Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 346 - 321 Great Success Mazao1

Chapter 346: 321 Great Success Mazao1

I reached out my hand and took down the Shen Gui Spirit Pill that was floating in the air.

Looking at this aqua-colored elixir, I reminisced about the prophecies I had received in the past, stirring some indescribable emotions within me.

This truly confirmed the prophecy of Gua Tianshi. This journey to Moon Concealing Mountain, between "saving a friend" and "obtaining the elixir," I could only achieve one of the two. In the end, I once again lost my friend but managed to secure the Shen Gui Spirit Pill.

As for why there is a "obtain one, lose the other" relationship between these two matters, frankly, I still cannot quite understand it, and can only ponder with my limited wisdom.

Perhaps the crux of the matter might still be the Water Navy Xuanwu; if he hadn’t managed to buy some time under my flames, then he wouldn’t have been able to transfer it to Ying Lingyun’s independent reality during the gap when I invaded Yinyue’s Spirit World, much less manage to refine the elixir for me.

Conversely, it would end up as it is now. Yinyue was teleported away, while he delivered the Shen Gui Spirit Pill into my hands.

Perhaps there are more details that I overlooked. The key might not lie with the Water Navy Xuanwu, but a divergence may have appeared even earlier. Perhaps there isn’t a clear causal relationship between the two matters at all; it’s just that I do not have the fate to achieve both simultaneously. Now, I am merely deducing the cause from the result, essentially like shooting an arrow before painting the target. No matter how logical it sounds, I can’t guarantee if it touches upon the essence of the problem.

Beyond that, what I truly care about is since Gua Tianshi said I might be able to save my friend’s soul during this trip, it means, in fact, I already possess the conditions to rescue Changan, but I just haven’t noticed it yet.

The reason I can remain calm knowing "Changan is merely a dream conjured by Yinyue" is largely due to such a "guarantee". However, I really can’t figure out where exactly I have the conditions to save Changan now.

Things that are incomprehensible must be set aside for now; there’s another pressing matter at hand, which is to deliver the Shen Gui Spirit Pill to Mazao as soon as possible.

I haven’t forgotten what the Water Navy Xuanwu said during the day. The shelf life of the Shen Gui Spirit Pill is extremely short; it must be consumed within an hour after its creation, or else it will be completely wasted.

I hurriedly left the half-destroyed Moon Concealing Mountain and returned to Moon Concealing Mountain Town.

At this time, Moon Concealing Mountain Town had become chaotic.

Naturally. The white fog sealing off the area around Moon Concealing Mountain had already made the public restless, and tonight, an unexpected earthquake occurred, even destroying half of the Moon Concealing Mountain inexplicably. Moon Concealing Mountain Town is at the foot of the Moon Concealing Mountain. Despite the fog cover, people quickly identified this "natural disaster".

Probably thanks to Gua Tianshi’s protection behind the scenes, the strike by Water Navy Xuanwu that destroyed half of Moon Concealing Mountain didn’t inflict noteworthy physical damage to Moon Concealing Mountain Town at its foot. Normally, such massive destruction, which couldn’t be achieved even with hundreds of strategic nuclear weapons, would have decimated the town with just the shockwaves, yet Moon Concealing Mountain Town remained intact. However, just because there was no physical damage doesn’t mean people’s hearts were not shaken.

On the contrary, the residents and tourists in the town were almost in a frenzy. They couldn’t understand why such a disaster would occur in their region, nor could they imagine what other disasters might follow. You could even see some doomsday preachers spreading their views, suspecting not just the areas around Moon Concealing Mountain are engulfed in white fog, but perhaps the whole country or even the entire world might have already fallen into an uncontrollable disaster—if not, why wouldn’t governmental forces have come to aid this place by now?

Although it was night, the streets were filled with chaotic crowds, with some even breaking into street-side convenience stores to vandalize and loot while criminals secretly took advantage of the chaos for their crimes. I took care of some intolerable misdeeds along the way while quickly returning to the inn.

This chaos will not last for long. As Yinyue vanishes from the area around Moon Concealing Mountain, the white fog originating from the Fatian Xiangdi of Yinyue naturally starts to recede. Since it is now night, they haven’t noticed yet, but before long, they will realize and the situation will calm down. However, the negative emotions accumulated in people’s hearts and their doubts about reality will not fade so quickly, just like the streets that become a mess after a typhoon.

The situation now is not solely caused by me, but to say it has nothing to do with me would be too self-exculpatory. I myself do not feel a moral burden for this, but for those like Mazao and Zhu Shi, who hold themselves to higher moral standards, they might not be able to think so freely about it.

If Mazao saw this situation, she would probably think "If I were Zhuang Cheng..." and then having realized that my behavior is different from what she imagined, she might have some thoughts. Although it’s unlikely that she will openly criticize me, perhaps I should do something about the situation.

What can I specifically do? As I ponder this, I find Mazao in the inn, looking as if she’s about to leave.

"Zhuang Cheng, you’re back?"

Mazao carefully examines me and seeing that I am unharmed, she sighs with relief and then says, "I sensed the mana fluctuations from your battle just now... did you win?"

"I can only say I won halfway." I observe Mazao’s spirit.

It’s still the same as before; I can’t sense the presence of flames in the trauma of Mazao’s spirit. If what’s hindering her recovery from spiritual trauma is the Xuanming Fire left in her wound, similar to Water Navy Xuanwu, I could now personally extract it; if not for that, my power would be of no use here.

Fortunately, at the moment, I have a better method.

I take out the Shen Gui Spirit Pill and hand it to Mazao.

"This is..."

She seems to understand what it is just by looking at it and then reveals a complex expression: "So that means..."

"Yes, I couldn’t save Changan."

I give a brief explanation about the battle then add, "Though it’s regrettable about Changan, at least obtaining the Shen Gui Spirit Pill is not fruitless. You better consume this elixir as soon as possible."

Come to think of it, this elixir is quite suspicious. It’s something from the enemy, and normally, one would wonder if there’s something amiss within it. Also considering that this elixir is concocted using human spirits, in a sense, it’s also an Evil Pill.

But recalling the final behaviors of Water Navy Xuanwu before his death, I decide to trust him.

Mazao probably feels this Spirit Pill is a treasure I obtained at the expense of being unable to save a friend. She seriously takes the Shen Gui Spirit Pill with both hands, lowering her head to look at it for a while, then lifts her head to gauge my expression, and finally, her gaze turns inexplicably resolute; she puts it in her mouth and swallows.

In my perception, Mazao’s spirit begins to rapidly heal—

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