Beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the interwoven red and blue light reflected on Lin Chen's face.
"Just as expected of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well..."
The air around him was extraordinary. To his left lay a cluster of herbs containing enough energy to melt refined gold; to his right was a patch of deadly cold that could instantly freeze even a powerful Soul Eater.
"Boy, you really do have a death wish, don't you?"
Dou Luo stood a hundred meters away, staring at the sealed Soul Eater before him. Even he couldn't help feeling a little apprehensive.
"Old man, the poison has already spread deep into my bones. If I leave now, my wife and daughter will probably have to pay the price with their lives."
Lin Chen replied calmly.
"Then why are you telling me this? Since you dared to come here, you must have some confidence in yourself!"
Lin Chen didn't answer right away. He closed his eyes and focused.
At that moment, the sea of consciousness inside him suddenly blazed with light. Countless golden ancient characters transformed into the origin of all things, their radiance illuminating the icy depths of the well!
"Luck accounts for seventy percent, fate for thirty. But the Immortal Herb here is the one thing that can defy fate and change your destiny."
Lin Chen narrowed his eyes, his expression calm and confident.
"This Immortal Herb can control the poison in your body, and even gather the poison in your surroundings into a potent poison of its own."
"Then it's even more valuable!"
"Old man, if you're willing to let me take whatever I want from this place, I can help you and your granddaughter control the poison in your bodies, and turn it into a genuine trump card that can save your lives."
Dou Luo waved a hand, his manner generous.
"Take it! Take whatever you want! I've guarded this place for half my life, and all I've managed to do is cultivate poisonous herbs. Rather than letting them rot here, I'd rather see you put them to use!"
"Then I'll take you at your word, old man!"
Dou Luo nodded. Though he wasn't sure he should trust Lin Chen, he had no choice but to believe in the young man's capabilities.
Or perhaps he simply had no choice but to trust the powerful young man standing before him.
"I hope you really can do it, boy..."
Dou Luo let out a long sigh.
Lin Chen slowly turned and walked toward the source of the strange energy surging through the valley.
And on the way there...
He had never stopped thinking about the Diary.
At the same time, everyone in the world who owned a Diary was lost in the darkness of their own complicated thoughts. The Diary's ink began to stir once more, revealing an even more astonishing account of what had happened a hundred years ago.
[Diary entry: I used to judge Qian Ling'er as a vicious woman. Not only was it because her youth had been squandered by a decade of hardship, but also because her arrogance had taken away the final trump card humanity had against the Soul Eater.]
[In the end, because of her fall into depravity, the angelic godhood was shattered. She spent her entire life unable to break through to the level of a sealed Soul Eater.]
[And the most regrettable thing was that the Angel Clan, which had inherited the legacy of the Angel God, had since then completely disappeared from the history of the Douluo Continent.]
[In that era, the Angel God, who represented justice and judgment, had already fallen into an abyss of despair. It could be said that the heavens and earth could no longer contain her.]
[From then on, the continent would never again see an Angel God wielding the Angel Sacred Sword. All that remained was a divine angelic soul that was as frail as a shadow.]
[Take the young girl called Bi Biyao, for example. By then, she had already gained a Soul Emperor's strength. But without the support of the ninety-nine great worshippers, she was alone.]
[The Soul Eater's influence, which had spread across the continent, was making the Angel God tremble with rage. She was furious! The moment a force capable of controlling that world appeared...]
[The Soul Eater would come to devour the world, and the Angel God would never be able to avenge the Angel Clan's destruction. Bi Biyao's parents had been killed by the Soul Eater. She had only her Soul King's strength, but still wanted to fight it with everything she had, even if it meant sacrificing herself.]
[Those angelic puppets, once revered by all, would end up hiding in the dark corners of the world, drifting through a life of desolation. Some would even be refined by the Soul Eater into its puppets.]
[If Qian Ling'er had become a god when she was young—even if all she left behind was a divine spark—then a hundred years later, the Douluo Continent would surely have had another ninety-ninth-level demigod worshipper!]
[With such a powerful figure around, she could have dealt with the Soul Eater far more effectively. The strongest in the Soul Eater's organization would at least have been evenly matched with a ninety-ninth-level demigod.]
[Qian Ling'er, after you became a god, your lack of resolve and compassion not only destroyed you, but also destroyed humanity's final hope of resisting the evil god...]
"Ah!"
In the Angel Palace, Qian Ling'er collapsed onto her seat, the diary slipping from her hand and landing on the floor.
The tragedy of a hundred years later.
It was like a bloodstained mirror, revealing all the sacrifices she had made in vain.
"Angel legacy... the Soul Eater..."
"Bi Biyao... self-destruction..."
She had always believed that her own failure was the more pressing problem.
But Lin Chen had told her that, because of her selfishness and greed, she would destroy humanity's only chance to resist the Soul Eater.
"Have I... become a sinner?"
For the first time, tears of regret welled in Qian Ling'er's eyes.
She could ignore Bi Biyao's plans, and she could ignore Han San's rise to power, but she couldn't bear the thought that the Angel God's legacy would be trampled into the dirt.
She didn't dare imagine it.
An Angel God, fallen into depravity, reduced to such a miserable state.
The Angel God's legacy would leave Bi Biyao as its successor, but the inheritance would be so weak that she would have to sacrifice herself...
"If I had a cheat, how could I let the Soul Eater be so tyrannical..."
Qian Ling'er couldn't help feeling dejected. She became even more convinced that she had no cheat, and that she couldn't possibly have one, even if she paid with her life.
"The events of a hundred years from now..."
Bi Biyao had long since committed the prophecy to memory, but she still felt as if she could hardly breathe.
She hadn't expected the Diary's power to reveal what would happen after a hundred years.
How desperate would the Soul Eater be by then?
You Ruo pursed her lips, then looked up at the sky in a daze.
"Bi Biyao, since you can predict what will happen in a hundred years, what will become of the Soul Eater then? What will become of my people?"
At that moment, Bi Biyao was walking into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where she could sense the tremendous energy surging within it.
Lin Chen's expression grew solemn. He didn't dare truly approach.
"Grrr—!"
One of his legs had gone numb with frost, the other was burning with pain. Yet, under the protection of the Heavenly Eye's power, that extreme pain only made him more alert and raised his spirits.
"The sea of consciousness within me can actually let me endure my body's limits in these extreme conditions!"
Lin Chen was delighted.
He continued forward, his gaze fixed on the strange herb growing inside the spring.
Scorching fire apricot and eight-cornered mystic ice grass.
"Only that strange herb can give me a chance to enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and cultivate."
"Before that, I should probably find a way to detoxify the old man's granddaughter."
Lin Chen murmured to himself.
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