Chapter 253

"There is evil, and there is also good? The Silver Coin Messengers who can materialize desires are all evildoers driven by evil desires. How many desires are born from good intentions?"

Bo Xun snorted disdainfully, "Are you trying to talk about yourself? Perhaps your desires are indeed born from good intentions, a justice that rewards good and punishes evil—but such examples of a Silver Coin Messenger whose justice has sublimated into desire are far too rare. And you yourself are precisely an external entity, a Descender!"

…This statement actually had a bit of persuasive power. Qi Xing also gradually began to understand the implication behind Bo Xun's words:

——Apart from Qi Xing, the Descender, it seemed that once the people of this world held the fundamental power of the universe (the silver coin), they would be swallowed by desire one hundred percent of the time and degenerate into evildoers.

If that is the case, does it mean that humanity in this Sasa Universe is evil by nature? Is the root of this Sasa Universe already rotten to the core?

Even if Qi Xing, the transmigrator, does not fall, it cannot serve as proof of this world's inherent nature. Even if there are heroes of the righteous path in this world, the fact that they dare not use the silver coin means they are also unable to resist this corrupting force.

Even Qi Xing himself dared not let his teammates try.

Therefore, no matter how many righteous heroes there are, they cannot change one thing: the root of this universe is filth.

At least, that is how it is in Bo Xun's logic.

"Moreover, Master Leipu, your desires are also desires that would not exist without 'evil'. How many people can feel pleasure in such pure acts of charity and helping others?"

"Evil is accompanied by pleasure, but good is not."

After speaking, Bo Xun leaped back, jumping a thousand meters away. He traced his fingers through the void, and in an instant, hundreds of altars of the heavenly gods and Buddhas bloomed.

He wanted to gather his power and release it all, to destroy, destroy, destroy Qi Xing!

This power, this shockwave, this churning black mud, would surely blast the Earth beneath their feet into something like a puddle of mud! —But so what?

It was already a battle to the death; believing that one's own stance and viewpoint were the most correct, what did it matter to sacrifice a mere few million, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or billions of lives?

Furthermore, rather than letting them continue living in this absurd and terrible world created by the Mother, it would be better to destroy them all!

"Be destroyed!"

Before the words had faded, Bo Xun had already unleashed countless Dharma artifacts, countless raging fires, storms, mountains of blades, rains of needles, shackles, evil ghosts, and divine generals toward Qi Xing.

Without creativity, without technique, but this uncreative, frenzied bombardment also had its own unique quality, and that was "sheer power".

Every supernatural ability, every Dharma artifact, was "drained" and "expended," filled with an unstoppable momentum. Every strike was enough to exert the destructive power to split mountains and break cities.

Its momentum clearly carried the will to kill, intending to strike this meddlesome Descender dead on the spot.

Even if Sasa conjured more illusions, they could not escape the bombardment that destroyed everything; the power driven by Qi Xing's single silver coin was less than half of Bo Xun's bombardment. No matter who saw this strike, they would never believe that Qi Xing could withstand Bo Xun's assault with it.

…However, what was the reality?

A loud explosion.

In the flash of lightning, Qi Xing used his magic blade to deflect the blast's shockwave, and his left fist clashed head-on with Bo Xun's hand!!

The clash of raw power, without any tricks, yielded an incredible result in an instant—Bo Xun, who should have overpowered Qi Xing, was blasted with his protective aura completely dispersed by this punch from Qi Xing. At the same time, starting from the metacarpal bones, his right hand shattered inch by inch, and his entire arm snapped backward.

And Qi Xing's simple and light punch, its momentum not yet spent, followed through straight into the center, slamming heavily into Bo Xun's chest!

"Ugh?!"

Bo Xun was instantly blasted backward, vomiting blood.

And all of this was only because of that strike where Qi Xing's fist power was inferior to Bo Xun's.

What on earth was going on?

Although Bo Xun was not omniscient or omnipotent, he certainly knew a great deal. Although he was stunned at first, he quickly realized that it was not that Qi Xing's power had surpassed his own—but that an invisible external force was pressing down on his shoulders and back.

His gaze shifted sharply toward the outside of the Sanctuary, looking at those few people who were fighting elsewhere on the moon.

"How—is this possible?"

"Is it strange? Are you extremely confused? Bo Xun, you miscalculated one very important thing."

Qi Xing was not in a rush to attack, but also turned his head to look,

"I am a Descender."

"You are the savior of this universe."

"But I am no longer alone in this world."

"And a lone savior cannot get things done."

——Sure enough.

During their struggle, on the lunar surface, the battle between Rin and Xue Ning and the two Demon King boys had already been decided.

Xue Ning held the Holy Spear of Longinus that Qi Xing had lent her and thrust it deep into the front side of the moon;

Jingo Rin transformed into an angel form and thrust Uriel's flaming sword fiercely into the back side of the moon.

"O God of radiance who descended from the High Plain of Heaven,"

"At this moment, I offer the holy artifact with a sincere heart."

Rin, who was a shrine maiden, offered a prayer to the Father and Ancestral God,

"May the cursed soul find rest,"

"May the breath of evil be purified."

"Demons, calamities, and filth,"

"By the blessing of the High Heavenly God's spirit, I guide you into the eternal sleep of the world to rest."

"And may mercy be shown to them."

…Rin's Shinto-style prayer to Christ was something everyone was used to hearing anyway, and as long as it worked, it was fine.

Under the impetus of two of the most powerful Black God (Christ) miracles in the world, an invisible but incomparably heavy pressure had fallen from the void like shackles, firmly pressing down on Bo Xun's shoulders.

These golden shackles, which were harmless to humans but created specifically to bind Samael and the Giant Spirits under her command,

The principles of the Black God had already vaguely taken shape, intending to drag the Giant Spirit named Maitreya back to the world (the Dream of All Living Beings).

Volume 6: Rep-Man · Lunar Expedition: 232: Supreme Vajra

As the saying goes, flowers bloom on two branches, each telling their own story.

While Qi Xing and Bo Xun were blasting each other inside the Lunar Sanctuary for an hour, on the lunar surface, the battle between Rin and Xue Ning and the two Demon King boys had also been decided.

…They had to decide the outcome.

No matter how strong they were, even if they were immortals, even if they bore the power of angels—since they had not yet reached the realm of gods and demons, they ultimately could not sustain combat in outer space.

On this point, the two Demon King boys actually had the advantage. As Silver Coin Messengers, their bodies had long since transcended the limits of mortal things, and they did not suffer from the void and the vacuum.

Unfortunately, they could not make good use of this advantage.

For the Demon of Anger to encounter Mahamayuri was simply a stroke of terrible luck. All his authorities—even his divine power to subjectively judge good and evil—were really of no use against a combat-type Giant Spirit.

Because Giant Spirits were, by nature, invisible machines purer than actual machines; they were causal devices created by Sasa in this universe.

Mahamayuri herself also possessed the authority of karmic retribution and counterattack. With the divine power output differing by four times and the attributes being similar, how could the Demon of Anger fight?

Therefore, not to mention how Mahamayuri was beating up the King of Hell on the moon—this statement didn't even sound out of place—the battle that was more worth watching was the one between Jingo Rin and the Demon of Delusion.

Mahamayuri's arrows of causality and the sunlight that burned everything were nothing more than a breeze brushing against the Demon of Delusion, unable to harm her in the slightest.

However, when the Demon of Delusion roared and charged toward Jingo Rin, Rin's flaming sword was able to strike the Demon of Delusion. What was the logic behind this?

Was it purely because the divine power attributes were different? Was angelic energy noble? Probably not. After all, Giant Spirits were, frankly, knock-off angels imitated by Sasa.

When Rin slashed at the Demon of Delusion with her flaming sword, she also conjured a heavy golden axe to hack and block.

If one were to compare martial arts, Rin and the Demon of Delusion were worlds apart. Rin's swordsmanship had reached the pinnacle of humanity. The Demon of Delusion, however, was just swinging and smashing the axe wildly, hacking horizontally and vertically, fierce and without order.

The difference in martial skill was like clouds and mud.

But even so, the Demon of Delusion's incomparably heavy power was terrifyingly great.

Every time the golden axe and the flaming sword clashed and collided, it made the void tremble, triggering impacts like meteorites on the lunar surface.

Boom—! The lunar soil was shaken, kicking up dust waves hundreds of meters high, like a silent gray tsunami churning in the vacuum.

Cracks spread crazily in all directions with Rin and the Demon of Delusion at the center, instantly tearing open circular fissures several kilometers long, bottomless. Uriel's holy fire gushed out, burning eerily in the vacuum.

When Rin retreated with her sword, the horizon behind her had already been smashed and collapsed at one corner; the entire small crater had been directly shaved off by more than half by the Demon of Delusion's axe, and fragmented rocks flew, turning into countless high-speed shrapnel that pierced the distant rock walls.

Qi Xing and Bo Xun were blasting each other inside the Lunar Sanctuary at this time, shaking the core of the entire satellite.

And Rin and the Demon of Delusion were on the lunar surface, almost carving the moon's surface anew.

Ridges collapsed, deep valleys were destroyed; every clash of power rewrote the landscape. The Demon of Delusion's giant axe swung down heavily again and again, carrying the savage force to tear apart celestial bodies, ripping deep chasms into the lunar surface, while broken stones and dust waves scattered silently, like a dead and silent storm.

If a mortal were here, the shockwave transmitted by this tremor alone would be enough to instantly pulverize flesh and blood in the vacuum.

——Yet Rin's figure shuttled between these death storms.

As soon as the battle began, she decisively activated her Valkyrie form, spreading crimson wings of light, turning into a burning meteor in the vacuum.

Whenever the giant axe smashed down, she could always dodge by a hair's breadth. The angel's fire sword intercepted at the weakest angle of the axe blade, deflecting part of the force.

Boom!

Relying on her supreme swordsmanship and footwork, Rin neutralized the Demon of Delusion's brute force into thin air. It was like a dance, yet it was a turning point between life and death on the edge of limits.

No matter how crude and unorganized the fighting style was, if Rin were to be hit squarely by the Demon of Delusion's full force once, she would at least be seriously injured.

Where did this power, this primitive force akin to a primordial divine beast, come from?

What was the deal with her ability to ignore Mahamayuri's authority?

Fortunately, before flying to the moon, Qi Xing and Rin had exchanged intelligence. Now, after another fierce battle, Rin herself saw some clues.

——The "Delusion" in Buddhism, of course, does not refer to the obsession of a lovesick woman, but to "ignorance". Avidya, ignorance, delusion, lack of wisdom. From the perspective of Buddhist philosophy, "Delusion" is "misunderstanding how the world operates," the root of all suffering.

To put it more simply, the term "Avidya" is a euphemism; in reality, the original meaning of this word is "blind".

Blind where? Blind in seeing what should not be seen, not seeing what should be seen, or refusing to look.

——So the Demon of Delusion's authority was actually very simple.

Things she could not see, did not want to see, disdained to see, did not take seriously, or was unwilling to see, were all ineffective against her.

…This was truly an overly ridiculous divine power.

But why was Qi Xing smashed away by the Demon of Delusion holding an axe, yet it was said that Rin was suitable for dealing with the Demon of Delusion, and Rin could indeed hold a flaming sword and cross swords with the Demon of Delusion?

The answer was even simpler.

"Hey!"

After a long battle, it was the Demon of Delusion who became annoyed first—after all, she was the Demon of Delusion—and she shouted to Rin,

"Why are you helping Rep-Man fight!"

Although this was the moon, Silver Coin Messengers had ways to distort reality here, speak, and transmit sound.

Unfortunately, Rin did not understand the Demon of Delusion's question and instead felt puzzled: "Why? I am Qi Xing's partner, his friend."

"Rep-Man is a sex offender who thinks lewdness is fun and thinks sticking a long spear into people's butts is justice!"

The Demon of Delusion was furious, "A criminal like him who waves his genitals around everywhere should be castrated immediately!"

For a moment, these words made even Rin freeze, and she even suspected she had misheard: "What?"

"Not just Rep-Man, this world is full of despicable sex offenders!"

The Demon of Delusion said passionately, "All men should have their balls removed and frozen the moment they are born! When women want to have children, we can create technology to extract sperm cells from the frozen balls! If we don't do this, the world where women are at a disadvantage in power and still oppressed will never change!"

These words made Rin blink even more confusedly: "…I don't feel that my strength is inferior to men?"

"You cannot represent all women! A goody-two-shoes of the patriarchal system like you never fights for the plight of women, but instead becomes an accomplice to male chauvinism!"

The Demon of Delusion cursed angrily, "Do you think you are some kind of special beauty? You are just a green tea bitch who degrades herself into a wife-slave and a baby-making donkey! At this very moment, women's rights are still being oppressed! I will defeat you and Rep-Man! And create an ideal new world with Master Bo Xun!"

Rin was even more confused: "…Isn't Bo Xun a man?"

"Master Bo Xun does not have that kind of vulgar root of trouble!"

Before the words had faded, the Demon of Delusion was already furious, roaring and attacking Rin again!

Rin swung her sword to block, but this time, the Demon of Delusion could even vaguely nullify her sword; how terrifying!