The Grotesque Miss’s End Story v3c57

Chapter 57: Jingwei Reclaiming the Sea

The little teal bird nestled in the simple yet meticulously crafted nest, half of its body a decaying corpse, a chilling sight.

However, the other half of its body, still intact, faintly emanated an even more terrifying aura, constantly eroding its existence.

At this moment, in Luo Ling’s holy, glowing eyes, everything about Jingwei was incredibly clear and detailed, the result of her days of tireless work.

She saw a vast, continuous path, stained with countless impurities, entangled with Her existence.

The current Jingwei was incredibly fragile.

A slight misstep from Luo Ling during the treatment, and even the path representing Jingwei’s existence would be destroyed. This was the worst-case scenario.

Therefore, Luo Ling didn’t dare to be careless, completely severing the mental connection with her other puppets, focusing all her attention on Jingwei’s body.

“The Authority of Transcendence, Savior Witch, fully unleashed.”

Luo Ling whispered. In her insightful vision, she stepped onto an incomplete, unfinished path.

Countless quiet and peaceful stars scattered, slowly spreading, gradually occupying this space formed by Mustard Seed, initiating a small-scale Transcendence.

“Hiss…”

Iris, who was beside her, widened her eyes, staring curiously at the beautiful scene surrounding them, like a painting.

Unable to resist her curiosity, Iris reached out slightly. The moment she touched the surrounding stars, an incredibly powerful stream of information surged into her brain, as if the entire world’s existence poured into her memories, instantly overloading her mind.

Fortunately, this impact was only momentary. Iris quickly withdrew, but her head still throbbed.

She retreated several steps, no longer daring to touch these seemingly peaceful stars.

“What is this…”

Iris subconsciously looked up, wanting to see Jingwei’s condition, but witnessed an unforgettable scene.

Flowing black hair surged like a tide among the stars, the deep darkness seemingly devouring everything around it, broken chains floating around the demonic-like girl.

The beautiful girl, with her eyes closed and hands crossed before her chest, slowly unfolded her purple-black wings at her waist. The surrounding stars danced around her, faintly guiding a familiar yet unknown path.

Luo Ling slowly opened her eyes and extended her hand towards Jingwei, whose consciousness was in eternal slumber, gently touching Her half-decayed body.

At this moment, Iris finally tore her gaze away from Luo Ling and looked nervously at her Lord Jingwei.

Please don’t let anything go wrong…

Iris trembled nervously, her face slightly pale, but she still sat obediently beside them, watching silently.

Even for Luo Ling, reversing the damage caused by Immortality was already quite troublesome.

After all… it was a Taboo Authority, accumulated over an unknown amount of time.

This power was strong enough to barely resist Doomsday’s erosion, allowing Jingwei to maintain her existence.

Honestly, if it were the previous Luo Ling, even using Omniscience in her Amethyst form, disregarding the negative consequences, she would have struggled to deal with these injuries.

As a Taboo ability, at the Authority level, it wasn’t something that could be easily handled.

And now, Luo Ling was using the fully unleashed Savior Witch for the first time since the Victoria Incident, just to contend with it.

The moment Luo Ling’s finger touched Jingwei’s decaying body, an ancient and desolate aura washed over her. A bottomless river suddenly appeared among the countless stars, seemingly about to drown them all.

Sequence 10, Taboo, Guixu of Silent Demise, wielder of Immortality.

Wherever It went, there was immortality, eternal and unchanging.

Guixu had no concrete form. It was an unknown territory, which meant that every trace of the Immortality Authority was considered its extension.

Even though Guixu was currently dormant, its extension still possessed unimaginable power.

However…

For Luo Ling, in the fully unleashed state of Savior Witch, capable of reversing even Doomsday, this wasn’t a problem.

Soon, as the bottomless river surged, the countless stars gradually faded.

But… a deep darkness appeared.

Blue-black scales gradually crawled up Luo Ling’s face, even covering her delicate arms and hands. She raised her head, her dark golden vertical pupils staring coldly at the bottomless river, like a demon returning from hell.

The Doomsday Authority, Devour.

Luo Ling hadn’t used this Authority for a long time, knowing that her state might be closely related to the world’s end.

Perhaps when she completely embraced Doomsday, the true doomsday would arrive.

Luo Ling didn’t know if her conjecture was correct, perhaps she was just overthinking, but… she couldn’t be sure.

Therefore, she avoided using Devour unless absolutely necessary.

At this moment, besides the countless stars, this deep darkness also continued to spread.

On Luo Ling’s body, the image of a blue-black demon and a compassionate witch overlapped. Devour and Savior Witch converged, Doomsday and Transcendence coexisted.

Two opposing paths extended at Luo Ling’s feet. Where she would go depended entirely on her choice.

Fortunately, Luo Ling didn’t need to make her choice yet.

Facing the Authorities of Doomsday and Transcendence, the bottomless river instinctively retreated, trying to escape.

However…

Nothing could escape the gaze of the abyss.

Not even a Taboo.

The bottomless river gradually dried up, and the surroundings were once again occupied by stars, only with a faint lingering darkness.

Iris, having just witnessed this terrifying scene, was trembling with fear. She hadn’t expected the treatment process to be so thrilling and was grateful that she had found the right person.

“Even if I embarked on the so-called path to godhood and became as strong as Sister Moonflower, no, even stronger, I would probably be helpless against Lord Jingwei’s condition.”

Iris looked up at the beautiful figure hovering in midair, an undetectable emotion stirring in her heart.

However, she mostly felt guilt and unease.

In their previous transaction, she was clearly the one who benefited greatly.

What could she do to repay Miss Luo Ling?

Iris became even more troubled. With the surrounding darkness and stars spreading, she didn’t dare to experiment again, so she just huddled in the corner, hugging her head, her mind filled with random thoughts.

Perhaps…

“…The effect is decent.”

Through Devour, Luo Ling temporarily absorbed the Immortality Authority, but this power was only enough to imbue her abilities with some Immortality characteristics, not enough to master the Authority itself.

After all, she only dealt with the Immortality injury on Jingwei, not directly facing Guixu’s avatar.

However, Guixu’s current state was unknown, but if it was just facing its avatar, Luo Ling was confident in defeating and utilizing it.

After the Immortality injury was devoured by Luo Ling, Jingwei’s half-decayed body began to rapidly decompose, even Her existence fading, entering true death.

It was simple. The injuries were what had sustained Jingwei’s existence. With the injuries gone, an irreversible outcome would follow.

This was the result of rashly treating Jingwei. Fortunately, Luo Ling was prepared.

The Savior Witch Authority took effect, reversing the previous Immortality. Without Guixu’s support, reversing the path was effortless.

Jingwei’s decaying half began to heal. Under the healing power of the Myriad path, her condition visibly improved.

At the same time, this Myriad power replaced the previous function of Immortality, continuing to resist Doomsday’s erosion, allowing Jingwei to maintain her existence.

However, unlike Immortality, this Myriad power required Luo Ling’s inspiration to maintain, and couldn’t last long.

Moreover, Jingwei’s true injury was the will of Doomsday. She was still dormant, unable to revive.

“Miss Luo Ling, is… Lord Jingwei… alright?”

Iris’s weak and timid voice echoed.

She stared at Lord Jingwei, who had returned to her usual form in her memories, so moved she almost burst into tears.

“Sorry, not yet. I only healed the superficial injuries.” Luo Ling shook her head, then her expression turned serious. “That was just a small test. Next… is the true battle.”

“Huh?”

Iris was stunned, then became nervous again.

Such a terrifying battle just now… was only for healing superficial injuries?

So, Lord Jingwei’s true injuries were even more severe than she imagined?

Ugh, she felt even more indebted…

Even Iris, who was used to owing countless favors, felt that she could probably never repay Miss Luo Ling’s kindness in this lifetime.

The simple-minded Iris didn’t think it was a good thing to take advantage of a transaction. It was always others taking advantage of her, how could she possibly take advantage of others?

No matter what, she felt indebted.

Her mind raced with increasingly complex thoughts. Unable to bear it, Iris transformed into a little bird, giving up on thinking, and continued to tremble in the corner.

Luo Ling currently didn’t have time to care about Iris’s struggles. Moreover, in her opinion, this transaction wasn’t about profit or loss, but a crucial matter.

“Now… it’s time to face Jingwei’s doomsday.”

Luo Ling closed her eyes again. Within the moment of Transcendence, she began to delve into Jingwei’s consciousness, stepping onto Her path.

When she opened her eyes again, what Luo Ling saw was a desolate scene of devastation, the scarred path covered in traces of Doomsday’s erosion.

Luo Ling began to use Savior Witch, cleansing these traces of Doomsday one by one, transforming them into Transcendence, then utilizing this power to continue cleansing.

As Luo Ling cleansed these Doomsday injuries, her consciousness gradually sank into the process, becoming disoriented.

This wasn’t unexpected. She knew that such deep-rooted Doomsday contamination couldn’t be completely reversed by simply using Savior Witch.

Without finding the source of the contamination, a certain existence buried deep within Jingwei’s consciousness, it was impossible to completely cure Her.

As she continued cleansing the path, Luo Ling’s consciousness began to resonate with Jingwei’s, the disorientation intensifying.

Unknowingly, when Luo Ling came back to her senses, she was surrounded by shocking ruins.

“This is…”

Luo Ling’s pupils constricted. She wanted to look down at herself, but couldn’t control her body.

No, this wasn’t her body.

This was…

“Jingwei’s memory?”

Or rather, a past event imprinted on Jingwei’s very existence.

As a normal Sequence Grotesquery, Jingwei didn’t have memories in the conventional sense.

And in this past event, Jingwei’s location wasn’t unfamiliar to Luo Ling, even quite familiar, as she had been there not long ago.

“The edge of the world?”

Although she couldn’t control the body, Luo Ling’s vision wasn’t limited to her eyes. She could carefully observe everything around her because Jingwei didn’t rely on eyes to see.

After the old world collapsed, the parts that didn’t form the four origin points were left in an unknown place, the edge of the world.

Here, one could faintly glimpse the tip of the iceberg of the Doomsday disaster that befell the old world. Unstable Doomsday storms occasionally raged, countless fragments of ruins drifted in the void, and all common sense and rules were distorted.

Why did Jingwei come here?

This question appeared in Luo Ling’s mind.

Soon, she found the answer.

Jingwei flew here and dropped a seed into this collapsing and chaotic edge of the world.

The moment the seed touched the ruins in the void, it quickly sprouted, countless vines spreading and covering the entire ruins.

“This thing… looks so familiar.”

Luo Ling frowned slightly, thinking carefully, and a strange figure appeared in her mind.

“The Harbinger of Auspicious Timing?”

Indeed, it was identical to the plant form the Harbinger of Auspicious Timing always appeared in.

But… what was the purpose of this?

With this question in mind, Luo Ling continued to walk through this past event with Jingwei’s will.

After dropping the seed, Jingwei instantly weakened considerably and rested for a while.

How long this period was, a few days, a few years, or even decades, Luo Ling couldn’t tell.

In her vision, it was just a fleeting moment before Jingwei took flight again.

The scenery changed, and they quickly arrived at a place Luo Ling had visited several times.

“Mount Haku? No, it should be… the Divine Kingdom of Mount Haku.”

And it could be said that this was the true Divine Kingdom.

A Divine Kingdom was a preserved existence when a territory became unstable due to external forces.

But not every instability could create a Divine Kingdom.

The birth of a Divine Kingdom largely depended on luck.

And this Divine Kingdom of Mount Haku, Iris’s home, was preserved by Jingwei herself. The Divine Kingdom itself was more complete than the Mount Haku territory, and it could even be called the “Original Mount Haku.”

However, Luo Ling didn’t see Iris in this past event.

Was it because, at this time, Jingwei hadn’t yet found Her God’s Favored, her only follower?

Next, Jingwei picked up another seed from the seemingly endless green peaks.

Instantly, the lush green mountains turned withered and yellow, as if this seed had consumed all the vitality of this Divine Kingdom.

Then, Jingwei took flight again, returning to the edge of the world, and dropped another seed.

This cycle repeated, and Luo Ling didn’t know how many times She had done this.

In this process, some of the vines that sprouted from these seeds were destroyed by Doomsday storms, some withered with age, and some didn’t even sprout.

Only a small fraction, less than one in ten, fulfilled their mission.

And all the vines that successfully grew firmly secured these ancient ruins, preventing them from being further eroded by Doomsday.

“This is…”

Witnessing these scenes, Luo Ling couldn’t help but be moved.

[Two hundred li north is Mount Haku. Many mulberry trees grow on it. There is a bird there, shaped like a crow, with a patterned head, white beak, and red feet. Its name is Jingwei, and its cry sounds like its name. It was the young daughter of the Yan Emperor, named Nüwa. Nüwa drowned in the East Sea and never returned, thus becoming Jingwei, always carrying twigs and stones from the West Mountain to fill the East Sea.]

This was the legend of “Jingwei Reclaiming the Sea.”

And the Jingwei she saw was also reclaiming the sea.

However, what She was filling wasn’t the East Sea.

But this endless, eternal sea of Doomsday.

Day after day, exhausting everything from Mount Haku, She continuously filled the sea of Doomsday that buried the old world.

Compared to the “legend,” what Jingwei was doing was practically insignificant to this vast ocean.

But She didn’t give up.

Perhaps driven by obsession, perhaps bound by the path, or perhaps…

Just like in the “legend,” it was this sea of Doomsday… that took away everything She cherished most.