patience.
“Since Liuli Sect shows no benevolence, don’t blame Divine Abyss Gate for showing no righteousness!”
The old man first cursed symbolically.
After that, Yino could clearly notice the old man’s lips curling upward as he ostentatiously formed hand seals, suddenly unleashing the extraordinary realm of Tribulation Crossing stage from within his body.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!
A pitch-black six-pointed star formation spread across the heavens and earth of Liuli Sect, centered on the Divine Abyss Gate ancestor.
In an instant, ancient aura from the Demon Abyss roared forth behind the ancestor.
“That ancient dragon with a sword in its mouth again…”
In this situation, with the evil dragon emerging, Yino couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow with PTSD.
He recalled the last time at Liuli Divine Palace when he’d competed with Wen Ruxiu, despite maximizing every detail, he’d still been overturned by that ancient dragon and trampled underfoot in humiliating defeat.
Don’t panic…
Just treat it like a cutscene, go through the motions.
Bathed in the shadow of the black-gold evil dragon soaring skyward, Yino tried to calm the instinctive fear deep in his heart.
However, when the childhood friend standing behind him fearfully reached out her small hand to grasp Yino’s, this self-consolation was instantly shattered.
Right… the illusion might be fake, but Ruoning is real.
If Divine Abyss Gate really captured her…
Forget it, better to just run.
Thinking this, Yino immediately panicked a bit.
Now that the Divine Abyss Gate ancestor had unleashed his killing move, what followed would be entirely a battle between the elders of both great sects. Even if Yino stayed here with all his treasures, he fundamentally couldn’t change the battlefield’s outcome.
Rather than sit and wait for death, better to just grab Ruoning and flee.
“That boy wants to run!”
“Ruxiu, take people and kill him!”
In the void formation between heaven and earth, the black-robed elder summoning the evil dragon narrowed his cold eyes, lips curling as he issued the command.
Under his command, Wen Ruxiu had long been eager to try.
“This disciple understands!”
Wen Ruxiu laughed coldly, raising his hand to summon the Nether Staff from the void. With just a flash, he instantly vanished from his original position.
“Ruxiu.”
“This place has many living beings; it’s the natural altar that Eastern Lord most favors!”
“Remember, we don’t have much time. After capturing the holy maiden, don’t waste words delaying matters. Kill Yino directly, then follow this old man’s scroll to immediately establish the altar and offer the holy maiden to the Eastern Lord!”
The elder’s instructions came one after another into the mortal realm.
Wen Ruxiu scratched his ear with some disdain.
“Alright, alright, you nag worse than my old man…”
He cursed under his breath, then gripped the Nether Staff tightly, gathering demonic energy toward Yino while his lips curled up.
“Brother Yino, last time I carelessly let you take my head.”
“This time, this young master will make you watch your beloved die in your arms!”
—
“Do you believe he can reverse fate?”
In the vast divine palace atop the Liuli Illusion Realm, with a gentle ethereal female voice from the void, the many beautiful figures dancing gracefully below the throne all stopped their steps.
On the throne, the shadowy male figure staring intently at the crystal ball couldn’t help but widen his eyes.
He looked up to see the beautiful dancing figures from the past dissipating strand by strand below the platform. Finally, even the blue-haired maids serving tea and feeding fruit on both sides of the throne transformed into shattered liuli fragments.
“Dia, would you rather trust a strange man trapped in an illusion who flees from battle, than trust my promises to you all these years?”
The shadow spoke flatly, his dim gaze fixed on the phantom butterfly remnant at the far end of the hall.
“Sigh… Am I really such a failure in your eyes…”
“Jingchen, it’s not too late to stop now. Everyone at Liuli Sect are still waiting for you to return.”
“Bullshit! Even you don’t believe in me! You’ve never believed in me! Yino absolutely cannot break the deadlock we faced back then! Just watch, I’ll ultimately kill Yino, then sacrifice Ruoning to the Demon Abyss, and use the Primordial Liuli Holy Body to revive you. Then I’ll personally bring you back to Liuli Sect to see Chaerin!”
The remnant cloaked in black smoke spoke with agitation.
He stood up, continuously walking toward the phantom butterfly girl’s remnant. He reached out trying to caress her face, but she dodged aside with a step.
[Stop being so obsessed, look at yourself now!]
She reached out and steeled herself to slap him.
But because she was a spirit body, her hand merely passed through the man’s face in empty space.
[I… I… just…]
[Hopes you can live well…]
“But without you, what meaning is there for me to linger alone in this world?”
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Jinglan Peak.
At dawn’s first light, the chess game between the two women was finally nearing its end.
A breeze passed, and the phoenix-faced woman gently brushed aside the gradient white hair from her face, lifting her gaze to the sunrise clouds over Liuli Sect’s back mountain.
“I just heard the sound of shattering.”
“It seems the final act of the Liuli Illusion Realm is about to fall.”
“Chaerin, who do you think will emerge from the Liuli Illusion Realm in the end?”
The crimson beauty rested her chin on her hand, gazing at the reddening clouds as she spoke lightly.
Across the table, Ye Chaerin gently clenched her hands on her skirt, her expression revealing some pain she didn’t want to face.
She closed her eyes, saying with some difficulty: “Since you just said you’re Yino’s guardian, then fate will surely favor Yino and Ruoning.”
“That’s rather mystical of you. I remains in the present world, how could I intervene in the Liuli Illusion Realm’s course?”
The phoenix-faced woman smiled meaningfully, as if thinking of something, her brows full of anticipation waiting for Ye Chaerin to guess.
Looking at her, Chaerin felt her mind go completely blank.
She now somewhat understood the torture and pain of interrogating Yino through the night back then… At that time, Yino probably felt just like she did now.
Completely unable to read the other’s thoughts, just being questioned internally by riddle after riddle.
“Chaerin doesn’t understand.”
“You should know that the Liuli Illusion Realm is essentially Jingchen’s inner world. Its layers are every stage that Jingchen and Dia walked through back then.”
The phoenix-faced woman raised a crimson finger before her, continuing to explain with interest.
Across from her, the green-skirted woman raised her eyebrows slightly. Though she didn’t understand, she still listened obediently and attentively.
“So…”
“When Yino reaches the final layer of the illusion, he will inevitably encounter me from that year on that year’s battlefield.”
“And because of that characteristic Yino carries, that destiny which cannot be predicted by divination…”
“At that time, in the final stage, I will inevitably discover the anomaly and intervene to help him.”
“Thus, no matter how much Jingchen sets the ending in stone, as long as Yino can receive my help, he will surely break the deadlock from back then!”
By the end, Changli couldn’t help but smile confidently.
In this moment, she spoke with some excitement, no longer having the usual seriousness of being the National Advisor, but rather like a child sharing her little scheme with a friend and feeling pleased with herself.
Ye Chaerin looked at her, her tightly furrowed brow suddenly clearing.
“But… how can you be sure that you from a hundred years ago will recognize him?”
“Because, you see, he is this world’s only unobservable special variable…”
So special that I have been waiting for him through countless cycles, no matter which timeline, I could never mistake him.