Divine Beast Creator

The first time seeing Bai You so insane, besides feeling a chill down his back, War Qi Chen was also moved. Perhaps... his words were not just for her ears...

Thanks to the powerful suppression of effects after mythical transformation, after a bout of craziness, the tear statue evidently entered a state of severe injury. At least from the appearance, the torn and tattered tear statue undoubtedly suffered considerable damage.

"Don’t... stop me..."

"Isn’t this... the future you hoped for..."

Despite suffering severe damage, the tear statue instead let out a wailing sound as if questioning Qi Realm Dou Yanlan, turning to look reluctantly at Peculiar Realm Qi Chen. Qi Realm Dou Yanlan coldly said,

"That’s right, I also thought more than once about how great it would be if he could resurrect, but! I do not want that happiness... to be built upon the pain of others."

"Besides, I do not believe in twisted miracles!"

"You are afraid... you are afraid that the resurrected him is no longer him... but... I can assure you..."

"No need!"

With a wave of her hand, an ultimate move interrupted the tear statue’s words. Qi Realm Dou Yanlan, with tears in her eyes, smiled and said,

"Let it be like this. Even he doesn’t want me to do this. Why should I commit a wrongdoing for a wish that should not be realized?"

"Although you are wrong... but... thank you..."

Qi Realm Dou Yanlan borrowed the power of her beast tamer. At this moment, the tear statue, due to consecutive attacks, was weakened to the extreme, the black energy entwined around Qi Realm Dou Yanlan’s arm infused into the spear condensed by the energy of ultimate moves.

The spear pierced through the tear statue, and the wailing echoed in everyone’s hearts. Perhaps it was an illusion, but Qi Realm Dou Yanlan seemed to see the tear statue’s sad expression gradually unfold into a contented smile.

"Thank you..."

Softly saying it beside her ear, Qi Realm Dou Yanlan couldn’t help but cry. Without the reunion, perhaps there wouldn’t be the sadness of parting again, but... all of this started because of her, she would not avoid her responsibility.

Watching the tear statue slowly turn gray and finally dissipate like weathered rock, Dou Yanlan let out a sigh of relief, looking at Qi Chen, who regained his freedom behind her, with a smile, she said,

"It’s finally... over."

Hugging Bai You, who rushed towards her, War Qi Chen looked at the tearfully crying Qi Realm Dou Yanlan. Beside her, Peculiar Realm Qi Chen reached out as if wanting to touch her but seemed scared of something, not daring to actually touch her.

Watching Peculiar Realm Qi Chen’s figure becoming unreal, Veronia was puzzled. Feng Yuan sighed and said,

"Really... although it’s over, however..."

At this moment, Qi Realm Dou Yanlan was saying her final farewell to Peculiar Realm Qi Chen. Feng Yuan understood, Peculiar Realm Qi Chen’s appearance should be the manifestation of the world’s merits. However... to ensure the safety of Qi Chen and others, they let this reward from the world vanish. Is this really fair to Qi Realm Dou Yanlan?

Secretly wondering, Feng Yuan didn’t know what to do, resurrect Peculiar Realm Qi Chen? It’s not that he can’t, but he shouldn’t. The Qi Realm timeline belongs to the tributaries of time. Although many constraints are weakened here, resurrecting is still a taboo.

Even if it doesn’t affect the main world, it would still bring instability to the Qi Realm timeline. He believed Qi Realm Dou Yanlan would never accept this.

Retrieving a person from history is even more impossible. The history of the time tributary is all an illusion. Even he couldn’t retrieve a real person from an illusory history.

It’s possible to transform illusion into reality, but is that really the original person? Could Qi Realm Dou Yanlan accept this? Feng Yuan didn’t know, nor did he want to ask.

The other party had already experienced hope turning to despair. He didn’t want to let her experience it again.

"Although I don’t want to interrupt their warm moment, I always feel something is not right."

Ultimately, Veronia made up its mind to interfere. It wasn’t very confident; otherwise, it would have spoken up earlier. But... remembering their past separation, it... still wanted to meddle this time.

"Not right? He shouldn’t be the enemy, right?"

Looking at Veronia with surprise, Feng Yuan didn’t quite understand the other’s intention. Watching the two saying goodbye, Veronia calmly brought up something that Feng Yuan found hard to believe,

"His description is very clear, yet he lacks the memory of truly facing death. In other words, in his description, there’s no account of suffering fatal harm at all."

"Even if it might be because he didn’t have time to feel anything before dying, there’s still another possibility."

Veronia spoke while controlling a bubble to float towards the two, slowly saying,

"Also, I’m convinced they wouldn’t have the opportunity to reclaim the bodies. After all, the Deep Layer of the Qi Realm is a difficult place for them to reach. They might not waste manpower to retrieve a body there, and... they might not even be able to."

"Hmm, that is rather plausible. The internal structure of the Qi Realm is somewhat like a game instance. They might not have done so, but based on this alone, it doesn’t prove anything, right?"

Scratching his chin, Feng Yuan spoke while quickly catching up to Veronia. Within the Qi Realm, except for the deepest layer, which is constant, all other layers change and transform when people venture into them. Feng Yuan suspects that those areas might even have a refresh mechanism.

In such a situation, unless the same group of people brings back the body, reclaiming it seems to be a very difficult task.

Perhaps because one person and one Divine Beast were already nearing, Qi Realm Dou Yanlan and Peculiar Realm Qi Chen also heard the other’s words and turned to Feng Yuan. Qi Realm Dou Yanlan said,

"We have no way to retrieve the bodies of those who sacrificed themselves in the deep layer. Even the relics, we can only hope they randomly appear in the sight of future expedition teams. However, we have special devices that can transmit information from the deep layer."

"Is there a problem with that?"

"Hm? No problem, heart projections, no matter how similar, should give a somewhat false impression. But he’s an exception."

Watching Peculiar Realm Qi Chen’s gradually ethereal body, Veronia said,

"If something happened back then that directly turned him into a form of soul projection, does that count as death?"

"Uh, are you trying to exploit a loophole?"

Feng Yuan had already understood what Veronia wanted to do. Unlike the main world, time tributaries themselves are not particularly valued. This is mostly a disadvantage, yet in some situations, it’s a great advantage.

In the main world, there’s essentially no possibility of exploiting loopholes, as the world would not listen to your sophistry. However, in time tributaries, it’s slightly more subjective; if the logic makes sense, some vague rules could be twisted.

"Hmm, rather than watching them cry and laugh separately, I prefer to see a miracle happen."

Turning to look at Feng Yuan, Veronia said calmly. It couldn’t exploit loopholes itself; it’s unrelated to the Authority of Life, but Feng Yuan could. However, before that, he needed to define the state of Peculiar Realm Qi Chen.

"I see..."

However, Feng Yuan didn’t do it. He seemed to understand something, looking at Peculiar Realm Qi Chen, who was slowly disappearing. With a slight curve at the corner of his mouth, Feng Yuan said,

"I see, claiming to be a world’s merits reward, but it feels like a punishment. If it’s as I think, then perhaps... time correction acted."

With a wave of his hand, the Ancient Black Book quickly flipped through its pages, and the golden Rune Chain shot out, violently colliding with Peculiar Realm Qi Chen. An unexpected event occurred, a phantom figure was knocked out from Peculiar Realm Qi Chen’s body by the chain, Peculiar Realm Qi Chen’s body instantly became solid, even his clothes changed.

"Indeed, though I don’t know what he encountered, from a definitional standpoint, it wasn’t explicit death. So, conceptually, he was defined as having been inadvertently devoured by the soul projection and then turned to lead the soul projection instead?"

Looking at the crazy soul projection, Feng Yuan said flatly, though at this moment, Peculiar Realm Qi Chen himself wasn’t in a good state. His clothes were tattered, blood was constantly flowing, and even his breath was becoming weak.

Yet, there are two Divine Beasts present, even if they aren’t Life Divine Beasts, death won’t come easy for him.

Veronia let out a light hum, waving their small hand; a powerful healing move enveloped Peculiar Realm Qi Chen, whose breathing instantly stabilized as he fell unconscious.

Qi Realm Dou Yanlan was stunned in place, not expecting the surprise to come so suddenly. Even though she didn’t understand what exactly happened, she knew one thing, which was... Peculiar Realm Qi Chen was not dead yet!

Witnessing Peculiar Realm Qi Chen’s vital signs stabilize, the frenzied soul projection suddenly calmed down, and in the next moment, the soul projection began to dissipate once again.

"Because her death has already been demarcated?"

Turning to glance at War Qi Chen, Feng Yuan murmured.