Episode 10 The Road of Destiny

Chapter 1: Lost Souls

The moment I fell into a thousand waters, it was as if my soul and body were separated again. Memories of the past are replaying in my mind one by one, like blooming flowers. I, Pirrath, the King of Hades, am in this world of a thousand waters, but like a lamb that has lost its purpose, wandering alone in the territory of the beast. Where am I going? What happened to Sefino destroyed my motivation to move forward.

I am me, and at the same time you. We have the same soul, but we have fallen into different bodies. But at the same time, I'm not you, and you're not me, because different of us have different stories. You may have a sense of déjà vu, but that sense of déjà vu is actually a memory of when you were someone else.

"Go to the Land of the Red Moon and find Bedo Shiva there, and she will guide you to find a reason to survive. Lin Xinyue's words are still lingering in my ears, but I have lost the one I love the most, what can I use as a pillar to live bravely? Faith is a sharp blade in my hand, and I threw it in the bubble of Sefino.

I opened my eyes and saw myself floating in the clear water. This sense of déjà vu reminds me of the day I went to Farsinia, but today I'm going to the Land of the Red Moon, because Lin Xinyue said I need to find a reason to survive.

I heard that to go to the Land of the Red Moon, you need to find the Fountain of Life. I adjusted my posture and mobilized my powerful divine power. The intense white light enveloped me, instantly revealing the world as it was. Countless broken souls surrounded me, overlapping each other, screaming at each other with both joy and pain.

I couldn't see through a thousand waters, and my vision here was so limited that I couldn't even see even the slightest distance ahead. I closed my eyes and tried to feel everything around me with my divine sense, and the long river of years flowed in front of me, and I saw the shocking scene of heaven collapsing at the beginning of the formation of a thousand waters.

"That world is Ellie's world, and a thousand waters are built on Ellie's remnant!"

An abrupt voice burst into my mind, and in panic, I hurried to look at the source of the sound. There, in the hazy shadows, I saw Bedo Shiva. He looked like a student, with eyes and a thick book in his hands. I can't read the book clearly, but I can guess how difficult it is.

"Because this world is the birthplace of Icarus, and it is here that Icarus became a god, so the thousand waters are built on this remnant realm!" I continued.

I don't know why Shiva is here, but I, who already knew that Shiva was the creator of a thousand waters, was not surprised. I saw Shiva pointing a little in front of him, and a bright passage suddenly appeared in the dim world around him. At the end of the passage, the Fountain of Life glowed golden.

"Where?" I suddenly felt stupid at my question, but then I was terrified at why Shiva always seemed to know what she was going to do.

"Walk through the Land of the Red Moon to the World Tree!" Shiva looked at me indifferently, still as he remembered it.

Shiva led the way and led me into the Land of the Red Moon. There was a barren Gobi, and a full blood-colored moon hung over the distant sky. The moon was extraordinarily large, and suddenly it gave people the feeling of monopolizing the entire sky.

"The Land of the Red Moon was originally the rose of happiness, connecting Ellie's Nine Heavens and Ten Heavens. Later, due to the invasion of the Moon Lord, it was crippled!" Shiva walked side by side with me, explaining the formation of the Land of the Red Moon, or Thousand Waters.

"Isn't the formation of a thousand waters due to the god-killing of four cursed angels?" I was a little puzzled, in the knowledge of God, I knew this, and later it was confirmed by Cerbenos, but I didn't want to get another version today.

"That's *, not the real reason!" Shiva patiently explained, "The formation of a thousand waters is actually inevitable, it is just where it sprouts, and the invasion of the moon creates the soil for formation!"

Shiva led me to the full moon, and the moon before me was a behemoth. Above the full moon there is a laurel tree with three taproot veins that lead to three different worlds. In front of the giant tree, above the red gravel, soul guards swam back and forth like ghosts. They watch over the souls above the ground, and after experiencing the suffering of the black hole and the sweetness of the white hole, these souls are brought to a pile of cards. At this time, they are thinking about choosing their fate in the next life.

"This is the first stop on your trip, is there anything you'd like to ask?" Shiva was patient, as she had always been patient.

"Why punish these souls, is it to force humans to do good?" I don't think it's necessary.

"No, these are just experiences, and they are also experiences that enhance them in this world!" Shiva further explained, "No one has to pay for what they did while they were alive, because they have paid the price while they are alive. The world is balanced, and everything is gained and everything is lost!"

"Where do the three taproot veins of that laurel tree lead?"

"The realm of the living, the realm of the dead, the realm of saints!"

"What do you mean?"

"The realm of the living refers to the visible, perceptible world, that is, the world of the senses. The mirror of the dead refers to the imperceptible world, and in Senshui it refers to the spiritual world such as the realm of desire and the realm of ethereal spirits. The realm of the saint is to transcend the above two realms, beyond the law of a thousand waters. But it's impossible in Qianshui, just like infinitesimal is close to zero, but it's not zero after all, it's just an abstract concept, and in Qianshui it's those false gods!" Shiva said very seriously.

"People are always used to asking themselves what they exist for, and they want to add meaning to their existence. They will say for the sake of their loved ones, for their friends, for their ideals, and so on, but that happens only after it exists. So, why did you create such a world?" I first sighed, and then I looked into Shiva's eyes, which were very sincere, and the latter's eyes were also watery and innocent.

"Those meanings do not necessarily come after existence, and they may precede existence. We often create such people in order to realize or confirm a certain idea. For example, if I want a great love story, then I will create a couple of infatuated men and women and let them go through all kinds of love tests. Within the frame of time, people will feel that they were born first, and then they met, and then there was love. But in fact, from our point of view, it is clear that there is love first, and then there is the meaning of their existence!" Shiva stood there looking at me, waiting for my response.

"Then the love between me and Eve is just the reason why you created me? Why do you want to create such a world, we who are created are always bound by the laws of time, don't you think this kind of life is just a play directed and acted by yourself? What is the meaning? I asked, blankly.

"First of all, I need to correct you that it was your existence that made Eve, not Eve who created you, and secondly, it was not time that binds you, it is your mind. Also, you should not ask me why I created this world, because I did not create this world. This world is relative, it never existed! People often say that the world was born from nothing, but what is existence? Can you see me, can I feel that you are the one who exists? Have you ever thought about this world, these people? Including them, including us, are all illusory!What is chaos, this is chaos!" Shiva was still so indifferent and expressionless.

"How is that possible?"

"How could it be!"

As soon as Shiva's words fell, I noticed that the soul guards and the souls who were preparing to be reincarnated were gone, and the four fields were empty. When she turned around, Shiva was gone. I anxiously looked around me and looked at the osmanthus tree on the full moon, and it was gone.

Fear filled my mind, and a very bad feeling filled my mind. Soon I found myself in darkness, where only my body was glowing faintly. I looked at my hands, looking for a sense of comfort, but at that moment those palms also dissolved into crumbs, drifting away with the invisible wind, disappearing into the darkness. Eventually, all was gone, even the last trace of fear.