Chapter 72: The Power of Weak Water

  I've never seen a day as fierce as this, the six golden blades swirling around Xing Tian without cease. Perhaps it's because of the Wuyin powder? The character on my forehead is emitting a steady glow, illuminating the six golden blades. Maybe these secrets will have to wait until Master arrives to tell me?

  "Water gives birth to all things, relies on water to live, weak water comes from the horizon... No beginning no end, no light no heavy, no cause no root, does not speak of cause and effect, weak water comes naturally, overturns the ocean. This voice rose up from my soul, but I don't know who it is. I closed my eyes to sense that person, feeling my whole body being surrounded by weak water, feeling myself being sent to a place by weak water."

  "How did I end up here?" I saw myself in a vast and open space, standing at the top of a windy peak... The surroundings were very desolate, I remembered that I was clearly dealing with Xing Tian just now...

  "You said the weak water under your feet is so quiet?" A voice sounded from beside me, and it was actually a person who looked exactly like me! "You...who are you!" This doesn't feel too strange, does it? Suddenly appearing in front of me is someone who looks just like me.

  "What? Scared you?" The "I" who just finished saying this sentence suddenly transformed into another appearance, turning into Shitian! "Is this acceptable?" He said softly, seeking my advice.

  "I just want to know who you are... why I'm here." I don't have the mood for this nonsense, Xing Tian is still over there... I need to hurry and guard him.

  "Come and see this," he didn't answer me, but pulled me to the top of the rock wall, looking down was... was the sea... no! This is not the sea, the water inside doesn't move at all!

  "Is this... Weak Water?", I don't know why but I felt curious and had an urge to break the pot and ask to the bottom.

  "Yes, can you see anything?" He stood in front of me with a light and airy expression, facing this weak water. He asked if I could see anything. I stared at this quiet and weak water, but I didn't have the mood to see anything.

  Nothing.

  "None? You're not curious where these three thousand weak waters come from and flow to?" He turned around and looked at me, perhaps saying "Shi Teng" turned around and looked at me... making me feel very uncomfortable, but... this really comes from where? Flows where? "I just want to know who you are." Compared to that, I'm even more curious about the "Shi Teng" in front of me.

  "Does it matter to you who I am? Shouldn't you be trying to take down Xing Tian?" "Xing Tian! He knows Xing Tian!" "Do you have a way?"

  "Haha, I do have it, and you've met Chao Feng too. Do you know the space where they are?" He said he did! I got excited, but he kept beating around the bush with me. "Quick..."

  He cut me off, gesturing for me to shut up. "That's a legendary realm, how should I put it, that side has things that your human world can't accept, like dragons..."

  "I just want to know how to defeat Xing Tian! I don't care about anything else!"

  "You're not clear about these things that you can't defeat, do you believe in gods?" I suppressed my own anger and responded to him. "I don't believe."

  "Yes, there are no gods in this world, those are just fictionalized, but that space indeed really has the existence that makes you humans think of as god-like."

  "Which space is it?"

  "Kunlun." Kunlun? The legendary fairy island! A place where gods and immortals live, as told in Chinese legends! When "Shi Teng" said the two words "Kunlun" to me... I really froze. As a child, I had heard some legends, but I never thought they were true!

  "Is there really a Kunlun?", I looked at him excitedly, and he nodded to me. "Yes, but that place is also called another space... Kunlun will not appear in the mortal world unless there is an uncontrollable power in the world, Kunlun will appear to take away that power, do you understand?"

  "I understand. So it means that if a dragon were to appear in the mortal world, Kunlun would definitely send someone to capture it?"

  "Right."

  "But Weak Water shouldn't belong to this world either, it's Kunlun Water, do you know why it came here?"

  "Your meaning is that Kunlun will appear and take away the weak water? Not right!", I followed his logic to reason... feeling a bit not quite reliable.

  "No, Kunlun has a heavenly river, that heavenly river is another passage connecting Kunlun to the human world, and Weak Water is the water of the heavenly river."

  "Your meaning... is Weak Water...", I think I've guessed his meaning now.

  "Yes, Weak Water has the ability to send things to Kunlun." Upon hearing him say this! I understand! The way to defeat Xing Tian is Weak Water!

  "That... That's Xing Tian... Is this the only way?!", I exclaimed, unable to speak from excitement. Knowing Xing Tian's weakness and not being excited is impossible! Going head-to-head with Xing Tian, even ten of me wouldn't be his match...

  "Yes...", he nodded at me and walked up to me.

  "Why did I suddenly come here?", thinking about all the causes and consequences of this, how it came to be.

  "I'll bring you in, now you're stuck with me inside the Ruo Shui Pearl." Ruo Shui Pearl! I know that the Ruo Shui Pearl was blown into my body by the Wind Chaser, he said... I would soon be using the power of Ruo Shui... Is it because of this?!

  "You..."

  "I am the Keeper of the Book in Revelation... or you can say I am inside your body."

  "What kind of book is the Revelation after all! Weak Water Pearl... wasn't it picked up by the Yellow Emperor back then?!", Revelation, Yellow Emperor, Weak Water Pearl, all this is so mysterious, I never thought about it at all.

  "Apocalypse? The apocalypse was taught by the Nine Heavens Xuan Nü to the Yellow Emperor, they are all Kunlun people... And I said before that when there is a power that the world cannot accept, Kunlun will appear to recover. And the method of recovery is not the opening of the Kunlun Cave, but rather the Kunlun people bestowing upon a person in the mortal realm a power to bring those things to Kunlun. The Kunlun people have rules that they cannot directly participate in worldly affairs... The only way is either for the Kunlun people to reincarnate or to choose a specific person to go and recover."

  "In other words, the existence of the Weak Water Pearl is itself meant to retrieve some things that don't belong in this world, right? And I..."

  "That's right, you're the chosen one... I still can't see your identity clearly now... You are very unusual." He said this while staring at me, and it's not just him who says I'm unusual... What am I after all?

  "What... what should I do now?"

  "With the power of weak water, open up space and send Xing Tian to Kunlun!" He said this with emotion, opening up space... "But you can't do it now." His next sentence directly shattered my hopes and I sat down on the ground. He had been talking to me for so long, but in the end, he said I couldn't do it.

  "But..."

  "Can't you just say it directly!", When I heard him say "but", I almost couldn't help but want to hit him.

  "I can use my power to help you out, but you'll lose something in return."

  "What's lost is lost!", I don't care about that now, as long as I can defeat Xing Tian, I can go out and save Zhang Ting!

  "Lose one's life." Life... A person's life is limited, and I'm only over 20 years old now. Whatever! "Lose it then! I'm still young!"

  "Have you thought it through, once you use it, you won't live for more than a few years?" I won't live for more than a few years?! "This is impossible!", hearing this sentence that was like a death sentence, I couldn't imagine... It's like the god of death running in front of you and saying you'll die tomorrow. Impossible! I'm still young, I have parents! Family! What will they do if I die?!

  "This is the truth, I originally thought you would be immortal because the zombie toxin in your body has merged with your entire body. Being able to control your own consciousness is the best manifestation, but I don't know why you still died."

  "Will zombies die? Will their souls fly away and their spirits be lost?"

  "Yes. But all of this is uncertain, and changes are happening every day. So, what's your decision."

  "If we can't go out like this, we'll still die. Isn't it better to live a few more years?" Many childhood fragments flashed through my mind... I think this secret will be kept in the bottom of my heart until I die.

  "Hmm." He nodded, and with a wave of his hand, the weak water underfoot all gathered up to envelop me. I stared at him in surprise, unsure what he was going to do, but in the blink of an eye everything around us returned to its original state, and in front of me was Xing Tian, still fighting those golden blades. I saw that the six blades had been reduced to just two.

  "Xing Tian, you're finished." My first sentence came out with a gulp, I don't know where the courage came from... But it still startled him, he paused for a moment. "Oh? Is that so?"

  No, I suddenly forgot where that bookkeeper went! Xing Tian's axe kept chopping heavily on the golden knife, and the number slowly decreased... I panicked! "I've been in your body all along, now put your heart at ease." When I heard a voice in my consciousness, I calmed down a lot. At least you can't escape, Xing Tian!

  "What to do." I kept communicating with the guardian in my body, but looked at Xing Tian who was getting closer and closer, with only one golden knife left in the air. "Now I will dominate your consciousness, there will be a collision soon, don't resist!", The guardian left these words, I felt that my brain was being hit by a force, it was very painful, feeling like there were two people fighting inside me, that force kept squeezing into my brain, but I instinctively resisted and rejected that force. "Don't resist!", the guardian's voice came again, I relaxed myself and let that force wander in my body!

  "This...", I feel that my soul is stirring, but it's not under my control! I'm like a bystander, can't describe it, just being inside my own body, watching it move on its own!