Beside them, Gu Qingfeng watched the young girl who was muttering to herself about the Original Sin Nightmare, feeling quite curious.
Judging by her words, it wasn't hard to guess that the girl seemed not to have entered the Original Sin Nightmare for a very long time.
If that were the case, could she be a Wu Dao Person who had only recently revived?
He shook his head.
It didn't seem quite right.
In Gu Qingfeng's impression, those who survived from the Wu Dao Age had almost all lost themselves—Jun Xuanji was one, Can Yang Wuyou was another, and that mad old man was yet another.
If this girl truly was someone who had survived from the Wu Dao Age, she shouldn't be an exception, right?
But if she wasn't a survivor from the Wu Dao Age, could she be a reincarnated Wu Dao Person?
He wasn't sure.
Nor could he be certain.
Moreover, Gu Qingfeng had never met a reincarnated Wu Dao Person before; he had only encountered one like Yun Nichang, a Wu Dao Person who had buried her soul.
Therefore, as for what kind of existence a reincarnated Wu Dao Person was, he didn't understand that either.
It was entirely possible that this girl, like himself, was a person of Original Sin—only perhaps not an Original Sin born in the Current Era, nor in the Ancient Era, but possibly from the Remote Antiquity, or even the Primeval Era, perhaps even older. Maybe she had fallen into slumber due to the end of an era, only to awaken now, or perhaps she was even a person of Original Sin from within the Guixu Abyss.
"Mmm...
After so many years, who would have thought the curse of Original Sin is still continuing...
And her voice...
Is still as detestable as ever."
The girl closed her eyes, murmuring to herself, then opened them again and said, "Since there is intelligence, since there is confusion, one discerns object and self; a hundred kinds of yang, a hundred kinds of yin, transform into heaven and earth harmony; one sees not goodness, one sees not evil, only cause and effect remain; a thousand types of sage, a thousand types of demon, let others speak as they will..." The girl looked at the few people present and asked, "Have any of you, within the Original Sin Nightmare, ever heard these words?"
The Old Witch did not respond.
The Evil Dragon did not respond.
Neither the owl nor the crow responded.
It was unclear whether they hadn't heard it or simply didn't want to speak.
The girl's gaze swept over the four of them one by one, except skipping Gu Qingfeng, and continued to stare at their spiritual incarnations, saying, "It seems the Original Sin upon all of you is purely Original Sin...
How wonderful, truly enviable. Pure Original Sin is true Original Sin; complex Original Sin is no longer as simple as Original Sin..." After saying this, she turned to look at Gu Qingfeng again, her expression somewhat strange. "Great Old Master, what about you?
Have you heard those words just now within this Original Sin Nightmare?"
Looking at the girl opposite him, Gu Qingfeng met her gaze and replied playfully, "Guess."
"Heh!"
The girl was an innocent, untainted girl, but beneath that innocent appearance, who knew what terrifying existence lay hidden? The girl shook her head and said, "Grandaunt doesn't need to guess to know."
"How so?"
The girl smiled. "You guess."
Hearing this, Gu Qingfeng chuckled wryly.
"However, the existence of Great Old Master seems..." "Seems what?"
"Seems utterly unfathomable."
"Unfathomable is just right."
"Why?"
Gu Qingfeng smiled. "If you could fathom it all, that would be terrible. How could we live on, how could we go on..."
"Ha!
Great Old Master truly lives up to the title; your way of speaking has a unique flavor indeed."
Gu Qingfeng said no more.
To be honest.
Among the five people present, he couldn't fathom any of them.
Nor did he care to try.
He had never had the habit of trying to figure others out in this lifetime.
Especially when these people were not only connected to the Wu Dao Age but also to Original Sin.
Gu Qingfeng had even less desire to scrutinize them carefully. In the past, he had rejected and resisted the four words 'Wu Dao Original Sin.' Now, although he no longer rejected or resisted them, that didn't mean he accepted them, nor would he actively explore them.
Everything would follow fate.
Let nature take its course.
Whatever will be, will be.
This was his attitude toward Wu Dao, and toward Original Sin, at this very moment.
Suddenly.
The scene changed. The ever-evolving illusion finally opened, looking like a vortex of time and space.
When the illusion opened, the Evil Dragon, the crow, and the owl were the first to charge inside.
"Great Old Master, we'll...
See you inside."
The girl said this and also rushed in.
"Old Sister, don't just stand there either. Let's go inside and take a look."
Gu Qingfeng glanced at the Old Witch, then followed them in. Not long after, the Old Witch also charged inside.
Within the illusion.
Just like the Illusory Land, there was no sun or moon, no heaven or earth.
But dark clouds blotted the sky, lightning flashed and thunder roared, dim and gloomy, as if it were the end of the world.
Gu Qingfeng looked around. In the air, there were floating mountains, while below was a bottomless abyss.
The floating mountains were extremely desolate, as if weathered, dissipating bit by bit.
Fierce winds swept up dust and sand, rolling in and sweeping across everything here.
Countless flashes of lightning and peals of thunder crazily cracked down, like judgment after judgment, sentencing everything.
Moreover, this place was extremely bizarre, the environment utterly dreadful. Those dark clouds were definitely not ordinary dark clouds, the lightning not ordinary lightning, the wind not ordinary wind. Every existence here, even a single grain of sand, seemed to contain a terrifying power, making Gu Qingfeng's spiritual incarnation very uncomfortable.
By the time Gu Qingfeng entered, the girl and the other few people of Original Sin had already vanished without a trace.
And at this moment, Gu Qingfeng didn't have the mind to worry about others.
He looked at this illusion.
The more he looked, the more familiar it seemed.
It felt like déjà vu.
This sense of déjà vu was as if he had seen it in a dream.
No!
Not only had he seen it in a dream. After watching for a while, Gu Qingfeng felt he had been here before.
That's right!
He had been here.
Thinking carefully, he vaguely remembered that back in the mortal world, in the Kingdom of Yanluo, he had once encountered a Heavenly Demon, someone named Chu Jiaohong, if he recalled correctly. Later, Gu Qingfeng had casually snatched that Heavenly Demon, seizing a fragment crystal core belonging to the Wu Dao Age.
It was through that Wu Dao Age fragment crystal core that he had entered this place.
Here, he had later met Su Hua.
Not only had he met Su Hua, but he had also encountered a few others here, one of whom also gave him a sense of déjà vu; he only remembered her name seemed to be Mantufan.
Now thinking back, the few people he had met here back then should all have been connected to the Wu Dao Age—Su Hua was, and that Mantufan was too.
What left the deepest impression on Gu Qingfeng was that he had once met an extremely terrifying mad old man here. That old man was said to be a survivor from the Wu Dao Age, utterly insane and dazed in spirit.
The first time Gu Qingfeng heard the words 'Since there is intelligence, since there is confusion, one discerns object and self' was from the mouth of that mad old man. It was also that time when he began falling into the Original Sin Nightmare again and again.