Chapter 1168: Chapter 1154: The Extraordinary Path Everyone Possesses
After Baiyu left Alfred’s place, it was already late at night.
He walked home at an unhurried pace, closed his eyes, and before sleep he silently called "Black Moon" several times in his heart, then soon fell into a deep slumber.
It was that same dream again.
Baiyu followed the forest path and slowly arrived at that clearing, where he saw the woman wearing a black gauze dress woven from moonlight.
She sat beneath the big tree, quietly smiling.
She wouldn’t speak unless it was necessary.
"Hello, Moon."
Baiyu sat down beside her as if it were the most natural thing, and began to talk with her about the matter of humans being born with a Path within them.
About this topic.
Alfred’s words couldn’t be fully trusted, so he had deliberately come to consult Moon about it; by cross‑checking the information from both of them, what he got should be basically reliable.
"It is indeed so. Within the human body, there is innately a Sequence—that is the Path of Blood.
The authority of the Blood Realm has always been in a scattered state.
This is also because when the authority of Blood was born from the Radiance, it was already in a shattered state, and then continued to Split, until it finally existed within everyone’s body.
The Red Cup is the Divine Spirit of the Blood Realm.
It’s just that—
He is not complete.
He was born out of a sacrifice of unprecedented scale, vast beyond compare; a sufficient number of fragments of the Blood Realm forged Him.
But because He was created by human sacrifice—
Human emotions and desires also influenced Him. How should I put it? If I use human words that are easier for you to understand, then He’s basically a lunatic, I suppose.
His desires are far greater than those of other Divine Spirits, for everything—his greed, his lust, all of it.
After all, His authority belongs to the desire authority of the Blood Realm."
Moon chuckled softly.
Baiyu hadn’t expected that the Red Cup had achieved Ascension in this way.
"I didn’t expect you to have even learned this. I can sense that, in the near future, your fate will have a great upheaval. It seems the variables around Abaida are increasing.
I’ll teach you some knowledge regarding the Divine Realm now, so that if you encounter certain Divine Power attacks later, you won’t be clueless about how to respond."
Moon spoke in a low, gentle voice.
...
Golden Holy District.
A small squad, under the cover of night, arrived outside Baiyu’s residence.
"It’s here, right? According to the intel, that guy should be hiding here. This time we must take back the boss’s thing."
"If we can’t retrieve it, we won’t be able to go back and report."
"Damn it, that woman’s looking for death, and she’s dragging us down with her. No idea what she stole that pissed the old man off this much."
The group quietly crept up around Baiyu’s residence.
Then—
One of them lightly scraped a line along the hard wall, twisted his right hand in the air as if grabbing and turning an invisible door handle, and forcibly opened a door out of nothing.
The small squad quickly slipped through the "door."
Then the rest did the same trick, opening the house’s main entrance from the wall and stepping into the rooms.
The dim environment didn’t hinder them in the slightest. They swiftly confirmed that no one was on the first floor, then headed for the second.
"There’s one lifeform in the first room on the left, and another in the third room on the right. Then there’s one more upstairs. I don’t know which room our target is in."
A thin, frail-looking man said in a low voice.
Behind him stood a burly man with a bull-like back and bear-like waist, sporting a buzz cut and colorful paint-like patterns on his face. "Then just open them all and we’ll know. Grab the target and bring them back, kill everyone else."
The other three nodded. They opened the first room on the left.
As soon as the door swung open, a beam of light shot out.
Crack.
The burly man narrowed his eyes, crossed his arms before his chest, and blocked that beam of light like a piece of Rock.
Seeing that her first shot had missed, Cang Yan immediately dropped the gun in her paws and frantically called Baiyu’s name in her mind.
As long as the two of them were in the same building, they could engage in direct telepathic communication.
However—
No matter how she called, there was no response from Baiyu.
"Bastard, don’t drop the ball at a time like this!" Cang Yan’s face went pale. She wanted to jump out the window and run, stall for time until Baiyu answered.
But her bulky body had only just squeezed halfway out the window when her tail was grabbed, leaving her dangling in midair.
"Such a fat Hamster, that’s rare. Is it some kind of mutant species? Seems pretty smart."
"Once we catch the target, we can slaughter this Hamster and roast it for supper."
Hearing them arrange her fate, Cang Yan screeched furiously, but she was using the Canglan Star language, and they couldn’t understand a word.
"What’s with this Hamster squealing non-stop?"
The burly man smacked Cang Yan on the head with his palm and knocked her out cold.
Then—
The four-man squad opened another door, stepping into Nancy’s room, and subdued her with almost no effort.
Nancy didn’t even get the chance to resist before she was restrained by the Cleansers.
"How did you get here?"
Nancy swept her icy gaze around, furious to the extreme.
"You left so many traces along the way, and even killed those slavers. Locking onto your position was child’s play."
One of the Cleansers said with a grin.
Nancy struggled against the rope binding her wrists and, realizing it was unbreakable, gave up on the pointless effort. Instead she said, "You plan to just take me back like this?"
"Or what? You think we’ll let you go?"
"We used to work together, at least. Barol, I saved your life on that alien planet!
Hanla, last time someone tried to kill you, who warned you in advance?"
Nancy fought back with all she had.
The four remained unmoved.
"Yeah, we remember all those favors. But if we fail to capture you, we’re dead too.
The old man has never been merciful.
You’re the one who dared to grow a pair and steal his stuff."
The four grabbed Nancy, tied up her hands and feet, and prepared to haul her away.
"Why isn’t he here yet? Did I feed those ten years of lifespan to the dogs?" Nancy cursed Baiyu silently, fuming that he’d vanished at such a critical moment.
But no matter how she cursed, Baiyu did not appear.
Nancy could only keep stalling for time. "Don’t you want to know what I stole from the old man that made him this furious? Furious enough to mobilize every Cleaner in the entire Chaotic Star Realm to hunt me down?"
At this—
Interest lit up on all four faces.
Indeed.
The Cleansers never spared a traitor, but a manhunt on this scale was a first.
"What did you steal?"
Hanla couldn’t help asking.
Nancy let out a low, grim laugh, a hint of madness flashing in her eyes. "The Pen of the Years and the Ashen Ledger—his lifelines."
The moment the four heard those two names, their expressions all changed slightly, and greed flared in their eyes.
This was insane.
Whoever obtained those two items would, in theory, have infinite lifespan.
"I’ll give each of you ten years of lifespan. You let me go. Right now, I’ve stashed the Ashen Ledger inside my own years; even if you kill me, you won’t get your hands on it."
Seeing the greed on their faces, Nancy quickly spoke up.
