Otherworldly Affairs Office-Chapter 717: Two Sides of the Same Coin (Please Subscribe)
At this moment, Li Songtao no longer had the resentful and hateful expression he wore when speaking to Pei Yan about the Candle Dragon. After being swept over by the other's gaze of three parts contempt and seven parts pity, he was left with only fear and despair, lying on the torture device, shivering and silent.
Ignoring the verge of collapse Li Songtao, the Candle Dragon turned his gaze towards Lin Junzhao, who was watching him with wary eyes, and said with a smile, "How should I address you now? Pei Yan? The origin body? Lin Junzhao? Or Master? Ah, even after all these years, do you still hold a grudge against me? Why so distant? You clearly know my name; there's no need to use that nickname like outsiders."
"Hold a grudge?" Lin Junzhao, controlling Pei Yan's body, extended his hand in a very feminine manner to smooth his hair, realizing awkwardly that he had short hair, and then put his hand down with a sneer, "If you were locked up for over a decade, cut piece by piece like a slaughtered animal, would you find it so easy to forgive? As for your name, Zhou Xue'an, right? Hahaha!"
After a bout of cold laughter, Lin Junzhao solemnly said, "This isn't the real you either, is it? I really underestimated you. I didn't see through your identity back then and considered you one of my followers. After Lin Ruxue and you captured me, it was over a decade of imprisonment that made me suspect your identity. Only moments ago was I certain that you approached me with a purpose all along. This was all part of your plan, wasn't it!"
"Oh, don't say it like that, okay?" The Candle Dragon flicked his finger amid everyone's gaze, and the bodies of the other seven Red Armored Warrior captives in the room exploded. The shattered flesh turned into streams of red liquid, flowing within the room before coagulating behind him into a bloody chair, where the Candle Dragon sat with a weary and sorrowful expression: "Those years I traveled through the major planes, I had the fortune of meeting you, who had just recently gained consciousness. The time spent with you is among my fondest memories. If possible, I truly wish our relationship could return to that time. Perhaps we could start anew."
"Don't make me laugh! Fond memories? Weren't they all destroyed by you personally? Lin Ruxue, that crazy woman, listened to your instigation, believing that the near-collapse of the Plane Barrier was due to my awakening consciousness, and thus imprisoned me. But the real culprit behind it all was you! Candle Dragon? Zhou Xue'an? I think I should call you the Master of Blood Slaughter, the origin body of another plane, right!"
Faced with Lin Junzhao's questioning, the Candle Dragon unabashedly nodded, his expression indifferent as he admitted, "Yes, it was me!" As he spoke, he raised his relatively intact right hand, and a dark red energy mass floated in his palm. Gaze burning, he looked at Lin Junzhao, his emotions stirred, saying, "Lin Junzhao, you should feel that we are two sides of the same coin! You and I are corresponding planes, mutually generating, restraining, and complementing! You were born because of their foolish transgressions, and I exist because of you!"
The Candle Dragon said this as he tossed the red energy mass into the air. As it exploded, a bloody and stormy Hell Sea of Blood unfolded before everyone. In this scene, the crimson ocean of flowing viscous blood and the raging flames continuously clashed and collided. From the red mist rising into the air, giant beasts leaped occasionally. To call them beasts is a misnomer, as Pei Yan couldn't name them, nor did his existing memory connect them to any animals. Their appearances hardly qualified them as creatures, having no eyes, noses, or limbs, just masses of blood coagulated into bizarre, grotesque life forms. If some of these beings didn't open their mouth-like structures to emit devastating howls, Pei Yan couldn't even be sure if they were alive. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
"Do you think the Source Qi from the diffusion of the four great planes all dissipated?" The Candle Dragon murmured as he looked at the scene on the ceiling, "That's just a part of the illusion you see. The Four Planes of Yin, Yang, Life, and Death have our polar opposites, the devouring and chaos." Saying this, the Candle Dragon looked at Lin Junzhao with a self-mocking smile, "Just like the terms I've learned in the human world over the years, you and I are like the garbage cans of the four planes. Their spilled source is trash, and you disperse the positive fraction of the source qi, which is recyclable trash, while the negative fraction flows into my plane. That's the non-recyclable trash, even toxic trash! Hmph, Hell Plane? What qualifications do they have to call themselves Hell? I, who gathered all the negative energy from the planes, am the true ruler of Hell!"
Putting him aside, witnessing the scene displayed in the Blood Mist, Pei Yan genuinely agreed with the Candle Dragon's statement. Compared to the floral paradise he saw in the Hell Plane, this scene here truly deserved the title of Hell.
"Why must we bear the mistakes of the four great planes? Why must my plane endure such pain?" The Candle Dragon said, waving a hand, causing the Blood Mist in the sky to dissipate, and then looked at Lin Junzhao, continuing, "See how they treated you and your world? They always stand high and mighty, looking down upon everything. I gained consciousness before you, traveling the great planes earlier. When I saw you, educated by Lin Ruxue, I knew my chance had come!"
"What exactly do you want to do?" Observing from the side until this point, Gu Shenghui finally couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked.
The Candle Dragon looked at Gu Shenghui, sizing him up before mocking instead of answering his question, "So you are Gu Shenghui. I'm quite interested in you and often inquire about you from Mu Fanchen, but he seems unwilling to mention your past interactions. If there's a chance, I hope in the future we could cooperate, given that Mu Fanchen is a very capable subordinate. I believe his friends can't be that bad either."
Having said this, the Candle Dragon ignored Gu Shenghui, who wanted to ask more, and continued to look at Lin Junzhao, saying, "From the start, I understood that the four great planes wouldn't treat us equally. They would never allow two newly born planes to come to be. If they couldn't stop it, they would keep it tightly in control, just like your encounter with Lin Ruxue. Did you think she was genuinely kind enough to take you as her disciple? Just for her to see what she called a version of her former self?"
"Oh dear, I didn't expect to be so disgraceful in the mouths of others, so small-minded and harboring ulterior motives?"
Before Lin Junzhao could respond to what the Candle Dragon stated, a mocking voice came from outside the door. Following Lin Junzhao's turning gaze, Pei Yan saw who entered through the door, quietly laughing to himself, today everyone is present, a good show is about to unfold.
