Chapter 1655
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Chapter 1655 Do You Like It?
Hearing the last sentence, Lin Qiye was struck as if by lightning!
He staggered and fell from the sky back to the ground, dust and sand flying up all around. The Tenchikumogiri sword pierced through his body from behind, crimson blood spreading in all directions.
“Cha…os…???” Lin Qiye looked at Wuquan who was slowly walking toward him, his eyes filled with shock. “How can you… be here?”
“Surprising, isn’t it? You barely managed to come back from two thousand years in the future, and in this era, the Cthulhu gods haven’t even descended yet. How could I be here?” Wuquan chuckled lightly, raising one finger to point at the sky above,
“Have you forgotten… in the river of time, there is an eye that has been watching you all along.”
Lin Qiye seemed to realize something, his gaze slowly shifting to the sky covered in phantasmal mist. Black willow branches danced wildly in the air, countless human legs carrying the willow trees, passing over his body and running toward Chang’an City.
“The Key to the Gate,” Lin Qiye growled through clenched teeth.
An Qingyu had mentioned before that above all time, The Key to the Gate was constantly watching humanity’s past, present, and future from a certain point in time. As an omniscient and omnipresent deity, nothing could escape Its eyes.
“Did you think It wouldn’t know that you crossed two thousand years in the river of time?” Wuquan spread his hands helplessly. “I must say, your idea of crossing the river of time to arrive at the moment before our second descent, seeking a chance of survival for humanity, was quite good. Unfortunately, you still underestimated us.”
“So… you were sent here by The Key to the Gate?” Lin Qiye frowned, then immediately shook his head. “No, that’s not right… you are both Pillar Gods, The Key to the Gate’s true form cannot come through, and the same should apply to you…
You’re not your true form, are you?”
Wuquan chuckled and didn’t deny it. He slowly crouched in front of Lin Qiye and opened his mouth. A black index finger was already lying on his tongue, wiggling at Lin Qiye as if greeting him.
Wuquan swallowed the finger and, looking at the increasingly pale face before him, continued:
“Your Primordial Spirit Embryo is indeed special, even Khusun couldn’t replicate it. The Key to the Gate was unwilling to pay an extra price, and in an era where the Cthulhu gods haven’t descended, no one could kill you in direct combat. Even replicating a Huo Qubing wouldn’t work…
To kill you, it truly required some effort, and only I could set up this trap.”
“You did all this… just to kill me?”
“Of course.”
“You’re fake… so, is Gongyang Wan also fake? And the Huo Qubing she identified, is he fake too?? You arranged so many pieces just so Wuquan could gain my trust and return with me into this mist?”
Wuquan couldn’t help but laugh. “Do you like this trap I’ve set?”
Lin Qiye looked at Wuquan’s familiar face and suddenly understood many things. Despite the Cthulhu gods not having descended yet, that crimson meteor had appeared out of nowhere and flown straight toward them. No matter how they tried to dodge, they couldn’t escape the meteor’s impact zone…
Lin Qiye had considered that the meteor might be targeting him, but later he easily defeated his own counterfeit, and moreover, the Cthulhu gods hadn’t even descended in this era, which led him to stop thinking deeply about it.
Back in the mist, he had searched extensively but found none of the thirty thousand troops, yet he ran into Wuquan, who happened to have a rope connected to his counterfeit, and who happened to lead them out of the mist, subtly guiding him and discouraging him from investigating further…
Because if Wuquan hadn’t led him out of the mist, and if he had thought of using “measurement” to explore the mist, Khusun’s existence would have been exposed, and the entire plot would have fallen apart.
After Chang’an City fell into chaos, Wuquan immediately found him and entered the palace with him. Meanwhile, the fake Gongyang Wan, imprisoned in front of a hall, was attacked right on schedule by counterfeit soldiers, drawing their attention…
After killing the fake soldiers and gaining some of his trust, she directly swallowed a willow branch, obtaining the power to see through disguises.
Of course, as a counterfeit, Gongyang Wan’s perception was constantly being modified by the willow tree itself, so even if she truly believed she could distinguish between real and fake, it was just her belief… From the beginning, she was just a pawn used by Chaos to gain his trust.
After she gained the ability to distinguish between real and fake, a few impersonated soldiers conveniently appeared, proving her ability and earning more of his trust, while also making Wuquan gain his trust, which was exactly what Chaos wanted.
When he saw two Huo Qubings appear simultaneously, Lin Qiye found it strange. If the fake Huo Qubing had been replicated before entering Chang’an City, he shouldn’t have been injured… yet both Huo Qubings he saw were wounded.
Now the answer was obvious. He had discovered the traces of the “Life-Extinguishing Flash Moon” with Wuquan and surely guessed that the real Huo Qubing was already injured. To better confuse and delay the real Huo Qubing, Chaos had deliberately instructed Khusun to leave wounds on the fake Huo Qubing’s body.
Then, Khusun’s true form approached Chang’an City, using the city’s residents as hostages. While the real and fake Huo Qubings were fighting, Chaos made him and Wuquan enter the mist alone, and at the critical moment of his battle with Khusun, delivered a fatal blow with the Tenchikumogiri sword…
The entire plot, one link after another, seemed unrelated to him at every step, but each step was aimed directly at him.
From the moment that phantasmal mist enveloped him, he was already trapped in Chaos’s deadly scheme!
Most crucially, throughout the entire process, Chaos never controlled anyone’s thoughts or actions. Whether it was the fake Gongyang Wan, the two Huo Qubings, or the fake Wuquan himself, they all acted according to their own habits and thought patterns. The only thing It changed was the fake Gongyang Wan’s perception of “real” and “fake”…
This was why, until Wuquan struck with that sword, Lin Qiye never detected the killing intent directed at him.
Lin Qiye looked at Wuquan’s familiar face, his fists tightly clenched… This feeling of being trapped and led to his death was the second time he had experienced it, and both times, the architect of these deadly traps was Chaos!
The terrifying aspect of Chaos wasn’t like The Key to the Gate’s omnipresent gaze, nor like The Black Goat’s endless pollution and assimilation. Its power of transformation, plotting, and manipulation of human hearts was the foundation of Its strength!
