Chapter 1 After Many Years, Another Heart-Stabbing Sword

After many years, being stabbed in the heart again, Lilya's tears streamed down her face. Her sudden words startled Hao Ren from the dazed state he'd been in after being bombarded with a massive amount of information. The latter blinked and looked at the tiny Creation Goddess in disbelief, "...Lilya?"

"It's me!" Lilya's mouth twitched. "What are you waiting for! Help me pull it out!"

Hao Ren felt completely bewildered, but he still acted instinctively. He carefully laid Lilya flat, then grasped the hilt of the Godslaying Sword. But before pulling it out, he cautiously asked, "Are you really sure about pulling it straight out? I remember reading in books that this kind of wound shouldn't be pulled directly, it's easy to bleed to death..."

Lilya's tears were about to come out again, "Why are you talking so much nonsense at this time! Being stabbed by this sword should have killed me a long time ago under normal circumstances, okay! Do I still need to wait for a massive blood loss?"

Hao Ren thought about it, and seeing Lilya's energetic appearance, he could judge that her current state shouldn't be fatal. So he clenched the hilt of the sword, "Then bear with it, I'm going to pull it out!"

"Be gentle..."

"Thunk."

"Ooooo-eee-eee!!"

The moment the Godslaying Sword was pulled out, Hao Ren felt a tremendous change in it. Originally, it was just an item in the illusion, filled with a cold and empty feeling when held in his hand. But now, he felt an extremely familiar aura from the sword, along with the extremely familiar BB: "Oh, partner, you're looking for me again? This time it feels different than before, this sword feels dizzy... Eh? Where is this?"

Before Hao Ren could speak, he heard the Godslaying Sword let out a piercing scream: "Waaaaah!! This, this, this place... This place isn't... Did this sword sleep through something, partner, did you mess up the timeline, did you roll into... Eeeeee! This sword saw the Goddess! Why is the Goddess lying there again! Why is the Goddess stabbed again! This sword..."

Hao Ren and Lilya finally couldn't bear it any longer, and the two said in unison: "Shut up!"

Then Hao Ren threw the Godslaying Sword aside and squatted down beside Lilya: "How are you?"

Lilya weakly pointed to the wound on her chest—after the Godslaying Sword was pulled out, the wound was covered with a layer of light, and it began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye. Even the pierced clothes gradually recovered.

"Don't worry, it's just an illusion, you won't really die again," Lilya took a breath, "But it really hurts..."

"My mind is a bit messed up," Hao Ren sat down next to Lilya, scratching his hair vigorously, "What was that just now? Why... did I suddenly become uncontrollable, and then stabbed you with a sword... It's exactly the same as what I saw in the illusion before."

"Before entering this illusion, I made a divine statement," Lilya said slowly, still lying on the ground, "Let everything return to its place."

Hao Ren's face was as bad as if Raven 12345 had stepped on his chest and forced two pots of noodle soup down his throat: "...Mother of God, is that really it?"

Lilya rolled her eyes: "Surprised? Unexpected?"

"Very unexpected, but not surprising at all," Hao Ren glanced at the goddess with a sly face, "I... how could it be like this? No matter how I think about it, this unfolding method is a bit too damn circuitous, right?"

"How would I know why it's like this, anyway, I'll never play like this again," Lilya struggled to sit up while clutching her chest and tugging at Hao Ren's clothes, "I didn't expect that I would be stabbed again... I regret it so much."

Hao Ren looked into Lilya's eyes: "You guessed it a long time ago? Guessed that I am actually..."

"I never thought about it before, but after contacting the Golden Disk, I saw some memories. Those were fragments of consciousness that I split out in a daze, attached to the disk," Lilya explained, "Then I saw the mark on your hand... so I planned to verify it."

"But the mark on my hand was accidentally imprinted on me two years ago," Hao Ren looked at his hand, the blood-red mark was extremely glaring, "That was just an accident... Usually, this thing shouldn't be innate, right?"

"Information entanglement, this kind of thing can't be explained by cause and effect," Lilya sighed, "This mark must appear on you, it may be innate, or it may be formed later, but in any case, it will appear before you see me, after all... this is the evidence that you once killed a god."

"...It seems that I have to accept it," Hao Ren sighed with a wry smile, "This is really a joke that makes people unable to laugh. I have been committed to finding you and resurrecting you all these years, but the truth is this... What is this? Karma from a previous life?"

"Don't curse in front of the goddess, especially a goddess who is not yet an adult," Lilya rolled her eyes at Hao Ren, then turned her head away, "I know, this must be hard to accept... Not to mention you, even I never thought it would be like this before. But whether you accept it or not, this is the truth."

"Yes, the truth - ten thousand years ago, I stabbed you with a sword." Hao Ren said self-deprecatingly, but he felt that many things that had always been in his heart were explained at this moment.

The intricate connection between him and the various creations left by the Creation Goddess, his immune constitution to the magic system originating from the Dream Plane, his talent for opening "illusions", and what Raven 12345 had said to him -

"The affairs of the Dream Plane must be left to you."

Although even Raven 12345 herself couldn't explain the internal reasons, Hao Ren felt that he had found the answer now.

The illusion still didn't end. With Lilya's divine power, this space-time between reality and illusion was temporarily solidified. Hao Ren and she stayed together in the collapsed hall, the atmosphere seemed a little awkward.

It wasn't just a little awkward, it was extremely awkward.

After a long time, Hao Ren broke the silence first: "I will take responsibility."

Lilya: "...Huh?"

"I said I will take responsibility, didn't you hear me?"

Lilya thought for a while, then suddenly puffed up her face and glared: "But what you said is too misleading!"

Hao Ren didn't really think much about it at first, but when Lilya reminded him, he suddenly realized and stared at her even more: "What's in your head! Can't a dignified goddess have a purer mind?!"

Lilya had completely recovered, and could even argue with Hao Ren vigorously: "What does this have to do with being a goddess! You even killed a god in your previous life, why don't you talk about that!"

"I'm still talking about it - wasn't the Godslaying incident in my previous life directed by you yourself!"

"That's because you had this plan in the first place, I just gave you some technical support and action suggestions..."

"The previous life, the things of the previous life..."

The temple was quiet for a while, until Lilya sighed after half a minute: "Yes, that was all in the previous life."

"A mess," Hao Ren shook his head, "Let's not talk about each other, it's not clear. But no matter what, I admit this sword, I won't shirk responsibility."

However, Lilya didn't seem to intend to pursue it: "Forget it, I didn't intend to hate anyone ten thousand years ago. Besides, as you said, I was one of the promoters of the Godslaying incident myself..."

As she spoke, she laughed: "People shouldn't be responsible for the things of the previous life, not to mention you have done so much in this life. Without you, I might still be sleeping in the Dark Domain, and it is more likely that the Lord of Madness has escaped, and I would have lost everything in my sleep."

Hao Ren looked at Lilya in surprise: "You have a really broad mind."

"That's right, I'm also a god after all. I watch so many bear-like mortal civilizations constantly courting death and jumping around every day. Those with a narrow mind would have died of anger long ago," Lilya hugged her arms triumphantly, then changed the subject, "But then again, that sword just now really hurt, you have to compensate me for this."

"Uh... wasn't that your own misplay... okay, okay, how do you want me to compensate?"

"...Can I not do my homework today..."

"No."

"Oooo—"

"No ooo either."

Lilya finally resigned herself to fate: "Okay, then forget it."

"But then again," Hao Ren suddenly remembered something at this time, "If your guardian giants knew about this, would they fight me to the death?"

Lilya thought seriously: "If it was before my return, they would definitely fight you to the death, but it shouldn't be the case now. First of all, I have returned, so the so-called fall is just a sleep. Secondly, you have helped them do so many things, and now all the burden of the Dream Plane is on your shoulders. The guardians are not extreme lunatics, they are still very rational in this regard. Finally - no matter what, that was all in the previous life, wasn't it?"

After speaking, she glanced at Hao Ren: "And most importantly - why are you so full that you have to tell them this? I was planning to keep it a secret."

Hao Ren smiled dumbly, feeling that this matter was indeed as Lilya said, then he shook his head and sighed: "Speaking of which, when I knew that Lily was the reincarnation of the Demon Hunter King, I thought to myself, would I also be a big shot in my previous life... As a result, this is great, whether I'm a big shot or not, let's not talk about it for now, but the things I did in my previous life were pretty big."

Lilya grinned: "That's right, stabbed the goddess right through!"

"Too bloody, violent and unsuitable for children," Hao Ren covered his face, "But speaking of which, there's one thing I don't understand: the Godslaying Clan was destroyed by divine punishment, and the one who really did it must have suffered the most severe divine punishment. In that case, even the destruction of both body and soul would be considered good... How did I cross the wall of reality and reincarnate on Earth?"

Lilya couldn't help but froze when Hao Ren said this: "That's right, how did you get past... Does the lightning of divine punishment also have the function of sending people across time?"

"Don't joke, if the lightning of divine punishment also had this function, how many people would treat it as a benefit? Wouldn't tens of thousands of people be blocking the churches and scolding their own God every now and then?"

Lilya thought about that scene, and shuddered: "That makes sense."

Hao Ren touched his chin and hesitated for a while before saying: "Speaking of... how about we rewind the section just now and take another look?"

"It turns out that it's not you who's having your heart stabbed!"