Rheia's heart was pierced again after so many years, and it hurt so much that tears were coming out of her eyes. Her sudden words jolted Hao Ren out of his dazed state after being bombarded with information. The latter blinked as he looked at the tiny goddess of creation suspiciously. "… Rheia?"
"It's me!" Rheia's mouth twitched. "What are you still looking at! Help me pull it out! "
Hao Ren felt like he was in a daze, but he still moved. He carefully laid Rheia down and gripped the hilt of the Godslayer, but before he pulled it out, he asked cautiously, "Are you sure you want to pull it out? I remember reading that this kind of injury can't be pulled out directly. It's easy to die from excessive bleeding … "
Rheia was about to burst into tears again. "Why are you still talking so much nonsense at a time like this! Under normal circumstances, he should have died after being stabbed by this sword! Is there a need to bleed so much? "
Hao Ren thought about it and agreed. Judging from Rheia's vigor, she would not die in her current state. He gripped the hilt of his sword tightly. "Then bear with it, I'm going to pull it out!"
"You're too light …"
"Pfft."
"Ugh — Ugh!!"
The moment the Godslayer was pulled out, Hao Ren felt a huge change in it. It was originally just an object in the illusion, and when he held it in his hand, it felt cold and empty. But now, he felt a very familiar presence from the blade, and at the same time, the familiar voice of BB. "Aiya, partner, you're looking for me again? Why does it feel different this time? This sword feels dizzy … Eh? What is this place? "
Before Hao Ren could say anything, the Godslayer let out an ear-piercing shriek, "Arghhhh! Th-th-this … this place … this place isn't like back then … Did I sleep too much? Partner, did you mess around with the timeline? Did you get involved again … Eh, eh, eh! This sword has seen the goddess! Why was the goddess lying there again! Why did the goddess get stabbed again! This sword … "
Hao Ren and Rheia could not take it anymore and said in unison, "Shut up!"
Hao Ren then tossed the Godslayer aside and crouched down beside Rheia. "How are you?"
Rheia pointed weakly at the wound on her chest. After the Godslayer was pulled out, the wound was covered in a layer of light and started to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye. Even the clothes that were pierced through were slowly mending.
"Don't worry, it's just an illusion. You won't really die again." Rheia took a deep breath. "But this really hurts …"
"My mind is a mess." Hao Ren plopped down beside Rheia and scratched his head. "What happened just now? Why … I suddenly lost control and stabbed you with my sword … It was exactly the same as what I saw in the illusion. "
"Before entering this illusion, I made a divine command." Rheia was still lying on the ground as she said slowly, "Return to your positions."
Hao Ren's face was as pale as if Raven 12345 had stepped on his chest and forced two pots of soup down his throat. "… Bloody hell, so that's what happened?"
Rheia rolled her eyes. "Surprised? Surprised? "
"I'm surprised, but not surprised at all." Hao Ren glanced at the mischievous goddess. "I … How could this be? No matter how you look at it, this is just too much of a twist, isn't it? "
"How would I know? But I won't do it again." Rheia clutched her chest as she tugged at Hao Ren's shirt to sit up. "I didn't expect to be stabbed again … I regret it so much."
Hao Ren looked into Rheia's eyes. "You already guessed it? Guessed that I'm actually … "
"I've never thought about it before, but after coming into contact with the Gilded Disc, I saw some memories. That was a fragment of my consciousness that I had split off in my trance, and it was attached to the disc," Rheia explained. "And then I saw the mark on your hand … so I wanted to verify it."
"But the mark on my hand was accidentally imprinted two years ago." Hao Ren looked at his hand, and the blood red mark was extremely glaring. "That was just an accident … Shouldn't this be something you're born with?"
"Information entanglement, this kind of thing can't be explained with cause and effect." Rheia sighed. "This mark was bound to appear on you. It could be innate, or acquired, but no matter what, it will appear before you see me. After all … this is the evidence that you have slain a god."
"… Looks like I have to accept it even if I don't want to." Hao Ren smiled bitterly and sighed. "This is a f * cking joke. I've been trying to find you and resurrect you all these years, and the truth is this … What is this? Is this a sin from my past life? "
"Don't curse in front of a goddess, especially one who is still underage." Rheia rolled her eyes at Hao Ren before turning her head away. "I know, it's not going to be easy to accept … It's not just you, even I didn't think it would be like this. But whether you accept it or not, this is the truth. "
"Yes, the truth. Ten thousand years ago, I stabbed you with a sword." Hao Ren said self-deprecatingly, but in his heart, he felt that a lot of things had been explained.
His inextricable connection with the various creations left behind by the goddess of creation, his immunity to the magic system of the Plane of Dreams, his talent in activating "illusions", and what Raven 12345 had said to him.
"The matter of the Plane of Dreams must be left to you."
While even Raven 12345 herself could not explain the reason behind it, but now Hao Ren felt that he had found the answer.
The illusion was not over, and with the support of Rheia's divine power, the space between reality and illusion temporarily froze, and Hao Ren stayed with her in the collapsed hall, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.
It was not just awkward, it was extremely awkward.
After a long while, it was Hao Ren who broke the silence. "I will take responsibility."
"… Eh?"
"I said I will take responsibility, didn't you hear me?"
Rheia thought for a moment, and suddenly puffed up her cheeks and stared at him. "But what you said is so misleading!"
Hao Ren did not think much of it, but with Rheia's reminder, he came to his senses, and his eyes widened even more than Rheia's. "What's in your head! Can't a goddess's thoughts be a little more pure?! "
Rheia had fully recovered, and could even argue with Hao Ren in high spirits. "What does this have to do with whether I'm a goddess or not! You even killed a god in your past life, why don't you say so! "
"You're still talking about it? Weren't you the one who directed the deicide in my past life?"
"That's because you guys already had the plan, and I just went with the flow and gave you some technical support and suggestions …"
"Past life, past life …"
The hall was silent for a moment, and half a minute later, Rheia let out a long sigh. "Yeah, that's all in the past life."
"A bad debt." Hao Ren shook his head. "Let's not point fingers, we can't even talk about it. But no matter what, I acknowledge that sword, and I won't push the blame. "
Rheia, however, did not seem to want to pursue the matter. "Forget it, I didn't intend to hold a grudge ten thousand years ago, and like you said, I'm one of the culprits of the deicide …"
As she said that, she laughed. "One should not be responsible for what happened in the past life, not to mention that you've done so much in this life. If not for you, I might still be sleeping in the Umbral Realm, or the Mad Lord might have already escaped, and I would have lost everything in my sleep."
Hao Ren looked at Rheia in surprise. "You sure have a big heart."
"That's true. I'm still a god after all, and I've been watching so many bratty mortal civilizations courting death all day long. The narrow-minded ones would have been pissed off long ago." Rheia crossed her arms triumphantly before changing the topic. "But then again, that stab just now really hurt. You have to compensate me for that."
"Ugh … That's not your fault … Fine, fine, how do you want to make it up to me?"
"… Can my homework for today be …"
"No."
"Ugh …"
"Ugh … Nope."
Rheia finally gave up. "Fine, forget it then."
"But come to think of it," Hao Ren suddenly remembered something, "if your guardian giants knew about this, would they come after me?"
Rheia thought about it seriously. "If it was before my return, they would definitely come after you, but not now. First of all, I'm back, and the so-called fall is just a deep sleep. Secondly, you've helped them do so many things, and now the burden of the Plane of Dreams is on your shoulders. The guardians are not crazy, and they are still very rational in this regard. Finally, no matter what, that's all in the past life, isn't it? "
After saying that, she gave Hao Ren a sideways glance. "And most importantly, why are you telling them this? I'm planning to keep it a secret. "
Hao Ren could not help but laugh as he felt that it was exactly as Rheia said. He then shook his head and sighed. "Speaking of which, when I first found out that Lily was the reincarnation of the King of Demon Hunters, I was wondering if I was someone important in my past life … But now, regardless of whether I was someone important or not, I did something big in my past life."
Rheia clenched her teeth. "That's right, I stabbed the goddess through!"
"Too bloody and violent, not suitable for children." Hao Ren facepalmed. "But come to think of it, there's something I don't understand: when the deicidal race was wiped out by the divine wrath, the one who did it must have been the one who suffered the most, and it would have been good enough if both his body and soul were destroyed … So how did I get through the Wall of Reality and reincarnate on Earth?"
As Hao Ren said that, Rheia could not help but be stunned. "Yeah, how did you get through … Does the Thunder of Divine Wrath have the ability to send people through?"
"Don't be ridiculous. If the Thunder of Divine Wrath had such a function, how many people would see it as a benefit? By then, wouldn't there be tens of thousands of people in the mortal world cursing at their god every few days?"
Rheia thought of that scene and suddenly shuddered. "Makes sense."
Hao Ren rubbed his chin and hesitated for a while before saying, "Say … How about we rewind that part and look at it again?"
"So you're not the one who got stabbed!"
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