CHAPTER 777: CHAPTER 733: DU SHUO MOUNTAIN YELLOW SPRINGS

If you ask me about the odds of defeating the Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs, I can confidently say it’s one hundred percent. Although completely killing it would require an unknown amount of troublesome effort, this creature, suspected to be Huang Quan, is entirely no match for me. It also attempts to attack me continuously, yet is utterly incapable of landing a hit. However, if I focus all my energy on it and don’t try to unravel the Temporal Storm, Zhu Shi on the other side will undoubtedly perish, and Fa Zheng is likely doomed as well.

The Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs just needs to stall me to fulfill its task.

I very much doubt whether this seemingly mindless monster is capable of distinguishing friend from foe. But amidst the phenomenon of space-time layering, it’s as if I’m now trapped in a beast’s cage. If it were just this, I might still spare some strength, but now I need to protect Mazao, so I’m forced to juggle both ends.

The distant Great Demon God Tu still emits a piercing sound that disturbs the mind, yet even though I’ve entered the Crown Form, I can’t further help Mazao block this influence. From the start, I was using the ultra-high-density flames from the Ash Weapon, and I have been using this power while trying to unravel the Temporal Storm.

"Huang Quan... teacher..." Mazao muttered with difficulty, "...are you still there?"

"Mazao?" I called out to her.

Although not entirely in the Great Impermanence Domain, Mazao seems to gradually recall some memories of the past, thanks to the Power of Return that far exceeds the limit of the Great Success Rank.

She gazed in the direction of the Du Shuo Mountain Yellow Springs, a mix of confusion and complexity in her eyes.

I felt an indescribable unease, afraid she would leave me.

"Zhuang Cheng... I’m okay." Mazao tightly held my arm, "I’m right here, right by your side. I’m not going anywhere."

Feeling her warmth, I calmed down again and then said, "Can I kill Huang Quan again now?"

Mazao slowly nodded.

"Do you know what’s going on with this Huang Quan? As far as I know, he should have been killed by me already, and I used True Spirit Power..." I said.

Despite the influence of the Great Demon God Tu preventing Mazao from focusing on utilizing the Power of Destiny Vortex, it did not deprive her of her ability to think and speak. After taking a few deep breaths, she said, "...I know... This monster is the teacher’s original form."

"Original form?" I asked.

"What you killed in the past should only be the teacher’s incarnation... However, in a sense, perhaps what you killed is truly the original form," Mazao said. "Like Ming Zhuo, the teacher was a Seeker of Naraku, a human god capable of communicating with Naraku’s Will, which is why he took Ming Zhuo, who had a similar talent, as a direct disciple in the past.

"But his talent wasn’t as strong as Ming Zhuo’s. In ancient times, he chose to integrate his soul with the Underworld to become a human god and further explore the path of death.

"Thus, he couldn’t leave the Underworld. Even when Gua Tianshi predicted a major disaster would occur in the Underworld, he could only choose to stay. After the Underworld had been forcibly transformed into the Doomsday Era form by Naraku Gospel, the teacher’s soul also spiraled out of control, falling into chaos and madness, becoming more monster-like by the day.

"To avoid a complete downfall, he transferred all his human rationality and wisdom to an incarnation, while the original form completely degraded into the form of a crazed monster.

"It seems now he even further modified his original form later, turning it into the carrier for the Du Shuo Mountain Teleportation Array..."

"I see..." Now, I finally understood.

I was puzzled as to why someone like Huang Quan, who is so afraid of death, would stay with the Evangelical Institute in the Underworld over a hundred years ago—he simply couldn’t leave. This explanation immediately convinced me.

True Spirit Power inherently has the property of killing the original form by killing the incarnation, but I cannot manifest it, only entirely kill the incarnation.

The fact that Huang Quan could come back to life repeatedly wasn’t because he had the overwhelming Undying Body power like Ming Zhuo, but because his original form was always alive. He likely exploited the condition where his original form was still alive, repeatedly summoning the "rational and intelligent incarnation."

However, even if it was just an incarnation, once killed by True Spirit Power, it was utterly dead. Just like the Doomsday Demon as Naraku Gospel’s incarnation would be completely sealed by True Spirit Power, Huang Quan’s human incarnation would be unsummonable.

On one hand, it’s just a block of chaotic flesh; on the other, it’s a clear self-awareness. Which is the original form might merely be a matter of interpretative perspective. The Huang Quan with whom I interacted and fought in the past may well be considered a different character from this massive fleshy mountain. Even True Spirit Power might acknowledge this point and deem it as an entirely deletable existence.

One could say that at that time, the true Huang Quan was already dead.

Moreover, I understood why after killing Huang Quan, I would hallucinate Evangelist Master Yan Mo atop Du Shuo Mountain. At that moment, Yan Mo was simply there, while I hallucinated seeing Du Shuo Mountain. Although I couldn’t imitate the property of True Spirit Power affecting the enemy’s original form, it might produce some insignificant tracking effect, and that phenomenon would be the result.

Regrettably, though many doubts were resolved, they are of little help to the current situation.

"Now is your chance to escape with my junior sister, Zhuang Cheng," Ming Zhuo once again attempted a verbal assault to weaken my resolve, "Abandon everything, turn and flee, find a place to hide, and you can at least live longer in the future; or better yet, defect and join us—it wouldn’t be an unwise choice for a smart person..."

He clearly knows that such a choice is impossible for me. However, merely hinting at such a possibility might distract me. Just as I know I must focus all my thoughts on how to defeat Shan Liangyi, yet sometimes extraneous thoughts and emotions still arise, preparing for the future after failure.

Nevertheless, Ming Zhuo is no Shan Liangyi. In reality, I’ve also identified the vulnerabilities I can exploit in him.