From the end of the world

Chapter 312 The Power of Impermanence 2
The silver moon was suspended in the pink light. She was still the same as when I fought her last time, with long white hair, golden animal eyes, and moon-white clothes, like a young girl who was still studying.

In my impression, Yin Yue was always evil, mysterious, cunning, and exuded a calm and confident temperament. But now she has lost that ease. It's like waking up from a long sleep at home and suddenly finding that her home has been torn into pieces without her knowing when. Her face is full of confusion and astonishment, as if she is wondering if she has not woken up yet.

The last time I fought with Ancient Moon God, Yin Yue should have been awake. I could vaguely sense her watching from the dark in the mist. Maybe she felt a sense of crisis after discovering that I had come to the Hidden Moon Mountain area, and wanted to speed up her recovery by temporarily dormant.

Sleep is helpful for healing soul injuries. Ma Zao used the same method before, and it seems that this principle also applies to the monster Yin Yue. Her sleeping method is different from others. She even made a light cocoon to put herself in.

If she hadn't fallen asleep before, she might have watched the battle between me and the Water Master Xuanwu from the dark. And when she found out that I had become the Great Impermanence, she could have escaped immediately. Having said that, she couldn't escape even if she wanted to. The distance from the mountainside to the top of the mountain was no different from being close at hand for me. Just as I was sure that the Water Master Xuanwu couldn't easily escape from me, I was also sure that Yin Yue couldn't escape from my palm.

Without answering Yin Yue's question, I took action without hesitation.

My right arm suddenly grew longer and stretched out, and my palm became strong enough to grab her whole body. After entering the realm of great impermanence, I didn't have any new moves, I just strengthened all the skills I used before. Faster speed, greater strength, that's all.

It was just such a simple move. In the past, I couldn't catch Yin Yue at all. But now, it was as if she didn't know how to dodge. I caught her easily. There was no special reason, just because I was too fast. Catching Yin Yue was as easy as taking something out of a bag. She realized that she was caught belatedly, and then her whole body burst into white hot light, trying to use magic power to destroy the giant flaming hand that imprisoned her.

The fluctuation of mana released by this struggle alone exceeded the ultimate move she had been accumulating for a long time in the last battle at the old base of the Humane Department. Now she seems to be able to really exert the power of her heyday. I thought that Yueyin Mountain was destroyed like this, and her geographical advantage might also be lost. It doesn't seem that simple.

And now, under my capture, it seemed that there was no difference between Yin Yue's weak state and her full state, and her giant flaming hand did not move at all. Her expression suddenly became even more unbelievable.

"You! You now, are you saying--" She looked at me as if I were a monster.

"Tell me, where is Chang'an's soul?"

Of course I knew that the Silver Moon in front of me was the Silver Moon incarnation based on Chang'an, but this information was only speculation and hearsay before. Before the other party admitted it personally, I might still have some luck.

And Yin Yue seemed to be able to see through my heart. She seemed to calm down quickly, then smiled and said, "Haven't you already known from Gu Yue that your friend, my son... has completely become me?"

"Then change back to me quickly, otherwise--" I said.

"Will you burn me to death? But if I change back to the Chang'an you know, what's the difference between that and death for me now?" She said, "I can use illusion to change back to your friend's appearance, and imitate his personality to treat people... But I won't lie to you here, because with your current eyesight, such an illusion cannot guarantee that it can be hidden from you.

"It is impossible to truly bring Chang'an back. This is because his memory has been diluted and dissolved in the process of combining with me.

"Just as you speculated in your heart, in a sense, I am also my son... or, I can also be said to be Chang'an who has obtained Yin Yue's memory. However, the less than twenty years my son has lived is nothing compared to my thousands of years of memory.

"The moment I revived from his soul, the personality of 'Zhu Chang'an' had already died in fact."

What Yin Yue said was pretty much what I had worried about in the past, but I still didn't give up hope.

"Chang'an's personality may really have been shattered, but it is not impossible to save it. You are just misleading me," I said.

"Oh, misleading?" she laughed.

"If you are another powerful soul different from Chang'an, and you want to compete with Chang'an for dominance, and kill Chang'an, a weak soul, in the process, then I can believe it..." I was looking for a theory to support my point of view like a defense lawyer, "but if there is only one soul from beginning to end, and there are only two completely different memories, then the matter is another matter.

"Your memory is indeed much longer than Chang'an's. You have experienced many ups and downs that Chang'an could not imagine, and you have mastered countless knowledge and experiences that Chang'an could not even dream of. But this does not mean that your memory can erase Chang'an's memory. Memories cannot be compared in this way.

"It doesn't mean that long memories are necessarily more dazzling than short memories, nor does it mean that mature memories can definitely overwhelm childish memories. Many people look back at their childhood selves after growing up and starting a family. Even if they can completely negate their childhood values ​​with adult values, the many emotional imprints of childhood can still in turn affect their adult lives.

"The memories of the first ten years or so will influence the next few decades of life. This is not only not a rare phenomenon, but is also very common among humans." After hearing what I said, Yin Yue showed a strange smile.

"You have misunderstood three things. First, I am not human, my spirituality is different from yours. Even my son is not completely human, but half human and half demon." She said, "Second, the growth experience of human beings in childhood will affect their personality when they grow up. This view itself is correct, but that is because the former is the cornerstone of the latter.

"And my memory and Changan's memory are not so closely related. His memory is really not that important to me."

I asked back: "If that's the case, then... why do you have to kill me?"

When Yin Yue had just been "resurrected", for some reason, she insisted on killing me.

A senior researcher captured at the Fufeng base once proposed such a hypothesis - because Yin Yue is the evil spirit possessed by Chang'an, in order to completely take over Chang'an's body, she needs to make Chang'an's soul despair. The specific method is to use his body to kill me, her good friend.

Although Yin Yue is not actually an evil spirit, but the memory of Yin Yue revived in Chang'an's soul, this principle may not continue to apply.

Perhaps Yin Yue had to kill me in order to completely give up the "Chang'an part" in her heart and let her spirit reach a state of true freedom from contradictions.

On the other hand, this is proof that Chang'an is still struggling within Yinyue.

"You see things very clearly... You have never really come into contact with knowledge in the spiritual realm, but you can hit the bull's eye with your own inspiration. You are worthy of being a person who can become a god on earth just by relying on your own talent, just like the return of the mythical era."

Yin Yue looked at me thoughtfully, she obviously realized the level I was at now.

"Does this count as an admission?" I asked.

"Yes, I admit it. The reason why I want to kill you is to make my son give up. But, have you forgotten... I haven't told you about your 'third misunderstanding' yet?" She smiled maliciously, "If I had the conditions, I would certainly want to achieve spiritual perfection by killing you, but there are more than one way to achieve perfection. If I really can't do it, I am not without a second-best way.

"I am a demon who has mastered the art of mind manipulation. It goes without saying that I can manipulate the minds of others, and I can also manipulate my own mind. So...

"Why do you think...I can't just delete Chang'an's memory from my soul?"

This sentence undoubtedly shook my emotions.

At this moment, the silver moon suddenly changed. She was caught in my giant flaming hand and her whole body became blurry. Then the giant flaming hand grabbed nothing, as if the silver moon was just an illusion.

This is an illusion. What I caught from the very beginning was a fake Silver Moon - I came to this conclusion reflexively.

But I understand that things are not that simple. Yin Yue must have used her special ability to tamper with the history of her capture when my attention was distracted, and changed the established facts into "the captured me was just an illusion, and I had already escaped."

What a cunning fox.

"—You can't escape."

I stood still and stretched out my hand towards the void again.

(End of this chapter)