radicalducati Chapter 14 The Changed Future
Chapter 14 The Changed Future
"Is it fate that I have mastered this supernatural power?"
Tears of blood streamed down Bai Xiaoxiao's face as she slowly walked towards the group of villagers opposite her.
A bright red light shone from between his eyebrows—
[Borrowing Yuan Zhenmu]!
A tangible red beam of magical power swept across, instantly forcibly subjugating the villagers one by one.
The sickles that the village chief had secretly instructed several strong men to hide on their bodies as a precaution have now become weapons that lead to fratricide.
The manipulated villagers wielded sharp blades uncontrollably.
In an instant, cries of agony filled the air.
"Help!!"
"Don't come any closer!! Murder!"
"My hands and feet, they just won't obey my commands!!"
The piercing screams echoed in the mountains behind Heishan Village.
Seeing an old woman about to suffer a terrible fate, Gao Haoguang finally couldn't bear it.
He flashed into the crowd and punched the villager who was being controlled by Bai Xiaoxiao to the ground.
Why do you want to help them?
"Don't their ancestors and their current actions deserve to die?"
Upon hearing this question, Gao Haoguang was momentarily at a loss for words.
Do these villagers deserve to die?
Should!
But he still couldn't get over his mental hurdle and couldn't bring himself to sit idly by like his senior.
Similarly, he had no face to persuade Bai Xiaoxiao to let go of her hatred.
So, Gao Haoguang didn't answer Bai Xiaoxiao's question. Instead, he threw a punch just like before, knocking a villager who was being controlled to the ground, while protecting the villagers who were not yet controlled behind him.
Upon seeing this, Bai Xiaoxiao spoke in a low voice.
"Are you trying to save them?"
Gao Haoguang remained silent.
To be honest, he also wanted these ugly-looking villagers to disappear from the world.
He was also hesitant.
Am I really worth fighting for these beasts?
He hoped someone could tell him the answer.
Unfortunately, their master wasn't around, and their senior brother neither stopped Bai Xiaoxiao nor stopped them...
Thinking of this, Gao Haoguang gripped the talisman bestowed upon him by Jiang Mingzi tightly.
Regardless, all he wanted to do now was stop Bai Xiaoxiao!
As Gao Haoguang made his thought, a fluctuation that was impossible for ordinary people to detect surged from his body.
On the other end of the same month, Jiang Mingzi stared at him, quite surprised:
"A natal supernatural power? It even has a hint of causality..."
Jiang Mingzi frowned.
Grey's supernatural abilities... are somewhat strange.
What was that little green ball-like thing wrapped around his fingertip?
The talisman in Gao Haoguang's hand suddenly changed.
"Directly modifying the structure of the talisman... but what does that have to do with causality?"
Jiang Mingzi was completely baffled. "Could it be similar to Chang Shimingzi?"
at the same time.
Gao Haoguang could vaguely sense the changes occurring in the talisman in his hand, but he didn't dwell on them.
He activated his magic power, intending to throw out the talisman, but it was too late.
After confirming that Gao Haoguang was going to stop her, Bai Xiaoxiao's blood-red eyes between her brows instantly locked onto him.
[Borrowing Yuan Zhenmu]!
"Oh no!"
Gao Haoguang was shocked. He felt as if his magical power, along with his limbs, was instantly pinned to the spot by an invisible force.
"I will not harm my benefactor."
Bai Xiaoxiao said softly, "Please behave yourself too."
Gao Haoguang could only watch helplessly as the blood-red light between Bai Xiaoxiao's eyebrows flashed again.
[Borrowing Yuan Zhenmu]
This time, everyone became her puppet.
In an instant, blood stained the earth red, and limbs were scattered everywhere.
"Mother, Mother, it's me."
Gao Haoguang turned his head and saw a little child holding his dead mother, tears streaming down his face.
He kept shaking the dead bodies of his loved ones, trying to wake his deceased parents.
Terrified cries rose and fell.
"Bai Xiaoxiao! Give me back my parents' lives!"
"I'm going to kill you!"
As cries rang out, the village children, driven by hatred, rushed towards Bai Xiaoxiao.
Seeing this, Bai Xiaoxiao's eyes flashed back to the scenes of playing with these children in the past, and to the harmonious relationship between the villagers when her parents were still alive.
Now all of that is gone, leaving only those pairs of hateful eyes staring at him.
At this moment, Bai Xiaoxiao was exhausted.
It's easy to kill these innocent children.
But then what?
Let's end it here.
Bai Xiaoxiao smiled bitterly, completely relieved.
She neither dodged nor used her supernatural powers; she simply stood quietly in place, letting the orphaned children rush towards her.
Xia Chuan, who had been observing from the sidelines, sighed:
"Even though you weren't in the wrong, you still couldn't bring yourself to be ruthless?"
He felt that this girl shouldn't have ended up like this.
However, just as he was about to step forward to save the person, an extremely strong sense of crisis suddenly descended upon him, sending a chill down his spine!
This feeling... if I interfere, will I die?!
Xia Chuan abruptly stopped in his tracks.
When Bai Xiaoxiao fell, her supernatural powers were dispelled.
When Gao Haoguang rushed over, Bai Xiaoxiao was already lying on the verge of death in a pool of blood.
Gao Haoguang quickly checked her injuries.
The result, however, made his heart sink.
Forcibly using the Nirvana Corpse Divine Power in a mortal body already severely depletes one's vitality, not to mention the fatal gash in the abdomen.
Moreover, she had already lost the will to live.
It's happening again!
If they couldn't save the villagers, can't they even save Bai Xiaoxiao now?
Filled with resentment, Gao Haoguang abruptly turned to look at the Tongyue Order, which remained activated at his waist:
"Wang Ba Xian Jun..."
The words of distress were barely on the tip of his tongue when the light of the Three Truths Under the Same Moon Order abruptly stopped, completely severing the connection.
"Damn it!"
Gao Haoguang slammed his fist on the ground in anger, then a thought flashed through his mind: "Senior brother!"
He looked at Xia Chuan as if grasping at a straw:
"Quick! There must be the pill I'll beg from the Turtle Immortal Lord for tomorrow nearby!"
"Let's dig quickly..."
Before he could finish speaking, Gao Haoguang's expression suddenly turned blank, and he froze on the spot.
"Dig...dig for what?"
Xia Chuan narrowed his eyes: "Causality?"
......
A thousand years ago, on the other side of the same lunar month.
Jiang Mingzi looked at the token in his hand, which had lost all its magical power, and sighed deeply.
How could he not know what Grey was thinking?
They simply wanted him to save the little girl's life, or even to stop this absurd tragedy from the outset.
But this won't work.
Because this future, representing the "result," has already been witnessed by him, someone who is in the "past."
Faced with the strict law of cause and effect, a predetermined outcome cannot be changed even by the Three True Ones in the Same Month.
Jiang Mingzi turned her head and looked at Bai Da, who had just buried his companion not far away, with a complicated expression in her eyes.
"Hey, your name is Bai Da, right?"
Bai Da was startled and stepped forward, flattered and overwhelmed: "Yes! What are your orders, Immortal Lord?"
"Do you like drinking?"
Bai Da was stunned:
"Of course I like it. Why do you ask, immortal?"
With a flick of his sleeve, Jiang Mingzi conjured up a jar of century-old fine wine and two wine bowls out of thin air.
"Meeting is fate."
As he poured the wine, he sighed softly, "Let this glass of wine bid you farewell."
Bai Da was so moved by the immortal's kindness that tears welled up in his eyes, and he picked up the wine bowl with both hands:
"Medicine Master Bai Da, on behalf of the more than two hundred villagers of Heishan Village, and on behalf of the Bai family... respectfully thank the immortal for his grace!"
After saying that, the two clinked glasses and drank it all in one gulp.
Watching Bai Da hurriedly leave with his luggage on his back, Jiang Mingzi stood silently.
"If one were an ordinary seeker of the Dharma, one should have stopped at this moment when faced with a cause and effect situation that had already been established."
Those who attempt to distort the history they have witnessed will inevitably face divine retribution according to the law of cause and effect.
At this point, Jiang Mingzi suddenly grinned arrogantly: "But who am I, this Immortal Lord!"
"I am Jiang Mingzi, the Immortal Lord of All Laws of the Eternal World!"
As Jiang Mingzi channeled his magical power, lightning appeared out of nowhere and crashed down.
It slammed down on Jiang Mingzi's right hand and the magical power he was channeling.
The causal punishment, which would severely injure an ordinary person with great supernatural powers with just one strike, was completely absorbed by Jiang Mingzi.
He looked at his battered right hand and sighed, "So it really doesn't work?"
"Fine, consider it a wake-up call."
He stood up and bowed to Bai Da's retreating figure.
May you rest in peace.
……
2020 AD.
Inside the ancient ancestral hall, a black-haired boy sat cross-legged on a futon, engrossed in reading a book called "Natsukawa Daily Life".
The diary reads:
"At that time, something was triggered in the darkness."
Haoguang and I were shocked to discover that Bai Xiaoxiao's life force had miraculously been fully restored.
The boy frowned slightly and continued reading.
"After that, this place underwent changes that I could not comprehend."
It suddenly dawned on me that there must have been someone, whose own ending only he knew, who had altered everything at the source of the past.
what?
What does it mean to be someone whose ending only he himself knows?
With a sense of doubt, he turned to the next page.
What came into view, however, was a line of hastily written characters, clearly added later in deep ink:
Every coincidence that reverses fate comes at a price.
It wasn't him who changed the past, but Him!
His target... is me.
what?
This seemingly random and eerie statement left the black-haired boy frozen in place.
"Master, what does this mean?"
Just then, a familiar and cheerful female voice came from the courtyard:
"Xinglian, it's time to eat!"
If you don't come soon, Aunt Bai will get angry!
"Okay!"
Duan Xinglian responded and got up to leave, but his mind was still lingering on the story in the book.
What does it mean to change the ending?
The patriarch's diary is truly incoherent.
I feel it's not as good as "Hōkō Daily Life".
While pondering, he subconsciously glanced down at the ancient book in his hand.
The next second, Duan Xinglian stopped abruptly, his gaze freezing completely.
The words "His target is me" just now... vanished into thin air.