Chapter 1115: The Unique Me (First Update!)
Boom—
One celestial palace after another collapsed, and the Lingxiao Treasure Hall behind Kinh Bách Xuyên also crumbled and fell apart. Kinh Bách Xuyên reached out his hand, seemingly wanting to stop the collapse of the celestial palace he had painstakingly cultivated, but his body fell along with the destroyed palace.
In the end, all the celestial palaces vanished, transforming into spiritual energy and spiritual power between heaven and earth, leaving only Kinh Bách Xuyên's corpse lying prone in the ruins of Vân La Palace.
Tần Mục walked forward, helping up Dư Sơ Độ who was lying in the dust, and said in a deep voice: "Yên Nhi, don't leave any survivors, and don't leave their souls either. I don't want Thiên Tôn Hạo to trace this back to me."
At his command, Yên Nhi grew excited, her body shifted and transformed into a Long Tước, pouncing toward those four powerful beings at the Ngọc Kinh realm, while Long Kỳ Lân leaped onto the great ship, charging at the gods and demons on board.
Dư Sơ Độ was gasping for breath, unable to stand, so he could only sit on the ground and bow to Tần Mục: "Thank you, Senior Mục Thiên Tôn..."
Tần Mục smiled: "Just call me sư thúc."
"Sư thúc..." Dư Sơ Độ was startled and uncertain.
Tần Mục smiled slightly, about to speak, when suddenly a woman's voice came from behind him, extremely pleasant to the ear, yet it said softly: "Mục Thiên Tôn, you killed Thiên Tôn Hạo's disciple. Aren't you afraid of death?"
"Then why didn't the Thiên Sư stop me?"
Tần Mục turned around, looking at Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh standing not far away, and smiled: "Thước Phi Ân, long time no see. That jade pendant, is it still hanging on your nguyên thần?"
Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh was dressed in white, different from the red robes she liked to wear in her previous life. Her figure was graceful and enchanting, like white mutton fat jade, her skin as tender as fine jade.
Her expression was complicated as she met Tần Mục's gaze. She raised her hand, then lowered it again, her heart tangled with conflict.
"Mục Thiên Tôn, I am the Third Thiên Sư of the Heavenly Court. By all rights, I should arrest you and bring you to justice, but you are also my lifesaver. If not for that jade pendant of yours, I might still be an ignorant girl, killed over and over again by Âm Thiên Tử."
Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh sighed, her breath fragrant as orchid, and said: "I distinguish between gratitude and grudges. This time, I won't pursue the matter, as if it never happened. I can even cover for you in front of Thiên Tôn Hạo. Mục Thiên Tôn, let us part ways..."
She turned to leave, but Tần Mục smiled: "Thước Phi Ân, do you still remember your master?"
Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh's body trembled slightly, and she stopped in her tracks.
Tần Mục continued: "Don't you want to know the mystery of your origins? Don't you want to know why Âm Thiên Tử killed you again and again, and let you reincarnate each time? That Chu Tước lông vũ, hasn't it reminded you of something?"
Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh took out the Chu Tước feather, staring blankly at the sacred fire of Chu Tước.
Tần Mục's vertical eye on his forehead opened wide, and deep within his pupils, the ancient dao runes on the egg of Thiên Đế Thái Sơ lit up one by one, converging into his line of sight. The Tần Tự continent trembled, and the U Đô great dao stirred up ripples, surging toward the Thái Sơ nguyên thạch at the center of the continent.
The nguyên thạch converged the Thái Sơ chi đạo and the U Đô great dao, and the power of his third divine eye gradually increased.
Tần Mục used his vertical eye to look at Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh, and immediately saw the legendary life experience of this Nữ Đế.
From Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh's birth, to her becoming a thần thông giả, to becoming a thần kỳ, avoiding death time and time again, evading Âm Thiên Tử's schemes, to her becoming famous throughout the world in the Khai Hoàng era and scheming against Âm Thiên Tử.
Tần Mục's gaze grew deeper, seeing her previous life, her life before that, tracing back through her deaths again and again.
Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh stood there, then suddenly tossed aside the Chu Tước feather in her hand, turned around and smiled: "Mục Thiên Tôn, I don't want to know. I am me, the unique me! In this world, there is only one Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh!"
Her hair flowed freely, cutting off Tần Mục's line of sight, and she turned and left, graceful and carefree.
Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh arrived before the Linh Năng đối thiên kiều, and looked back with a smile: "Mục Thiên Tôn, I am not Nam Đế! If you want to make me into Nam Đế, then you are my enemy!"
She pressed her palm onto the altar of the Linh Năng đối thiên kiều, stepping into the light: "Mục Thiên Tôn, Thiên Tôn Hạo has lost his disciple, and Bạch Đế has lost his beloved general. They will surely come to investigate. I'll buy you some time. You should leave now."
Her figure vanished, and the Linh Năng đối thiên kiều collapsed with a thunderous roar!
"What a clever woman, a clever woman..."
Tần Mục looked at the collapsed altar, murmuring: "Should I awaken her, make her become Nam Đế Chu Tước, or not awaken her, and let her remain Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh?"
He picked up the Chu Tước feather and examined it for a long time.
Behind him, Yên Nhi had killed the four experts at the Ngọc Kinh realm and immediately helped Long Kỳ Lân slaughter the gods and demons under Bạch Đế's command on the great ship.
Tần Mục looked at the Chu Tước feather, thinking to himself: "Awakening Nam Đế's divine soul would be equivalent to killing Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh. But isn't Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh just Nam Đế? Even if Nam Đế Chu Tước is awakened, Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh's memories won't disappear—they'll become part of Nam Đế's memories from her long years..."
Yên Nhi flew over, chattering: "Young master, everything is done! Where's my mother?"
Tần Mục handed her the Chu Tước feather and said: "Yên Nhi, your mother doesn't want to become Nam Đế. She's too clever—she guessed from my words that she is Nam Đế's reincarnation, but she thinks it's better to be Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh, or rather Thước Phi Ân. She feels that if she awakens Nam Đế's memories, that would be the death of Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh or Thước Phi Ân."
Yên Nhi was somewhat confused, murmuring: "But... Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh, Thước Phi Ân, Nam Đế Chu Tước—aren't they all her?"
Tần Mục put away the Thiên Long bảo liễn, treating Dư Sơ Độ's broken bones, and said: "Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh has already destroyed the Linh Năng đối thiên kiều. She did this both to delay Thiên Tôn Hạo or Bạch Đế from arriving here, and also because she doesn't want us to return to the Heavenly Court. She's even more worried that I might make her die once more to revive Nam Đế's soul."
Yên Nhi was still confused and puzzled, murmuring: "But those are all herself..."
Tần Mục couldn't help but think of himself and Tần Phượng Thanh. His experience was very similar to Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh's.
Back then, Tần Mục had always believed that he was himself, unique in the world. But in the end, he was merely the second consciousness born within Tần Phượng Thanh's physical body.
He was just an accidentally produced consciousness—not only was his physical body not his own, but his soul wasn't his own either.
All he had was his consciousness.
Later, Tần Mục gouged out his eyes and was reborn. Only after that did he have his own soul.
Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh's experience was so similar to his! In fact, Bạch Ngọc Quỳnh had it even worse—she had reincarnated nearly two hundred times, always racking her brains to survive, forcing herself to become smarter.
Making her accept that she wasn't herself, that she was merely the reincarnated soul of Nam Đế—naturally, she could hardly accept that.
"Dư Sơ Độ sư điệt, can you walk now?" Tần Mục asked with a smile after finishing his treatment.
Dư Sơ Độ stood up, moved around a bit, and found that his physical injuries had healed, though the wounds on his nguyên thần had not yet closed. Tần Mục's Tạo Hóa công could heal the physical body, but healing injuries to the nguyên thần was somewhat lacking.
"I can walk now. Sư thúc..."
Dư Sơ Độ hesitated, studying Tần Mục, and said: "I've never heard my master mention that he has a sư thúc..."
"You have two sư thúc. I'll tell you about it slowly in the future."
Tần Mục flicked his finger, and the few old gods guarding Vân La Palace fell into a deep sleep. Their memories were also altered by him, erasing any recollection of seeing Tần Mục and the others. He smiled: "Let's go. The Thiên Long bảo liễu can't be used anymore—riding it would definitely leave traces, and if someone saw it, Thiên Tôn Hạo would know it was me who killed his disciple. Dư sư điệt, do you know of a shortcut to leave here and quickly return to the Heavenly Court?"
"To answer sư thúc, the nearest route is from the Central Thần Châu among the nine provinces, taking the Bạch Thổ road in Ký Châu. There's a Linh Năng đối thiên kiều there that leads to Bạch Đế's celestial palace. If we were to travel through the starry sky, it would probably take fifty or sixty years to reach the Heavenly Court."