Chapter 2378: An Lushan and Heaven!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
In the war of the northeast, An Lushan had been defeated, bringing down Genesis Supreme with him. Normally, An Lushan’s soul would have been given to Essence Supreme to handle, but Heaven had made an exception and taken the soul with him.
Though this was strange, Essence Supreme had never questioned Heaven’s decisions too much.
Heaven nodded. “Mm. He has been in this state ever since he was brought back. After so long, We have gotten used to it.”
However, after saying this, Heaven also turned his head and rebuked, “Shut your mouth!”
On the other side, it seemed like An Lushan’s soul didn’t hear, continuing to miserably howl.
Heaven couldn’t help but frown at this sight.
Ever since Heaven had rescued An Lushan, his soul had been in a very bizarre state, disordered and lost, as if he had completely lost his mind.
Initially, he had attempted to fix An Lushan, but nothing he had done had worked.
“Wang Chong, I’ll kill you! Kill you!”
An Lushan roared, his hatred reaching to the heavens, his entire being frenzied and crazed. He appeared to be immersed in his own world.
“It seems that his mind has completely collapsed. In his current state, he’s no better than a cripple,” Essence Supreme said after a few moments of silence.
An Lushan had almost been about to obtain everything, and even Heaven and Essence Supreme had thought about making him the World Emperor once the operation was over. Alas, at the final moment, when the light of victory was already visible, it had all been destroyed by the explosives Wang Chong had buried within the steel fortress.
More importantly, besides this, Essence Supreme also knew that Wang Chong and An Lushan had a very strong personal grudge between them.
When a person’s pillars of support and convictions crumbled, they would end up like An Lushan.
Essence Supreme was saying that An Lushan could already be abandoned, but Heaven insisted on keeping him.
“You are wrong.”
Heaven shook his head, seeming to know what Essence Supreme was thinking.
“A person who can receive the acknowledgement of the World Consciousness cannot be that simple. Moreover, I cannot understand why, after countless epochs and countless talented individuals, the World Consciousness would choose him to be the Child of the World. There must be something special about him.”
An Lushan had always believed that ‘Child of the World’ was a title that the Celestial God Organization had granted him, even believed that the phenomena on his body were their doing. Only Heaven knew that he had actually done nothing. All of those things had been through An Lushan’s own power.
“There is also something else that you’re wrong about. He truly has lost control and fallen into disarray, but he has not gone crazy. Different from what you imagined, his mind and convictions have not crumbled.”
Heaven paused before adding, “Ever since I brought him here, his state has been rather strange. It is like the energy of another world has been seeping into his mind.”
“Another world?”
Essence Supreme was shocked by this, even that fingernail-sized mental fragment fiercely trembling.
Heaven had never mentioned this before.
“The otherworldly invaders?” Essence Supreme asked.
When it came to other worlds, his mind immediately went to the world of the otherworldly invaders.
“No!”
To his surprise, Heaven shook his head and directly rejected the idea.
“At the start, I also suspected that it was connected to that world, but I quickly realized that this was not the case. The attributes of that energy are the most similar to our world.”
Essence Supreme was taken aback, not understanding Heaven’s meaning. If the energy was similar to this world, then it probably was from this world. Why had Heaven called it ‘another world’?
Heaven saw this and chuckled, apparently knowing the question on Essence Supreme’s mind.
“There are some things that We are unable to explain to you in detail. We have inspected his memories, and in the end, We found strange memory fragments that appeared to be very similar to our world, but also completely different.
“Many of these memory fragments had him in them, but the events within had never happened, and there were also events that seemed to be from the future. At first, We believed that this was an error in his memories. However, later on, We discovered that these were not his memories, but had simply appeared in his mind.
“It appears to be a world similar to ours, but events there developed in an entirely different fashion. There are too few fragments, so We cannot find out too much, nor can We understand what sort of state he is in.”
Heaven tightly furrowed his brow. Few things could pose a difficulty to Heaven, but he truly did not know what was going on with An Lushan’s strange state.
Boom!
As Heaven was speaking, suddenly, without any warning, the sealed dimension trembled as if an invisible hand was shaking it about.
“This…”
Even Heaven was alarmed by this development. No one understood the sealed dimension more than him. In normal circumstances, even the world’s collapse would barely affect it.
“Great One, this!”
Sensing what was happening, Essence Supreme began to panic a little.
“This is a powerful force!”
But Heaven appeared to not hear him. He was much stronger than Essence Supreme, and he could sense that a powerful energy was rapidly approaching.
No—it was not right to call it ‘energy’. It appeared more like a clash of continent on continent, a collision of world upon world.
Kaclack!
The dimension trembled once more, and with a frightening crack, a black fissure was torn through the dimension. After this, a lightning bolt that was ten thousand times more dazzling than the sun shot out of the fissure and struck An Lushan’s soul.
“AAAHHH!”
An Lushan’s soul instantly howled in immense pain, a howl louder than any previous howl.
A sliver of shock appeared in Heaven’s eyes.
While there was a lot of sound and fury, he could sense that the seal had not actually been loosened, and nothing had actually changed. All of this was happening due to An Lushan.
His surroundings fell quiet, time itself having seemingly stopped.
All this had come quickly and ended quickly. The shuddering disappeared with such speed that it seemed like an illusion. But both Heaven and Essence Supreme understood that things were not that simple. They immediately turned their attention to An Lushan in the corner.
Only a little ball was left of An Lushan’s soul, and it was surrounded by a gray fog the size of a millstone. But at this moment, a light erupted from the gray fog.
At this moment, even Essence Supreme was able to sense that energy that did not belong to this world.
A howl of anger broke the silence, piercing through the firmament like a sharp arrow.
“I see! I understand! I finally understand! Wang Chong, so this was the reason you wanted to kill me! I won’t let you go, never! I could kill you once, so I can kill you twice!”
Heaven and Essence Supreme could sense that the lost and disordered An Lushan was suddenly sobering up like he was waking up from a dream.
But what shocked them the most was An Lushan’s words.
He understood? Understood what?
And when had he ever killed Wang Chong? While his mind was clearing, why did his state seem to be even more confusing?
But their questions did not last for long…
“Let Us see what secrets you have!”
Heaven reached out with a hand.
At this moment, An Lushan didn’t even have a chance to resist and was immediately drawn into Heaven’s hand.
Bang!
There was no room for negotiation. Heaven’s mind surged into An Lushan’s soul like a storm.
Heaven’s overwhelming strength didn’t give An Lushan time to even muster a defense, and a moment later, everything was exposed.
Amidst crackling electricity, everything in An Lushan’s mind, including countless fragmentary images that had appeared after that strange development, rushed into Heaven’s mind.
Silence!
Absolute silence!
Heaven’s body crackled with electricity, but he said nothing.
After an hour in this suffocating atmosphere…
Buzz!
Heaven’s eyelids trembled and flew open. At that moment, his eyes were dazzlingly bright like the sun and moon, a light that one did not dare to look at directly.
“So that’s how it was; I see… To think that there was something in the world like this, that someone can have a second try after dying. It turns out that We already succeeded in another world!”
Heaven’s body rapidly pulsed with energy akin to blazing flames.
His intuition was right. After a long wait, he had finally received a result. In An Lushan’s mind, he had seen images that he could not possibly imagine, had witnessed the unbelievable truth.
The sealed dimension trembled as even Heaven was shaken by this unprecedented phenomenon.
Heaven finally understood that everything was far more complicated than it seemed. What had emerged from that black fissure was not a brilliant lightning bolt, but another soul.
Another ‘An Lushan’!
The two An Lushans were identical, and they both appeared in his senses, the two of them merging together.
By reading the memories of that other An Lushan, Heaven had found out everything.
The otherworldly invader army… the shattering of the world… Wang Chong transforming into a beam of light…
If these images were not right before his eyes, Heaven would have found it very hard to believe that this was possible.
He now understood why, over the many eons, it was An Lushan who had been chosen as the Child of the World.
Wang Chong and An Lushan!
This was a destined pair, the two of them foreordained to be foes.
And these two were also the two greatest linking points between the two worlds.
“This Child of Destruction is different from the rest, different from all the other Destiny Experimental Bodies, because he did not simply come from another world.
“Child of Prophecy? Hahaha…”
As Heaven read through that other An Lushan’s memories, he heartily laughed. As a thought occurred to him, his mind became much clearer.
“Dao Yi, didn’t you say that the person who appeared after many eons to destroy Our Celestial Palace would be Our greatest foe? Then now, We will merge with his greatest destined foe! Let us see if your prophecy is right or if Our fate is tougher!”