Chapter 46 Another God?

  "What is this place?" At that moment, I was practicing in Xue Er's room and my mind suddenly became dizzy, as if I had arrived in another world.

  All I saw was a vast expanse of blackness, and I couldn't help but wonder in my heart. Before I could think further, I discovered that there was nothing under my feet either, just an endless void, and I was standing suspended in mid-air amidst the emptiness.

  Before I could even react, my body was rapidly plummeting downwards. To my astonishment, I saw my body suddenly engulfed in white flames that were scorching me. My feet were slowly being corroded away by the white flames, disappearing bit by bit. These phenomena scared the living daylights out of me as I was meditating, but before I could even die from fright, waves of heart-wrenching pain transmitted to my brain one after another. "Pain", this was my last conscious thought, and then I fainted.

  When I woke up again, I was stunned by what was in front of me before I could even check my body. The scene in front of me was still a vast expanse of nothingness. However, this time the void was filled with many strange creatures. Why were they strange? Because I had never seen such beings in the mortal world, and the sight of them completely shattered all my previous notions. The scene before me could no longer be explained by conventional reasoning.

  "Ah! A rabbit with a human face?" I exclaimed in surprise.

  Suddenly I remembered that my grandfather had told me a story. The story said that the beast was also known as "诞". It has a human face and a rabbit body, can speak human language, likes to deceive people, speaks much but not true. Its meat is delicious, but after eating it, one cannot tell the truth either. This beast lives above the nine heavens.

  I recalled my grandfather's words and thought to myself, "The Ninth Heaven? Isn't that something from the realm of the gods? How can it be here, and it looks real too. Am I dreaming?" I pinched my thigh with my hand, and at this moment, I was completely stunned because I found that I couldn't feel my body. I hastily scanned my entire body seriously, only to find that my physical body had disappeared, leaving behind what should be a soul body - a ball of white light.

  After experiencing the pitch-black void, where only divine creatures exist, my nerves have naturally become more resilient. So in the end, I can only accept that my physical body was probably incinerated by those white flames earlier. Looking at myself now, I couldn't help but sigh: "What am I supposed to do? My body's gone, and now I'm stuck in this godforsaken place. How am I supposed to leave this accursed place? My Xue'er is still waiting for me, my grandfather's vendetta remains unavenged, the demonic tribe of the mortal realm hasn't been eradicated... Am I really going to be trapped here like this?"

  I've started to hate this place, I don't know how I ended up here, and that little spark from who-knows-where burned my body to a crisp, not even leaving a single hair behind. Thinking back to what just happened, everything about this place fills me with dread and unease. Now all I want is to get out of here as soon as possible and return to reality.

  I don't know how long it took, but I lifted my head to look at the dark void in front of me and started drifting forward slowly. I began searching for that distant gate that had left me behind. I drifted like this for a long time, not knowing how much time had passed. I even started feeling grateful that I was just a soul, otherwise, with such a vast space, I would have died from exhaustion after walking for so long. Now, I wouldn't get tired at all, which undoubtedly greatly increased the chances of leaving this place.

  Here is the translation:

  Just like this, I had been holding onto a glimmer of hope in my heart, and it had been floating around. Time was slowly disappearing, and just when I was about to give up, a different scene suddenly appeared before my eyes. Although it was still a dark and empty void, this particular void was slightly different because it was filled with many twinkling stars. Looking at the current scene made me feel as if I were in outer space. The image before my eyes was so serene and beautiful. Just as I was immersed in the scenery, the "starry sky" in front of me began to ripple in circles, like when a small stone is thrown into a calm body of water, creating ripples on its surface. But the ripples before my eyes were created by myself, and they seemed to have a unique flavor as they rippled across the "starry sky". Suddenly, a golden light beam shot out from the center of the ripples, heading straight for me. I hurriedly tried to avoid it, but found that I was so small, and the golden light beam instantly enveloped my soul. Before I could react, the golden light pulled back, taking me with it to the center of the ripples. All I felt was a flash before my eyes, and then I was mysteriously taken by the golden light to another place.

  In front of me was still a vast emptiness, but this emptiness was vastly different from the previous one. The emptiness in front of me felt like a dark space, without the infinite vastness I had previously felt. Moreover, on the surface of this void floated three massive balls of light, each with a different color. The piercing brilliance was so intense that my spiritual eyes could not see clearly what was emitting the light. However, there was something similar to before, but also something different that I couldn't quite put into words. Just as I was bewildered, a gentle, serene, and vast voice echoed through the void, "Xiao Yao Shen, you have arrived!" Hearing this voice instantly ignited my hope of leaving.

  But the voice in front of me didn't wait for me to ask what was going on and continued speaking: "Child, I am Nüwa." Hearing that voice call itself Nüwa, my heart was extremely shocked.

  "Nuwa the Great Goddess? Aren't you supposed to be asleep? How can you be here?" The voice didn't scold me for my irrationality, but instead continued in a gentle tone: "Child, this is just my consciousness body. I brought you here because I have something to entrust to you. Listen carefully as I tell you slowly. After Pangu the Great God opened up the heavens and earth, I was born from the primordial chaos as one of the five spiritual snakes. Later, based on the mysteries of the primordial chaos, I created my own 'Nuwa Scripture' and cultivated the body of Nuwa with a human head and snake body. I am the ancestor of the entire demon tribe, also known as the Earth Emperor, because I used the earth to create humans and demons. Afterward, humans and demons began living on this continent. However, after the heavens and earth were opened up, other creatures we created, now in the divine realm and immortal realm, established the cultivation method of immortality. They passed down their cultivation scriptures to humans, who then began cultivating these scriptures in hopes of gaining greater power and eternal life. But as humans gained power, they started slaughtering demons, leading to the Great War between Humans and Demons. The human side won due to their sheer numbers and faster cultivation speed. However, some powerful demon beasts born from the primordial chaos were not something human cultivators could contend with, ultimately forcing the immortals to intervene. Both humans and demons are like my children, and I couldn't bear to see the demon tribe become extinct. So, Pangu the Great God and I sealed away the more powerful demons in another space, which they call the Demon Realm. Without the threat of the primordial chaos's demon beasts, humans gradually returned to their true nature. To obtain the demon tribe's inner elixirs and gain even more power, they continued to excessively discriminate against and hunt down demons. At this point, I regretted my decision, but since both humans and demons are my children, I couldn't bear to help one side or the other. So, I chose to fall asleep. Around that time, the divine realm also fell into chaos, with the demon god Chiyou starting a rebellion. Pangu the Great God then searched for a talented human youth in whom he could impart his peerless heart method to save the divine realm. As for me, my heart was filled with remorse due to the slaughter between humans and demons. When Pangu told me that the divine realm would experience a great calamity 100 billion years later, I decided to do something about it. So, I prepared to pass down my 'Nuwa Scripture' to a human. When you helped Xue'er unblock her meridians, I discovered that this girl was exceptionally suitable for cultivating my 'Nuwa Scripture'. That's why I brought you here – to ask you to help me impart the 'Nuwa Scripture' to her." Through this voice's narrative, I already believed that this voice truly belonged to Nuwa.

  "Nuwa Great God, then why don't you teach it yourself?" I thought for a moment and asked the doubts in my heart.

  "Child, I cannot leave here now because I and Pangu the Great God, Fu Xi the Great God have more important things to do. And you, as our first created life, Xianyao God. I think your choice will not be wrong. Alright, child. My divine consciousness is about to return to my body, I will immediately imprint the 'Nuwa Scripture' into your conscious sea, I've said all I wanted to say, hoping that after you go out, you must remember what you promised me. Remember..." As Nuwa's voice slowly disappeared, a golden light flew directly into my brain, and many texts appeared in my conscious sea. At the same time, my divine consciousness also returned to my body.

  At this time, I had already woken up from my cultivation and hurriedly felt my own body. "Ah, having a physical sensation is great." I couldn't help but exclaim. Right, I need to think of a way to wake Snow up and teach her the Wu Huang Decree. Looks like I've got something to do again. However, I don't mind, after all, Snow is my wife. I smiled foolishly for a moment, then quickly got up and went to Snow's bedside.