Chapter 458: Evil God Ritual - Boathouse

The warriors who had been beaten by Bai Liu fell to the ground, covering their bodies and wailing, and sat up on their knees in a twisted position.

The warriors moved quickly, crawling like spiders on the crumbling wooden floor, and quickly approached Xie Ta in the corner.

Xie Ta's eyes and nose are covered by threads so dense they are almost cloth, his arms and legs are tied to the ground, and he can only move slightly, his bloodstained white kimono strewn about on the ground, his head turned slightly to where Bai Liu is, the edge of which is the coin Bai Liu just gave him, but which Bai six has whipped away.

His fingers trembled slightly as he clasped the board and braced himself against the heavy wire, as if trying to stand up, his hand feeling the ground for the coin he had dropped.

The warrior's limbs twisted in a hideous shriek as he raised his short sword, slashing at Xie Ta's slender fingers that reached out and touched the ground lightly: "Die, monster!

The long white whip was thrown with such momentum that the spike at the end passed directly in front of the warrior's chest.

The warrior let go of the whip with a stunned look, his heart spurting blood everywhere as he slowly collapsed.

Bai Liu choked out a shortness of breath, blood spilling from his lips as a short knife was thrust completely into his right shoulder, and Bai six, who was holding it, hooked his mouth and gripped the handle and pulled it upwards.

Blood spurts out.

"It's so touching." Bai six smiles, "When he and Xie Ta were attacked by me at the same time and couldn't take care of both, he didn't hesitate to choose himself to save Xie Ta."

Bai Liu quickly withdrew his shoulder and stepped back, he covered his still bleeding shoulder, his face was expressionless and bloodless, he just looked across at Bai six calmly and levelly as always: "Isn't that the choice you want to see me make?"

"That's true." Bai six smiled as he rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "But I also want you to understand a feeling, or pain."

The soft and ethereal silver-blue eyes on Bai six's face curved up into a smile, "What is it like to be hurt and tormented by the one you love, Bai Liu ?"

Bai Liu breathes a sigh of relief.

"That's what Xie Ta was suffering before." Bai six smiled, "Now you've tasted it too, how does it feel?"

Bai Liu slowly raised his eyes as he released his own left hand that was squeezing his shoulder and suddenly laughed softly, "It is not your turn to give me the pain I gave him."

"And you're worthy?"

"Is that so?" Bai six curled up the silk threads on his left ring and index fingers and smiled amusingly, "It does seem that I cannot bestow pain on you like I can change the fate of other creations in this world line."

"You are the only one of so many humanoid creations in all the world lines I have created whose suffering is not at my disposal."

"I'm just really, really curious-"

Bai six hooked the corners of his mouth, loosened both fingers and pressed his fingers down on the silk threads wrapped around the end of his fingertips, "What on earth would it take for me, a god, to make you inflict a little pain for me to taste."

The moment the thread vibrated, a warrior jerked up from the ground and kicked away the coin that Xie Ta was about to touch.

The coin was kicked and hit the corner with a crisp thud before sliding into the water.

Bai Liu's eyesight followed him as a black bone whip stabbed him in the back from his blind spot, Bai Liu sidestepped and caught the whip with his left hand, which had transformed into a monkey's paw, while holding the white bone whip in his right hand and throwing it out.

The bone whip stuck to the wooden floor in a forceful sweeping circle, sweeping all the warriors on the wooden floor into the black-coloured pool of poison.

Bai Liu's monkey paw holding the black bone whip disappeared the moment he released it and a vial of poison appeared in his hand, he looked down and quickly flicked the cap off with his thumb before raising his hand and throwing it into the pond.

The pond was filled with screams and shrieks as warriors with their metal shells melted off tried to climb out of the corrosive pool of poison, but usually as soon as their hands reached out, they were struck down with a whip by Bai Liu and continued to fall back into the pool screaming.

The second the screaming in the pond stopped, Bai six raised his hand and withdrew the puppet silk.

The silk threads burrowed through the opening at the end of his glove, and Bai Liu looked at him with a smirk: "You've cleared the field, now it's my turn to clear it."

With that, Bai six's eyes swept over to Xie Ta in the corner.

Bai Liu's bone whip swung down at Bai Liu's face just as he was about to come into contact with Xie Ta, Bai Liu jumped back twice to avoid it, and he looked across at Bai Liu with a raised eyebrow.

Bai Liu's expression and tone were cold, he looked at Bai six flatly and twirled the bone whip in his hand, all the bone spines on the whip "clicked" out.

"Who says I'm done clearing the field?"

"Isn't there one of the biggest pieces of rubbish yet to be cleared out?"

"Maximum rubbish, are you talking about me?" Bai six smiled and tilted his head to see Bai Liu's expression, "Are you angry? I've been watching you for twenty-four years and it's rare to see you so outwardly emotional."

Bai Liu did not take Bai six's words and threw another whip at him.

Bai six's palms flipped upwards and a wall of water patterns appeared in front of her, the whip hitting it as if it had hit latex and bounced back loosely.

[System Alert: Evil God Bai six uses Godly Skill - (Audience View)]

[This skill can be used to trap an opponent in the viewer's perspective position with a wall of water, so that the opponent can only watch and cannot attack the world behind the wall. The field on one side of the wall is (viewer field) and the other side is (small TV field), a Genesis skill].

Bai Liu jerked his head to look at Xie Ta, who was behind the watery wall with Bai six, and his pupils plummeted to a tiny dot.

Bai six smiled and clapped his hands, "Okay, please, our only audience, focus your eyes on me and stop looking at the game npc."

"Our interactive TV game is coming up later."

"Before we start our game, let's first introduce our lovely audience to the background of the game."

When Bai six finished, he smiled and snapped his fingers, and the silk thread from which Xie Ta was suspended dragged Xie Ta around.

The silk thread placed Xie Ta on a chair that had somehow appeared in front of the watery wall, and Xie Ta dropped her head as if she had fallen asleep facing Bai Liu on the opposite side of the wall.

As Bai Liu waved his hand slowly to the left, a crimson velvet curtain hung over the battered wooden pillars on either side of the shrine, and the battered planks on the floor were repaired in slow motion to their pre-battered state, shining like new, just like the well-cared-for planks on the stage of the festival Bai Liu had seen earlier.

"Pop-!"

Bai six claps his hands together and the crimson velvet curtain descends slowly, fitting against each other and concealing Xie Ta, who is sitting behind the curtain, in the middle of which hangs a swinging wooden sign in red lacquer with yellow writing that reads -

-- [The Festival of the Evil Gods - The Boathouse - Act I Scene].

Bai six looked across the watery wall at Bai Liu and smiled softly, "I hope you don't mind me doing the voice work for the background of the game."

"Pop-!"

Bai six Another light, brisk strike to the palm.

The curtain rises and Xie Ta, sitting behind it, disappears as if by magic, replaced by an unfinished wax figure sitting on the chair Xie Ta was sitting on.

The wax figure leans crookedly against a chair like a human statue in an art class, a gauzy white cloth resting in front of it, fluttering with the night breeze and feeling like it could slip away when the wind blows.

Bai placed his left hand behind his waist, his right hand in front of him and waved his hand outwards, slightly bowing in a standard gentleman's salute, then raising his eyes, he smiled.

"At the beginning of the story, allow me to begin by introducing myself."

"By status, I would be the arch-villain of this game, an evil god who would attack all players without distinction."

"To call me in human terms, I would be called the God of All-Seeing, and I can see all that is happening through the medium."

Bai six straightens up unhurriedly, looking at Bai Liu behind the watery wall, still with a casual smile on his face.

"Mankind calls me the all-knowing God, describes me as having power over space and time, and calls me the door to all time and space in the universe."

"The past is me, the present is me, the future is me, all space and time converge and cease in me, I am an unimaginable entity, and human texts within interestingly portray me as saying that even a mere ten thousandth glimpse of me through dreams and fantasies would drive one mad with it."

Bai six dropped his eyes and he tapped his index finger in the air, and in an instant all the scene around him was swallowed up by the darkness spreading from his fingertips, leaving only the stage planks on the crimson curtained floor.

The original background of the shrine turns into a pitch black night, with no light at all visible.

The shattered planks beneath Bai Liu's feet instantly disappeared, and he stepped into the air with both feet, as if he had fallen into an infinite universe or a deep ocean, descending and falling in a feeling of weightlessness, and a sense of suffocation slowly surfaced.

"Huh."

Behind the wall of water, Bai Liu laughs twice and gracefully reaches out from behind the wall of water with his black leather gloved hand and pulls a puppet silk around the wrist of the descending Bai Liu.

Bai Liu looked upwards from his dangling wrist, and Bai six looked down at him from behind the watery wall, as if in pity, as if out of the corner of his eye, and whispered.

"Behold, incompetent and ignorant mortals, always so vulnerable in the universe."

Bai six released the puppet silk and Bai Liu began to fall again, but was soon caught by a stool from the audience, on which he sat and slowly floated to the opposite side of the watery wall, once again face to face with Bai six, but surrounded by a bizarre universe, a universe so dark that nothing could be seen.

"It's too dark, isn't it?" Bai Liu heard Bai six ask him in a low voice, "It was an oversight on my part."

"Our spectator should be given some light so that he can see the best part of the game."

Bai Liu smiled and opened his hand, and colourful dense balls of light spilled out of his body. These glowing spheres of light spurting out of Bai Liu's body seemed to carry some kind of heat and energy, and as they flowed, they brought out the wind and blew away Bai Liu's hair on his forehead.

Bai Liu saw Bai six's emotionless, dark eyes reflecting these endless globs of light beneath the shattered hair, as if the brightest part of the universe had been cut off and pasted into these eyes, and then through these emotionless, pure black eyes, the unknown of the universe was displayed to mortals.

These flowing masses of light fly off in all directions, flowing and floating in the darkness of the universe, gathering around each other, then slowly forming rivers of starbursts and streams of lustre, these spheres converging into ribbons of light that illuminate the endless darkness on either side of the watery wall.

The scene is so surreal and magnificent that it's as if the universe had been lit up by Bai six's simple words.

"Humans always like to describe my appearance in terms of glowing spheres, but they don't know what these spheres represent."

Bai six whispered softly as countless spheres of different coloured light hovered around him, then he held up a shimmering pure white sphere in his right hand and handed it to Bai Liu with an outstretched wall of water stripes.

Bai Liu's face is illuminated by the warm glow of the ball.

Bai six laughed lightly as he watched, "Do you know what this sphere is?"

Bai Liu asks, "What is it?"

"It's time, it's space, it's the future, it's the door." Bai six said calmly, "It is the myriad of world lines I have created."

"-and this one, next to you, is world line 658, where you are."