📖 Chapter 1054 - If There’s a Next Life!
The girl left.
It wasn't until she left that Gray Number Three remembered that he still didn't know her name. However, that wasn’t important. The important thing was that Gray Number Three felt like he was about to find the answer.
It wasn’t the answer to the question he’d thought about first, the question of why the sky wasn’t white. Instead, it was the answer to the question that the girl had once asked him.
“If the sky never turns white, what will you do? Will you keep staring, keep waiting, until you rot away and disappear?”
Since then, Gray Number Three had spent a long time thinking about this question, and he finally felt like he was about to find the answer. He thought that it wouldn’t take too long before he really figured it out.
However, time passed, and he still hadn’t found the answer. One hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years… Moreover, he didn’t know when it started, but the figure of that girl became heavier and heavier in Gray Number Three’s mind, as if there was a boulder pressing down on his heart.
Gray Number Three had never experienced this kind of emotion before. He didn’t know what it was, but he knew that time seemed to pass more slowly when he felt this emotion. Finally, after an unknown amount of time passed, Gray Number Two visited.
The black-furred Gray Number Two was all alone when he arrived, sitting down on a gravestone next to Gray Number Three. He seemed very weak, and his deathly aura was extremely faint. After sitting down, he seemed to be struggling to keep his eyes open. Looking at Gray Number Three with a strange gaze, he slowly told him a story.
This story wasn’t anything special, with a plot that everyone had heard dozens of times. It was the story of a living being turning into a zombie, fighting their way to the top and becoming a supreme powerhouse.
If there was anything unique about the story, then it would be that the protagonist was a woman.
Gray Number Two spoke very seriously, and Gray Number Three listened with equal solemnity. Finally, after Gray Number Two finished telling the story, Gray Number Three hesitated. In the end, he told Gray Number Two about the strange emotion that had appeared inside him.
Aside from the girl, Gray Number Two was Gray Number Three’s only friend. To a certain extent, he could even be considered his elder brother; after all, they had awakened in the same batch, merely seconds away from each other.
As he listened to his little brother’s words, Gray Number Two was silent for a long time. When he finally spoke, his voice was hoarse and feeble.
“Gray Number Three, you miss her.”
Gray Number Three was stunned and fell silent.
Gray Number Two was also silent. As he looked into Gray Number Three’s eyes, he gradually felt a strange melancholy. That melancholy was because…
Many years ago, this mountain had been designated as a forbidden zone by the girl whose slaughters had shaken the heavens. She forbade anyone from disturbing it, and even though she had already left this planet, her orders still stood.
A hundred years ago, countless enormous coffins had suddenly appeared in the starry sky around this planet. Any one of those coffins could make the entire planet tremble, but they… just orbited it peacefully, as if to guard something.
Gray Number Two didn’t tell Gray Number Three any of this, because he already had no strength to speak. Even zombies couldn’t escape the fate of death, and Gray Number Two’s lifespan had already come to an end. However, he wasn’t surprised at all to see that Gray Number Three… was exactly the same as before.
Thus, as Gray Number Three was lost in deep contemplation, Gray Number Two slowly closed his eyes, falling into his eternal sleep.
Time continued to pass. Maybe it was a thousand years, or maybe it was three thousand… in any case, a very long time passed, enough for blue seas to turn into mulberry fields, and for the wind and clouds to cross the sky again and again. Many things changed, but the mountain… stayed the same.
Gray Number Three’s fur was still light green, unchanged from those countless years ago. If there was one thing different, it was that… he had grown old. Often, he found it difficult to even open his eyes. However, he still tried to force them open to stare at the sky.
Moreover… he had finally thought of an answer to the girl’s question from back then. He just didn’t know if he would have the chance to tell her.
“This… is also fine.” Gray Number Three lowered his head. Using all his strength, he barely managed to open his eyes a crack, looking down at his hand with a blurry gaze. He saw that his withered and emaciated palm seemed to once more be full of vigorous flesh and blood.
Even if this was just an illusion, it still made him very happy.
Just like that, his eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and a feeling of fogginess washed over him. Just as he was about to completely surrender to the fogginess, a strange feeling suddenly appeared in his heart that seemed to fill Gray Number Three’s body with a final burst of life. He slowly forced his heavy eyelids open, and in the distance, he saw… the peerless figure of a woman walking over step by step.
She was covered in red fur, had a pitch-black mask on her face, and wore the same palace dress that he remembered. Behind her was… a monstrous sea of blood, as well as countless kneeling figures.
“You’re here.” Gray Number Three smiled.
“I’m here.” Sitting down in the same spot as always, the woman spoke calmly.
“I have an answer.” Gray Number Three was still smiling, very happy.
“What is it?” The woman turned her head and looked at Gray Number Three.
“No matter what color the sky is… in my heart, it is actually already white.” Gray Number Three’s smile grew brighter and brighter. It was almost as if he was surrounded by rays of white light that made everything around him brighten.
Just like how he was born in darkness but always looked up to the light.
The woman remained silent, looking up at the sky with an unchanging expression. No one knew what she was thinking. Finally, when Gray Number Three’s vitality faded, when his eyelids grew heavy again and slowly began to close, the woman suddenly spoke.
“Gray Number Three, if there is a next life, what would you want to do?”
“I would want to spread light to every corner of the world, so that more people can see what I see…” Gray Number Three murmured dreamily. The final bit of his vitality faded, disappearing between heaven and earth. His body also turned into dust, as did the mountain peak that should have eroded away long ago.
The woman raised her head and looked up to the sky and gradually watched the final remnants of Gray Number Three’s existence disappear from the world. In the end, she opened her mouth to speak in a soft voice.
“I will make it so!”
… …
On Planet Heaven’s Mandate, within the white fog world of the trial, Wang Baole slowly opened his eyes. As he did so, light instantly beamed forth from both eyes, replacing his irises, his pupils, and everything else in his eyes with a blinding brilliance.
At the same time, before he fully awakened, the White Light Ancient Planet within his body erupted with similarly blinding rays of light. His surroundings were drowned in white light as Wang Baole’s resonance with the law of light skyrocketed at a terrifying speed!
And there was also a shocking vitality that seemed to appear out of nowhere. It perfectly fused into Wang Baole’s body without the slightest hint of rejection!
This was the accumulation of 7,600 years of life as a zombie. What was accumulated wasn’t just vitality, but also… insights into the natural law of light!
Although Wang Baole wasn’t able to fully obtain everything, even if it was just a little, it was enough for his resonance with the law of light to surpass its limits and reach a terrifying level of 98%!
At this point, it could be said that his White Light Ancient Planet wasn’t even far from being a real Dao Planet on its own. After all, even a Dao Planet whose unique natural law was the law of light could only reach a maximum of 100% resonance.
Moreover… here in the Never-Ending Dao Domain, the more common a natural law was, the more unlikely it was that a Dao Planet corresponding to that natural law would appear. Thus, the current Wang Baole could already be considered at the pinnacle of the law of light!
Although he couldn’t do something like plundering all the light of the world… he was at least at the point of turning into light himself, and that light would be able to suppress all the light of the universe!
There was also the boost to vitality, which would increase his fleshly body’s power even more. But more importantly, it would bolster his life force, allowing him to use the second level of the Flame Spirit Curse and sacrifice his life force to strengthen the power of the curse!
As his battle prowess skyrocketed, Wang Baole’s eyes slowly regained clarity. However, when he woke up… Even though he now remembered his name, even though he knew that Gray Number Three was nothing more than a past life of his… He couldn’t forget the figure of that girl in his memory.
Especially… her mask.
“Little Missy, was it you…” Wang Baole murmured softly. He lowered his head and took out the broken mask that housed Little Missy. Putting it in his palm, he stared in silence.