Soon after, Luo Shuangyue saw three ‘people’ gathered around a table, their art style looking a bit off.
Phantom Thorn held a notebook with a silver-white cover, while Little Butterfly was messing around with Phantom Scythe—a picture of harmonious coexistence.
If one ignored the Black Thread on Phantom Thorn’s forehead and the way Little Butterfly and Phantom Scythe were both trying to bite a piece off each other, it would be truly harmonious.
Clearly, only Phantom Thorn was reliable here. Luo Shuangyue waved away the Little Butterfly rushing toward her and sat beside Phantom Thorn.
“What’s wrong?”
“The Butterfly of Netherworld over there woke up once and gave this thing to the Little One. The Little One couldn’t understand it, so she brought it to me.” Phantom Thorn tore the book in her hand in half and handed one half to Luo Shuangyue.
Before the book torn in half reached Luo Shuangyue’s hand, it returned to its original form. Replication within the Spiritual Space was just that simple.
Luo Shuangyue took the book and scanned it quickly, her expression suddenly changing.
The things written on here… were a bit beyond her imagination.
“This…” She looked at the content on the pages, looking at Phantom Thorn in a bit of a daze, seeking help from this experienced person.
Phantom Thorn rolled her eyes naturally. “I have no father or mother; don’t look at me.”
She was a Demon; she didn’t have parents, so she couldn’t help with the problem Luo Shuangyue was facing.
“What you need to do is quite simple. Take your Mother’s sword and go hack your father to death, and that’s it.”
Of course, things wouldn’t be that simple. What Phantom Thorn said was just the most simplified version.
In reality, what Luo Shuangyue needed to do was separate the Evil Intent and then use her Mother’s sword to slash it away.
And the Evil Intent to be separated… was the Evil Intent of every Demon Emperor existing in The World.
“Shuang Xing is not only going to have just one mother, she’s even going to lose her sister.” Luo Shuangyue covered her face and wailed.
The Evil Intent of all Demon Emperors!
All of them!
Luo Shuangyue really admired her old man. Truly a man of few words but great deeds, secretly gathering all the Demon Emperors in the world and concentrating all their Evil Intent.
As long as this concentrated strike succeeded, this world could enjoy many years of peace.
But the problem was, how do you defeat it after concentrating so much Evil Intent?
That was a huge problem, and the plan in Luo Shuangyue’s hands didn’t provide a good answer to it.
“Relying on one’s own strength and will? How does she dare!”
“Perhaps that’s the confidence of a peerless powerhouse. And you should know, this plan was decided by the Holy Sovereign a long time ago. At that time, she didn’t have much information in her hands.” Phantom Thorn pointed to some words on the open notebook.
This was an old plan from decades ago; it was normal for it to be a bit outdated in practice.
“Isn’t this where you come in as the patch? She definitely can’t defeat those Evil Intents alone. Only if you go to help will there be a chance to turn the tide.”
Luo Shuangyue understood.
She didn’t have a choice at all.
Either she did nothing and then not only lost her old man but also went down with this world, or she took the sword sent by her Mother to help her old man and rewrite the destined bad ending into a good one.
When she came to this world, all of this was already destined.
“Sigh, I just risked my life once. Why do I have to do it again?”
“With great power comes great responsibility. After all, you’re the only one in the world right now who possesses that ability, and only you can change all this.”
“Yeah, I really have to thank my old man for inheriting this ability to me.” Luo Shuangyue gave a soft ‘tsk’. “I’ll definitely have to give her a hard punch when the time comes.”
“Anyway, that’s how things are.” After telling Xia Mo everything she had learned, Luo Shuangyue rested her chin on her palms, looking toward the Sanctuary with a long, dazed sigh.
Even now, she had a very surreal feeling.
Oh, so the Holy Sovereign really is my old man.
So I carry such an important responsibility. So the reason the old man was hanging around under Monice back then was to research these things.
“Go on. Do what you have to do.” Xia Mo didn’t say anything else.
She simply walked behind Luo Shuangyue and pulled her into her embrace.
Reaching out to wrap her arms around Luo Shuangyue’s chest, Xia Mo looked at the Starry Sky of the other world and softly spoke her thoughts.
“Follow the guidance in your heart. That is the correct direction.”
“I thought you would try to talk me out of going.”
“Am I such a petty person in your heart?” Xia Mo gently pinched Luo Shuangyue’s cheek, her voice tinged with a hint of dissatisfaction.
Stopping Luo Shuangyue and not letting her take risks?
She wouldn’t do that.
Even if what Luo Shuangyue was going to save was someone unrelated to them, Xia Mo might not necessarily stop her, let alone when Luo Shuangyue was going to save a close relative this time.
“After all, the one there is your father, and it concerns the safety of the entire world…”
“Actually, strictly speaking, the Holy Sovereign isn’t my dad. The her here doesn’t know me at all.” Luo Shuangyue corrected an error in Xia Mo’s words.
The plan the Holy Sovereign formulated back then could be called insane, but she did indeed succeed.
She transformed a part of herself into a Demon, and in that Identity, she gathered the Demons together to wipe them out in one go.
After separating, these two parts didn’t maintain any contact. Everything was a tacit understanding between the two.
Even the Holy Sovereign who became a Demon, like all other Demons, possessed no memories of her past life.
But she succeeded.
At the same time, she also failed.
This failure was inevitable, and it was something Luo Shuangyue’s mother, White Night, had already anticipated.
So White Night had Luo Shuangyue come here to stop this plan.
Unfortunately, the time left for Luo Shuangyue was far too little.
She hadn’t even come into contact with either of those two people before the anomaly occurred.
In her helplessness, White Night could only activate the final contingency, throwing her sword across worlds to Luo Shuangyue’s side.
“But can you really treat her as a stranger?” Xia Mo didn’t hesitate at all and asked back directly.
Luo Shuangyue was silent for two seconds, then sighed again.
She definitely couldn’t do it. Even if the Holy Sovereign didn’t know her, even knowing the Holy Sovereign wasn’t the slightly cold and stern ‘father’ she was familiar with, she couldn’t truly view the Holy Sovereign as a stranger.
“And… if I do nothing, we will all die here.” Luo Shuangyue tightened her grip on Xia Mo’s hand resting on her chest.
Whether for Xia Mo or for her other relatives, she had to go this time.
“Yeah, if you fail and die, I’ll definitely die right along with you. Consider it living and dying together.” Chuckling twice, Xia Mo didn’t show a hint of the fear one should have when facing death.
To her, going to the Yellow Springs with Luo Shuangyue wasn’t an unacceptable disaster.
It was better than one person leaving first while the other had to struggle on in the world.
“Don’t say such depressing things at a time like this. We’re going to live to be a hundred and grow old together.”
“For us, living to be a hundred sounds like a curse, doesn’t it? And growing old together is even more impossible.”
Gently brushing back her black hair that had a hint of purple, Xia Mo replied with a smile.
True, the two were no longer pure Humans. Those blessings meant for Humans took on a different flavor when applied to them.
“Are you still nitpicking at a time like this? Xia Mo, you’re so petty.”
“So what? Can’t I be petty? I haven’t even settled the score with you for touching the Mentor’s chest just now.”
“Cough, I was giving her a physical examination. Don’t misunderstand.”
“Oh? Was it soft? Was it big?”
A layer of fine cold sweat broke out on Luo Shuangyue’s forehead.
Xia Mo’s hand had already moved slightly up toward her neck.
If she didn’t answer correctly, she feared she’d be put in a headlock by Xia Mo.
Although she knew Xia Mo was just teasing her, she couldn’t just answer this sort of thing carelessly.
After thinking it over, Luo Shuangyue finally felt it was better to avoid this topic.
“I’m going to use the Mentor and Xiaozi to practice. Xia Mo, remember to help me!”