inspire-indiana Chapter 707: Moral Concepts and the Revealed Identity
Chapter 707: Moral Concepts and the Revealed Identity
When both parties in a confrontation actually share the exact same objective, then no matter how the process unfolds, the final result is almost always predictable.It’s like a match where one side decides to throw the game—maybe the two sides never spoke, but they can still reach the outcome they both want through tacit understanding.
After a few rounds of back-and-forth, Zhu Qiansi quickly revealed a flaw and was locked by the talisman formation.
The talisman formation’s cyan light coiled around Zhu Qiansi, and then she revealed her true form inside the Phantom Realm.
The ground split open, a gigantic spider burrowed up from below, but those cyan talismans were like thin long nails, pinning it down fast and firm.
Soon, the spider gradually calmed, nailed to the earth and unable to move—along with the townspeople of Willow Town who had been attacking Lin Yu’s group, their movements froze as well.
“Is it over?”
Yunzhen murmured.
Snowy Owl frowned, “I’m afraid not…”
No sooner had she spoken than Yunzhen and Mystic Cloud Master suddenly froze in place—their figures then dispersed.
The sudden disappearance of these two Taiqing Sect Daoists made High Mountain and Snowy Owl uneasy.
“What’s going on now?”
High Mountain asked, instinctively glancing at Lin Yu.
Lin Yu, still observing the scene, answered High Mountain’s question, “She’s fulfilling her promise.”
The moment he finished speaking, High Mountain was about to say something when the world in front of him went white.
Everything in sight turned blindingly pale, like a snowfield, instantly replacing the earlier scene of Willow Town.
“What is happening?!”
High Mountain leaped.
The only things not white in the surroundings were the players themselves—even within this blinding whiteness, they could see Flying Knife in the distance.
That guy, hiding several hundred meters away, was startled by the sudden change and screams echoed faintly from afar.
Only Lin Yu remained calm: “This is Willow Town, the real Willow Town… This is also Zhu Qiansi’s promised method to let both sides clear the level.”
Although at first everything appeared white and indistinct, after a short while Li Nian was the first to notice…
“Hey, this is definitely the outline of Willow Town,” Li Nian reached out and touched a pure white wall beside her, blinking, “Wait, are these all Causality Silk?”
Within the vast whiteness, the lines and contours were exactly the same as the Willow Town Phantom Realm they had just entered.
Not only the buildings—there were even pedestrians on the streets.
“Yes, these are Willow Town sealed by her Causality Silk,” Lin Yu said softly, “For Zhu Qiansi, when the Taiqing Sect Founder nearly eradicated her back then, she could only survive by binding all her Causality Silk to Willow Town.”
“So the ruins we saw underground and the phantom realm we just experienced cannot be called the true ‘Willow Town’—the real Willow Town was sealed forever inside her by Causality Silk.”
Lin Yu spoke quietly, and Seagull exclaimed in surprise.
“But how does this let both sides clear the level at the same time?”
“Willow Town and the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord have become one with this vast Causality Silk. This is an advanced use of Causality Silk that none of us knew—through causal entanglement and mutual substitution, two originally unrelated concepts can be fused together. Although this trick requires an enormous amount of Causality Silk and hundreds of years of preparation, plus various constraints, evidently Zhu Qiansi achieved it.”
“So originally, when the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord was resurrected, Willow Town would naturally reappear; when Willow Town reappears, the Demon Lord would also be reborn,” Lin Yu recited what Zhu Qiansi had told him, then paused, “But that was the situation where ‘Zhu Qiansi’ was the ‘Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord.’”
“Now the manipulator of the Causality Silk is ‘Zhu Qiansi,’ not the Demon Lord. Although they were once the same person, now… Zhu Qiansi intends to abandon her millennia of cultivation and her demon identity by ‘severing causality.’”
“So at this final moment, Willow Town and the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord will appear simultaneously—but they will not truly manifest; instead, they will unravel their seals in a form that is about to ‘dissipate and be destroyed.’”
Lin Yu explained, then addressed the players with his conclusion: “At that point, the victory conditions for both sides will be met at the same time.”
Listening to Lin Yu’s long explanation, Snowy Owl, High Mountain, and Seagull still had doubts.
But those doubts didn’t last long; reality soon dispelled them.
Whoosh—!
The white webbing retracted, and the frozen frame taken from Willow Town beneath the silk emerged.
It matched the Phantom Realm scene exactly—only this looked even more lifelike in the tiniest details.
The instant the frozen “Willow Town” surfaced, bloody text popped up before every player’s eyes.
[Mission Conditions Completed!]
“It actually works?”
Seagull was astonished.
Li Nian laughed, “Yes! We cleared it!”
In the tiny gap before the “Game Over” blood text appeared and the dizziness pulled them into the Settlement Space, Snowy Owl and High Mountain suddenly realized something.
“Wait, if we’re about to clear the level… Yunzhen and Mystic Cloud Master are not here, doesn’t that mean the demon won’t die?!”
Snowy Owl voiced her concern.
High Mountain frowned, “What exactly is going on?”
Lin Yu looked at the two of them, regret flickering across his face: “Ah, it seems it really won’t die, the demon is a step ahead… I got you.”
Behind her, Zhu Qiansi’s figure appeared wearing a Collar. Lin Yu hooked a hand around the collar at Zhu Qiansi’s neck and grinned: “Sorry, I actually don’t have any moral scruples.”
“Who exactly are you?!”
Even Seagull now wore a puzzled expression.
Lin Yu scanned everyone with his eyes and said quietly, “Well, that’s easy to explain. If I say one sentence, I think you’ll all suddenly understand.”
“Let me reintroduce myself: I’m not ‘Old Yao’ from Jiang’an Hall; that’s just a guy I met a long time ago—those of you from big organizations really don’t pay attention to local groups. He’s been in the spotlight in Jiangcheng recently, you could find out with a little asking… ‘Old Yao’ is a man.”
“As for my real organization and code name…”
“Psychological Society, Clozapine.”
“Or, you can also call me Zhu Ming.”