Meanwhile, at the Spirit Pagoda.
After taking the Spirit Pagoda Master Spirit certificate from the Spirit Master and politely declining his invitation to join,
Su Mingyue took Na'er out to stroll around the shops, buying her several outfits that suited his own taste.
After wandering around a little more and buying her some snacks, he finally took Na'er back home.
He quickly put Na'er's clothes away in the wardrobe in the upstairs bedroom, then poured her a cup of warm water.
Only then did Su Mingyue go to the refrigerator and take out all the ingredients needed for lunch, placing them on the table one by one:
"For lunch, I'll show Na'er some magic that turns ingredients into dishes all by itself."
"How about it, Na'er? Would you like to see?"
Speaking mysteriously on purpose, Su Mingyue watched her with a beaming smile.
"Whoa! There's magic like that?" Her attention was immediately caught.
Setting down the cup of warm water she'd been sipping, Na'er clasped her hands together in front of her chest:
"That sounds amazing! Na'er wants to see, big brother~"
Her amethyst eyes sparkled as Na'er gazed at him longingly.
"Mm-hmm, of course." He nodded and ruffled her little head, then continued at once, "But before that..."
"Na'er needs to complete a task your big brother has assigned you."
At this, Na'er was just about to nod firmly when a rather disdainful girl's voice suddenly rang out in her mind:
'Ew~, why are you coaxing a child like that? Na'er, don't just agree to it!'
Through Na'er's eyes, she could see everything happening outside.
And when she saw Ming Yue coaxing a child like this, the Plane Spirit found him both familiar and strangely different.
'Y-you, who are you?'
Na'er instinctively responded in her mind, then immediately looked at Ming Yue.
But before she could say anything, the Plane Spirit's anxious voice rang out again:
'Wait, don't, silly Na'er! You're that close to this guy? I-I'm your mother, you know!'
As the consciousness of Douluo Planet's Plane Spirit, born even before the Dragon God, she could certainly call herself the mother of every living being on this planet.
So she promptly and shamelessly took on the role of mother.
'M-Mom?' Na'er asked, full of surprise and doubt, instinctively trying to remember.
But... she couldn't remember a thing.
"What is it, Na'er?" Though only a moment had passed, Su Mingyue had noticed that something was wrong.
'Could the Silver Dragon King's memories be starting to surface and circulate?' The thought flashed through his mind.
He immediately placed both hands on Na'er's tender shoulders.
'Silly Na'er, quickly tell him you're fine, just a little dizzy all of a sudden.'
Though Su Mingyue was the one touching Na'er, for some reason the Plane Spirit could also feel the warmth that kept radiating from him.
So she hurriedly released a little of her own aura to Na'er.
'...' Na'er didn't answer the Plane Spirit. After sensing that aura, so familiar and comforting,
she instinctively told Ming Yue in a soft voice that she felt dizzy.
"I see..." Su Mingyue thought to himself that it was indeed because of the Silver Dragon King's memories, but he showed nothing on his face.
Instead, he gave her a gentle smile, picked her up, and carried her upstairs to her room.
"If you're dizzy, you should rest for a while. Big brother will go prepare a few things and make that magic for you, too."
As he spoke, he laid Na'er on the bed and pulled the covers over her.
"Big brother..." Na'er gazed steadily at Su Mingyue with her glistening purple eyes and parted her lips.
"All right, listen to big brother and rest for a little while." His smile unchanged, he tapped the tip of her delicate nose.
Then Su Mingyue left the room.
'What exactly is going on with you?' Na'er asked in her mind, sniffling at the covers as she looked at the door he'd closed.
'Sigh... It's a long story. (She recounted a long history, as well as Na'er's origins and the circumstances that had led to her becoming the way she was now.) So that's how things are.'
She had nearly lost consciousness completely under that person's schemes.
But even the Plane Spirit herself had never expected such a turn of events.
From the instant protection and counterattack, to her spiritual consciousness escaping the dimensional space and taking shelter in Na'er's sea of consciousness, to guiding Ming Yue to find Na'er and take her home—
everything had happened just a second before her consciousness sank into slumber.
It wasn't until this morning, when she came into contact with the energy Ming Yue had guided from Na'er herself—an energy that lay between Soul Power and divine power—that she had finally managed to awaken again.
'...Bad people! So those bad people are the reason you ended up like this, Mom?!'
From the Plane Spirit's steadily radiating sense of closeness and her completely candid words, Na'er had more or less accepted what she'd been told.
So, after a moment's silence, the first words of anger she'd ever felt rose in her heart.
'Bottomless desire drives every living thing to instinctively want more.'
'That man had already reached the pinnacle of what a human could achieve, but driven by desire, he still wanted more.'
A faint sigh rang out. The Plane Spirit's voice was utterly resigned.
'How awful! You gave those people the environment they needed to be born, but once they grew up, they turned their blades on you!'
Na'er unconsciously gripped the covers, her amethyst eyes filled with anger.
'They were people who couldn't overcome their desires, yet they still cloaked themselves in the banner of justice. Fortunately, Ming Yue helped me.'
As the Plane Spirit, how could she not know the exact state of Douluo Planet?
If sacrificing herself alone could let Douluo Planet flourish again, she wouldn't be unwilling to do so.
But she'd been marked by someone long ago, and he had raised the banner of justice to draw wolves to her.
He even wanted to turn her into nourishment for his plans. Even if that really could save Douluo Planet, why couldn't the choice be left in her own hands?
So she would never—and did not want to—just surrender without a fight!
'Big brother... Since you say humans are all like that, what kind of person is big brother, in your eyes?'
Na'er took a deep breath and asked cautiously.
'Ming Yue... He's a very special person. When I was in despair, he reached out to help me and placed such trust in me...'
'Perhaps, just as those extra memories suggest, only he—only he, who brought this terrifying Honkai—can bring salvation to this despairing world!'
Yinsheng's voice seemed distant. To the Plane Spirit, compared with the malformed child of destiny born of this twisted world,
perhaps Su Mingyue, a visitor from another world, was the true ray of hope for it!
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