Simultaneous travel: City, infinite evolution

Chapter 415 The Ancient Secrets of Hades Acha [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

Xia Dongqing truly lives up to his reputation of attracting ghosts; he's encountered one again.

A ghost named Caiqin, a "stubborn resident" in the underworld, has been dead for over sixty years but refuses to be reincarnated.

Every year on two specific days, people would come to the location of convenience store number 444 to wait for a young man named "Ah Jin" who looked a lot like Dong Qing.

Because Akin made a promise to her that they would meet again here after returning from the battlefield.

Dongqing and Xiaoya were moved by his persistence, so they went to look for clues about Ajin, only to learn that Ajin was a young soldier from that era of resistance who had sacrificed his life on the battlefield seventy years ago.

To fulfill Caiqin's long-cherished wish, Dongqing disguised himself as Ajin to reunite with Caiqin, cut her hair short, and took her to tour modern Beiping.

Caiqin witnessed the prosperous era that they had longed for in their time, and knew in her heart that the person in front of her was not Ajin, and also realized that she herself had already died.

After learning that Ajin had not kept their appointment because he had already sacrificed himself, Caiqin quietly left as dawn broke the next day.

She was no longer just waiting; she was going to find her lover, no matter how far away or how long it would take.

And so, Caiqin returned to the underworld to search for her youthful lover from that year.

A pure, sunny, and self-sacrificing warrior, and a bookish young lady who waits patiently to find her lover.

An eternal love that will never fade, even after thousands of years.

In Chen Hong's view, Xia Dongqing is actually the reincarnation of A Jin.

Not only did Ajin have a romantic past with Caiqin, but he also had a story with Zhao Li on the battlefield.

Caiqin's waiting was nothing more than an empty wait, a refusal to let go of the past.

Fortunately, Caiqin's obsession has dissipated somewhat, and she should be able to reincarnate and wait for the next life, and the life after that.

However, in this life, Xia Dongqing is destined to be entangled with Chi You. If he gets involved with Wang Xiaoya, the hidden celestial maiden, who knows if he will have any chance of reincarnation.

Perhaps he can achieve immortality and live happily ever after with Wang Xiaoya.

Oh, what a sinful man.

During the annual Ghost Festival, the ghost market opens wide, and ghosts roam the night.

Dongqing was entangled by a clever and cute female ghost. She possessed Xiaoya and kissed her, and was forced to take her to the ghost market.

After experiencing a hilarious robbery at the ghost market, they discovered that the seemingly pitiful female ghost was actually Hades Acha.

Drawn by the sound of the zither, she came to the human world to find the zither player. However, after avoiding many ghost messengers, she finally found the zither player, but the blind boy was not willing to go with her to the carefree underworld as Acha had expected.

When Acha's attempts to persuade him failed, she was heartbroken and tried to forcibly take the boy away, but Dongqing signaled her to stop.

After listening to the piece the boy played especially for her, Acha's worries dissipated, and she realized that things in life cannot be forced.

Just as Hades Acha was feeling a little regretful and wanted to return to the underworld, Chen Hong finally appeared.

"Pluto Acha, nice to meet you."

Looking at the elegant and unfathomable Chen Hong, Acha blinked her big eyes and looked him up and down with some curiosity for a while.

"Oh, you must be the mysterious Chen Hong?"

"Among humans, your strength is quite formidable."

"Logically speaking, this generation of new humans has no abilities and is just an ordinary, unremarkable person."

However, humanity is always resilient. Even stripped of all abilities and with pitifully short lifespans, they never gave up, forging a path in martial arts and developing a powerful technological civilization.

"Even so, you are still too extraordinary."

"Chen Hong, right? I've been following you, and I always felt that your hidden abilities were far more complex than you appeared to be."

I'm curious, did you break the shackles those guys imposed on humanity?

Hades Acha's lips curled into a smile of great interest, looking somewhat eager to try.

Chen Hong smiled as he looked at Hades Acha, who was lively and resembled a girl next door, with a long ponytail and a fresh red floral dress.

"Haha, those gods you mentioned, when they first created us humans, were trying to prevent the new humans from rebelling like you primitive humans."

Therefore, they deliberately stripped us of our special abilities, so that we do not have the same strength and abilities as the original humans.

This also greatly shortens our lifespan, making us live to a ripe old age, unable to accumulate vast amounts of knowledge and wisdom over the years, right?

"You... how did you know?" Hades Acha pointed at Chen Hong, immediately becoming serious and earnest.

These ancient secrets have long been buried in the vast expanse of time, and there would never be a single record of such truths in human history books; the gods would not allow it.

But Chen Hong is clearly just a modern human, yet his soul is very young, unlike an ancient relic reincarnated. How could he know so many secrets?

This was truly perplexing, which made Acha wary.

You should know that her and her brother's current predicament is all thanks to those gods.

“Acha, you don’t need to be nervous. I am not one of those gods or celestial maidens. I am indeed a human being, and my stance is naturally on your side.”

Because, Hades, you are also human.

"What!" Hades Acha couldn't help but let her eyes flash with a ghostly light, releasing a powerful aura that forced Zhao Li and the other ghost messengers, as well as Xia Dongqing, to kneel on the ground.

“My lord Acha…” Zhao Li’s expression was distorted, his bones cracking under the pressure, and he looked aggrieved.

Although Hades Acha looks like a playful little girl, not very serious, and usually quite unreliable.

But no matter what, she is an ancient power who has lived for millions or tens of millions of years, and has survived from ancient times to the present.

Even a pig could become a celestial pig after such a long time.

Moreover, Hades Acha was one of the first humans created by the ancient gods.

It's important to know that every Primal Human possesses special abilities and immense power.

Moreover, Hades Acha is the younger sister of Chi You, the rebellious ruler.

Even though he was imprisoned in the underworld by the gods, living in darkness and his power grew slowly, he was still the King of the Underworld who managed the cycle of reincarnation, and he still had some strength.

Otherwise, those celestial maidens of Kunlun wouldn't be so wary of her.

Seeing that Hades couldn't help but reveal his aura, Chen Hong didn't care. This kind of aura was nothing to him.

Given the hierarchy of this world, even if she were Hades, Chen Hong's strength wouldn't be affected by her mere aura.

"Acha, calm down, let's talk?"

Acha snapped out of her daze and composed herself. "I'm sorry, I lost my composure."

"Let's go, let's talk."

Chen Hong teleported Acha to his blessed space, isolated from the sky, and began to chat, leaving behind his ghost messengers who looked at each other in bewilderment.

Even if they didn't hear the whole thing, just some scattered bits of information, it was enough to horrify them.

Having learned so many horrifying ancient secrets, will I be knocked out and formatted?
Judging from what I just heard, those high and mighty gods don't seem to be very petty.

Thinking this, the ghost messengers couldn't help but feel a chill run down their spines—it really was a ghost.

Zhao Li cursed under his breath, pretending not to have heard anything and not understanding anything, and casually tried to fool Xia Dongqing to change the subject.

Everyone tacitly kept quiet and talked about the lively Ghost Festival.

Chen Hong also talked a lot with Hades Acha, and they reached a preliminary consensus and formed an alliance.

Hades was a primordial being whose race was wiped out by a great flood from the gods. His brother, Chi You, failed in his rebellion against Heaven and met a tragic end. To this day, only his remnant soul remains, sleeping within Xia Dongqing's body.

It can be said that he harbors an overwhelming hatred for the gods.

Coincidentally, Chen Hong also disliked the high and mighty gods who used humans as guinea pigs, and created humans only to observe their evolution.

If humanity truly threatens the gods, they will immediately send down a great flood to cleanse humanity.

They sent celestial maidens down to earth to teach humans knowledge. When they discovered that celestial maidens and humans had developed a disease called love, they immediately severed the ties between the celestial maidens and humans and strictly controlled the celestial maidens' emotions.

It is clear that the celestial maidens were merely tools they used to interfere with the course of human development, monitor humanity, and eliminate threatening elements among humanity.

If there is any risk of things getting out of control, they will immediately cleanse humans and celestial maidens who have fallen in love, and will no longer allow celestial maidens to descend to earth to teach humans.

Since the emergence of the new human race, no human knowledge has been passed on.

And most importantly, these mysterious gods also die, and their lifespans come to an end.

After a god dies, his soul will go to the place where the Lord of Mount Tai resides and be taken away by him.

It is clear that the so-called gods are not immortal beings who have comprehended the truths of the universe.

It's more like some advanced civilization is experimenting on Earth's human civilization, hoping to gain knowledge and wisdom that has emerged from human development.

Once humanity gets out of control, they will fearfully try every means to eliminate other humans, recreate weak new humans that pose no threat to them, and then re-evolve.

It's worth noting that Chi You almost succeeded in rebelling against Heaven back then, had it not been for Tian Nu Ya's scheme against him.

In modern times, after humanity developed powerful technology, those gods became fearful and went into hiding, only remotely controlling humanity through the celestial maidens of Kunlun, interfering with human civilization from behind the scenes.

It is clear that the so-called gods are not actually that powerful; they are just a group of false gods.

Even the most prestigious person isn't as high-class as the Lord of Mount Tai.

In Chen Hong's view, the so-called gods are just members of an advanced civilization who possess mysterious abilities, perhaps great strength, or perhaps powerful weapons.

Furthermore, judging from the strength and abilities displayed by the Primordial Man and the Celestial Maiden, their strength was just so-so.

After Chen Hong formed an alliance with Hades Acha, he took some of Acha's blood as research material.

After all, Acha is a primitive human, and her genes must be different from those of the new humans. Perhaps Chen Hong can uncover the secrets of the primitive human's abilities and bloodline.

Chen Hong also planned to study Acha's Hades authority and the structure of the underworld once he got to know her better.

However, it seems that Acha was affected by that ancient war and was very afraid of those gods, so she did not dare to easily defy them.

The alliance with Chen Hong was merely a precaution, a way to gain a powerful ally.

(End of this chapter)