Chapter 911 – Scarlet Mural

　　Lin Qiye and Jia Lan walked to the entrance of that broken palace, and the former hesitated for a moment before stopping.

　　”What’s wrong?” Jia Lan asked suspiciously when he saw Lin Qiye stop.

　　”Jia Lan.” Lin Qiye turned around, his eyes gazing into Jia Lan’s eyes as he spoke solemnly, “Promise me.”

　　”Promise …… what?”

　　Jia Lan froze, as if she thought of something, her cheeks flew up in two flushes of red.

　　”In the future, absolutely do not transfer [Immortality] to me without my permission.” Lin Qiye’s eyes were filled with seriousness.

　　When Jia Lan, who was filled with anticipation, heard these words, the light in her eyes dimmed, as if she was somewhat disappointed.

　　”Also, even if you transfer [Immortality] to me, if I tell you to take it back, you have to take it back …… Understand?”

　　Lin Qiye’s expression was incredibly serious.

　　Although he had already gotten out of the fishing village, it didn’t mean that Lin Qiye had forgotten about the things that had happened after the time obliteration began ……

　　Lin Qiye could accept dying in battle, but he couldn’t accept relying on the sacrifices of his teammates to live on alone. He absolutely would not allow Calan to transfer [Immortality] to him in a moment of crisis, preserving his life while putting himself in danger.

　　He didn’t want to let the people closest to him give up the chance to live because of himself.

　　He had to make an appointment with Calan.

　　Caran looked at Lin Qiye’s determined eyes and asked tentatively, “Then what if …… I don’t agree?”

　　”……” Lin Qiye froze and stammered a bit, “If you don’t agree, I’ll …… I’ll ……”

　　He hadn’t really thought about what he could do if Jia Lan didn’t agree.

　　Firing Caran from [Night Curtain]? Seems too hard …… to beat her up? Don’t tease, really fight, I guess the one who gets beaten up will only be Lin Qiye himself ……

　　After thinking for half a day, Lin Qiye didn’t think of a good punishment method.

　　After stammering for a long time, Lin Qiye looked like he had made up his mind, looked at Jia Lan’s eyes, and said word by word: “If you don’t agree, from today onwards …… I will not take the initiative to communicate with you, nor will I give any answers to your statements, nor will I respond to your behavior. ”

　　Calan blinked and reacted for a long time before replying:

　　”Are you trying to say …… that if I don’t say yes, you’ll ignore me?”

　　”…… Uh-huh.”

　　Garland: ヾ(???? ▽???) Use

　　Jia Lan looked at the serious and incomparable Lin Qiye in front of him, and for some reason, he actually felt that he was somewhat inexplicably cute.

　　”Alright, I promise you.” Calan spat out his tongue.

　　Lin Qiye saw this before he nodded slightly and turned around to take a step towards the inside of the shattered palace.

　　It was said to be a palace, but what towered in front of Lin Qiye right now was just a few broken walls that barely surrounded a ring, the collapsed giant pillars and domes crumbled into stone blocks all over the ground, and standing inside the palace, one could raise their head and see the red moon in the sky without any obstruction.

　　”There doesn’t seem to be anything …… here,” Garland asked suspiciously as he looked around, “Why did Uncle Merlin let us come here ah?”

　　Lin Qiye’s gaze similarly swept over the surroundings and hesitated for a moment before radiating his own spiritual energy.

　　Soon, he landed his gaze on top of the boulder rubble littered at his feet.

　　”Over here.”

　　A touch of night color spread out from Lin Qiye’s body like a wisp of ink, quickly dyeing the white stone rubble all over the ground black as his fingertips lightly lifted, and countless pieces of rubble flew up in the air.

　　Above the earth of the broken palace, a mural drawn with scarlet strokes was hideously exposed to the eyes of the two, like it was outlined with blood.

　　”This is ……,” Garland froze in place.

　　”A mural about the Divine Battle of the High Heavenly Plains more than fifty years ago.” Lin Qiye’s gaze swept over his feet as he spoke thoughtfully, “It should be that during the gods’ melee, a god barely managed to stay awake under the red moon and used his own godly blood to record everything ……”

　　Lin Qiye crouched down and carefully watched from the very beginning of the mural.

　　On the painting at the very beginning, scribbled blood outlined roaming divine shadows standing in midair, seemingly looking up at the sky, and directly above them, a red moon was silently hanging above the sky, and amongst these scribbled divine shadows, three divine shadows standing at the very top stood out in particular.

　　One divine shadow had a sun drawn on its forehead, one had a moon drawn on it, and another had a wave drawn on it.

　　”Who are they?” Jia Lan pointed at the three godly shadows and asked suspiciously.

　　Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, “In Japanese mythology, the father god Izanagi first gave birth to three children, the Amaterasu Omikami who ruled the sun, the Tsukuyomi Life who ruled the moon, and the Susanoo who ruled the ocean, these three gods ruled the High Heavenly Plains, and had a status above the other gods.

　　If I’m not mistaken, these three figures refer to them.”

　　Lin Qiye’s gaze looked towards the next mural.

　　On this mural, the one of the three godly figures that symbolized the moon suddenly shifted the direction he was facing, and he stood under the red moon, holding a weapon in his hand that stabbed into the Amaterasu Daigoujin, who symbolized the sun, and the painting purposely zoomed in on his eyes, with scarlet blood thickly smeared across his eyes in several layers, which were a bit blackened, and it looked bizarre to the extreme.

　　”The traitor is him?” Lin Qiye spoke in surprise.

　　Calan carefully scrutinized the painting for a moment, “The meaning of this painting is that the Lunar Reading Life, which symbolizes the moon, defected to the Red Moon and unexpectedly stabbed the weapon in his hand into Amaterasu Daigokami’s body?”

　　”That’s right.” Lin Qiye pondered seriously for a moment and continued, “That’s right, I should have thought of this …… Of the three supreme gods of the High Heavenly Plains, the Moon Reading Fate incomparably reveres the moon’s power, and his own godly power is closely related to the moon, so if the moon is contaminated by the gods of Cthulhu, he must have been the first one to be affected. ”

　　Calan thought for a moment, “Just like Chen Yangrong from the fishing village?”

　　”It should be.” Lin Qiye reached out and pointed to the eerie eyes of the Moon Reading Fate in the mural, “His eyes, as well as his maniacal expression, look a lot like Chen Yangrong’s. …… If I’m not wrong, he should have heard Red Moon’s murmurings as well, and completely fallen into the brainwashing that the Cthulhu gods had done to him.

　　Previously, I have always had a doubt, the world obviously has so many god kingdoms, why Cthulhu favor to pick the High Heavenly Plains to start ……

　　Now it seems that, in addition to the reason that the High Heavenly Plains divine country is closed, and even if the red moon descends, it will not trigger the attention of the other divine countries, the existence of the Moon Reading Destiny is also a crucial reason. After all, among the other divine kingdoms, there was no Supreme God who revered the moon.

　　Having the Moon Reading Fate as a card that can be controlled at any time means that another supreme god can be controlled by surprise, and their resistance to conquering the High Heavenly Plains will be drastically reduced.”

　　Lin Qiye walked over to the third mural and once again looked down.