Chapter 568 - Death By A Thousand Cuts (1/2)

"They are not illusions, we are just in the Six Paths Reincarnation.", Zhong Yue stared at the giant, he said, "His six Yuan Shen secret realms were already cultivated into the mini Six Paths Reincarnation. From the moment we step into the city, we have already walked into his Six Paths Reincarnation. His Six Paths Reincarnation is the place where all the deads are sealed in, including the Fuxi gods and his own army of gods. All of the gods' souls were ensnared in his Six Paths Reincarnation. These souls would reincarnate one time after another in his Six Paths Reincarnation, their prowess and spiritual energy would be extracted out every time they reincarnate and absorbed by him."

Mother Da Zhen was a little puzzle, she could understand a little but not all of them. Even though she was a mother god, her attainments in the Six Paths Reincarnation were way inferior than Zhong Yue.

Zhong Yue continued, "All of the scenes and events we have experienced felt real because they are really happening. But all of them were just the replays of what happened in the past. His mini Six Paths Reincarnation is able to reincarnate the trapped souls in his Yuan Shen secret realms, that's why he could revive the dead gods and replay the scenes and even conversations of what happened. He is the one that is pulling strings behind the scenes, he bestowed the skeletons with flesh and meat, and placed the trapped souls back into their respective corpses. Then, he controlled them to replay the scenes one time after another."

The Six Paths Reincarnation was one of the strongest force in the universe, and reviving the dead was just one of its many uses.

However, even when the mini Six Paths Reincarnation had only one use, it was more than enough to torture and confuse them for mistaking themselves traveling between times.

Because it was too real, even Zhong Yue was having the same thought for sometime. He really did thought that he was sent back in time to witness and even partake in the historical moments.

Not only him, even Xin Huo was deceived as well. He has been keeping quiet all this while, thinking that he was really time-travelling between the past and present.

But he couldn't have been blamed; after all, even the wisest man would have doubts and questions he couldn't answer. Not to mention that when Xin Huo had went into the deep slumber, the Six Paths Reincarnation was yet to be created. It was only natural for him to not know anything about it.

But the Six Paths Reincarnation of the giant was still flawed and incomplete; otherwise, Zhong Yue wouldn't be able to see through it as well.

Mother Da Zhen was clueless, she mumbled, "Then how did you discover it?"

The young man glanced at her and said, "You."

"Me?", Mother Da Zhen was puzzled.

The giant stopped groaning and also listened carefully. It was also curious about what went wrong that allowed Zhong Yue to see through it all.

Zhong Yue said placidly, "When I was standing in front of the bottomless pit, the light beam from the Fuxi skeletons is directly on me. That time, you were still far away from me, there is no way for the light beam to be in contact with you. But when the lights faded away, I noticed that you are still with me in the battlefield. That's when I started suspecting; that maybe, the Fuxi skeletons weren't the source of the divine lights? After all, they are already dead, there is no way they can still possess such strong arcane energy to send me back in time. Furthermore, you are not beside me, why are you with me as well?"

Mother Da Zhen startled, she has never thought of it before.

"The divine lights are just a cover for me to think that it's the Fuxi skeletons that sent me back in time to witness the historical moments. But in fact, we are sent from one Yuan Shen secret realm to the other. And what sent us away, was the huge eye in the underground."

Zhong Yue was like a chef, slowly peeling away the onion layers to get to the truth, "But I was just having suspicions, the scenes are too real for one to deny its genuinity. So real that only those who have cultivated the complete Six Paths Reincarnations can avoid showing themselves in the scenes.

"At first, I was just thinking that the strong figures have wiped away their faces. But when thinking back again, the real reason is that he doesn't have the strong figures' souls, that's why he can't have replicate their images in his Yuan Shen secret realm. While in the underground bridge, I am sure that you are not on the bridge, or you might even be outside of the tunnel still. But then again, you are still with me. That proved my suspicions even more."

Mother Da Zhen was dawned, she beseeched, "Which means, we have never traveled in time, nor did the gods under Bi Xie Celestial Emperor have time traveling. All that is happening is that they were making circles round and round in his six secret realms, trapped in this endless loop and eventually died in here?"

Zhong Yue pointed at the words written on the sharp teeth, he said, "' Danger, don't enter. Run! ', these words proved that they were some of the gods that reached to where we are now, back in front of the City of Nature where the second loop is about to start. The 'Disaster' left the gods in despair and hopelessness, which was why they left a warning behind. This, is the truth of the City of Nature!"

Although one of his eye was blinded, the giant's other eye still showed commendations to Zhong Yue's perspicacity.

Mother Da Zhen raised her head, she looked at the giant and mumbled, "Why is he doing so? He could kill us all in just the snap of a finger. Mortals, Qi Practitioners, and even the gods are no much different to him than any other ants. Why is he doing all these just to kill us?"

The question was like a dark curtain that covered Zhong Yue's face, he gave a cold sneer, "A lone cat and a school of mice, a hunter met with a group of preys. Like a child, he enjoys toying his preys, slowly torturing them to death."

Mother Da Zhen shivered.

The giant lowered his hand and said in a shuddering voice, "No, you are wrong. I wasn't toying with you all, I am just… lonely."

It wasn't clear if the giant was crying or laughing as it said, "I am so lonely, way too lonely. I am trapped in here for more than 80,000 years!"

"We are also lonely—", many souls surged out, trying to come out from the light wheels behind the giant. They were shouting and crying, "We are also lonely, we are also here for 86,000 years already…"

The souls and the giant were crying together, their voices were loud and sharp.

"Is that giant… Patriarch Nature?", Mother Da Zhen asked softly.