Chapter 1934 - 1520: The Moon God Is the Ancient Wilderness—Is He Her?

"You ask who I am? Then I’ll let you see, who I really am." Ta You said, slowly raising her hand and covering it over her own face...

"No!" For some reason, when Manman Bug saw this, it let out a cry of alarm on instinct, as if, from the bottom of its heart, it actually refused to see who Ta You really was!

But it was already too late!

The mist shrouding Ta You’s face seemed to be torn apart, slowly peeling away, revealing the appearance hidden behind the fog...

It was nothing but a phantom, yet the features were clearly visible...

That ashen, withered long hair, that little face hidden beneath the ashen hair...

That pale complexion, those sharply defined contours, that single point of Holy Golden between the brows, that dazzling little face...

Ta You!

He...

She!

This little face was exactly the same as Gu Changsheng’s!

Yet Manman Bug was absolutely certain she was not Gu Changsheng!

Who was she?

Manman Bug’s tiny figure suddenly stumbled, clutching its little bug head as it staggered back two steps, only when it toppled onto Gu Changsheng’s body did it steady itself, hugging its little bug head, its bug face filled with shock, staring at Ta You as if struck by lightning, lifting a tiny bug claw to point at her, and exclaimed in disbelief, "You! You... you are... Moon Goddess Posuo!"

It remembered!

It remembered!

Upon the bright moon, there is a Cinnabar Osmanthus Tree, upon the Osmanthus grow the Manman bugs, and the Divine Residence that commands the bright moon, Moon Goddess Posuo, was its master, and she looked exactly like this, just like Gu Changsheng, just like this child before its eyes!

"Osmanthus Insect Child, I am not Moon Goddess Posuo. I am merely the continuation of her will; I have no gender! And in this world, there never truly was any Moon Goddess Posuo. There was only the Daughter of the Ancestral God, the Divine Venerable whose name is Ancient Wilderness! The Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness who presides above The Gods, standing at the very peak of The Gods! Otherwise, how could she possess the power to create gods? How could she help you, in the body of an Osmanthus Insect Child, vie for a Divine Position?"

Ta You looked at the thunderstruck Manman Bug and said in a low voice, "Osmanthus Insect Child, at this very moment, when you look at Gu Changsheng, have you thought about who she is?"

The suddenly-questioned Manman Bug was already shocked beyond words. In its mind, the memories were still fragmented, but it remembered Moon Goddess Posuo’s face with extreme clarity—after all, that was its master, the one who made it what it was!

Yet now, this child in front of it, with a face similar to Gu Changsheng’s, was telling it that in this world there had never been any Moon Goddess Posuo, that there was only the Daughter of the Ancestral God, the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness!

But even if Moon Goddess Posuo was Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness, Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness shouldn’t look like this!

No!

More precisely, it was Gu Changsheng who shouldn’t look like this!

How could Gu Changsheng look the same as Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness?

"She! She... you’re saying she... she is Moon Goddess Posuo, the daughter of Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness? Impossible! She’s just a mortal—no! She’s just a Soul from Another World, how could she possibly be the daughter of the Divine Venerable? That’s impossible! Impossible!"

However, as Manman Bug spoke, its eyes widened in shock. In its mind, within those dust-covered memories, the features of that graceful woman standing at Gu Taitian’s side slowly became clear...

The same!

They looked the same!

That Li Ruoshui of the past life, the Fenghuang Ruoshui of this life—they both looked the same!

Back then, Manman Bug did not remember Moon Goddess Posuo’s appearance, but now, Manman Bug was horrified to find that they all looked the same, all looked just like Gu Changsheng!

Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness, Moon Goddess Posuo, Gu Changsheng’s mother, Gu Changsheng...

They all looked the same!

Gu Changsheng is the Daughter of the God, the daughter of Moon Goddess Posuo, that is, the daughter of Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness!

In that instant, the Manman Bug suddenly understood why, hundreds and thousands of years later, Gu Changsheng had been able to awaken it again and bring it back to consciousness!

She actually really was the Daughter of the God!

"Osmanthus Insect Child, she named you Manman because she wanted you to remember to rein in the savage nature of your insect body. Yet you remained incorrigible, your arrogance became your very nature, and you committed a grave sin. In the end, I pitied that your kind heart had not been completely extinguished, that you were still of use, so I left you this wisp of Divine Breath. But you once more acted willfully, abandoned the world and left, nearly ruining her final arrangement! Do you admit your guilt?"

"I... no! I... I..." The Manman Bug’s mind was still in a broken, blacked‑out state; those scattered fragments of memory, it had no time to piece them together. But it did know that the person before it, as the will‑continuation of the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness, held a status far above its own!

This time, the Manman Bug was truly afraid!

It had no idea why, after one sleep, the scene waiting for it would be this!

A child who called himself the will‑continuation of its master had appeared before it and told it that Gu Changsheng was actually its master’s daughter!

This made Manman’s mind feel like a pot coming to a furious boil. It wanted to sort things out, but had no idea where to begin. Those chaotic memories were scattered all over, impossible to piece together. It didn’t know what great sin it had committed that required the loss of its Divine Body as the price, didn’t know how the Moon Goddess Posuo was actually the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness, and knew even less how all of this had come to be!

"Stop thinking. You have no Divine Body; even if you forcibly recall those memories, you cannot bear them!" As Ta You spoke, a glint of contemplation flashed in her eyes. She glanced at Gu Changsheng, who lay collapsed on the ground, then looked at the Crystal Ball gradually condensing in her own hand...

She had, in the end, taken away Gu Changsheng’s memories of this day. But in doing so, she had also drawn out the Osmanthus Insect Child, Manman...

Still, this might not be a bad thing...

"Osmanthus Insect Child, do you want to possess a Divine Body again?"

"I do!" At these words, the Manman Bug replied almost without hesitation!

As the Insect God yet without a Divine Body, it had endured this for a very long time, never once forgetting the desire to reshape its Divine Body!

However, reshaping a Divine Body—how could it be so easy? Even if it could obtain the Divine Blood of the Human God Shang Clan, a god’s body still required hundreds and thousands of years to forge...

Besides, there were no gods left in this realm. Even if it forged a Divine Body for itself, in the end it would still only be a counterfeit god’s body!

But this child before it was different. She was the will‑continuation of the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness; the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness, the Moon Goddess Posuo, was precisely the one who had once helped it achieve Becoming a God in the body of the Osmanthus Insect Child!

"I can use the Moon God Pool to reshape a Divine Body for you, but I want that trace of kindness you suppressed to rule over your future. Are you willing?" Ta You looked at the Manman Bug, starlight from the constellations flowing in her eyes as she spoke, pondering.

"What? You want that stupid, dull Dandan to come out? No! Impossible!" The instant the Manman Bug thought of how, deep in its heart, there was still a Dandan Bug who, once it came out, kept calling that woman Gu Changsheng "Dandan’s Mom," it felt the face of the Insect God was utterly disgraced!

To have it willingly return to silence, handing over its Divine Body and its future to Dandan’s control—how could it possibly agree?

Even if the existence of that Dandan Bug had been born from the good thoughts in the depths of its own heart, it still refused!

"Osmanthus Insect Child, you must understand, the reason I left you this wisp of Divine Breath back then was precisely because your inner kindness had not completely perished. If you stubbornly refuse to return to silence, then what awaits you is only the onslaught of your memories, and death from being unable to withstand them! Think it through clearly—do you want this, or not? Of course, even if you agree, I have more than enough ways to awaken the good thoughts in your heart and let them rule your future. Only, if we do it that way, before you vanish, you will experience an annihilating pain beyond imagination!" Ta You looked at the Manman Bug before her, the corner of her lips slightly lifting. She wanted to keep the Manman Bug, because this was the only thing he could still do for Gu Changsheng.

However, what she wanted to keep was not this arrogant, willful Manman before her, but that Dandan who harbored kindness and always thought only of Gu Changsheng!

"You!" Hearing Ta You’s words, the Manman Bug’s eyes widened in rage on the spot.

It wanted to resist, wanted to break free from this kind of fated arrangement!

Yet standing before it was the will‑continuation of the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness, the will‑continuation of a Divine Venerable who possessed supreme power. It was nothing but a wisp of Divine Breath—what could it use to compete? What could it use to rebel?

"I have taken Gu Changsheng’s memories of today. Go back now, go back and continue your slumber. Don’t think about recalling the past again, because without a Divine Body, that is a weight even you cannot bear. When you return to silence and your good thoughts rule the Divine Body, when the day comes that you can remember everything, only then will you know what kind of irreparable sin you committed to end up like this today!" As Ta You spoke, she waved her hand and said, "The day Gu Changsheng reaches the top of the Star Innate Tower will be the day your Divine Body can be formed. I’ll be waiting for you at the top of the Star Innate Tower!"

"But if Dandan rules over my future, won’t I be gone?" Seeing this, the Manman Bug quickly spoke up; it was truly afraid that Ta You would leave before she finished talking.

"You will, and yet you won’t. You and he are, from the beginning, the two sides of good and evil. You are proud and solitary by nature; he is gentle and kind. Your bad habits are hard to change; his nature is pure and good. If you willingly return to silence, you will gradually be moved by him, reflect on yourself, and ultimately merge into one." Ta You thought for a moment, then chose to answer honestly. After that, she didn’t spare the Manman Bug another glance. Holding the Crystal Ball in her hand, she stepped into the air and ascended the steps...

The Manman Bug watched Ta You disappear from before its eyes and, for a time, didn’t know what to do. It longed for a Divine Body, yet it had to relinquish the right of dominion...

But it seemed it no longer had any room to choose!

Meanwhile, at this very moment, on the Astrolabe Platform at the top of the Star Innate Tower, the small figure kneeling in the Cold Pond, still maintaining the posture of raising his head to gaze at the moon, slowly stretched out his hand. In that small hand, a Crystal Ball filled with mottled, shifting memory images appeared in his palm...

And the little face of Ta You, the child gazing at the moon, was also revealed—it was simply a scaled‑down version of Gu Changsheng...