Chapter 1 Happening to Zhao Xi

Although the things that happened to Zhao Xi were bizarre, they didn't seem to have many doubts. In fact, the whole process was very simple: Regardless of whether the Creation Goddess was really completely dead, the obsession she left in Corpus at the moment of her fall remained. This obsession was just a short sentence, but it lingered in the Lingjie Bell Tower for thousands of years. Zhao Xi accidentally came into contact with this obsession and became the carrier of the latter, while she herself fell into a long period of chaos. The power of the gods is so powerful that even a trace of their thoughts left after their fall is enough to make a powerful demon hunter lose their mind.

Hao Ren's act of reshaping Zhao Xi's spirit with a hibernation pod stimulated the divine thoughts lurking deep in her soul. Even if the hibernation pod was just a civilian device, it was made by Xi Ling. If you check the production license number, it's a divine artifact. Therefore, divinity countered divinity, and the goddess's thoughts in Zhao Xi's soul were stimulated and finally turned into a divine utterance. At that time, the data terminal happened to be connected to the device, and it used its internal circuits to carry this divine utterance, but it couldn't handle it all at once and crashed: After all, it was just a PDA, and the way it was connected at the time meant that the firewall didn't work.

About half an hour later, faint voices of people came from the streets outside. Hao Ren saw the street lights outside the window light up again. It seemed that the little demon had successfully repaired the transformer that was taller than her. But after the street lights outside lit up, the power at home didn't recover: As Izhaks said, the relatively fragile indoor circuits had been completely burned out, and it would take a lot of work to repair them.

Vivian rummaged through the drawers again and found a few spare light bulbs, and asked her little bats to carry these light bulbs to hang in the rooms to restore lighting. Although this method was full of flaws, it was somewhat reassuring to have the house brightly lit again. Hao Ren glanced at Zhao Xi, who was a little frightened, and discussed with Liu Sheng, "Looking at her condition, it's estimated that she will need a night to recover. Why don't you stay here tonight? There are no empty rooms, so can you manage in the living room?"

Liu Sheng hesitated, wanting to politely decline, but Vivian blocked him before he could speak: "If we ask you to stay, then stay. Don't be pretentious with us. Demon Hunter Boss Number One and Number Two are both here, so you don't need to feel pressured."

Liu Sheng's face fell when he heard this: "That's exactly why I feel pressured..."

Lily was excitedly poking Vivian's arm next to her: "Bats, bats! Are you saying that Boss Number One is me? Is it me?"

Vivian glanced at her: "Get lost. You died six thousand years ago. At most, you're an emperor emeritus now. I haven't abdicated yet."

The cat girl smartly raised her head and meowed, "What's up?"

Vivian and Lily said in unison: "None of your business!"

At this time, Elizabeth pushed open the door and walked in. The little girl's face was smoky and black, and her big eyes sparkled against the black background: "Finally fixed it! The transformer was burned to a crisp inside, it was really powerful... Fortunately, my skills are superb."

"Everyone, if you don't have anything to do, go to bed early," Hao Ren looked up at everyone in the living room, "We can talk about anything tomorrow."

Actually, it was still early at this time. If everyone went back to their rooms to sleep, they wouldn't feel sleepy, but it wouldn't be a good idea to stay in the living room with nothing to do. In addition, seeing that Zhao Xi was already quite depressed, everyone went back to their rooms. Vivian found two sets of bedding and sent them to the living room for Liu Sheng and Zhao Xi to use overnight, which the two demon hunters were very grateful for.

Hao Ren didn't go back to his room to sleep. He went directly to the open space behind the house, wanting to think about some questions in peace and quiet.

Gungnir wasn't the type to honestly go back to her room to sleep. Seeing that Hao Ren didn't object, she trotted out the back door after him. Perhaps it was because the power of the divine utterance was still lingering, but the silly cat was uncharacteristically well-behaved. She squatted quietly beside Hao Ren, playing with her tail, not making trouble.

After a while, Hao Ren heard the door behind him creak open, and Vivian's voice came from behind him: "What are you thinking about again?"

"An idea that just popped up," Hao Ren didn't turn his head, "Why did I happen to encounter this? Happen to encounter the goddess's 'residual thoughts'?"

Vivian didn't think much about it: "What's so strange about that? Don't you always encounter this kind of strange event? That's what you do."

"The previous things can be explained like that, but this time... It's too low a probability to explain it purely by coincidence," Hao Ren shook his head, "Zhao Xi is just one of thousands of ordinary demon hunters. Why did she happen to become the carrier of that wisp of divine thought? My relationship with her can only be considered acquaintance. Why did I happen to remember to go see her and Liu Sheng's situation today? I just happened to want to go out for a walk today, just happened to suddenly want to go to the city, just happened to suddenly think of going to find them two, and Zhao Xi—she just happened to become the carrier of the divine thought. If any one of these links went wrong, I would have missed today's clues, and Zhao Xi might have had her soul completely washed away by the goddess's divine thought. Then there would be nothing left. Don't you think the 'divine utterance' we heard seems to be waiting there, waiting for me to see it?"

"Perhaps you're just overthinking it," Vivian came to Hao Ren's side and said softly, "In fact, every thing in this world is a pile of coincidences, but people often don't get to the bottom of it. The Creation Goddess's matter is too special, and her... 'last words' are also very special, so it makes you a little nervous. Or should I make you some more calming soup?"

"Uh, never mind." Hao Ren subconsciously waved his hand. He remembered the calming soup Vivian had made last time. Last time, he suggested that Vivian throw Doudou in while making the soup. As a result, the little guy ate several things in the pot, and he and Lily were so energetic after drinking more than half a bowl of fish soup that they stayed up until midnight, while Doudou slept until 11:30 the next morning...

After dispelling these messy memories, Hao Ren took out something from his dimensional pocket.

That black Godslayer Sword.

"Actually, I was thinking about this." Hao Ren gently waved the black longsword, and "Gungnir," who was focused on playing with her tail next to him, was immediately attracted by the sword. The feline's intuition made her wary and curious about the starlight-filled blade. She gradually raised her tail, retreated, and growled threateningly at the Godslayer Sword.

"You mean..." Vivian suddenly thought of something.

Hao Ren nodded lightly: "Raven 12345 said that this sword is entangled with the Creation Goddess's karma. When I hold this sword, it will 'lead' me to gradually approach the Creation Goddess. Now, I guess it's probably already working."

"You suspect that Zhao Xi's matter is the result of the so-called 'entanglement of karma'?" Vivian's eyes widened, "Is karma really that powerful?"

"To be honest, I don't like this saying very much. It feels out of sync with our style, but I can accept it if I put it another way: information entanglement. I can't be sure whether Zhao Xi's matter is 100% related to the Godslayer Sword's information entanglement, but I carefully asked Zhao Xi about some of the details she could remember, and then calculated it myself, and found that she didn't lose her mind as soon as she entered the Lingjie Bell Tower. The time she completely lost her mind was almost the moment I came into contact with the Godslayer Sword."

Vivian suddenly felt that this was a bit mysterious: "How are you sure?"

"Zhao Xi mentioned a detail," Hao Ren said, "She vaguely remembered a team of demons appearing in the armory of the Lingjie Bell Tower, and her mind completely dissipated after that scene. When was that? That was not long after we set off for the Yiji Great Hall. At that time, when Lanina was waiting for our news, she sent some people to search the depths of the Lingjie Bell Tower. I can almost be sure that the moment I saw this Godslayer Sword, Zhao Xi came into contact with the divine thoughts left behind by the Creation Goddess. We can boldly guess that these two things happened at the same time."

Listening to Hao Ren's explanation, a creepy feeling slowly spread from the bottom of Vivian's heart: "Why do I feel a little creeped out?"

"Don't be too nervous. At least, so far, we have only felt goodwill from the Creation Goddess," Hao Ren was very good at comforting himself, "And you yourself were created by the Creation Goddess with divine blood. If we're talking about information entanglement, I'm afraid the connection between you and the goddess isn't much shallower than this sword, but the information entanglement on you can't be expressed."

Vivian nodded. After all, she had experienced many storms, and she wouldn't panic because of this. After calming down, she looked at Hao Ren curiously: "Then what are you going to do now?"

Hao Ren held up the Godslayer Sword: "Who knows more about the Creation Goddess's situation at the time of her death than this sword? Every time I pick it up, it keeps babbling a lot of things in my ear, so I want to chat with it and see what this guy is saying."

Vivian: "?!"