Chapter 1932 - 1518: Forced Extraction, Lost Memories!

After Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue fell to the ground, a small phantom of Ta You at the top of the floating tower surveyed the surroundings. Walking down slowly with the dagger in hand, stepping on the brilliance of the Star Innate...

Each step a star, light shines beneath his feet.

The phantom of Ta You, ethereal and drifting, yet his gaze lingered on Gu Changsheng who remained unconscious with tightly shut eyes...

He wanted to see what had happened that made her prefer to remain drowned in pain instead of waking up!

Looking at this woman he’s waited for all his life, even though Ta You now was merely a phantom and not his true self, descending slowly towards Gu Changsheng from the sky, complex emotions stirred in his heart...

Born without a heart and devoid of emotions, his presence was the continuation of the will of the Ancient Wilderness Supreme Deity, yet each time he saw Gu Changsheng, he felt like seeing another version of himself!

He knew the whole truth, but couldn’t speak it!

He knew all she would face, yet couldn’t voice it!

His pity, his compassion, his struggle, his hesitation... all emotions rising within him were because of her!

Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness’s daughter, Gu Changsheng!

With the golden dagger in hand, each step Ta You took towards Gu Changsheng increased the warmth in his heart...

Though he appeared as a male, he was merely the condensation of will, without a true distinction of gender.

The warmth of his emotions was from the mysterious connection of both him and Gu Changsheng originating from the Ancient Wilderness...

But, even so, there were things he must do, things he couldn’t avoid!

This was his mission, his existence’s value, and entire meaning!

...

And as Ta You approached Gu Changsheng step by step, Gu Changsheng, immersed in her inner sea of emotions, clutched her chest and curled on the ground, silently crying without making a sound...

In fact, Ta You misunderstood...

He thought Gu Changsheng would suffer from the heart-wrenching pain under the confinement of those memories, but at this moment, for Gu Changsheng, even seeing the images of those Ancient Wilderness memories was the greatest luxury!

Vanished!

Everything had already vanished!

As if it had never occurred...

Yet, the Chaotic Power engraved on her soul remained, the wounds on her soul body kept bleeding...

Her fingertips seemed to still linger with the warm touch from her mother, unable to dispel...

She had seen her mother, a figure of her soul’s yearning and dreams, only to lose her again...

The maternal love she once believed to be as steadfast as a mountain, and that which she thought she possessed, turned into nothingness with the mother’s death protecting All Heavens in the Ancient Wilderness...

Her mother perhaps loved her, yet abandoned her for her divine duty, for these heavens...

Gu Changsheng truly wished to see, see that familiar face resemblance once more, see her voice and smile again...

No!

She hadn’t smiled...

The mother she saw was covered in blood, with a sorrowful expression...

"Why? Why? Why must you die?"

"What should I do, to bring you back... Will you ever come back?"

"..."

No one answered Gu Changsheng’s questions; there was only an eternal silence in her heart lake...

But it was here she saw her mother...

She didn’t want to leave here; she wanted to wait here, wait for her mother to appear once more...

Waiting for her to reach out, give her a hug...

Though she knew clearly, this was impossible!

Yet, Gu Changsheng refused to leave, as if the surroundings still held her mother’s lingering aura, still retained their reunion memories...

As a piercing pain surged from Gu Changsheng’s mind, her instincts led her to clutch her head and lift it, seeing a faintly familiar golden light...

"Mother!"

Gu Changsheng instinctively called out...

A faint golden light!

It seemed her mother always carried such a light!

Had she returned?

Had she ultimately not abandoned her and come back?

Gu Changsheng forgot about the sharp pain in her mind, and the little face still marked by blood broke into an excited smile as she struggled to stand up and stumbled toward the end of that faint golden light...

The closer she got to that faint golden light, the sharper the pain in her mind became...

But she couldn’t care!

This pale golden light gives her a feeling of familiarity, like the aura of her own mother, driving her to ignore her wounds and the intensifying pangs in her mind, constantly drawing closer to the source of that pale golden light...

"Mother! Mother! Mother..."

The joy of regaining what was lost sweeps over Gu Changsheng.

She feels as if her long-dead heart starts beating once more in an instant; her life, which had lost all hope, suddenly shines with radiant light!

Meanwhile, as Gu Changsheng staggers, pursuing the pale golden light that emerged in her mind, beside her within the Sixth Layer of the Star Innate Tower, Ta You’s tiny figure kneels, the golden dagger in his hand resting against Gu Changsheng’s forehead, strands of blood dripping down that dagger...

But Ta You, whose face in over twenty years has shown expression only when intruding into memories of the Ancient Era, now appears as if struck by lightning, trapped in boundless shock, "Mother? Mother? Who are you calling?"

Who is Gu Changsheng calling?

Who else can she call?

Her mother, her only mother, is none other than the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness!

But how does she know?

How could she possibly know?

History has occurred, the past cannot be reshaped, he witnessed the vanished memory at the end of the Ancient Wilderness Times, within that memory, the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness never truly faced Gu Changsheng, how could she know the deity’s identity?

"Impossible! Impossible! She couldn’t possibly do that..."

Ta You understands better than anyone, the Ancient Wilderness Supreme Deity is dead!

Died at the end of the Ancient Wilderness Times, sacrificing for the All Heavens!

But in this world, apart from him Ta You, besides the Ancient Wilderness Supreme Deity, who else knows the relationship between Ancient Wilderness and Gu Changsheng?

He didn’t tell Gu Changsheng, so the only remaining possibility is that the Ancient Wilderness Supreme Deity told her personally!

But how could that be?

Before dying, the Supreme Deity never truly spoke to her, how is this possible?

In the midst of unprecedented shock, Ta You forgets he is extracting Gu Changsheng’s memory, forgets that Gu Changsheng’s forehead is currently bleeding profusely...

"Mother! Mother! Mother..."

The profound call from Gu Changsheng’s heart continuously transmits through the golden dagger into Ta You’s mind, until Ta You feels his hand holding the dagger tremble, only then does he reluctantly return from his contemplation, quickly withdrawing the dagger!

Another hand, carrying a holy golden light, moves to cover Gu Changsheng’s forehead...

The wound on Gu Changsheng’s forehead, pierced by the dagger and bleeding profusely, immediately ceases bleeding, yet the wound remains!

The suction force steadily emanates from Ta You’s palm...

Bits and pieces of fragmented images, like a revolving lantern, continuously seep from the wound on Gu Changsheng’s forehead, in Ta You’s palm imbued with pale golden light, coalesce...

Ignoring injuries throughout her body, ignoring the throbbing in her mind, vigorously rushing toward the source of the pale golden light, Gu Changsheng’s figure suddenly halts, and her shouting changes in tone, "Mother! Mother... Mother?"

The speed of Gu Changsheng’s sprint slows abruptly, a trace of confusion surfaces on her blood-streaked small face, bewilderedly glancing around, murmuring, "How am I calling ’Mother’? Wasn’t I watching memories of the Ancient Era? How am I calling ’Mother’?"

Yet, in a moment, Gu Changsheng shakes her head again, the throbbing in her mind intensifies, paining her to the point where she can’t help but hold her head and kneel...

She seems to have lost something...

Seems like something crucial is being extracted from her body...

Pain!

Fully alive pain in her mind, penetrating and bone-cutting.

Gu Changsheng urgently tries to grasp something, wants to block something...

But as the pain intensifies, Gu Changsheng realizes, gradually...

Gradually...

She no longer remembers what exactly she wanted to grasp?

Clutching her head, kneeling on the ground, Gu Changsheng can’t help but roll over in pain, and involuntary low curses spill from her mouth, "SHIT! What is happening? My head hurts! Hurts so much!"

The kind of pain like having her brain forcibly excavated, scraping out the brain tissue, is simply agonizing beyond endurance, even for Gu Changsheng, she can’t bear this gnawing pain, ultimately, unable to endure, Gu Changsheng’s head tilts, collapsing into her heart’s sea...

However, in the moment before Gu Changsheng falls, she seems to see, at the edge of her vision, a tiny insect twitching its antennae, slowly waking up...

Manman!

It’s the Manman Bug!

The instant Gu Changsheng sees the presence of Manman, she wants to call out for help loudly, but before she can utter a sound, she succumbs to the agony, fainting on the ground...

"Who dares to disrupt my nest!"

Fluttering the bloodstains on its body, the holy golden tiny phantom of Manman Bug struggles to wake from sleep, loudly bellowing in a stern tone!

But after this yell, the Manman Bug immediately notices something unusual, its tiny insect head turns, looking toward the figure collapsed in the heart’s sea, and in a blink, its large insect eyes widen with shock!

"You wretched human, why bind your heart sea, and make such a mess?"

Manman Bug bears significant resentment toward Gu Changsheng, and after this complaint, it sees more clearly, sees the countless memory fragments pouring from Gu Changsheng’s head!

"Who dares to extract my host’s memory!"