Chapter 585: The Temple of Nightmares

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has won the final game].

[Ask player Bai Liu, looking towards the pool.]

Bai Liu lowered his head as the smashed and bloody pool parted from the sides and rhythmic applause emanated from within.

"A fine duel." Bai six stood next to the suspended Fang Dian, who smiled and said, "The way you executed her lover, you've got a bit of my style."

"I have just allowed her to merge with the memories of this world line, and to watch with me the entire execution of her lover, the prophet."

"It just so happens that the seer has lost the game as well, and you saved me a few moments of work by helping me execute her in front of her."

Fang Dian slowly lifted her head, with tears in her eyes.

Bai Liu looks at Fang Dian, who is hanging from the ceiling, and the moment he meets her eyes, he is frozen in place.

[God gives creatures, lovers, friends and loved ones].

[And then deprive it thereby from the side of creation oh, as a way of creating suffering and brewing souls.

"Enough of catching up, let us now enter the ritual of the evil god's succession." Bai six slid his finger down, and an old carved door appeared at the bottom of the pool. Bai six opened it a crack, and behind it countless orbs of silvery blue light instantly poured out.

Bai six instantly merged into these spheres, and only his laughing voice remained: "That is, kill me, the old god, and you will become the true god."

"But your current power is nowhere near enough to kill me."

"You've come this far so I can talk to you about the duties of working as an evil god."

"I believe you already know that I am a product of the Gate, that I was born to guard it, that on one side of the Gate is an endless stream of silver-blue tainted heretics, and that on the other end is a constant stream of worldlines born from my body."

"But do you want to know how the door was created?"

Bai Liu half-squinted as a mass of spheres converged in front of him, a halo of light so dazzling that he could not open his eyes. He looked in Fang Dian's direction and reached out to grab them, but Fang Dian was instantly swallowed up by these dense spheres and could no longer be seen.

The last person around him also disappeared.

The spheres form a wall around Bai Liu, confining him and preventing him from moving, and Bai six's voice is hidden within them, laughing and smiling.

"Originally there was no gate, the more ancient gods, when creating the worldline, found that human desires always lead to the destruction of the world, that their desires give birth to strange heresies that pollute the world, and in order to keep the worldline running peacefully and to keep the guardians of humanity, they spoke of the dangerous desires generated by all worldline humans coming together. "

"And to imprison these desires, they created the Gate and me, and I am the guardian of the Gate, the incarnation of the Gate, and all I have to do is purify and bear the desires of mankind, as well as imprison the dangerous desires of mankind forever on this side of the Gate."

"So on one side of the door is light and order, and on the other side is chaos and darkness, and I can only allow the worldline of light to come to the light side and the worldline of darkness to come to the dark side."

"But in time these gods too fell away, and only I remain, for the desires of men are endless, and as long as their evil desires exist for a moment, I exist for a moment."

Bai six Dropping his eyes, he looked at the sphere of light around him and nodded lightly with a sigh.

"I had existed alone for too long and began to grow bored with the whole guarding humans thing, so I let the dangerous desires and heresies on the other side of the gate through."

"A funny thing has really happened." Bai six's laugh drifted further and further away, "I found that without the door as an objective constraint, there was no difference between the world lines on either side of the door."

"Everyone generates the same evil desires."

"I am becoming more and more bored with the whole guarding humans thing, but when I was created, I could not leave this door and unless someone more suitable comes along, I will have to remain as a door."

"But to keep the door, one needs to be able to stay awake and sane all the time in the face of desire and pollution, and be a strong enough soul in its own right."

"I have tried many approaches in different world lines and found that pain is an important criterion for selecting the quality of the soul. "

"The more distressed the soul, the more it can stay awake in its desires."

Bai six laughed softly, "And I've been looking for you for so long, and I've finally found you, Bai Liu."

The sphere dispersed in a flash and Bai Liu appeared in front of him, smiling lightly as he looked at Bai Liu, whose pupils tightened for a moment.

"Your soul is strong enough to bear all the desires of the world line, and you are a better evil god than I am to be a gatekeeper."

"Now that I have opened the door, the heretics and monsters on this side of the door will flock frantically to the other side, and on the other side, all the normal world lines, of course-"

"-including the 658 world line where you are."

Bai six nudged the door, which had only been gaping open a crack, and a silvery-blue mass of light burst out of it instantly.

The moment Bai Liu saw the door open, the silvery-blue dust inside quickly coalesced into a ball of light, with all sorts of strange and otherworldly images flowing through it, with hideous and distorted faces, while on the other side, the 657 world lines that had been contaminated by Bai Liu were slowly approaching the door, interspersed with the sphere of light and darkness. -The 658 worldline where he was.

"The change of the evil gods requires the opening of the door, and after the door is opened, both sides of the world line will come closer to the middle of the door." Bai six smiled softly, "For the last evil god, that is, I, am about to fall, and at the moment of my fall the door will disappear and the two sides will merge, and the darkness will come to the side of the light and the light to the side of the darkness."

"That is to say, the sides of the door will be inverted."

"And all you have to do is to absorb all the desires of the world line in this moment of inversion and stay awake, and the turnover is complete."

Bai Liu raised his head, blood dripping from his jaw, his voice hoarse, "And what about you, do I not have to kill you?"

"No need." Bai six finally smiled and stepped fully out of the ball of light, "I myself am the embodiment of desire."

"When you absorbed all your desires, I ceased to exist, or rather, you were born in my place."

"But accordingly, all the memories of my existence, all the memories of what my derivatives have done in 658 world lines will also be absorbed by you, which is equivalent to you becoming a collection of us."

Bai six smiled a very friendly smile, "And I don't know if you'll still be you at that time."

"-or maybe, you turn out to be the next me, too."

"Now, the turnover begins."

"Oh, I forgot the friendly reminder." Bai six smiled at Bai Liu, "During the turnover, you, as the door, are immovable."

"- you can only be alone, watching all the lines of the world being polluted, degraded and destroyed before you."

"Who said he was alone!" A heavy sword was flung out of the sphere of light, severing the sphere that imprisoned Bai Liu, and a harsh, crisp female voice came from the sphere, "And I'm beside him!"

Bai Liu's expression was stunned the moment he fell from the wall of the ball of light, and he even stumbled a little from his injuries as he fell, and was helped to stand up.

"Is everything okay?" Fang Dian's voice and smile were the same as ever, "I'm not too late, am I?"

"Why ......" Bai Liu tilted his head incredulously, and for the first time he could hardly contain, kept dropping tears, "and stood by me?"

"I'm going to be an evil god."

"So what?" Fang Dian said calmly, "Evil gods are human too."

"There can be good and bad evil gods."

"If you do become an evil god, I'm sure you'll be a good evil god."

[I think Bai Liu will be a good boy.

"A good evil god?" Bai six gave a soft laugh, "Nonsense."

He drops his eyes and swings his hand downwards, the door opens fully to Bai Liu, and the silvery-blue dust inside comes swiftly like a blizzard at Bai Liu's face, instantly transforming into all sorts of monsters and heretics that hideously invade the world line on this side of the door.

In just an instant, Bai Liu's eyes turned silver-blue as countless human desires and dreams flooded into his brain, bludgeoning his soul into nothingness and immobility.

...... don't.

It took almost all of Bai Liu's strength to turn his head sideways and look at the shimmering 658 worldline, which was darkening and dulling in a silvery blue glow and was about to go to the other side of the door.

...... He doesn't want to forget this world line.

He did not want to see this line of the world destroyed in front of him.

Even if he becomes an evil god, even if he will have endless world lines in the future, the world line that has brought him this far, he doesn't want to have to watch its destruction like this.

"I will not allow any of the world lines to be tainted." Fang Dian held up her heavy sword and stepped in front of Bai Liu, standing in front of the door to the endless stream of heretics coming at her, she tilted her head back, looking fierce and determined, and swung down with her heavy sword raised high, "And I won't let Bai Liu see his world line tainted!"

"Judgement of Light!"

A huge halo of pure white light erupted from Fang Dian's decapitated heavy sword, forcing all the monsters to scream and retreat behind the door, while Bai Liu stared in awe at Fang Dian's back against the light.

She held her heavy sword flat in her right hand, her voice firm and calm in the dense light: "I will never let the heretic take a step beyond the gate."

In the midst of the confusion, Bai Liu, already somewhat blurred in his consciousness by his desire, remembers only that he saw the heretic on the other side of the door keep crawling out and being hissed back by Fang Dian, who stood beside him again and again, tapping him on the shoulder to keep him awake, protecting them again and again with her body in front of the world line and him.

Never back down, never admit defeat.

Bai six sighs, "You are truly the most defiant human being I have ever met."

"Ahem ......" Fang Dian wiped the blood from the side of her mouth and looked up with a smile, "It's not like I'm not defeated."

"I know I can't win against you, so I just don't want to lose."

"The people I love are standing behind me, their souls, their beliefs are sustaining me, and if I concede defeat so easily -"

Fang Dian's eyes were red and she smiled as she waved down her heavy sword, "- then is it not true that the value of their sacrifice is as light as you, the evil god, say?"

At the end of the battle, Fang Dian, bruised and bloodied, stood in front of Bai Liu, who looked up at her and said very softly, "I killed Lu Yizhan."

"I know, I saw it." Fang Dian paused for a moment as she resisted the heavy sword to her shoulder again and let out a deep breath, "But I didn't just see you kill him, I saw the letter he left me."

" Lu Yizhan's letter tells me that he has known this ending for a long time and that he accepts it."

"So I'm sure you know that too." Fang Dian turned her head, the woman covered in blood was actually smiling brightly at the moment, she even winked at Bai Liu, "So I'm guessing this is just a little game of cheating played on the evil gods by friends joining forces for good is it?"

"I don't want to pry into your little secrets."

Fang Dian swung her heavy sword again to kill the heretic and her voice became heavy and strong: "But when it's all over, no more of this messing around!"

The door was getting closer and closer to Fang Dian, Bai Liu saw Fang Dian staggering to her feet with her heavy sword propped up, her shoulder and back covered in wounds, she looked back at Bai Liu at that moment as if she suddenly had a heart to heart, she smiled a little, the wind blowing her long hair, she said to Bai Liu with a muzzle smile.

Don't be afraid to part with the one you love, Bai Liu.

[We will meet again eventually].

[I believe you will bring us all back to this world].