You Can Try

The night wind stopped.

The dry and curled maple leaves in Maple Leaf Forest no longer rustle, the treetops no longer sway, and even the moonlight seems to have solidified.

Yun Jingheng raised his head and looked at the crack deep in Maple Leaf Forest.

The tiny crack, almost invisible to the naked eye, is expanding at an incredible speed, from the thickness of a hair to the thickness of a finger, from the thickness of a finger to the thickness of an arm, from the thickness of an arm to the height of a person.

The edge of the crack is no longer a blurry, undulating halo, but a wound as sharp as a knife, and dark red light gushes out from the crack.

Dark red light beams soared into the sky, tearing apart the clouds and illuminating the entire Maple Leaf Forest as if it had been washed with blood.

Zhao Yu'an's fingers tightened suddenly, and his nails dug into his palms, deeply, but he felt no pain. His eyes were fixed on the crack, staring at the dark red space behind the crack that was surging, as if something was about to squeeze out from inside.

Yun Biechen and Yun Zhishui held their hands tighter.

Yun Zhishui's fingers were turned white by his hold, but she didn't break away. Instead, she held them back, and her two hands were folded together, like two tree roots tightly Entanglement.

Sounds came from the cracks.

It was not the distant, vague call that came from the depths of Moon Domain, but the voice that came from the edge of the crack, so close at hand, as clear as someone speaking in the ear.

The voice was very soft and slow, like a person reading a very ancient poem that had been lost for a long time.

When the sound stopped, a foot stepped out of the crack.

That foot was wearing a pair of white boots with silver moon patterns embroidered on them, which glowed in the dark red light.

Then there is an arm, an arm that is so pale that it is almost transparent. The blood vessels on the arm are clearly visible, cyan, purple, and dark red, like a densely packed map drawn on the skin. Then comes the shoulder, and then the whole person.

White hair, golden eyes, white robe.

God Servant came out of the crack.

His white robe was no longer white in the dark red light, but was dyed into an indescribable color between red and gray.

His white hair was fluttering in the night wind, and each strand was glowing with a dark red light, as if soaked in blood.

His golden eyes burned in the moonlight, not the kind of warm gold that made people want to get closer, but the kind of scorching gold that made people want to escape, as if the eyes were filled with magma.

God Servant stood deep in Maple Leaf Forest, standing in front of the crack that was still expanding, looking at the people standing in front of him.

Zhao Yu'an, Su Qian, Yi Tiezhu, Wang Tiangu, Yun Biechen, Yun Zhishui, Zheng Yongkang, Chen Jingcheng, and the debris behind them who are still coming out of the woods, wearing various clothes, holding weapons or empty-handed, coming from all corners of Star Luo City.

His eyes swept over the faces of those people one by one, like a sickle counting people.

"Everyone is here."

God Servant's voice was very soft, as if he was talking to himself, but every word was clearly transmitted to the ears of everyone present.

He looked at Zhao Yu'an and slightly curved his mouth, "You're here too."

Zhao Yu'an said nothing.

His fingers were clenched at his sides, so tight that his nails dug into his palms, and blood seeped out from between his fingers, dripping on the ground drop by drop, mixing with the dry maple leaves.

He looked at God Servant's pale, kind face, like a grandfather looking at his grandson, and at those golden, burning eyes, like looking at a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered. His lips moved several times before he finally made a sound, "Shouldn't I come?"

God Servant smiled.

That smile was exactly the same as it was in Moon Domain seven days ago, kind and gentle, like the smile of a grandfather when he saw his grandson coming home.

"You should come. You are my child, the child who was separated from me and who is most like me."

"You shouldn't run away, you should stay in Moon Domain, stay with me, wait for me to become a god, and wait for me to take you to become gods together."

Zhao Yu'an looked at his face, at the kind, gentle, and nausea-inducing smile at the corner of his mouth.

"Become a god? You want to become a god, and you want to take us to become gods. Have you asked us if we want to? Have you asked those fragments that have been alienated by you, killed by you, and turned into resentful spirits by you, if we want to?"

God Servant's smile froze for a moment, like a frozen, unfinished mask.

Zhao Yu'an took a step towards him, another step, and another step, walked out of the edge of Maple Leaf Forest, and walked to the boundary between light and dark where the moonlight and dark red light beams intertwined. Standing at the boundary between light and shadow, his face was illuminated half silvery white and half dark red.

"The hypocrisy in you has doomed your fate. Do you feel proud to cooperate with those disgusting things?"

God Servant's smile completely disappeared.

He looked at the people in front of him who had escaped from Moon Domain, lived in hiding in the Star Luo Empire for three years, and gave their lives to a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy.

He looked at the expressions on their faces that were no longer hidden, no longer disguised, no longer suppressed.

"You will regret it."

God Servant's voice finally had a slight fluctuation, as if all emotions were suppressed to the lowest frequency vibration.

"If you give your life to him, what will he do to you? He will absorb you, fuse you, and make you a part of his body."

"Your consciousness will dissipate, your names will be forgotten, and your existence will completely disappear from this world. What is the difference between you choosing him and choosing me?"

Zhao Yu'an smiled.

"There is a difference. He wants us to live, and that's enough."

Behind them, the fragments that escaped from Moon Domain came out of the woods.

Not one or two, not dozens, but hundreds, thousands, densely packed from every forest path, behind every maple tree, and from every shadow where the moonlight cannot shine.

Their clothes were of all kinds, including the uniforms of guards at the city gate, aprons from street shops, rust-stained work clothes from workshops, and coarse cloth stained with mud from the fields.

They held a variety of weapons in their hands, including standard spears, homemade iron bars, hammers for blacksmithing, sickles for cutting grass, knives for cutting vegetables, and bare-handed fists.

There were various expressions on their faces, some were smiling, some were crying, some were expressionless, some had trembling lips, and some had shining eyes.

Two thousand six hundred and seventy-five people.

Of the three thousand people who escaped from Moon Domain, all of them are still alive.

God Servant looked at those people, looked at those people who escaped from Moon Domain, who were just fragments in his eyes, who should be absorbed by him, who should become his ladder to becoming a god.

He watched them standing behind the young man, building a wall with their bodies and a wall with their lives.

"You will die. He can't stop me, and you can't stop me. Moon Domain's power is declining in your body, your origin is crumbling, you can't even protect yourself, and you still want to protect him?"

No one answered him.

Those people just stood there, standing behind Yun Jingheng, standing on the intersection of light and dark where the moonlight and dark red light beams intertwined, like trees that had been blown by the wind for a long time, but whose roots were still rooted in the soil.

Several points of light suddenly appeared in the night sky.

Not one, but several, flying from the direction of the hotel, as fast as meteors.

The light spots were getting closer and closer, turning from stars into halos, and from halos into human shapes. The five people headed by Yun Ming landed almost at the same time, stepping on the dry maple leaves, making five crisp sounds that almost overlapped together.

Yun Ming stood next to Yun Jingheng, putting a hand on his shoulder. The temperature of his palm spread through the fabric of his clothes, and it was very hot.

He didn't look at Yun Jingheng, he looked at God Servant, the old man with white hair and golden eyes who came out of the crack in Moon Domain and had been waiting for ten thousand years.

"The aura of Abyss...? No wonder even a fragment can contaminate Godhood. It turns out to be plagiarism."

"You! Bastard!"

Cai Yue'er snorted coldly, and nine Soul Ring appeared.

God Servant looked at those people, looked at Yun Ming, Cai Yue'er, Zhuo Shi, Leng Yaozhu, Wu Zhangkong, looked at those strong men standing behind Yun Jingheng.

His golden eyes were finally no longer calm, something was surging beneath the golden ocean, it was the madness of being forced into a desperate situation.

"You are all going to die."

His voice became hoarse, "You are all going to die here. The power of Moon Domain will swallow you, Mutant will tear you apart, and Death God Tower will absorb you. None of you can leave."

Yun Ming looked at him, at his golden eyes that were being filled with madness, and at his pale face that was distorted by the dark red light beam.

The corners of his mouth curved slightly, "You can try."