When 'God' Decides To Start Over-Chapter 940 - 364: Soul Worm (Part 3)

Li Qingyi and A’Gui also ran in different directions, but when Li Xiu turned around, he found that the Soul Worms ignored Li Qingyi and A’Gui, and rushed towards him without leaving a single one behind.

"Damn, I haven’t even dug a grave yet, just thought about it, and this brings retribution?" Li Xiu’s mood was slightly gloomy.

Seeing that the Soul Worms were almost upon him, Li Xiu summoned the Forbidden Spear, and in a gatling mode, he unleashed a barrage of bullets at the Soul Worms.

But the bullets went right through the Soul Worms’ bodies, as if they were made of ghostly matter.

"These things are of the same nature as the evil spirit Bu’Er before... The power of an ordinary Trial Taker can’t harm them at all..." Li Xiu immediately realized the problem, and prepared to use his Spiritual Sense.

Only by crossing the line with Spiritual Sense could he affect this kind of being. The last time he dealt with the evil spirit Bu’Er, he did it this way.

But before Li Xiu could activate his Spiritual Power, the Soul Worms that had rushed in front of him suddenly stopped and no longer moved toward him.

The Soul Worms, glowing with a purple light, flew in the air and gradually arranged themselves into two words.

"Uncle..." Seeing the two words formed by the Soul Worms in the air, Li Xiu felt a mix of emotions he couldn’t quite place.

The last time, the evil spirit Bu’Er called out these two words under the stimulation of Li Xiu’s Spiritual Sense.

This time, the Soul Worms arranged into these two words, leaving him both surprised and delighted.

"Bu’Er, is that you?" Li Xiu quickly asked.

"Uncle, it’s me." The formation of the Soul Worms shifted, morphing into four words.

Countless thoughts flashed through Li Xiu’s mind: "If all the people buried in these graves are from the City of Love, and if the one in the grave is really Bu’Er, how could she know about me? Unless our previous assumptions are wrong, and the City of Love isn’t a phantom realm, nor a memory space. If that’s the case, even if Bu’Er is buried in this grave, she couldn’t possibly know of her own existence."

Li Xiu could only speculate two possibilities. One possibility was that the City of Love was actually the past Black Death City, and the Godslayer Shrine sent him to the past Black Death City where he experienced events with the people of the City of Love, which is why the long-dead ghost of Bu’Er would remember him.

The other possibility was that perhaps the two cities might actually be parallel spaces capable of influencing each other, which would explain why events in the City of Love affected this place.

In Li Xiu’s view, both possibilities seemed extremely unlikely.

Time reversal is an unimaginable power; if the Godslayer Shrine truly had that ability, it would have long since done away with him, instead of waiting until now.

The crossing of parallel spaces was something that only appeared in fantasy works, and Li Xiu had never heard of the existence of parallel spaces in reality.

"Bu’Er, what exactly happened?" Li Xiu directly asked the question plaguing his mind, feeling it might be his closest chance to the truth.

"I don’t know what happened either." The Soul Worms continued to transform into various forms of Demon Text in the air, but fortunately, Li Xiu recognized the script.

As Li Xiu continued to communicate with the Soul Worms, he soon realized a fact.

Even though these Soul Worms possessed Bu’Er’s memories, they were only up until the point she was killed by a mysterious person; she didn’t know what happened after that.

As the communication dragged on, more and more Soul Worms vanished, leaving fewer and fewer in the air, and before long, only a handful remained.

"Un...cle...I...feel...so...tired...I...need...to...sleep..." The Soul Worms had thinned out so much that they could only form words one letter at a time.

"Bu’Er, wait for me. Maybe I can rescue you." Watching the last Soul Worm disappear, Li Xiu murmured to himself.

He was now certain that what happened in the City of Love could influence here in Black Death City. If he defeated the mysterious person and saved the people in the City of Love, maybe Bu’Er and the others wouldn’t have to die.

Li Xiu wasn’t sure if this was the case, but he wanted to try.

But thinking of that mysterious person gave Li Xiu a headache again.

Beyond his Spiritual Power, his power as a Trial Taker held little impact on the mysterious person, making it almost impossible to defeat him.

However, his Spiritual Power lacked the real capacity for harm and could only trap the mysterious person in an Illusion Realm at most.

Worse still, the mysterious person’s Spiritual Sense was also very strong. The Spiritual Power Li Xiu’s body could sustain could only barely make the mysterious person fall into an illusion for a brief moment, insufficient for Li Xiu to do anything.

"It seems I must ascend to a Divine Position. Only by enhancing the strength of my own body can I unleash more Spiritual Sense. Even if I don’t reach the level of harming with Spiritual Sense, maybe there’s a chance to keep that mysterious person in an Illusion Realm for an extended period..." Li Xiu and A’Gui returned to Bu’Er’s grave, where the phenomenon had vanished—the grave no longer glowed and there were no more purple Soul Worms.

After bidding farewell to A’Gui, Li Xiu and Li Qingyi returned to the city.

Li Qingyi had many questions in his heart but did not voice them.

"I still have things to do, so I’ll be off." Li Xiu was about to extinguish his Longevity Lamp when Li Qingyi grabbed him.

"What’s up?" Li Xiu asked Li Qingyi with some confusion.

"Do you remember I told you earlier that my father once took me to the large grave at the Land of Trial?" Li Qingyi said.

"I remember, you saw the Soul Worms there, what about it?" Li Xiu wasn’t sure why Li Qingyi brought it up suddenly.

"I was quite young at the time, and it was many years ago. Apart from the distinct memory of the Soul Worms and the large grave, I don’t remember many details, but while watching you communicate with those Soul Worms, a memory suddenly came back to me." Li Qingyi paused as if a bit troubled before continuing.

"What memory?" Li Xiu knew that what Li Qingyi recalled must have something to do with him, so he pressed on. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Li Qingyi hesitated before saying, "I remember while I was playing with a bottle nearby, my father also spoke to the large grave like you did. The Soul Worms on the grave arranged into some words in a similar manner. At the time, I hadn’t learned the Demon Text yet. I thought the Soul Worms were just flying around. Thinking back now, those should have been Demon Text. Since I didn’t recognize them then, I don’t know what the Demon Text was, but there were two fairly simple symbols that I remembered. Thinking back now, they should mean Bu’Er."