pjbooks Chapter 190 Metamorphosis
Chapter 190 Metamorphosis
"puff!"
His stomach churned, he coughed up a mouthful of blood, the Nine Nether Glazed Fire in his hand went out, and everything vanished into thin air.
Liu Jun slowly opened his eyes, the redness in his eyes completely disappeared, and his vision gradually became clear.
"Done?"
A very rough middle-aged man's voice came from the side. Liu Jun looked in the direction of the voice for a moment, then lowered his eyes and looked at the pool of blood on the ground.
"...Yes, it's done."
After saying that, he clapped his hands and was about to stand up, but his vision quickly went from bright to dark and he could see nothing in the blink of an eye.
Liu Junmu paused for a moment, then made a hand seal and struck the sky, saying, "Take me back to Qiwu Peak..."
Before the words were even finished, the person collapsed, leaving only a bewildered little snake standing there.
The little snake quickly swam to her side and nudged the half-dead Liu Jun with its head, saying with obvious disgust, "Damn, are you going to die again?!"
"Smell... Hmm? Something's not right about this scent."
"Tsk, never mind, what a troublesome woman!"
The snake instantly grew several times larger, picked up the unconscious Liu Jun, and flew away. After it flew out of the restriction array, the temporarily cracked gap in the array closed up again, as if nothing had happened.
……
(Do you want to know the truth? It's very interesting!)
What exactly happened that day?
(You should know that everything comes at a price; if you want to know the truth, you have to pay the price.)
"Besides this life, I have nothing left to lose."
(No, no, no, you still have...)
Liu Jun suddenly opened his eyes, panting heavily. He saw the familiar rooftop before him, but the images in his mind still lingered.
Humans, demons, and monsters fought each other, leaving behind only lamentations. Lu Xihan attained enlightenment and ascended to heaven, absorbing all the life force and spiritual energy of the world. In an instant, this world turned into thousands of scorched earth, and all the conflicts became meaningless.
Before long, all living beings perished, and the world was completely turned into a dead land.
However, this is not the ending of that novel, but merely the conclusion of the heroine's journey to immortality. It was only tens of thousands of years later that the heroine happened to remember it and casually restored the vitality of this world.
However, the world they once existed in was ultimately destroyed, and the creatures that regenerated and lived on it were not the original things at all.
The mercy of gods and immortals is always so cruel.
Liu Jun stared blankly at the ceiling for a long time before finally sitting up and getting out of bed. He then raised his hand and looked at it repeatedly. With a thought, a cluster of white flames tinged with blue condensed in his hand.
Liu Jun stared at it silently for a while, then withdrew his hand. The flame went out, and when he opened it again, the flame was even bigger than before. He tried this several times before he realized that the fire seemed to be more obedient than before, as obedient as... his natal fire.
After putting away the fire, Liu Jun glanced inward at his sea of consciousness as if by divine inspiration. The "golden core" he had left behind was nowhere to be found. But Liu Jun felt that not only was it gone, but there was also something else he hadn't had time to see that was missing.
And... "myself" also felt strange.
The fragmentation of memories—vague, clear, reasonable, and unreasonable—is a complex interplay of polarization and fusion in cognition.
"What's wrong with me?"
"What's wrong with me?"
"squeak"
The door to the room was suddenly pushed open, and a snake as tall as a person slithered in, carrying something in its mouth. Seeing that she was awake, it quickly spat out what it was holding.
"Hey, you're awake. Thanks to all the trouble I've been taking care of you, remember to pay me back."
Liu Jun stared at it, feeling a little strange: "You...you, little snake, oh, it's a little snake, did you bring me back?"
The little snake gave a disdainful glance: "Otherwise what? Didn't you ask me to bring you back? Did you sleep too long?"
Liu Jun patted his forehead to clear his head: "I slept too long and got a little confused. Damn it! Why did you pull out my Linglongfu? You wasteful thing!"
Liu Jun picked up the herbs that the little snake had spat out and gave it a good scolding.
The little snake immediately got angry: "How can I save your life if I don't pull it out! You're like a dead person when you sleep, barely breathing, so of course I have to find something to keep you alive! Bah, you're ungrateful!"
Liu Jun was taken aback, holding the things in his hands with great confusion: "Am I this scary when I'm asleep?"
"Don't you know what kind of person you are?!"
The little snake twisted its head and began counting the little people in the shadows again.
"Alright, I know you mean well. This time, there will be plenty of spirit stones and demon cores."
The little snake turned its head back, but still puffed out in anger, and replied reluctantly, "At least you have a conscience..."
He put the items back into his storage ring and then asked, "By the way, how many days did it take me to refine that evil energy, and how many days did I sleep?"
"I don't know. It got dark four times in that awful place, but it's been dark more than thirty times here."
It's only been four days? How come it feels like decades have passed for her, while here it feels like she's only slept for a day or two?
"Never mind, the evil energy has been refined, and the Fallen God Abyss should be safe for the next thousand years."
Liu Jun stepped outside. The daylight was just right, but perhaps because he had slept for a while, he felt the sun was a bit too bright and hot. However, Liu Jun liked this feeling, as if he had been locked up for a long time and then released. He didn't know why he felt this way.
"By the way, I feel like I'm about to undergo my next transformation, so I want to go back to Shitan Forest."
The little snake's tone was very serious; I've never seen it so earnest in a long time.
Shitan Forest is the forest adjacent to Sunset City, and it's also the place where it was originally subdued.
Liu Jun glanced at the two bulges on the little snake's head, which had grown much longer since the last snake transformation and looked like they were about to turn into sharp horns.
All the food I've fed it over the years hasn't been for nothing; this is the first time it's made this request.
Liu Jun stopped teasing it: "Alright, I'll send you there in a couple of days once I've adjusted. I can also revisit this place."
Sunset City was the first place she visited after arriving in this world. The continent of Yuanzhou is vast, and even now she has only explored a very small part of it.
Maybe one day she'll feel like going out for a walk and see the sights of the world, but... she's thinking about going out whenever she wants to see the scenery, not a trip before her death.
Before I knew it, I had walked to the edge of the cliff under the sunlight.
The trees on the cliff are lush and green. Sunlight filters through the dense leaves, casting dappled patterns on the ground. The wind blows across the cliff, rustling the leaves and creating a beautiful, shimmering effect, like stars in the sky.
Liu Jun raised his hand and stroked the trunk of the tree, looking up at the ancient and lush Floating Tree, and murmured, "Old friend, please wait a little longer, just a little longer, it will be soon..."
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"Come and take a look! Top-quality array stones and talismans are on sale at a low price."
"We're selling spirit beasts! They fly in the sky, walk on land, and swim in the sea!"
"Practicing medicine and divination, calculating heavenly secrets and human affairs, the six spiritual stones have cast a divination."
Sunset City remains as lively as ever. Even without Little Snake, the former troublesome leader of the demon tide, the beast tides in Sunset City have not diminished; in fact, they have become more frequent.
What used to happen once every ten years has now become once every seven or eight years, and in some cases even once every two or three years, with no fixed timing.
Liu Jun also asked the little snake about this matter. The little snake replied, "I don't know either. I only know that there is something in this city that makes a sound that only we can hear. As soon as that sound is heard, we can't help but go crazy and want to smash that thing. This city just happens to block our way."
"Then why have the demon tides come more and more frequently since you left?"
"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?!"
Liu Jun said awkwardly, "Oh, that's true..."
"Humph!"
"What are you humming about? If it weren't for me, you might have become a dead soul under some cultivator's body long ago, or you would have been forced to do dirty work, fight, or be beaten to death or maimed. You wouldn't be living such a peaceful life now."
Liu Jun slapped at the snake, but it easily dodged the blow.
"Do you really think you can be the mountain king for long? Let alone me, even if a random Nascent Soul cultivator from the Twilight Cang Sect came down, you probably wouldn't even have a scratch left."
"...Tch, you think I wanted to do that? It's just that that damn thing is disturbing the peace of us beasts. Otherwise, who would want to give up a perfectly good life to come and die?"