Chapter 1072: Chapter 71: Moving Mountains

Seeing Ogashira Masashi silent and speechless, Li Ang waved his hand and calmly said, "And what you call the end is actually immersing yourself in that metal cube, eroded by Guiquan Water along with Fujimura Masumi, together perishing.

You also have a strong emotional bond with your brother Fujimura Ryosuke. If you were to perform the Fate Ritual, perhaps everything would return to its rightful path.

Am I right?"

"..."

Ogashira Masashi was silent for a long time, bowing his head, saying hoarsely, "This is the only way..."

"Not necessarily."

Li Ang smiled slightly and said, "If the Fate Ritual only requires severing emotional bonds, then mutual slaughter between siblings or parents and children is also viable, right."

"?!"

Ogashira Masashi suddenly raised his head, looking at Li Ang in disbelief.

"According to the Hiratsuka Family’s method, in fact, there are many options to survive.

Either take the key and wait for you to die, or mutual slaughter among us, or kill Fujimura Xiuping above ground—he should still have a key, which can open the iron box in the Fujimura Family safe, and inside the box, there is likely a tunnel key similar to yours."

Li Ang shook his head, "But I don’t intend to adopt any of them."

Wang Congshan saw the expression on Li Ang’s face and immediately understood, "You’re going to..."

"Yes, come over and lend a hand."

Li Ang exhaled easily, his feet steadily stepping on the constantly swaying platform, nearing the cliff, and grabbed the hemp rope tied to Fujimura Masumi’s coffin.

Wang Congshan also came closer, the two of them together grabbed the hemp rope and slowly pulled it upward.

The metal cube wobbled, rising slowly,

inside came the clear sound of water and the noise of heavy objects moving.

As the cube moved upward,

the black mist in the abyss churned more fiercely,

inky black gaseous particles condensed into blurry, hate-filled human faces, swirling in the abyss and letting out piercing screams and cries.

Countless wailing voices overlapped, directly hitting the soul,

Li Ang urgently applied spiritual energy protection to them, and Wang Congshan also manipulated the Axis Cube, spitting out two noise-canceling headphones and hurriedly putting them on.

Clang.

The metal cube was finally lifted onto the platform, Wang Congshan took a deep breath, flipped her palm, and took out a table knife.

She had already understood Li Ang’s intention,

since Fujimura Masumi’s resentment and love were the only key to maintaining the fragile seal of Netherworld,

then extracting Fujimura Masumi from the abyss, breaking the balance and deliberately releasing the resentment in Netherworld,

could still achieve the task mentioned in the fourth stage "Ending the Fate Carving Village Incident" —this itself was a multi-option ending.

Tear.

The sound of the hemp rope being cut was still so clear amidst the deafening roar of the mountain body’s tremor.

As the hemp rope was completely cut by Wang Congshan’s table knife, the resentment in the abyss erupted furiously, rushing to the sky, like a dark curtain, blocking the high air.

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The system’s notification sound, mechanical yet melodious,

Wang Congshan took a deep breath,

Li Ang twisted his neck, his body bones emitting an uncontrollable crunching sound.

"..."

Ogashira Masashi instinctively stepped forward two steps, reaching out to press on the surface of the metal cube that was constantly seeping black dirty water, blankly watching countless evil spirits amidst the wrathful atmosphere,

his heart no longer filled with fear and timidity, instead calm as water, understanding something.

He turned to Li Ang and Wang Congshan, softly saying, "The balance is broken, you two should escape now, there might still be time."

"Escape?"

Li Ang tilted his head slightly, smiling, "Why, shouldn’t it be them who escape..."

From his sleeve, a multitude of vines extended, deeply plunging into the surrounding soil, growing wantonly, in the blink of an eye covering the entire platform.

The massive plant fibers condensed into towering trees, like thrones, carrying Li Ang upwards, overlooking the abyss.

In the high air, innumerable resentful spirits whistled, diving down,

Wang Congshan flipped her palm, the Axis Cube, with its restrictions lifted, immediately spat out a large number of metal components, in the blink of an eye forming a layered, interlocking gun turret defense line.

Wang Congshan stood behind one of the gun turrets, pulling the cannon trigger,

the ten artillery pieces connected to the fire control system around her simultaneously opened fire,

Thousands of enchanted bullets were poured into the sky.

Bang bang bang bang!

The rain of enchanted bullets was like chains of steel spreading death, and wherever they went, the spirits formed by black fog were relentlessly pushed back,

with the weaker spirits even being completely dispersed into smoke and dust on the spot.

Ogashira Masashi raised his head, eyes widened and mouth agape at the unfolding events,

as the vines covering the ground slithered and extended like thousands of long snakes, and some burrowed into his body, transforming him, shedding the black hair from his surface,

while other vines absorbed every last drop of black water seeping from the metal box and pry open one corner to explore inside.

"Netherworld?"

Li Ang stood atop the tree crowns, overlooking the rapidly spinning black whirlpool below, his palm slowly tightened.

His will permeated the entire tree realm,

as tens of thousands of vines drilled out of the soil like drill bits, flying wildly in the air.

"If Netherworld is only at this level, it’s... really disappointing..."

Li Ang murmured to himself, grabbing the Heart Monkey Staff and channeling Spiritual Power into it.

The Heart Monkey Staff grew with the wind, and after a moment, it turned into a hundred-meter giant pillar.

Li Ang’s hand, along with countless vines, firmly gripped the top end of the Heart Monkey Staff,

and thrust it heavily towards the slanting abyss below.

Boom!!

The Heart Monkey Staff pierced into the rock of the mountain, standing diagonally above the abyss like the Needle of the Sea.

Li Ang clasped the Heart Monkey Staff and took a deep breath.

This Perfect Level weapon, in addition to two passive special effects and one active special effect, had an unmentioned trait.

That is, excellent energy conduction efficiency.

Through the Heart Monkey Staff, he could faintly feel the ancient, obscure, gloomy aura coming from The Abyss,

the realm of the dead, which spelled terror and despair for the living,

now before his eyes, was no longer as mysterious and inscrutable.

Creatures of flesh and blood, spirits of the dead, were simply different forms of life existing...

The continuously falling rocks did not provide Li Ang with much time for enlightenment,

he blinked his eyes, controlling the vines to extend along the surface of the Heart Monkey Staff, surging towards the sloping rock walls of the abyss, piercing into the mountain.

Then, he activated Alchemy.

The vines were extensions of his body,

Spiritual Power poured out like a flood, wherever it went, the sturdy mountain rock rapidly collapsed, liquified, and turned into sludge, sliding into The Abyss.

Ogashira Masashi’s eyes widened, watching all this unfold, his brain seemingly freezing.

Several vines first broke through the dome rock layer, creating holes,

then hooked around his waist, bringing him along with the metal box,

and Wang Congshan,

up to the surface.

Above ground, the Hiratsuka Family Residence maintained the look of a night parade of a hundred demons, yet the monsters there seemed to sense the arrival of apocalypse, standing still,

only Fujimura Xiuping, covered with black hair, sat cross-legged holding a mother’s Ksitigarbha wood carving, murmuring incessantly.

"..."

Ogashira Masashi raised his head towards the mountain summit of Yuan Shan and saw that the towering mountain was subtly sinking. At this moment, he understood what was happening.

Li Ang intended to use the entire Yuan Shan to seal the entrance to the Netherworld.

Boom boom boom boom boom!

The cataclysmic scene of earth and mountains shaking lasted for several moments,

The Hiratsuka Residence and even the entire Fate Carving Village were reduced to ruins, countless trees broke, rock layers cracked, but this area remained untoppled due to vines firmly stabilizing the soil.

At last, everything settled.

Poof!

The ground suddenly cracked open, and a vine curled around Ogashira Tetsuya’s waist, slowly lifting him, rising above ground.

Ogashira Masashi instinctively took a step forward,

the next moment, all surrounding vines withered simultaneously, and Ogashira Masashi reached out to hold his son who was about to faint.