Manifest

My name is Lu Jun.

I transmigrated.

On a perfectly ordinary day, I walked into a newly opened fortune-telling booth at the school entrance.

After the proprietress, who had black hair and purple eyes, read my fortune, she said some inexplicable things.

I walked out of the fortune-telling booth.

Stepping outside, I was shocked.

Before me...

was not the school entrance I remembered, nor the towering skyscrapers, nor the flat, wide road.

There was only a primeval wilderness.

Furthermore, my hair had suddenly grown long, and the school uniform I was wearing had transformed into the coarse linen clothes I'd only seen in history books, typical of ancient feudal times.

Panicked, I tried to turn back, only to discover that the fortune-telling booth I had just left moments ago had now become a dilapidated, abandoned wooden hut.

Everything had changed. I had arrived in another world.

Just as I was lost and didn't know what to do, a yellow weasel suddenly emerged from the jungle.

The weasel and I stared at each other.

Then, in the next second, the weasel suddenly grew in size, transforming into a giant demon two meters tall and lunging at me.

In a blind panic, I fled. While running through the mountains, the demon fell into a deep pit trap with bamboo spikes set by a hunter.

Finally, with the demon severely wounded, I continuously threw stones, smashing them against its head until I finally killed it.

Just as I caught my breath, a giant, transparent, pale blue creature appeared behind me at some point. The moment I saw it, I lost consciousness.

Now, I also know.

This creature is a type of demon called a Misty Mirage.

When I woke up, I had lost my memory, only knowing that my name was Lu Jun.

In the room, there was an old man wearing a coarse linen robe, along with several young people around my age.

Everyone was very surprised when they learned I had amnesia.

The old man told me I was his grandson.

The young people, about my age, all told me about our shared childhood experiences.

I started to believe them, but I still felt an indescribable sense of strangeness.

Firstly, when I put on straw sandals, they always felt incredibly uncomfortable, and within two days, I had developed many blisters on my feet...

My hands were even fairer and more tender than Huang Ni'er's, my childhood sweetheart, without a single callus.

Because of this, Huang Ni'er would always tease me, saying I was born to be a young master of a wealthy family...

Before long, this feeling of strangeness, along with my wariness of everyone, disappeared.

I regained my memories.

My memories clearly told me everything.

That's right, I had lived in Huang Family Village my entire life. Everyone was my childhood playmate, and the old man was my grandfather.

But...

As the statue of the 'Huang Pi Dao Master' in front of me shattered, and as the Misty Mirage was cleaved in two with a single strike...

The memories I had recovered over the past month were all torn apart.

Lu Jun's eyes snapped open.

His previous confusion vanished, along with the modified memories that were ripped to shreds.

Only clarity remained in his eyes.

Lu Jun looked ahead.

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The villagers before him still looked like demons, even though the statue had been smashed.

It wasn't like what the blind old beggar had said—the statue shattered, the curse lifted.

Perhaps the curse had been lifted...

Lu Jun smiled, a complex flicker in his eyes, as if he understood something.

The many villagers before him shook their heads, all stopping their actions.

Including the demons that had been pinning Fourth Master Huang to the ground, unable to move, they all stopped, allowing Fourth Master Huang to slowly stand up from the ground.

At this moment, Fourth Master Huang's gaze shifted slightly. He smacked his lips as usual, let out a couple of dry laughs, and sighed, "It was quite a dream..."

The demons all turned their gazes to Fourth Master Huang, their eyes seeming to say—the rest is up to you.

Fourth Master Huang smiled, his gaze falling upon the calm Lu Jun. He then slowly walked towards Lu Jun and finally spoke.

"My good grandson, it's all thanks to you. Otherwise, we'd still be in the dark, dreaming of being human..."

Lu Jun remained silent as stone, staring intently at Fourth Master Huang.

"My good grandson, you are the hero of our entire village. We will all remember you..."

"So, with things having come to this, can you contribute to the village one last time, and be our hero once more?"

Fourth Master Huang had already walked up to Lu Jun, his yellow, vertical pupils staring down at Lu Jun from above.

"So, you're going to kill me?" Lu Jun asked calmly.

"Heh heh... It's a last resort, after all. You are human, and we are demons and monsters..." Fourth Master Huang chuckled.

"Sigh, we lived together for over a month, after all..." Lu Jun sighed softly.

"Sigh, child, this is just a last resort. We've been under a curse for this past month, treating ourselves as humans..." Fourth Master Huang scratched his head and laughed, then continued, "I even thought about sacrificing myself to let you escape just now, hahaha. Even old demons get muddled heads."

"Even after returning to our true forms, we still thought of ourselves as human... We've truly done some absurd things... I almost let you go."

"So, demons must kill humans?" Lu Jun's eyes were dim, as deep as an abyss.

"Hahahahahaha!"

Fourth Master Huang laughed, roaring with laughter.

"Grandson, you are truly amusing. You make this old man laugh even on the brink of death."

"Demons killing humans is common sense, it's instinct, it's the law of this Heavenly Dao's operation. You humans exist in this world to be killed by us demons!"

"Do you really think we'd have any lingering affection for you after spending the last month together!"

"Hahahaha! Don't be ridiculous. It was that damned 'Misty Mirage' that created this domain, altered our perceptions, and modified our memories, making us believe we were human!"

"I admit that for the past month, the feelings I had for you, and the feelings the villagers had for you, were real. But they were all distorted emotions resulting from the Misty Mirage altering our memories."

"Now, thanks to you, the Misty Mirage is dead, and the illusions in our memories are gone. Killing you will leave not a single burden on any of our hearts."

As he spoke, the vertical golden pupils of Fourth Master Huang shone even brighter, with a hint of crimson light flickering within them.

"Ha... With all our Spiritual Power, as beings favored by the Heavenly Dao, how could we be bound by the fervent emotions of you humans... How laughable!"

"In the beginning, when the world was first formed, it was a vast expanse, devoid of morality, laws, hierarchy, or emotion. There was only the survival of the fittest and progress through struggle!"

"It was only when you humans, at the dawn of creation, established that ridiculous order of 'elders respected, juniors lowly,' and 'the strong rule, the weak are slaves.' All of it was merely the strong enslaving the weak."

"But how can we demons abide by your ways of thinking, your emotions..."

"You, and not just you, all of you humans are nothing more than cattle and sheep beneath our Spiritual Power, the blood and flesh we consume to survive and grow stronger!"

"Ha..."

"Is that so..."

Lu Jun chuckled softly, a smile tugging at the corner of his lips, and murmured, "It seems the proprietress was right. There are no kind demons in this world. When you meet them, there's no need for words; you can just kill them all."

"Now, I can see it clearly..."

Fourth Master Huang roared in fury, "What the hell are you babbling about, kid?"

Immediately after, he suddenly extended his sharp claws and swiped at Lu Jun!

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