Chapter 6974 Listen to the Voice of Heaven and Earth
“Senior!” Long Chen greeted, bowing with excitement to the beautiful woman standing before him.
She was the sacred Heavenly Devil Zither. Her figure looked faint and nearly see-through, showing she had just woken up and was still weak.
“According to my calculations, your chances of saving us were extremely slim, yet you actually did it. Did you manage to reclaim the Heaven Earth Cauldron?” asked the Heavenly Devil Zither.
“No, I had Green Old Sixth’s help!” Long Chen replied, explaining his rather complicated relationship with the Six Dao Stone.
When the Heavenly Devil Zither heard about the Six Dao Stone, she was astonished.
She said, “That fellow’s nature is extremely unstable, always switching between good and bad. It is the least reliable of the ten primal chaos divine items. How did you convince it to help you?”
Long Chen was baffled.
The sweeping elder had said that the Six Dao Stone was no good bird. The Wine God and Tea Saint also liked to ignore the Six Dao Stone. Now, even the sacred Heavenly Devil Zither spoke badly of it. It seemed Green Old Sixth really did have a rotten reputation.
Smiling self-mockingly, Long Chen said, “I had no choice. The Heaven Earth Cauldron was gone, so I had to rely on it. No matter what, I had to try everything I could.”
Honestly, Long Chen had never really trusted this green parrot.
The beautiful woman looked at Long Chen for a while before sighing. “Humans really are the most complicated beings in this world. You can be both clever and foolish.”
It was just like how Zi Yan had saved Long Chen last time. Despite knowing it was a trap, she still jumped in. Now, Long Chen had done the same thing. Despite knowing that the Six Dao Stone wasn’t trustworthy, he still gambled his life on it.
The Heavenly Devil Zither looked at Long Chen seriously and said, “You were lucky this time, but don’t expect the Six Dao Stone to be your friend now. Out of its six sides, three are good and three are bad. Before the primal chaos war, the circulation of the Six Daos was balanced. But after the outsider laws invaded, it was the first to change. Now, its personality fluctuates constantly. It was also hurt by the war, and its good side took a hit. Most of the time, its selfish and greedy side takes over. Even when its good side appears, it’s only for a moment. It can’t control itself. You only succeeded because you met it during one of those rare good moments.”
Long Chen now understood why the Six Dao Stone acted so oddly. So it was like six personalities in one body, with the dominant personality constantly changing.
The majority of the time, it was controlled by one of its negative sides. Its good sides only showed up for brief moments.
In other words, when Long Chen gave it that little stone and asked for its help, its good side was dominant. That was why it had fought to the point of losing all its feathers.
Long Chen felt a headache coming on. With six personalities taking turns, how could he ever know what the Six Dao Stone would do next?
He couldn’t just keep relying on luck. The Heavenly Devil Zither’s warning came just in time. Next time he worked with the Six Dao Stone, it could surprise him in a bad way.
Long Chen quickly answered all of the Heavenly Devil Zither’s questions and explained what he had done to save Zi Yan.
When she heard that both the Wine God and the Tea Saint had helped, she fell silent, deep in thought.
“It seems they have decided that you are this era’s gamebreaker. Then everything depends on you. But I’m curious... How do they know you are the gamebreaker when you don’t have the Star Master’s reincarnation mark or the karmic luck of heaven and earth?”
Long Chen smiled bitterly and replied, “I’m also very curious about that.”
He didn’t want to be a gamebreaker or whatever that meant. He didn’t want that kind of burden. All he wanted was for himself and the people he cared about to live with dignity.
But even this simple wish was incredibly hard to achieve.
The two of them kept moving through the trembling world. Countless Daos echoed, and laws clashed everywhere. Destruction and rebirth mixed together.
Countless lifeforms were annihilated. Their screams of despair could not change their fate.
As life was annihilated, new life was born. Many lifeforms that had never existed in the history of the nine heavens and ten lands appeared.
Seeing that the Heavenly Devil Zither was silently listening to the sound of heaven and earth, Long Chen couldn’t help but ask, “Senior, is Zi Yan...?”
She shook her head, indicating for Long Chen to be silent.
After listening for a while, she finally said, “Zi Yan is fine. That ugly fellow wanted to infect her with her Heavenly Devil essence, but she didn’t realize that it was part of my plan. I’ve given Zi Yan my Devil Dao essence. Thus, that ugly fellow’s Heavenly Devil essence will only quicken Zi Yan’s cultivation of Heavenly Devil Body.”
“Heavenly Devil Body?” Long Chen asked, his heart shaking.
The sacred Heavenly Devil Zither looked at Long Chen and asked, “Didn’t you promise that even if Zi Yan became a devil, you would still love her? Why? Did you change your mind?”
Shaking his head, Long Chen replied, “I just want Zi Yan to choose for herself. If this is what she wants, I’ll love her no matter what. But if she’s doing it for me or because she feels forced, I hope she’ll let me share her burden.”
The Heavenly Devil Zither nodded, seemingly satisfied with this response.
She said, “Humans are a mix of Yin and Yang. They can use both sacred energy and devil power. There’s no right or wrong between them, and neither is better. For example, the devil qi on you is a thousand times thicker than Zi Yan’s. Was that your choice?”
Long Chen knew she meant his heart-devil. He really hadn’t had a choice and still couldn’t defeat it.
Last time, he let his heart-devil take the wisp of the Dark Master’s soul because he had no other option. Otherwise, he couldn’t have handled it.
His heart-devil would definitely grow stronger after absorbing part of the Dark Master. Just like the Heavenly Devil Zither said, he had no choice.
The same was true for Zi Yan, and really, for everyone. If they wanted to survive, they had to deal with whatever came their way.
Right now, Long Chen hoped that after his breakthrough, his stronger core energy would make him powerful enough to fight his heart-devil.
The Heavenly Devil Zither said, “While I was listening to the voice of heaven and earth, I learned some secrets. When the world finishes changing, a third faction will appear alongside the nine heavens and the outsider devils. Things are about to get even more chaotic.”
“A third faction?” Long Chen was startled.
All of a sudden, he thought of those mutated lifeforms—particularly the tiger he had just encountered.
“Then the heavens really are going to change!” Long Chen exclaimed.
“Quicken your pace. Night will arrive soon. Heaven-shaking opportunities will appear within the darkness, but they will belong to the lifeforms born from the merger of two different laws. Neither you nor the outsider devils will benefit from them. When this night is over, the new era will come. That will be your chance,” said the Heavenly Devil Zither before going back to rest.
“Heaven-shaking opportunities?” Long Chen stopped listening after hearing that. He was now very interested.
“There are heaven-shaking opportunities in this world that aren’t meant for me? I don’t believe it!”
But now wasn’t a good time for treasure-hunting; he had to get back to the Flame God Sect no matter what. Just like that, he disappeared into the chaotic world.