From the end of the world

Chapter 313 The Power of Impermanence 3
As I entered the level of great impermanence, my perception also underwent a qualitative change. In the past, I could only sense the changes in the causal field when someone around me activated the power related to causality, but now I can actively sense it myself.

Yin Yue's ability to "turn illusions into reality" is essentially a modification of "action" at the level of "non-action", that is, to modify the material world at the level of abstract things such as cause and effect and concepts.

The world we live in, is it the material itself that is the essence, or is there really a variety of metaphysical essences behind the material that control everything? This is a topic of debate between materialism and ontology. I don’t think that since Yin Yue can do this, it means that the metaphysical realm is more essential than the material realm. It may also be because her power is based on this worldview, which leads to such absurd performance.

Even if it is a wrong or even untenable worldview, the magic power can make it come true. Therefore, in the weird world, there is actually no objectively correct worldview. It’s just that in this case, I need to temporarily regard the abstract realm of cause and effect and concepts as the real battlefield.

In that abstract realm, I saw the fleeing Yin Yue. It is difficult to describe what this scene was like in words. Although Yin Yue disappeared in the image world, her back can still be seen in the abstract world. There is no time and space here, let alone the concept of distance.

And she was constantly “moving away” from me.

This is because she is quickly severing the connection between herself and me. Changing "the fact that I caught her" to "what I caught was just an illusion" was only her first step. She also wants to change the historical fact that I met her on Yueyin Mountain to something that never happened in the first place.

It's like a junior high school classmate who changed her phone number after moving to another school and didn't reveal her new address or where she was going to be. Although there is no distance or hiding place in the abstract world, if I let her do these things, she would completely disappear from the level I could perceive.

On this plane where there is no light or sound, I quickly stretched out my arm. Just like what I did in the material world, my arm turned into a giant hand of blazing fire, inexplicably breaking into this symbolic realm and grabbing the fleeing Silver Moon.

On the level of image and material, the giant flaming hand I stretched out was like a living being from nothing, and a charming girl in moon-white clothes was grabbed out of thin air. It was Yin Yue.

There was a look of fear on her face, but she had not given up yet. She immediately raised her head and uttered a whistle. This sound was also hard to describe, because the sound she made was beyond the frequency that human ears could distinguish, so it seemed as if she just opened her mouth wide to the night sky, but no sound came out. Only the shock wave like ripples continued to spread, turning into a strong wind that swept around, and the ground began to shake. With her as the center, a very obvious earthquake occurred in the area of ​​dozens of kilometers around.

This is the fluctuation caused by her Law of Heaven and Earth. Of course, she certainly doesn't expect to be able to stop me by relying on Law of Heaven and Earth. What happened now is just a secondary phenomenon caused by her full power. For human society, perhaps the harm of this secondary phenomenon is even greater. And when she caused this natural disaster, she didn't even consume her own magic power on it, she was just exercising her "authority".

The reason why the ancient kings could dispatch troops and command millions of troops to fight in the south and north was not because he alone had the power to surpass millions of troops, but because the troops were willing to obey him. This is a kind of "social power".

What the Great Impermanence and those who are qualified for the Great Impermanence possess is "natural power". The Feng Shui of nature will actively follow its will and present changes that conform to its nature. It is Yin Yue's law of heaven and earth that has turned Yueyin Mountain and its surrounding areas into a lost magic realm with disordered time and space. The current earthquake is not actually the land shaking, but the time and space itself shaking.

Gua Tianshi should be in Yueyin Mountain City right now to stop the disaster from spreading. As for me, I have no intention of watching Yin Yue use her new ultimate move. Yin Yue is a character of the same level as Shui Shi Xuan Wu, and her understanding of illusions is comparable to that of the Great Impermanence who was good at illusions in history, while I have just become a "newbie" of the Great Impermanence. Since Shui Shi Xuan Wu could threaten me before, the ultimate move that Yin Yue is going to use now may also have a strong impact on me.

Before she could truly unleash her power, the giant flaming hand that grabbed her mercilessly burst out with flames, abruptly interrupting her move.

You can't blame her for using a long-prepared special move at such a critical moment. In fact, she might only need a moment to perform that move, but my speed is faster than "a moment". It's not just the speed of the move, the speed of destroying her body is also extremely fast. It still took less than a moment, and Yin Yue didn't even have time to scream in pain before she turned into charcoal in the flames.

At the same time, her soul was also refined by me in large quantities, and the corresponding substance appeared in my flames.

I killed the Water Master Xuanwu before, and after the flames automatically refined its soul, I still got "slag". It was just overwhelmingly huge, and essentially no different from the material I got after killing Chenlong and the Divine Spear. This time, I consciously showed mercy to Yinyue, thinking about not killing him. Firstly, if I killed Yinyue, Chang'an would not be saved; secondly, I also wanted to do an experiment to see if I would get different results when I cast the flames with the consciousness of refining the weapon.

Whether or not you get "slag" from the enemy is different from whether the enemy is dead. As long as you kill the soul, "slag" will appear. The power of refining equipment that comes with the Vermillion Bird Seed probably follows the same principle.

Unfortunately, what appeared in the flames this time was still black "slag".

After burning so many souls of the Great Perfection level, including the Great Perfection level of the Water Master Xuanwu and Silver Moon, my stock of "slag" has become very large, but what is the use of so much "garbage"? In the past, I would still think in my heart that "slag" might have special functions, but when I realized that my real strength should be refining equipment, it was difficult to continue to have expectations for "slag".

I could only loosen my giant flaming hand, and Yin Yue was completely unconscious after being burned, and her slender body, which looked no different from charcoal, fell to the ground. If it were someone else, they might think that this was already a corpse, but I burned her with the thought of "not killing her", so even if my current flame is the Great Impermanence Fire, it is impossible to really kill her.

Since she was unwilling to consciously recover and become Chang'an, I would find a way myself. Taking advantage of her unprecedented weakness, I took out the fake Moon in the Water, leaned over, stretched out my hand, and used my fingers to pry open her eyelids, while aiming the mirror of the magic weapon at her dazed eyes.

"A pillar of the country, destroyed in an instant——"

I imitated what Ma Zao had done in the past, and recited the spell clearly, activating the power of the fake moon in the water: "——Mirror image of water and moon, coming and going without intention."

Silver Moon's eyes and the fake moon in the water mirror face each other, forming a mirror that reflects each other, in which there appears an endless corridor maze that exudes an inexplicable gravitational force. I did not struggle at all, concentrating on watching this corridor maze, letting my mind be attracted by a magnet and enter this psychedelic mirror flower and water moon.

When I came to my senses, I was no longer on the top of the half-ruined Yueyin Mountain.

The surrounding scene changed into a strangely familiar garden. The sky was dim and it was about evening. The western sky was full of red clouds, while the other half of the sky had turned tile blue. I took a quick look around and immediately remembered where I was.

This is the Zhu Family Mansion. The real Zhu Family Mansion was destroyed in the Chenlong invasion incident and then abandoned by Mr. Zhu. Obviously, this Zhu Family Mansion garden is a scene in the dream. Judging from the sunlight and ambient temperature, the setting time of the dream is spring and summer. The surrounding plant species and growth conditions are also different, so I almost didn't notice it at first glance. It seems that I have successfully entered Yin Yue's spiritual world.

However, I was surprised that Yin Yue's spiritual world was actually the Zhu Family Mansion. Mr. Zhu would never allow Yin Yue to enter the Zhu Family Mansion, and even if Yin Yue had secretly entered in reality, the Zhu Family Mansion should not appear in her dream.

In the past, when I entered Ma Zao's spiritual world, I saw the Gospel House in the Doomsday Era because the Doomsday Era left the deepest impression on Ma Zao, and the Gospel House was where she had received training as a blessed monk, probably similar to her hometown or school. Even if it was gradually forgotten under the infection of madness, it would definitely occupy a very important position in the unconscious.

And for Yin Yue, is the Zhu family mansion really so important that she would even dream about it?
Thinking of this, the answer came to my mind. Perhaps this place is not "Yin Yue's spiritual world", but "Chang'an's spiritual world".

Chang'an's spirit is indeed still alive in Yin Yue's consciousness.

Although Yin Yue said that she could erase Chang'an's memory, it seems that she did not do so.

There are two conceivable reasons: either it cannot be done, or it can be done but at an unacceptably high cost.

It is also possible that although she could do it at no cost, I caught her before she could do it; or because she had some feelings for Chang'an, the son born to her and her adopted son Ying Lingyun, so she was reluctant to delete it... Either possibility is very low.

Since she already considered me an enemy that she had to recover completely before she could deal with me, she shouldn't have left any mental contradictions. And for a youkai like her who is so cold and cruel, to think that she would have any extra feelings for her son whom she had never met and who she used as a vessel for "resurrection" was just too much of a fantasy.

I put these distracting thoughts aside and decided to investigate this dream first, then went deeper into the garden.

Soon, I arrived at the door of the Zhu family residence.

They said they were going to investigate, but how exactly should they investigate and in what direction should they investigate? I was completely confused about this matter and could only take one step at a time and try to figure out the right approach based on my limited knowledge.

First of all, since this is Chang'an’s spiritual world, Chang'an should be somewhere here.

Maybe I should find him first, then inspire him and help him defeat Yin Yue's spirit. Although this is Chang'an's spiritual world, considering that Chang'an is now Yin Yue's incarnation, Yin Yue's spirit should also be hiding in a corner of this spiritual world.

In many fantasy stories, there is a story where the protagonist defeats his evil side in the spiritual world. So far, this is a conventional development. Although it is wrong to apply fantasy stories to the real world, I can't find other reference cases now, so I can only bite the bullet and force it.

Just then, I heard footsteps in the distance. They came from the direction I came from. I looked over there and saw a child walking along the narrow path in the middle of the garden.

He was a boy wearing an elementary school uniform and carrying a black schoolbag. He seemed to be in a depressed mood, with his head lowered and looking at the tip of his shoes while walking.

At first he didn't notice me, until I came closer and my shadow came into his sight, he looked up in surprise and revealed his face.

It's Chang'an.

To be precise, it is Chang'an of my childhood.

Although I only met Changan in college and never saw his appearance in elementary school, the appearance of this elementary school boy in front of me has many traces of Changan. Judging from the location, it can't be anyone else.

Wait...it seems that there are other possibilities. Could this elementary school boy be Ying Lingyun? I heard that Ying Lingyun and Zhu Shi's mother seemed to be childhood sweethearts, and they knew each other since elementary school. Since they were childhood sweethearts, it seems normal to visit each other occasionally.

In addition, Yin Yue should have been Ying Lingyun's mother since that time. Maybe she was secretly observing Ying Lingyun's activities, so she was impressed by the places her son visited since he was a child, so that he would occasionally see them in his dreams.

The demon mother and the demon hunter have been childhood sweethearts, and I always feel that a lot of stories will happen here... But business is more important, so let's not think about those for now.

Looking at the little boy in front of me, I made a special confirmation just in case: "Changan...is that so?"

"You...who are you?"

The little boy took a step back timidly, as if he didn't recognize me.

(End of this chapter)