Mystery Paradise: Wishing Power Demon

The iron gate was blasted open, and a line of people walked into the cave. Compared to fifteen years ago, there was hardly any change here; the cave was still cold and damp, with the sound of dripping water everywhere.

"I’ve been wanting to ask, what happened after the Unfathomed appeared?" Chaoyang asked as he walked. "From the moment I was covered in green light, I lost the ability to sense the outside world, and when I woke up, it was already fifteen years later." 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Apart from him, Ailuodi, and Kokomoqi, the only other person present at the time was the young girl, Jia Ya, who had fainted and did not wake up, so only the Mist God could have witnessed what happened next.

"The part of the Evil God that entered this world disappeared, Franwick Yuss died, and your bodies collapsed to the ground, unconscious. I sensed then that those bodies were probably just temporarily borrowed. Not only that, the Evil God left behind two things—one is the Hunting Divine Heart, and the other... you will see when you get there."

Enkui exclaimed in surprise, "You never mentioned this to us before..."

"Because that thing is not something a mortal body can touch. Even I would feel a burning and distortion when approaching it," Shadow explained. "This is also why I closed off the cave... Everything related to the Evil God must be treated with utmost caution."

Distortion? Chaoyang twitched his mouth, wondering if it could be some kind of sinister object.

At that moment, Shi Yin popped her head out, "No matter what it is, we have to seize it!"

"Are you getting excited again?"

"It’s for your own good!" Shi Yin said discontentedly. "Do you remember when you asked me what Divine Fire is? Now I can answer you—from a certain perspective, that heart is the Divine Fire of the Hunter God."

"What? But isn’t that its relic?" Chaoyang asked in surprise.

"You’re not wrong to think that," Slime climbed onto his head. "Divine Fire, Divine Fire, isn’t it just something that continues to shine and warm others after death? Like the God of Knowledge, who even after death was turned into the Panlogical Machine, is also a form of eternal existence in another sense. When I saw that heart, I understood how to phrase it. When you decide how you want to be remembered after you perish, your Divine Fire will be ignited. And with the previous Divine Country... You are then truly qualified to be regarded as divinities. Of course... it’s still the lowest rank."

In Shi Yin’s mouth, the Primordial Gods are always supreme, and Chaoyang was too lazy to argue anymore.

But he still felt a complex emotion rising from the bottom of his heart.

Tasting it carefully, he found within it resistance and frustration.

Is this what divinities are like?

Born out of people’s wishes, having to decide upon one’s posthumous appearance as soon as they come into existence... and without sorting that out, one lacks even the qualification to be a god. Thinking of the Spinal Ice Flower buried beneath the Huiqiu Mine and the still-hunting dark heart, he became very upset.

As the saying goes, after death, what does one care if there is a deluge? Although he did not mind helping out, he did not want to be turned into a First-Rank Miracle Construction after death, continuing to be manipulated by others.

"Then it’s better not to be a divinity!"

"I knew you’d say that," Shi Yin sniffed disdainfully. "Without the full power of a divinity, how can you help me retrieve the rest of my body? But now you have a chance to exert your power without igniting Divine Fire! If it really is something left behind by the Unfathomed, perhaps it can be used as a faux Divine Fire..."

"Divine Fire can be faked?" Chaoyang was astonished, "You plan to deceive the entire world?"

"Deceive what?" It was full of contempt, "First came the Primordial Gods, then came the world, the world isn’t bigger than the Primordial Gods. Besides, among the Primordial Gods, there are those who you call the world itself, do I really need to trick it? Just understand it like this, Divine Fire is a relic, and there’s no problem using the Hunter’s Heart as your own Divine Fire. It’s just that your natures are incompatible, and the Divine Country’s power is vastly different, so using it to ascend to divinity will only weaken your own power. And the Primordial Gods are far superior to the Latter Divine. Anything they leave behind is more powerful than your relics, naturally, it can also be used as Divine Fire."

It sounds so reasonable...

"—As if, just babble on!" Chaoyang snorted coldly, "After I die, won’t I still be made into a Miracle Construction? And I have no interest in guessing riddles at all. I’m totally incompatible with the Unfathomed, are you sure doing this will make me stronger?"

"You’re finally getting smarter, but it’s a bit pitiful how little knowledge you have. Who would dare to touch something left behind by an Evil God? If you even leave a will warning about it, future generations would want to seal it away immediately. As for riddles... Well, you know nothing about the power of the Primordial Gods. Don’t worry, even the weakest Primordial God is not something the Latter Divine could compete with. Using it as a Divine Fire is absolutely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you."

"All talk and no action. Fine, if it’s really like what the Mist God said, I’ll give it a try," Chaoyang said, then glanced at the other three divinities somewhat concernedly.

Had they also thought about what they would be turned into after their death?

Arriving at the bottom of the cave, Chaoyang found an additional doorway in the metal wall on the southern side. This meant they could enter the ruins without having to cross the waterlogged area.

"This passage was one I discovered when I left; it seems it can only be opened from the inside," the Mist God said, bending over to enter the entrance only two and a half meters high.

It seemed like just a second ago they were still fighting inside, and now upon entering, it was fifteen years later. The light tubes on the warehouse walls still emitted a steady glow, as if they would never go out. They entered an airtight area this time, but the sealed doors seemed to be already damaged. After moving forward along the passageway for about five minutes, they once again arrived in front of Storage Number One.

The room was filled with a luminous green light, resembling that of an irradiated area. Strangely, the edge of the green light was almost flush with the door and did not cast a single reflection onto the aisle.

"This light comes from the artifact left by the Evil God," Shadow said. "Do you want to go in and see? Although it’s a bit uncomfortable to be exposed to it, you can endure it for a minute or two."

Since they were already here, of course he would go in.

Chaoyang took a deep breath, stepped over the threshold, and prepared himself for a sensation of burning and distortion. However, to his surprise, he felt no discomfort. As he stepped inside the door, the light began to fade, receding bit by bit!

The others watched this incredible scene, exclaiming in unison.

Only the Mist God let out a long sigh, "...It really is so."

The thousands of glass jars in the warehouse remained unmoved, just as they were when first seen.

At the end of the warehouse, Chaoyang saw three skeletons.

The most distorted one undoubtedly belonged to Franwick, his jaw completely dislocated, his mouth still wide open. The other two were naturally Bariff and Baili.

By now, the green light had shrunk to a half-meter area, and its source was a small hexagonal pyramid, pale green in color, looking very much like some high-quality gemstone. The heart, lying amidst Franwick’s desiccated bones, bore no more traces of the causal mechanism, yet it was still pulsating slowly.

"No way!" Shi Yin suddenly screamed.

"Don’t scare people like that!" Chaoyang punched the top of his head, "What went wrong?"

"This thing isn’t just some ordinary Miracle Construction... It’s a small portion of a Primordial God’s authority!" Shi Yin said incredulously, "What on earth did you do to the Unfathomed!?"