[Comprehensive] living to death

"The Queen Mother of the West wants to see you."

"Exactly, I'm going to see her too...or 'him'."

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There is a door in the depths of Mount Peng, behind which is the statue of the Emperor of Heaven and an altar, and a statue of the Queen Mother of the West is on the side.Open the door here again, and you will see the towering white jade stairs. Every king and unicorn must worship the sky here first, and then they will be officially recognized by the "heaven" after climbing the ladder to listen to the imperial edict.But at this moment, when the door was pushed open, what appeared in front of him was not the boundless sky and the long ladder, but a passage made of white jade.Proceed along the passage, and after five more doors, you will arrive at a wonderful space.

The passage just now was full of luxurious jade, but here, the surroundings are surrounded by mossy rocks.The space above is infinitely high, and the array of stars is infinitely far away; a silvery white waterfall hangs down from the galaxy, falling silently.The water droplets splashed slowly, bringing out a strange rhythm; when they were about to touch the figure sitting in the waterfall, they automatically slid away from her side.

The waterfall flowing from the Milky Way falls from the sky and keeps falling.

The woman in the middle is dressed in white, has white hair, even the eyelashes are white, only the pupils are black.That face was surprisingly ordinary, almost bleak, even if it was placed among mortals, it would not stand out.

"She" is watching the bright moon.

"Queen Mother of the West...no, Heaven, Heavenly Emperor?" Yu Ye seemed to be out of breath, "Your Majesty..."

"She" glanced at Yu Ye.

"Xuanjun Bixia? You are fine."

When the voice of "her" sounded, the stars in the sky also flashed rapidly.Yuye's face was pale, and her lips murmured for a moment, unable to speak.

"Go down."

Xuan Jun lowered his head, bowed tremblingly, and retreated silently.

The gate is closed.The moment the door was closed, the traces of the door disappeared; it seemed to be a purely closed space, and as far as the eye could see, there were only rocks, waterfalls, and a white "woman" sitting on a high platform in the middle of the waterfall.

There was no sound at all from the silvery water.But when the woman opens her lips slightly, even her delicate inhalation can cause faint echoes in this space; and when she speaks, more echoes come from all directions, like countless musical instruments echoing up and down, Like a chorus of countless human voices.

"Mingyue, I'm so glad to see you again."

Orwell speaks with the body of the Queen Mother of the West.He suddenly abandoned the previous distorted excitement and cadence, and his tone was indifferent and flat, just like the deep and empty darkness in his eyes, without any change or color.

"Now tell me, do you think you won?" he asked.

The stars in the sky are bright and dark, like crystals that are constantly being struck.

"I always think..." Mingyue raised her head slightly, and answered irrelevant questions, "In this world, why can you hinder my memory?"

"You can't touch other worlds—absolutely not. That's why you need me, use me as a medium to plunder the power of other worlds."

"Power—memory, and vice versa. Every time I 'die' and return to the temple, you can take away my memory."

"But this time, I didn't return to the temple at all, and I didn't enter your power range at all. Why did you take my memory away?"

"This world was created by me." Orwell picked out a calm smile, "This is my world."

"This used to be your world."

One sentence made Orwell return to the expressionless state, no, it was a cold expression with killing intent and hatred.

"This used to be your world, Your Majesty the Emperor of Heaven, but it was no longer a long time ago." Mingyue smiled casually, "Even though you wrote down the way of heaven that is running now, it has existed independently for a long time. And it has nothing to do with you. Now, the Queen Mother of the West is the god of this world, representing the will of the world, and Xuanjun is her executor. And you, Your Majesty, are just outsiders in this world."

Orwell was silent.The waterfall covered his expression and his eyes that were nothingness.

"So, you definitely can't take away my memory, so what did you do? It's actually very simple, you just used my tricks to deal with me." Mingyue shrugged, "I tricked you into eating me before. The crystallization of the strength of my body, so that I can fool you from monitoring me. And you—”

She suddenly raised her hand, palm facing herself.He bent his right fingertips, aimed at the eyeball, and stabbed it in!

There was no blood, and there was no sound of broken bones; the ripple-like lines on her face let her fingertips penetrate into the depths of her mind smoothly, and then grabbed a ball of golden light.

The ball of light was beating endlessly in her palm, but she was powerless to escape; in the center of the ball of light, something could be seen faintly, very much like the shadow of a unicorn, but it was different from a unicorn upon closer inspection.

"I thought it was the real Gong Lin at the beginning." Mingyue said, "Although it was strange how there could be other souls in the body this time, I thought it was just an accident-it's not like this kind of accident happened before, so I I want to protect her. I have to say, Orwell, you are always very accurate in catching my weaknesses. When I saw her, I did think of Dai Lin in the past."

There was a trace of sadness in her eyes.That innocent, pure and kind acting hero was the existence she had promised to protect but failed to protect in the end.

"As a result, this is just something you use to disturb me."

When she woke up in the world of ninjas without thinking of anything, she saw this golden soul in the depths of her consciousness, and promised seriously that she would protect it.But……

"It's just being self-indulgent."

Mingyue pursed her lips slightly.She let go of her hand and watched the ball of golden light swaying and flying, and finally flew in front of Orwell, rubbing against him with nostalgia.Orwell reached out to catch it with a sigh.

"This is my former mount, a remnant of that child's soul."

The Emperor's tone was still as cold as deep snow, but there seemed to be a trace of nostalgia, like a golden carp floating under the surface of a frozen lake in winter, being glimpsed by humans inadvertently.

"Since you found out..."

Mingyue's original calm was suddenly shattered; her eyes widened, showing a look of surprise.

"Hey what are you doing—"

With a little force on Orwell's fingers, the last cluster of spiritual light was completely shattered between his fingers and dissipated completely.

"...It's useless."

However, at the same time, tears suddenly gushed from his eyes; he raised his head, and the eyes of nothingness shone with compassion and coldness at the same time.

"Are you still crying?" Mingyue was so unbelievable that she laughed angrily, "Why are you so crazy? Your beast rider is loyal, and even after death, he has a little obsession that will last forever. He tried his best to help you, but you, How could you just—”

Let people die completely out of their wits? !

She heard a burst of laughter.She didn't realize it for the first second, and she listened to this unusually beautiful and melodious smile ignorantly, and then realized that it was Orwell who was laughing.

In her blank gaze, Orwell, who had been sitting upright on the high platform, suddenly changed his posture: he crossed his legs, propped his chin with one hand, and tilted his head to look at her.The white hair belonging to the Queen Mother of the West hangs beside his face, almost blending with the silvery white waterfall; he laughs tremblingly in the silvery whiteness.

"Because you remembered." He said softly, "If you remembered, it means that I lost. If I lose, I will die. Mingyue, the master is dead, why are the beasts still alive? Let it dissipate in sorrow, it is better to die in my hands. My creations are born in my hands and die in my hands. This is called the cycle of heaven and endless reincarnation. Mingyue..."

"You should too."

- You are something I created, and so should you.

"Ah, speaking of which, what is our bet? It's so strange, I suddenly can't remember it." Orwell laughed in a low voice, his voice was ethereal, and he didn't know whether to say it was ethereal or hollow, "Time takes away It took my life, took away my strength, and now even my memory is gone... Oh, I remembered again."

"We agreed that if you find my real name within thirty God's Dwelling Days, I will admit defeat. I will return all the power I got from you, and that will be the end of my life."

On the face of the Heavenly Emperor, there was a smile and tears streaming down his face. "And when did you know my real name? My creation, Shamash's daughter, Mingyue, Yutaifu..." He stretched out his hand, stroking along the outline of the girl in the void, as if Touching the top of her head, "Or, the first role I asked you to play - the queen of Daiguo?"

As early as a thousand years ago, the acting queen had inadvertently guessed the true origin of the Emperor of Heaven.But at that time, she hadn't thought of resisting, and when she was forced to draw her sword angrily, she was already powerless.She buried her guesses under the sacrificial tree in Pengshan, waiting for the misty opportunities in the future to come.

"I'm just myself," Mingyue said.

The Emperor of Heaven ignored her. "What is our bet? In essence, it's just a bet on whether you can remember—what a weak scheme, it shames me." He sighed softly.

"I have a question." Mingyue suddenly remembered, "You still have the power to make Lingyun Mountain fall, why don't you just destroy this world and die with me?"

"I didn't know that you still have the hobby of courting death." Orwell said with disinterestedness, "You think I haven't thought about it? You think why there is a disaster in Liuguo, but..."

"I still hate this world."

I can't bear to part with this... the last world created by him.

"Okay, so be it," said the Emperor of Heaven, "Daughter of Shamash, say my name."

This time, Mingyue finally didn't correct him.The blank bamboo slips appeared in front of her eyes, as well as those myths with confusing and contradictory plots, those names—from Pangu to Fuxi to Liangyisheng Taiji, and Brahma Yahweh Chaos, Enli, which was sung in the ancient Mesopotamia. you……

"your name……"

"The names of the gods are your name, and you—"

"no name."

chaos.nothingness.The beginning of life.

- Null.

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how about it?

I won.

After leaving such a simple sentence, Taifu Gong used the excuse of being too tired and hid in his room to sleep silently.Although everyone was at a loss, they obviously relaxed a lot after seeing Xuanjun asking Queen Mother Xi for instructions, so they temporarily put down their minds and got together to discuss future changes in the world and their respective countermeasures.Although King Gong was worried about Dafu, it was related to the fate of the country, and he could only take care of the sleeping Gongfu after the first round of discussions was completed.

The sky at dusk is extremely beautiful, and because it is always associated with the sadness of parting, the beauty is even more meaningful.On a hillside full of wildflowers, King Gong immediately saw the famous people in his country. After all, the pure black in the colorful is really conspicuous.

The beast-shaped unicorn was lying on the hillside, with its chin resting on a large clump of white flowers, with a listless face. When it saw the king, it only gave a lazy look, without flicking its tail, and stuck out its pink tongue to lick a piece of it. Rhododendron petals down.

"Spit it out." Itachi frowned.

"I do not."

"Spit it out," Weasel bent down and grabbed Qilin's cheek (where did Qilin get his cheek?), with a stern expression on his face, "Rhododendron is poisonous to eat raw."

The black unicorn stared at him, let out a quick "gulp" in its throat, swallowed the rhododendron petals completely, and said forcefully with a pair of bright eyes full of provocation: "Although I don't really have any obsession with eating flowers, I swear to defend myself to the death." The right to eat flowers!"

Wang Qingjun's face darkened immediately.As soon as he stretched out his hand, he grabbed Qilin by the nape of the neck, and he was about to drag her to the river.

"No! I won't wash my stomach!" Hei Qilin struggled with all his strength, pawing the ground with four hooves, "If you stop Uchiha Itachi, I'll bite!"

With a cold face, King Gong carried her to the river.

"I really bite—"

The black unicorn bared its teeth, and bit hard on King Gong's sleeve.

"I'll bite you to death!" she said angrily.

The evening wind blows, the grass leaves fly, and the unicorn looks like five years old.

The ferret sighed, stroked the mane of his own unicorn, and said worriedly: "So the rhododendron poison occurs so quickly?"

"I'm not poisoned." Gonglin shook off his sleeve, but did not shake off his hand, so he could only express his anger with his eyes again, "I'm a Qilin now, Qilin! Have you ever heard of a Qilin with food poisoning? ?"

"It means that the old man will be famous in history because of this incident?"

Gong Lin stared at him for a long time, and finally realized that there was a deep smile hidden on Prince Gong's seemingly serious face.

"What, Itachi has also learned to joke." Mingyue was discouraged, and lay down on the grass again, her expression became lazy again.

Itachi sat down beside her and rubbed Qilin's head again.

"Angry?"

"It's an honor to make you happy."

"Okay, stop making trouble." The smile in Itachi's eyes deepened, and he said warmly, "In a bad mood?"

"No."

"Moon."

"...Okay, a little." Hei Qilin breathed on the flower in front of him, staring at the little red flower trembling in the sunset.Who said that?Dusk is a time for memories.

"Itachi, do you want to hear a boring story?"

……

There are actually many worlds around us.Some worlds are strong and some worlds are weak, but each world has its own core laws, and gods will be born from the core laws to protect the operation of the world.Therefore, the gods are the will of the world, absolutely objective and rational, without any will of their own.

In many myths, they are often referred to as creator gods.The other gods after that were all created by him for the convenience of managing the world.

There was once a very powerful world, and therefore a very powerful deity in this world.He is just like the gods in all other worlds, guarding his own world, and an unknown amount of time has passed.

During these countless times, he created many other gods and many different beings.His most important sub-god is the sun god who brings light and heat, and the most important race is the human race.

But no matter how long time is, there is an end. Although the mayfly lives and dies at night, and the big tree is eight thousand years old, they will all usher in death eventually.

The world and the gods are no exception.

He starts dying.

The death of the gods is also long, so he saw that in his world, all the once vibrant races...all the lives he had been watching were ushered in a catastrophe one by one.

The gods do not have their own emotions and wills, but when the world is destroyed to the last small place, the gods suddenly understand that it will be their turn next.

He broke down.

He doesn't want to die.

don't want to die don't want to die don't want to die

He decided to save himself.

He decided to prolong his life by devouring the core power of other worlds.

The moment he had this idea, he lost his godhead.He was stripped of his identity as a god, and watched with his own eyes that the world survived according to the laws he had set before, and struggled to give birth to a new god.

He felt the anger of being betrayed, but he was helpless.All that remained of him was a temple in the void, and a body decaying through time.

He had only the last bit of strength left.

But he is a god exiled by his own world, and he can't touch any other world.

At this time, he encountered a newborn, weak world, which was full of vitality, and the vitality was so strong that he was jealous.And more importantly, he was pleasantly surprised to find that this world can communicate with different worlds.

He ate that world, leaving nothing behind—except for one soul that he dragged out at random.

He took this soul to his temple, and let the soul merge with the fragment of the sun god in his hand.

He then ordered this newborn being to plunder the power of other worlds for him.

Everything seemed to be going well, although the power he had snatched was a drop in the bucket, but he was able to survive after all.But the only thing he didn't know was that deep in that soul's consciousness, he firmly remembered one thing——

She remembered that her world was destroyed by him.

Her relatives, her friends, all the people she loved and hated, all the life she dreamed of, lost and hated...all vanished into ashes, never to be tracked down.

……

The last bit of brilliance left by the setting sun burned quietly in her eyes.She looked at the magnificent glow, and when she looked at it, there was a blur of light in front of her eyes.

"From the moment I thought about it, I swore to myself that I would take revenge on him. Also, as the only survivor, I must live a very good life together with everyone else."

"But I feel sorry, sorry ... I took advantage of a lot of people."

"I... used many people to achieve my goals, Itachi, including you, there are many people who really love me, I..."

Yan Lin covered his eyes with his two front hooves, and said sullenly, "Don't look at me, it's so embarrassing."

She covered her eyes, and the world became a glimmer of darkness, so she didn't know whether Itachi was looking at her or not.It's just that he patted her on the back, really like comforting a crying child.

"Moon."

"……Um."

"Thanks a lot."

Itachi gently hugged her head.

"You've been doing a good job all along." His voice was low and gentle, the usual sense of coolness had almost disappeared, and the rest of the habit had turned into quiet comfort, like a cool breeze The night wind blew quietly, "But I have to say, Mingyue, you are indeed an extremely naive person."

"Why do I intuit that you want to say that I am a fool, is this my illusion?"

"No, I would have given a 'stupid' assessment if it had been someone else."

"...Bite you."

The last light of the sky is still lingering on the hillside; the warm wind carries the fragrance of flowers and plants.Among all the beautiful things, the black-haired and black-eyed young man looked down at the unicorn with drooping ears, and his gaze was so calm and gentle that it was surprisingly beautiful.

"The world is never beautiful, on the contrary, I think life is always full of pain. Being forced to lose something important, being forced to hurt someone you love, being forced to make choices you don't want to make... Life is made up of one after another. Comprised of helplessness, everyone must face this kind of sadness. When facing life, even I feel confused."

"I was very aware that I was missing something. I used to hope that Sasuke would find those things that I didn't have, and then I thought Naruto should be able to help him."

"I'm satisfied with that. I'm a failure because I'm missing things, so I never thought I'd be able to find what I'm missing, I never thought I'd get more than that... ..."

Only in this slight pause can one detect how much emotion is actually surging in the heart of this young man with a soft and calm voice.

"So, Mingyue, I am always grateful to have met you."

——From the first dream, I felt...

"It's great to meet you."

Mingyue was bored for a long time.

"So, that is to say..." she asked in a low voice, "Have I made your life a little less painful?"

"Life will never lack pain." Itachi patted the unicorn's head, "but you made me stronger, and made me understand more deeply what kind of miracles can be produced when people meet. Mingyue, look at me. "

"I know very well the joy you can give to others. So, I don't want you to doubt yourself."

The black unicorn lay limply on the grass.After a while, she stood up slowly, flicked her tail, and signaled Itachi to go back together.

"I'm hungry," she said.

Take a few steps.

"Weasel."

"Ah."

"Thank you."

——I am also very grateful... for meeting you.