Chapter 355

One Hundred Sixty-Third Page

Core Server Room

As the Goddess of Beautiful Girls, I am spreading the gospel with all my might.

Part Two

Lingmeng’s Journey to the Otherworld

Prologue

If you’re going to cross over, it has to start from the forest!

…

“There’s no such thing! A second part? There’s no prologue, and there’s no forest! This is nothing at all!”

If this were really a crossover, why would it be to such a barren place with not even a blade of grass?

Shaking off these strange thoughts, I took a step forward and continued heading toward the distant large glowing sphere.

I didn’t know where I was now. It looked like a world that had already been destroyed. The sky was pitch black, and there wasn’t even a hint of wind. The ground was completely flat, like a mirror, and the only thing existing here was the enormous “white sun” in the distance. Everything else was endless darkness.

The large glowing sphere that looked like a light bulb seemed to hover just a short distance away, but it was actually quite far. From this, I could tell that the ground here was perfectly flat. Otherwise, such a distant position would have already been obscured by the horizon.

“…I’m so tired!”

These past few days, I’ve been moving toward the glowing sphere, but I haven’t made any progress. This made me feel discouraged, but I couldn’t do anything else. I even felt that this was some kind of divine punishment. I was like Sisyphus, constantly doing the impossible.

Without any means to measure time, and not knowing how long it had been since then, I vaguely felt that it had been several days.

During this long period, I hadn’t drunk water or eaten anything, but I didn’t feel thirsty or hungry. I even wondered if I was still alive. In a way, this was somewhat like a dream, but much more real.

When Master Haliluya first came to see me, it was also around this scene, except there was no big light bulb.

I walked for what felt like another ten minutes.

I took out the Spatial Jewel from my pocket and shouted inside, “Mom, isn’t it about time to switch?”

“Don’t rush, it’s only been an hour!”

A lazy voice came from within the jewel.

She must be lying in bed, sleeping soundly.

“You’re not fooling me. I feel like it’s been three hours!”

“That’s just an illusion, an illusion! Keep walking, and when the time comes, I’ll come out and call you! Believe me, a mother wouldn’t trick her child.”

Indeed, because the Spatial Jewel was brought to this world, we had to take turns heading toward the large glowing sphere. Although we didn’t know what it was, it was the only source of light here. If we didn’t go the other way, we’d be swallowed by the darkness.

I sighed and asked again, “Then, can you tell me now? Where are we, and what are we supposed to do at the large glowing sphere?”

“I don’t know either. I guess it’s some kind of banishment place? A small black space set up by the Heavenly Path to imprison those who are useful but have violated its laws… yes, like us.”

Death row, or life imprisonment.

“If that’s true, then I was just caught up in this, right?!”

“Didn’t you consider the consequences when you decided to follow me? At least we didn’t lose our lives directly. I think we’ve already gained something!”

My mother shrugged irresponsibly.

“At that time, I never thought the heavenly punishment would come so suddenly.”

To my mother, being alive was already an unexpected surprise.

As for me, I was just an afterthought.

The white sun in the distance didn’t seem glaring even when viewed directly. I had some guesses about what it was.

“Mom, is that sun a super huge crystallization of divine power?”

The Heavenly Path couldn’t have placed that light bulb here just for illumination. It must have some purpose. So I wondered if this place was some kind of massive storage warehouse for divine power, where all the divine power and magical energy flowed into the mortal world.

“Divine power crystallization? Yes, you could say that, but fundamentally, it’s something even higher… the ultimate thing.”

My mother’s words hinted at a contradiction.

“Oh? So you know what that thing is?”

There was silence for a few seconds inside the jewel.

“Ah, come in first.”

I was sucked in.

My mother wasn’t resting in bed but sitting at the workbench preparing a complex spell.

I remembered that, it was my mother’s last resort.

“We’ve been thrown here, is that still usable?”

“Of course, on the contrary, because we were sent here, my plan has a higher chance of success! Come here, let me hug you~”

She turned around, opened her arms, and pounced on me, pinning me down. Without Cherry Sauce, there was no barrier of false breasts. The soft sensation from her chest made even me, her son, feel flustered… wait, it was just a pillow?

By the way, my clothes were ordinary women’s clothing of unknown origin.

She pressed the pillow against me and said coquettishly, “My good son, next I will tell you everything! If you don’t listen now, you may not get another chance after we reach there!”

There, referring to the white sun.

“Go ahead.”

“Let’s answer your question first.”

She let go of me and sat up on the bed.

“The white sun you mentioned is actually the essence of the Heavenly Path, and the place we are in is the central server room of the ‘world stabilization system’ called the Heavenly Path.”

Hiss—

Among the various possibilities I had considered in the past few days, I had also thought of this one.

But I still gasped when my mother revealed the answer.

“I heard Lord Hai say that after separating from her, the Heavenly Path left its physical form and became an absolutely rational existence… but that big glowing sphere certainly isn’t intangible, is it?”

The Heavenly Path is composed of absolute rationality and nearly all power, while Lord Hai’s composition is immortal flesh and unnecessary emotion.

“Lord Hai is right. The Heavenly Path is everywhere, knows everything, and can do anything, but that’s only its manifestation in the mortal world.”

“Only in the mortal world?”

My mother explained with her legs crossed, “It can interfere with everything in the world, but that doesn’t mean it is itself in the mortal world. That’s why Lord Hai told you it’s an intangible existence. If you weren’t absorbed here, you would never have seen the tangible Heavenly Path. It has maintained the balance of the world in this small black space for tens of millions of years.”

“Only tens of millions of years? So, this world wasn’t created by the Heavenly Path?”

“That thing was responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period and ended the entire Mesozoic era. To repair the world it destroyed, it chose to root itself here and guide humanity to prosperity behind the scenes. From our perspective, the Heavenly Path is a noble but rigid entity.”

My mother shrugged lightly, casually revealing shocking facts.

My worldview was shaken.

“So human civilization and mythology… all developed under the protection of this extraterrestrial?”

“It’s not entirely accurate to call it extraterrestrial. It’s a higher existence than life. Considering what it can do, calling it the ‘Heavenly Path’ is justified. This was originally a respectful title given by the gods and humans in the past, filled with reverence.”

Although the Heavenly Path has great aspects, it also has cruel ones.

Thinking about all the misfortunes I suffered being related to it, I couldn’t help but dislike it.

“Why were we sucked here? Shouldn’t you have been eliminated?”

My mother always talked about being erased, but in fact, the so-called heavenly punishment was just leading us to this alien space. We didn’t eat or drink and didn’t starve to death, spending each day just watching the big light bulb from afar?

“If you can’t return to the mortal world, it’s equivalent to being erased. Let me be clear, the possibility of us getting out of here is very low.”

This didn’t need to be said; I already guessed it.

Since we were caught right under the Heavenly Path’s nose, leaving wouldn’t be easy… forget about alien spaces, even with my abilities, locking me in a small black room would be enough to starve me to death.

“At least let me understand my situation. These past few days, I’ve walked so far, yet I know nothing… if you hadn’t been beside me, I would have been hopeless.”

“I’ll tell you everything, so don’t rush.”

I took off my shoes and sat cross-legged on the bed facing her.

“Then take your time.”

“What do you think I am, Xiao Kai?”

Her question confused me, but I answered, “You’re my mother, who else could it be?”

“Not that, I am an independent personality born from the heavenly punishment. To form this personality, I need a soul…”

Suddenly, I remembered that when I confirmed my mother’s sea of knowledge before, I found she had a complete soul inside her.

“Besides half of Brother Zhu’s soul, do you have other components in your body?”

When I said this, she looked at me with a “how did you know?” expression.

“When you were unconscious, we checked if your soul had been deleted by the Heavenly Path. The result was not the half-soul we imagined.”

She held her cheeks, making a shy gesture.

“How naughty, my Xiao Kai actually saw his own mother naked~ Son~ H~”

“Don’t do that, it’s disgusting.”

“Even though I am your mother, I’m only ten years old!”

Seeing my mother pretending to be young in front of me was hard to accept, especially since she had a face extremely similar to mine. I got goosebumps.

“…Let’s get back to the point.”

Seeing that I wasn’t interested, my mother calmed down. She rolled her eyes and said, “Cough, although the word ‘components’ sounds strange, you’re right. Besides half of Zhu Beihai’s soul, I also have other ‘components’ mixed in… Xiao Kai, bring me a piece of paper!”

The notebook and pen were on the workbench, which was five or six steps away from the bed, not within reach by stretching.

She didn’t want to get out of bed herself and wanted me to fetch it.

“Can’t you get it yourself?”

“I’m lazy, hurry up! Do you want to know the truth or not?”

There was no choice, so I went barefoot to get the notebook and pen for her.

Then, she drew a circle on the paper and labeled it “Ning Ying.”

“This circle is my soul!”

Drawing a perfect circle by hand isn’t easy, but this one was particularly ugly, completely irregular.

Next, she drew a vertical line dividing the circle in half and wrote “Zhu Beihai” on one side.

“This part is the half-soul of the soul ball!”

She still hated Brother Zhu.

Then, she drew a horizontal line across the remaining half and wrote “Hai” above it.

“I have a part of Hai’s soul in me.”

Wow! There’s Hai’s component in my mother’s body?!

Before I could express my surprise, she wrote…

“Heavenly Path”

in the lower half of the semicircle.