From the end of the world

Chapter 291: Silver Moon 1
The words of Ancient Moon God were like throwing a big stone into the lake of my heart, stirring up huge waves.

"Master Gua has come to Yueyin Mountain?" I asked.

"Yes." Ancient Moon God nodded.

"How did you know?" I asked.

"It's perception. Although Gua Tianshi came in a low-key manner, he didn't spend much effort to conceal his existence." She explained, "Plus, I have been living in Yueyin Mountain for a hundred years. This mountain has been imbued with my magic power, so once a 'giant' like Da Wuchang approaches, I can feel it at the first time.

"And what I can sense, Yin Yue can definitely sense as well. Yueyin Mountain is her place of origin. This place is not only special to me, but also to her."

I have also heard in the past that Yueyin Mountain was the birthplace of the Ancient Moon God a long, long time ago. It turns out that not only was the Ancient Moon God created by Yin Yue a hundred years ago born here, but also Yin Yue himself from a long time ago.

"Do you know what the purpose of the Gua Tianshi is?" I asked.

When I calmed down and thought about it, something seemed strange.

Assuming that Gua Tianshi arrived in the Yueyin Mountain area to save Dongche, why hasn't he made a move yet, leaving Dongche in this unpredictable place? It's also problematic to say that he thinks it's too late. He is the prophet Da Wuchang, and seizing the opportunity is his forte. How could it be so easy to become too late?

If he came here to destroy the terrifying demon Yin Yue, then his attitude of watching the fire from the other side of the river would be even more unreasonable. With the power of the Great Impermanence, it shouldn't be that difficult to wipe out Yin Yue hiding in Yueyin Mountain, let alone wipe out the entire Yueyin Mountain from the map.

Although I had previously had a fleeting suspicion that Gua Tianshi might have come to Yueyin Mountain, but now that Ancient Moon God had pointed it out to me in person, I began to doubt whether Gua Tianshi had actually not come to Yueyin Mountain.

On the other hand, this style of not taking the initiative to intervene in any situation, but just watching from the sidelines and maintaining a mysterious attitude, is quite consistent with the image of the Gua Tianshi that I have heard so far.

"I don't know. But..." Ancient Moon God hesitated, "Although this is just my intuition... Gua Tianshi may not be hostile to Yin Yue. Instead, he may let the situation develop and let Yin Yue return to its heyday."

Yin Yue is a great demon who is extremely skilled in mental illusions, and Ancient Moon God should be of the same kind. Their spiritual intuition should not be underestimated.

So I immediately had extremely bad expectations.

"You mean, Master Gua Tianshi might be on Yin Yue's side?" I asked.

"We cannot rule out this possibility. I have also thought about whether Gua Tianshi might just want to use the restored Yin Yue to do something... But if that is the case, he can completely control Yin Yue first, and then use his power and resources as the Great Impermanence to forcibly restore Yin Yue's power, and then achieve his own goals." Ancient Moon God said cautiously, "And now this attitude of watching from the sidelines even makes me feel that he is releasing his goodwill to Yin Yue."

This situation is really bad. In other words, in the worst case scenario, I may even have to fight against Gua Tianshi, the unfathomable Great Impermanence, at Yueyin Mountain. As for who will be the loser, at least I can hardly imagine that it will be Gua Tianshi.

Gua Tianshi's true intentions and specific powers are almost unknown to me, and it is useless to just guess randomly, so I can only return to the original topic: "Tell me about Dongche first... Was he originally a dead person like those villagers?"

Gu Yueshen shook his head slowly, then said, "No, he is the opposite of those villagers. In the past, he was alive."

"Originally?" I asked.

"Silver Moon's power to modify history cannot be used to resurrect the dead, but it can be used to kill the living. Although this power cannot be effective against transcendent beings such as Great Impermanence and Great Impermanence Qualified Beings, whose existence can distort the natural order of time and space, it is still easy to kill a mere Impermanence of the realm of perfection." She said, "Suppose she wants to kill a certain target now, she can modify history and make the target die three days ago.

"In other words, this is an attack from the 'present' on the 'past'; and by the same token, since the present her can kill the target in the past, then the future her can naturally kill the target in the present.

"According to my observation, the boy named Dong Che was not dead in the 'past' or 'present', but he may have died in the near future, and then this result affected him in the past and present in reverse along the timeline, causing him to fall into a state of death in advance." It is likely that the future Yin Yue ate the boy in order to better restore her strength. However, this phenomenon of 'premature death' should not be her intentional, but the effect of this fog itself. This fog has the property of making time and space ambiguous, and people who die in the fog will be automatically transformed into phantoms after death."

In this way, the mystery is solved.

What Dongche said was true, he was not replaced by a strange thing. The reason why he gave me the feeling of being a non-human thing was that he was not a living person, and also because his current existence was based on the power of the Silver Moon - so I even had the impression that "Dongche's nature as a strange thing is like the Silver Moon".

He was clearly dead, but he didn't know he was dead because he had never experienced death. His death happened in the future. Perhaps with his perception, he could have sensed the truth, but as an illusion formed by the power of the silver moon, he might have been born with a "setting" that prevented him from realizing his own death.

Is there any hope for him now?

"So..." I continued, "If Dongche leaves the fog, will he disappear?"

“Logically it will disappear, but since he has reached a state of enlightenment, he won’t disappear so quickly. Just like a block of sugar will dissolve quickly in hot water, but as long as the block is big enough, the speed of completely dissolving will slow down. There may be a wiggle room of about an hour. As long as we take him to find Gua Tianshi before time runs out, Gua Tianshi may be able to think of a way to solve this problem.” Ancient Moon God offered suggestions enthusiastically.

However, she may not know some information. Dongche was not transformed into a phantom form of death after entering the fog. Dongche has been like that since the first time I met him.

It was really cruel. His death was not even destined from the moment he stepped into the fog. He had died earlier because his future self would step into the fog. But from another perspective, he was not in the fog at that time, but he was able to exist normally in the outside world in the form of a phantom.

If Yin Yue, the summoner, dies, Dong Che will definitely die as well. On the other hand, as long as Yin Yue is alive, is there no limit to the time Dong Che can stay in the outside world?
This special attribute should not be possessed by the villagers of Gu Yue. What is the reason that makes the winter car so special? I am considering whether I should ask Gu Yue God directly. However, at this stage, I don't really want to reveal too much information to her that she doesn't know.

Besides, does she really not know these things?
She said that the evil history of the Ancient Moon God that the villagers knew was distorted by Silver Moon. Where was the evidence? She also said that she could only vaguely perceive the outside world, which was not necessarily true.

Of course, even if she was lying, she should have mixed a lot of real information in it. To be more precise, she might have mixed a lot of real information with some lies. Because she should not be able to grasp how much correct information I have, if she is exposed at some stage, all her efforts will be wasted.

After getting so much advance intelligence, I asked the question that concerned me the most: "Do you know where Chang'an's soul is now and what state it is in?"

"Chang'an...does it mean Zhu Chang'an?"

Ancient Moon God first thought about it, then shook his head and said, "I can't tell you what state he is in now, but at least one thing is certain, that is, his soul is not hidden anywhere by Silver Moon, but has always been inseparable from him. As long as you find Silver Moon, you should be able to find his soul."

Inseparable? That's a very tepid statement.

Yin Yue believed that as long as others completely inherited her thoughts, it was equivalent to her survival. According to the senior researcher imprisoned in the Fufeng base, Ying Lingyun knew that Yin Yue had left a foreshadowing of "resurrection" before her death, but he insisted on researching other methods of resurrection. My speculation at the time was that the "current Yin Yue" might be something that Ying Lingyun could never accept.

Perhaps Ying Lingyun knew how Yin Yue intended to be resurrected. Combining all the information obtained before, it was possible that Yin Yue was not truly resurrected, but used Chang'an as a base to create another individual with roughly the same thoughts as himself.

As for the specific methods, I can even imagine them to a certain extent. Zhu Shi once told me that the blood of monsters is naturally endowed with the inheritance of knowledge and memory, so after monsters transform into human form, they can immediately walk on two feet, speak human language, and easily blend into the market. This is the innate wisdom of monsters.

And with the special abilities that Yin Yue possesses, it is entirely possible for her to store her own thoughts and memories into this wisdom.

Therefore, the moment Chang'an's demon bloodline was completely unsealed, Yin Yue revived from his body.

(End of this chapter)