OBS Chapter 319 Crossing Over All Beings Through Cause and Effect
Chapter 319 Crossing Over All Beings Through Cause and Effect
"boom--"
After a deafening ringing in my ears, the world suddenly fell silent.
The wind and water stopped, and heavy dark clouds pressed down.
The moon in the sky had somehow multiplied into three, hanging coldly high as if spying on something.
Under the pale moonlight, countless withered hands stretched out from the ground, veins bulging on their arms, black fingernails struggling to claw towards the sky, like a group of undead corpses howling as they tried to break through the soil.
The endless expanse of withered grass trembled, carrying a strong stench of blood, and an eerie red light emerged from the soil.
The soil was pushed aside, and eighty-eight Guanyin temples surrounding the entire withered grassland rose up, with countless severed hands and rotten mud rolling down until the temple roofs touched the moonlight, solemn, majestic, a pure land of black Buddha.
In the center of the meadow, the mutated man's enormous body remained eerily suspended in mid-air, no longer moving forward an inch.
Amidst flashes of red light, black flames burned.
Miao Yin remained standing in the same spot, golden cracks spreading across her eye sockets. A half-bloomed red lotus at the corner of her eye was alluring, its petals blooming with a ghostly aura. A red mole between her brows dripped blood, then fell to the ground and was crushed into the mud.
She blinked again.
The temple gate suddenly opened, revealing eighty-eight Guanyin statues inside, each depicting someone weeping blood.
[The Cause and Effect of All Things and Beings—]
One by one, the prayer beads were set off, and the soft chanting of Buddhist hymns rose from the horizon. Compassionate gods and Buddhas sang prayers to save the world, and struggling, withered hands held up blooming epiphyllum flowers.
Miao Yin remained fixed on the illusion in her hand.
"Are these grapes for the lady?"
"Yes, it was specially imported from abroad. Once it's plated, we'll send it over. Oh, and don't forget to send some to the young ladies and gentlemen too."
"Okay... Hey, that one in the backyard..."
"No need for that. Madam said to just make sure she doesn't starve. And remember, don't send her anything extra, or Madam will get angry."
"understood."
"...Tsk, how could you fall like that?"
"I don't know where I tripped over the stone. Wait for me, I'll go back and put on a new plate of grapes. Just throw these away."
"I'll go with you."
Under the sturdy sycamore tree, a little girl carrying a stone walked out, curiously watching the thing rolling down the ground.
It was a green grape.
She picked up the fruit she had only seen in books, wiped its skin clean, and held it in her hands.
The grapes are plump and round, crisp and crunchy, and exude the sweet and cloying aroma of ripe fruit.
Perhaps it was the first time the girl had seen such a strange thing, because she stared at it with her brown eyes as if she had seen some novel toy.
Then, he slowly tightened his grip.
The plump grapes burst open in my palm.
The skin bursts open, the flesh is ripe and mushy, and sweet juice overflows from between the fingers, wetting the palms red.
Miao Yin interlocked her fingers, her slender white hands pressed together, as if a god or Buddha were praying in a temple.
What followed was a burst of black fireworks exploding ahead, and under the torrential rain of blood and flesh, metal emitted a mournful cry of unbearable strain.
She looked up and saw the enormous metal monster being crushed by an invisible force, turning into a pile of scrap metal in mid-air. All three of its eyes shattered, the laser beam dissipated, and the furnace flashed one last time before becoming completely lifeless.
Countless laughs echoed from the eighty-eight Guanyin temples, like the sneer of ghosts. The ethereal chanting grew fainter and fainter, and the shadows of the withered grass began to sway.
The external phenomena completely exhausted Miao Yin's special abilities, and she could no longer maintain the manifestation of space. After a dizzying moment, the Guanyin Eighty-Eight Temples completely collapsed.
Time, which had been frozen in place, began to flow again, and she returned to the armory once more.
The metal monster, twisted into scrap metal, crashed heavily to the ground, its chest wide open, revealing its shattered heart. Inside, a scarlet crystal core lay silently, emitting an eerie red glow.
Miao Yin's face was deathly pale in the moonlight. She took two steps forward, then suddenly collapsed, blood gushing from her mouth.
Her supernatural energy pool was completely shattered by the explosion, and the last drop of her blood and bone was drained by the drug. Her ghost body could no longer function, and the side effects came over the top of her head, causing all her organs to fail and even breathing to become difficult.
Miao Yin lay on the broken ground, her black hair disheveled, her body covered in blood, unable to move an inch.
Blood was gushing from her throat, and her eyes were red with hatred.
She was unwilling to accept it... she was unwilling to accept it!
She killed the Heavenly Punishment, but couldn't get the crystal core? Why?!
Intense hatred made her nails dig hard into the ground, and a murderous intent rose in Miao Yin's eyes.
At the same time, a red mark flashed on the forehead of everyone in the armory.
She planted these seeds on them one by one before they entered the armory; no one knew about it.
The Spell of Encounter, as a mark that can exist independently of the original body, is engraved on the other person's soul and inherently stores rare supernatural abilities. This is why Miao Yin can control them in real time and obtain information from the mark.
She's crippled now, but unless it's like her previous life, where her powers are completely wiped out or she becomes completely unable to perceive her own mark, she can still control the curse and annihilate everyone.
The crystal core is just sitting there; anyone can take it.
—But Mu Yin wouldn't allow it.
What she can't have, no one else can have either.
Did she go to such lengths to orchestrate a three-way plan to keep so many people alive so that they would commemorate her as a hero?
Hahahaha...
How funny!
As long as they are all dead, the divine punishment that has not had its crystal core extracted will be resurrected sooner or later.
If she dies here today, everyone inside and outside will have to pay with her death!
It was only at the very moment she activated the incantation that Miao Yin realized there was a familiar mark all around her.
She coughed up blood and stopped controlling the curse.
Tu Hao looked at the large chunk of rotten flesh in front of him and reached out without hesitation to dig out the crystal core.
The strange liquid corroded his palms, leaving them a bloody mess. Tu Hao could only endure the pain and climb down from the corpse.
His superpowers were completely exhausted in the final battle, and he couldn't even maintain his physical enhancements, turning back into an ordinary person. He's only holding on by that bit of obsession now, otherwise he would have passed out long ago.
He hadn't walked far when he saw the person lying on the ground.
—That crazy lunatic! He doesn't hold back at all when he fights, and he almost killed them all inside.
Tu Hao thought to himself.
Now look what's happened; I'm being played to the point of exhaustion.
He had just reached her side when he collapsed to his knees, panting heavily. His deep green eyes, however, were fixed on her face as if he were seeing Miao Yin for the first time.
Miao Yin was soaked in blood, her pale skin and the wet blood mingling together, shining with a cold, beautiful color in the moonlight, like a ghost lying face up on a blue stone in a Liaozhai illustration.
He had never seen her so disheveled.
I have never seen her so breathtakingly beautiful.
He stared at her intently, and finally remembered that what remained in his mind at that moment was actually a field of golden roses.
"I promised you," Tu Hao said.
He placed the crystal core into her palm, and the corrosive liquid began to cut into Miao Yin's palm as well. She clenched her fist, and their blood mingled together.
Miao Yin looked up at him and saw a tear fall from his eye.
This was the first time that Miao Yin saw the other person shed tears on their own, without any external force.
Tu Hao fulfilled his promise, and with his last bit of strength gone, he collapsed beside her with a thud.
He looked up at the sky and said haltingly, "Miao Yin, I hate you so much."
Miao Yin laughed, a hearty and unrestrained laugh.
See? She always wins.
Red light shone through the gaps in his fingers, and a powerful force enveloped the entire area.
For the first time in history, a red crystal core, which no one had ever absorbed before, was held in the hands of humankind.
Miao Yin could feel a power completely different from the crystal cores she had encountered before, rapidly surging into her meridians, repairing her failing organs and energy pool, and her external injuries were healing at a visible speed.
The IV serum struggled desperately in the bloodstream, but it was no match for the power of the crimson crystal core. The side effects were completely suppressed and crushed within the cells. The immense power surged and flowed wildly from the palm of the hand.
Miao Yin's body is undergoing a dramatic transformation.
This time, she felt no pain, only boundless peace in the face of immense power.
Under the dazzling red aurora, she suddenly saw the black pieces push down the white pieces, forming a line.
Miao Yin closed her eyes in relief, congratulating herself.
They won again.