Chapter 1147 Return

Before the translucent shadow disappeared, it seemed to say something to him. Hao Ren was sure that a few syllables floated into his ears, but he couldn't understand their meaning at all—he didn't know what caused this.

In the end, everything settled down, and the fluttering light spots were all absorbed by Vivian. Hao Ren shook his head and temporarily put aside the strange things that had just happened: "Does that count as her dying?"

"No," Vivian shook her head, pointing to her chest, "It's just coming back."

"Got her memories?"

"Part of it, but it's better than expected," Vivian exhaled. "At least I roughly understand what these so-called 'evil spirits' are."

"We'll talk about it in detail when we get back," Hao Ren noticed that Vivian looked exhausted. The excessive consumption of magic power made her very weak, so he stepped forward to support her. Then he looked around and noticed that after the evil spirit and the surrounding sealing system were destroyed, this place had begun to collapse. The heavy biological tissues were withering and cracking at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if the plant withering had been fast-forwarded dozens of times under a lens, quickly dyeing a layer of deathly gray-black. In the low-gravity environment, fragments produced by the disintegration of giant organs were slowly floating in all directions, and eventually fell towards the direction of the earth's core with chaotic arcs. "Let's get out of here quickly."

He pocketed the data terminal, pulled Vivian away from this fragmented giant organ, and found that the tentacles connected to the outside of the organ, like long bridge chains, were also breaking one by one. All the biological tissues that once bound this sealed land had come to an end, and some huge red fragments were flying down in front of him like a meteor shower. These red fragments could still be vaguely identified as their original appearance: they were the remains of the collapsed "Demon God Vivian."

Vivian looked a little nervous when she saw this: "The whole planet won't collapse like this, will it... Could this place be the Eldest's vitals?"

Hao Ren quickly had the probes he had released earlier check the situation in other parts of the planet, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "The collapse range is limited to the area in front of us. It seems that this area is where Vivian mk-ii and the Eldest fused and twisted the most seriously, and only this place has become heterogenous."

Vivian twisted him hard: "So what the hell is that name of yours!"

The two found the others who were resting on the safe island. A large-scale water mist barrier enveloped this floating rock fragment in the chaotic space. Nangong Wuyue maintained the water mist barrier while anxiously looking towards the center of the battlefield. When she saw the huge blood demon god disintegrating, she knew that Hao Ren and Vivian had succeeded, but she didn't truly breathe a sigh of relief until she saw the two return safely. Lily, as usual, was the first to rush up. She quickly circled around Hao Ren, sniffing hard with her nose, and finally pointed at his tattered coat: "You got hurt?"

"It's okay, just a flesh wound, it's already healed," Hao Ren said as he looked at the others. "How are you guys doing?"

Hauser Anna walked out from behind Duncan and Cassandra a little embarrassed. The pair of bat wings behind her had been restored to their original state. After putting away the wings, she bowed her head apologetically to Vivian: "Lord Vivian, I wasn't of any use..."

"It's okay, it's your first time facing this kind of thing, you've already done better than I did back then," Vivian smiled. It was the first time Hao Ren had seen her show such a gentle attitude towards Hauser Anna. "What about the others?"

Nangong Wuyue raised her tail and shook it: "Everyone's fine, except my brother is still talking nonsense, it seems the effects of mental control haven't worn off yet."

Hao Ren glanced at Nangong Sanba, who was lying on his side with his legs crossed and shaking. "He's probably faking it if he's still talking nonsense at this point, just beat him up."

Nangong Sanba quickly scrambled up when he heard this. Wuyue was immediately furious when she saw this, and used her tail to wrap around her brother and spin him around on the spot at one hundred and twenty revolutions per minute, with a fierce wind.

Lily poked her head out to look at the area that had been the battlefield. She saw that everything there was collapsing, and countless organ fragments and broken tentacles were falling towards the deeper red chaos under the pull of weak gravity: that was the direction of the earth's core, piling up the Eldest's deep organs and the last bit of scraps left after swallowing the planet. These fragments should soon be absorbed by the Eldest and transformed into nutrients for the surface world. But was this behemoth that had swallowed the planet still safe? Had the previous battle awakened this dangerous guy?

"There are still many things to be solved later, including how to maintain the state of this planet," Vivian nodded to the others. "Gragon's lullaby has to be maintained for a while, let's go back to the underground city and discuss it in detail."

The group returned to the underground city along the way they had come. When passing through the cave that ran through the earth's crust, Hao Ren noticed that the Eldest's tentacles around them had undergone great changes. Some of the tentacles were stained with a deathly gray-white color and were covered with cracks of various sizes: these tentacles were connected to the previous giant organ, and after the giant organ had necrosed, these tentacles had also broken and been abandoned. But the nerve lines connected to the underground city were not just these; there were still more of the Eldest's tentacles that remained intact, so the ancient spirit's "lullaby" was still having an effect on the Eldest, which relieved everyone.

As long as this big baby didn't wake up, everything would be fine.

They saw Bonia and Gezer with the ancient spirits in the underground city. The two had been waiting for a long time, and Gragon was standing with them. The ancient monarch of the Sun Dynasty was the first to greet them, bowing to Vivian: "My Lord, it seems you have retrieved your things."

Bonia poked her head out from behind Gragon and said a little scared: "There was an earthquake just now! There were monster roars coming from the cave, it was so scary!"

"It's all over," Vivian patted Bonia's hair and looked up at Gragon. "We need to discuss something, you guys maintain the operation of the lullaby for a while longer. Gezer, take Bonia back to the surface and wait for us at the tribal residence."

Gezer left the underground city with the little Saintess, and Gragon took Hao Ren and the others to an ancient building. This building was the only building in the entire underground city that could truly be "lived in". It had doors and windows, and inside was a circular large conference hall: this was where the sages who had decided to sacrifice themselves to construct the "lullaby" had finally gathered and drank the poisoned wine. The bones of ten thousand years ago had weathered, and the sacrificial utensils and scriptures praising the goddess that had been placed in the conference hall had also become nearly unrecognizable remnants and fragments. Gragon pointed to a chair at the end of the conference hall and introduced to Vivian: "I was sitting there at the end, watching you walk towards the Throat of Toca."

Even the bones could no longer be seen on that chair now. There were only a few pieces of what looked like cloth fragments falling on the seat, and sitting in this chair, one could see the "Throat of Toca" shrouded in electric light through the open door.

Vivian nodded slightly to Gragon, letting the ancient spirits return to their posts for the time being. After all the ancient spirits had left, she opened her hands to Hao Ren and the others: "The first point I want to say: I am indeed the 'goddess' in their mouths."

"You're the goddess of creation?!" Lily jumped up all of a sudden. "Did you eat something wrong?"

"Not the goddess of creation," Vivian shook her head vigorously. "Just the 'goddess' in their legends who closed the sky, guided people to build Dorasil, and protected this planet. What they originally believed in was indeed the goddess of creation, but they made a mistake ten thousand years ago and mistakenly regarded me as the true body of the goddess of creation. Or more accurately... they mistakenly regarded a part of me as the goddess. In fact, 'I' was just here to protect an ecosystem to the best of my ability."

Lily jumped around grabbing her hair: "Wait wait wait, I'm a little confused and need to sort it out, you're both a goddess and not a goddess... what exactly are you?"

"Ten thousand years ago, forty-eight hours before the goddess of creation fell, I passed through the wall of reality and was sent into this universe," Vivian said as she looked at Hao Ren. Hao Ren knew this part, but what she said next was astonishing. "However, this 'projection' process actually went wrong. My first stop was not Earth at all, but here—I was split in two here."