Chapter 154 - Bewildering gods (2/2)

“Nirvana…” Xiao Hong’s eyes flashed and continued to ask, “Why? He lived well in the world of God, why did he Nirvana? Someone killed him?”

“This…” Thinking of this, Hao Ning was drowned by sadness. “It is not the case. No one killed him. It was his own initiative to use the Great Decimation Technique ‒ ”

“How is it possible!” Xiao Hong immediately blurted out. “The Great Decimation Technique is so serious that he would never use it if he was not in a desperate situation!”

“Take it easy. That was basically a desperate situation at the time…” Hao Ning had apparently expected Xiao Hong would be anxious. He quickly looked at Nezha, with mixed feelings in his heart. “Maybe you should be the best person to explain why the Monkey King died.”

“Me?” Nezha had been interested in the story when he suddenly found that he had become the focus of attention, and even Xiao Hong was staring at him. “Why? I don’t know this stone monkey.”

“Nonsense, how would you not know ‒” Hao Ning blurted out. “Ah, maybe you truly didn’t know him at that time. You would get to know him in Journey to the West. Hey, this is not right. Liu Shuai, if Journey to the West has been damaged by May 4th Seal God event, why is it that the Creation of the Gods is okay?”

“How do you know that it’s okay?” Liu Shuai shook his head. “The Journey to the West is famous, thus it has many believers. Therefore, its belief disaster had a great influence. There should be less faith in the Creation of the Gods. Therefore, it should be less influential, but still some influences. I just don’t know what the influences were.”

Hao Ning nodded and turned to Nezha: “Why were you tempted by Jiang Ziya at that time? And wanted to kill us?”

“What? Jiang Ziya tempted Nezha?” It was the first time Liu Shuai had listened Hao Ning said that and known that he was so dangerous in the world of Creation of Gods, “He wanted to kill you?”

Hao Ning made a gesture to stop Liu Shuai from talking. He had not wanted to say these details before because if he said that he almost died in the world of Creation of Gods, Zhou Yuan might feel guilty. Zhou Yuan was even so cared about what his mother said about “other people’s children”. At the time when he was just sealed into a moment god, if he knew that Hao Ning almost couldn’t come back because of him, he would probably have another accident.

Hao Ning had intended to conceal this matter. But who knew today they had talked about it? Hao Ning saw that Zhou Yuan was in a rather good condition, so he planned to hear from Nezha of the details.

“It is still mentioned about this thing.” Nezha shook his head and smiled bitterly. Looking at Hao Ning, he said: “If I say, Uncle Jiang was not trying to tempt us, but to save us, will you believe me?”

“I‒” Hao Ning looked at other people and said quietly, “I could hardly believe. Jiang Ziya said to me that time, to let me take him out.” Hao Ning suddenly understood, “That’s it. Is it true that Jiang Ziya could not get out of the world of gods? Just like the true spirit of Xiao Hong going through the enchantment of the world of gods, if Jiang Ziya went out, his soul would also melt into the enchantment, wouldn’t he?” Seeing Liu Shuai and Xiao Hong nodded, Hao Ning continued, “So Jiang Ziya tempted me and hoped that I would take him out.”

“Why did Jiang Ziya want to come out?” Liu Shuai felt very strange. “How much had you experienced in the world of Gods, Hao Ning? Before this, you just said that we had encountered some small problems in the world of gods, but there were noble people who helped us, and it turned out to be only a close call. You hadn’t said that Jiang Ziya wanted to come to the real world, had you?”

“It was because it seemed too weird, and I felt that it would be an unnecessary worry for everyone knew about it,” Hao Ning said, looking at Zhou Yuan. “If it were not for these things today, I wouldn’t have said it. At that time, Jiang Ziya told me that he would create the gods in this real world. He got hold of the Creation of Gods. After using the incense to recreate the gods, he could become the ancestor of the gods.”

“What?” Liu Shuai patted the table. Not as the same as Hao Ning, the table was so hard that his hand got hurt. “How dared he do such a thing?”

“When I went into the world, Nezha was not like him now,” Hao Ning looked at Nezha’s clear eyes. At that time, his eyes were dull and completely different. “It seemed like he had been tempted. His eyes were lifeless, like a walking dead.”

“Hao Ning,” Nezha shook his head. “What you saw was only a part of the thing, and the whole thing was not the case. In fact, it’s the opposite. I don’t know when it started that the entire Zhou Dynasty army and the spirits to be sealed as gods after the war of the Creation of Gods had been enchanted by a mysterious force. At that time, only Master Jiang was spared from it for the Apricot Yellow Flag he owned.”

“What?” Hao Ning couldn’t help but frown as he listened. “You mean Jiang Ziya that tempted me to take him out that night was not enchanted? The so-called creating gods in the real worlds and becoming the ancestor of the gods were actually his real thoughts? That’s even worse!”

“No. Listen to me.” Nezha continued to recall, “Uncle Jiang had soon discovered this abnormality that the entire gods-to-be changed from the original good ones to evil. If these spirits of the evil ‒ also including me at that time ‒ all evil spirits were sealed as gods by the Creation of Gods, it would be a disaster for both the world of gods and the real world!”

“Wait,” Hao Ning couldn’t help but interrupt again. “I know why evil spirits could become the scourge of the world of gods once they were sealed. But why could it hurt the real world? Weren’t they unable to cross through enchantment?”