Chapter 259: Infant Spirit's Yearning
The Blood Lotus Sect was able to grow and expand thanks to the Four Directions Cauldron, which performed the miracle of resurrecting its disciples from the dead.
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This was the core competitive advantage of the Blood Lotus Sect.
But the resurrection of its disciples by the Four Directions Cauldron relied on the trapped Infant Spirit Shen Miao.
This young girl was sacrificed to the Four Directions Cauldron by her father right after her birth, trapped within it and severed from the world. She even had a certain technique placed on her, making her forever optimistic and happy, serving the Blood Lotus Sect willingly and without regret.
Yet now, as a storm of Spiritual Energy swept across the world, Shen Miao inside the Four Directions Cauldron suddenly became sentient.
She even reached out to Li Muyang for help proactively.
If they could bring this young girl out of the Four Directions Cauldron, then the once-slumbering Artifact Spirit of the cauldron would no longer be able to activate its power, and the miracle of the Blood Lotus Sect's disciples coming back from the dead would no longer be possible.
The strongest reliance of the Blood Lotus Sect would then be completely gone!
Thinking of this, Li Muyang no longer hesitated and immediately accepted Shen Miao's commission.
The next second, a system loading bar popped up in Li Muyang's field of vision.
[Commission from the Infant Spirit accepted]
[Fun game "Endless Evolution" is currently upgrading.....]
[1%----3.7%----6.2%]
The loading bar in the field of vision loaded rapidly.
This was the fastest that Li Muyang had loaded a new game.
After waiting for less than three minutes, the new game loaded successfully.
The moment the loading bar completed, Li Muyang's vision went dark as he was forcibly ejected from the game "Endless Evolution" and returned to the system's main interface.
A vast scroll appeared in the view, with the list of system games at the upper-left corner of Li Muyang's vision.
"Newbie Tutorial—The Mystery of Loushan City" (Closed)
"Deadly Weeds" (4/5)
"Three Kingdoms: Skies Suppressing the Demons Chronicles" (Closed)
"Legend of the Immortal Sword" (Closed)
"Call of the Mountains" (Closed)
"Endless Evolution" (Closed)
"The Fall of the Fairy" (Closed)
"Infant Spirit's Yearning" (New)
.....
The original fun game "Endless Evolution" was closed, replaced by the new game "Infant Spirit's Yearning."
Li Muyang selected the new game and entered "Infant Spirit's Yearning."
The familiar scroll unfolded in his vision, endless ink flowing across the scroll.
But this time, as the ink flowed across the scroll, crisp sounds of water droplets emerged.
In the end, amid the sound of splashing water, the ink swelled into the image of a baby crying within a scarlet swaddle.
The baby's crying echoed through the scroll.
Mixed within the cry of the baby was a man's deep voice-over.
"...Born as twins, yin and yang together, my lady, this is a gift bestowed upon our sect by the heavens."
The next second, the ink on the scroll shifted.
The baby in the scarlet swaddle was surrounded and consumed by flames, against the black and white background, the scarlet swaddle and the intensely dancing flames were glaringly vivid.
The baby cried out in agony as the greedy and frenzied flames licked at her.
The man's deep voice-over continued.
"...With my blood as the sacrifice, I dedicate my lineage."
"May my daughter be forever joyful, and never know pain in this life!"
The flames burst forth violently, burning everything on the scroll to ash.
Monochrome ink flowed over the blank scroll, and the blood-stained infant lay confused and unaware in the desolate and empty city, her chubby little hands instinctively crawling forward.
"Wah! Wah! Wah!"
The child's cries echoed through the silent, ghostly city.
In the mist-enshrouded ghost city, there was no response at all.
The ink on the scroll continued to flow, and the baby in the ghost city grew up rapidly.
She learned to walk, learned to talk, and could see the scenes of the Mortal Realm.
"Sister!"
"Father!"
The joyful Infant Spirit clapped her hands and called out to the two people in her vision, but they were completely unaware of her.
The ink kept flowing, and the blood-clad Infant Spirit grew taller and taller, her smile growing more and more delighted and joyful.
She wandered around the city, flew through the shadows, alone in her existence.
Until she heard some noise from beyond the city walls, and when she leapt onto the city wall, she was astonished to see a monstrous figure looming out of the ghastly fog outside the city.
The emerald-jade slender body emerged in the eerie fog, like a mountain appearing out of thin air.
The dense fog surged, even disturbed by the monstrous figure.
The gigantic mantis head, larger than the city towers, appeared intermittently through the fog.
The creature towered over the girl on the city wall, making the slender girl seem incredibly small.
But on the girl's face, a happy smile emerged.
"Brother-in-law!"
She looked up happily, staring straight at the monstrous figure before her.
Behind the large and terrifying mantis, the void faintly revealed a face with strong features, intermittently visible in the firmament, its eyes half-closed, as if a deity from beyond eyed this broken land.
The opening CG scenes, at this moment, froze.
The face in the firmament, with its eyes barely open, was accompanied by a series of distinct black and white subtitles.
[The sacred fire blazes, burning all in its path]
[Blood sacrifice of my own, yin and yang brought forth together]
[Twin sisters born into the world with a special blood bond, seen by their father as a gift bestowed by heaven]
[They were separated for all eternity at birth]
[One's blood sacrificed within the cauldron, to awaken the divine might of the Immortal Artifact]
[One born with it, to forever solidify the spirit of the Infant Spirit]
[The bond of kin so close, yet becoming the most terrifying of shackles]
[But at one moment, the Infant Spirit suddenly felt alive]
[Tired of this slavery, this changeless, lonely existence, she longed to leave this cage, to escape to the outside world]
[Even if the outside world was a dangerous and broken realm of ghostly shadows, she was desperate to brave it...]
...
The opening CG scenes emerging in his vision, along with the revealed information, left Li Muyang somewhat stunned.
This opening CG... is getting cooler and cooler!
Last time, there was only background music, but this time they even conjured up CG animation detailing the cause and consequence.
Although he could guess the life Shen Miao had led since her childhood from the stories she had told,
the stark despair of that life experience hit him deeply when it materialized into the opening CG scenes before his eyes. Li Muyang admitted he was profoundly shocked.
Especially the scene in the desolate ghost city where the baby crawled through the fog, wailing for her parents one moment, and weeping the next... Li Muyang conceded that he was shaken.
—This is, quite simply, tragic!
The father of Shen Miao and her sisters was just the absolute worst!
The overly spectacular opening CG brought a huge spiritual shock.
Li Muyang slumped into the lounge chair, taking quite a while to recover from the shock of the opening CG.
But he couldn't help cursing out loud.
"Damn it, what a scumbag!"
He took a deep breath and entered the game.
The next second, the enormous ghost city appeared in his field of view.
The colossal emerald-jade mantis stood like a mountain outside the ghost city, and on the city wall was the girl gazing up at him.
The new game, "Infant Spirit's Yearning," officially began!