69. The Existence Behind the System
“The quest has entered the second phase, [Between the Abyss]. This is the final phase of the secret realm quest. After successfully killing the Heavenly Evil, the host will receive a large amount of rewards.”
“Quest: [Between the Abyss]
Quest Difficulty: S11
Quest Objective: Kill the Calamity Beast – Heart Between – Heart Demon Hai Fu
Quest Description: The Heavenly Evil’s true name is the Calamity Beast, one of the several ancient beasts that plagued the human world in ancient times. Its ability is to amplify the desires and evil thoughts in people’s hearts, causing them to be controlled by it.
The beast’s main body has been destroyed, but its lingering consciousness can exist in all things in the world, and it will continuously absorb the desires and various negative emotions in people’s hearts, thus allowing it to regain most of its original abilities.
Quest Reward: Hero’s Medal – Special Edition for the Sect Master.
Penalty for Failure: No way, no way, is there really someone who can lose this?
Time Limit: None”
This quest came right on time, but Gong Yiling only glanced at it and then asked Bi Xiao,
“I have a question, and I hope you can give me an answer.”
Bi Xiao raised an eyebrow and asked calmly, “Please speak freely.”
“I want to know, if we didn’t tell these stories, would you definitely not have appeared?” Her words were very direct. This was the most crucial thing she wanted to know.
A quest was a quest, but this Bi Xiao was not a dead person. There was no reason for him to set up a voice-activated switch, waiting for them to finish telling the story before he spoke.
This was very much like an NPC in a game. If you didn’t do something, they would all be silent like mutes.
So, the problem was…
Why did this Bi Xiao give her this feeling?
However, after she asked this question, a strange silence suddenly fell.
One second, two seconds, three seconds, ten seconds.
No one, no one answered. And what made Gong Yiling feel even stranger was that she felt as if the time and space around her had frozen.
At this moment, she couldn’t even feel her own heartbeat. An indescribable feeling of suffocation welled up in her heart, a feeling even more absurd than the feeling the Heavenly Evil and the Heavenly Sin gave her.
And not just that.
In a daze, she seemed to see a large hand extending from Bi Xiao’s body, slowly placing itself in front of her, hovering above her head.
And because of this action, Gong Yiling could clearly feel that the fear in her heart was amplified to a terrifying degree.
This feeling, what… was it?
No, or rather, this black hand, what was it? Why did it suddenly appear here? It should also be the Heavenly Evil, right?
Then, she suddenly saw that from the palm of this black hand, a strange mouth slowly opened, and from this mouth, a few words were slowly spoken.
“This is not for you to know. Do not ask.”
This voice sounded… somewhat similar to the system’s voice, so similar that Gong Yiling even felt that this was the system itself.
“System, are you kidding me?” Gong Yiling, suppressing her fear, couldn’t help but sneer. “I’ve never doubted your identity. To me, you’re just an unreliable cheat. But now, what do you mean?”
“This is not for you to know. Do not ask.”
The words spoken by the black hand were still the same, with no change in tone, but the pressure on her heart seemed to have increased.
If it were at other times, she might have just let it go and asked the system after dealing with the current problem.
But now, the system was basically holding Chuyue’s life in its hands. She didn’t even know how different this thing was from the Heavenly Evil.
Forcibly dictating what others should do, this was almost no different from controlling others’ will. This trip was caused by the system from the beginning. She felt that the system needed to give her a reasonable explanation.
“Do you think this sentence can make me back down?” Gong Yiling glared at the black hand, and in this strange space, her cultivation had inexplicably broken through the original shackles of the immeasurable meteorite iron, and she did not hesitate to let the demonic and righteous cultivation techniques in her body run at the same time.
Although the consequences of this were very exaggerated, and she felt as if her meridians were being torn apart by something, this instead allowed her to break free from the giant hand’s suppression, and she quickly took out the sword of the Sword Saint’s intent from her state of consciousness.
“Just you,” Gong Yiling sneered, “are you worthy of making me shut up?”
As she finished speaking, she swung her longsword at the black hand. At that moment, a burst of primordial energy erupted from her sword, and it even exuded a certain ancient aura, forcing the black hand back a little.
However, with her current strength, she could only swing that one sword. After one sword, her body was almost unable to hold on. She could only half-kneel, using her longsword to support herself on the ground, so that she would not completely kneel on the ground.
“Why do you have to do this?” The black hand suddenly sighed. “No matter what, I have no malice towards you.”
“You look like you have no malice…?” Gong Yiling couldn’t help but squeeze out these few words from her teeth. “I, this young lady, am not a doll.”
The black hand was silent for a moment, and finally said, “I can only tell you my name. My name is the Calamity Beast – the Evil of the Beginning – Su. You can also call me the Law of Heaven.”
Wait? What? What did it just say it was?
Gong Yiling’s brain basically shut down with the appearance of this sentence.
The Law of Heaven? The Calamity Beast? Wasn’t this the same kind of thing as that Heavenly Evil and Heavenly Sin? And just from the name, Gong Yiling could feel that its status and strength were much stronger than those two.
This thing was actually the system…?
“You don’t have to think too much.” Su seemed to have seen through the confusion in her heart and said, “The thing in your body has no essential connection with me. It doesn’t even know of my existence, so you don’t have to be wary of it.”
“As for me,” Su’s power once again surged into Gong Yiling’s body, but this time it was not to bring her unbearable pressure, but a positive gift.
It quickly smoothed out all the injuries caused by Gong Yiling’s earlier actions, and even brought her state directly back to its peak, as if nothing had happened just now.
“At least for now, I am not your enemy. You just need to know this, and you can only know this. If you still want to know something, on the day you see me, everything will have its own destiny.”
