Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 778 - 719: The Cause_1

Chapter 778: Chapter 719: The Cause_1

"I’m so sorry..."

Li En’s phantom emerged out of thin air, his face full of apologies as he looked at Shen Mingxin and Lorraine Tower. With a pout, Gitalien crossed his arms in front of his chest and said discontentedly,

"Had to figure out the cause, are you happy now?"

"This is..."

Qi Chen was stunned for a moment. A black mist appeared out of nowhere, and a doll-like Spirit Beast wrapped in the black mist sat on Li Nian’s shoulder, looking at Li En and Shen Mingxin with a sad expression.

"This can’t be... No way..."

Shen Mingxin walked forward trembling, trying to embrace Li En, but her hands just passed through him. Staring at Li En full of apologies, Shen Mingxin said in despair,

"Why! Why is this happening!"

"It was his own choice."

Gitalien said discontentedly. Seeing Lorraine Tower giving him a glare, Gitalien complained somewhat unhappily,

"Forget you! Agunas, take me out. With all this dilly-dallying, if someone else gets trapped in, it’ll be troublesome."

Agunas rolled his eyes and, with a swipe of his paw over the book in his hand, Gitalien’s figure slowly faded away. Dou Yanlan, puzzled, said,

"What on earth is going on?"

"He must have done something, or he wouldn’t be in a soul state."

Feng Yuan observed Li En and said, at this time, Li En was consoling Shen Mingxin, but she continued to cry nonstop. Li Nian turned and shouted angrily at Feng Yuan,

"What do you mean he’s done something! Shouldn’t it be something Lorraine Tower did?!"

Feng Yuan glanced at Li Nian and retorted irritably,

"The soul that has undergone death transformation and the soul that has transformed after interfering with the past are completely different. Do you think I can’t tell the difference?"

"He interfered with the past timeline, and as a consequence, he lost his life and became a wandering spirit haunting the world."

"How is that possible?!"

"History, he changed Shen Mingxin’s past."

Dou Yanlan said thoughtfully, and Feng Yuan paused for a moment and said,

"Indeed, if that’s true, then the previous images make sense too. But why?"

"If it was just a physical issue, there should be other solutions, right? And how come it ended up on a time point related to Shen Mingxin?"

Feng Yuan was somewhat puzzled by this, Qi Chen asked strangely,

"After history is modified, shouldn’t the present change as well? Why do the original images still exist?"

"Because he didn’t actually change history, he just added a segment to the existing one. If we say normal time goes from meeting until being influenced by Lorraine Tower’s Time Roar and falling into the past, then what he did was to stretch out the history related to him."

"Although to others, the length of that period has not changed, his history now has an extra segment where he went back to the past and altered Shen Mingxin’s history."

"But if that’s the case..."

"Histories of unequal lengths are actually quite common. On the surface, everyone has gone through the same amount of time, but to some people, they have also experienced going back to the past and slowly moving forward to the same point in time."

"If the time we’ve experienced is like a line, then the line representing what Li En has gone through would be drawn from the past to the present, and then back to the past before returning to the present again, whereas creatures like Agunas are different."

Feng Yuan said, looking at Agunas and continued,

"Their journey from the past to the present is a single line. When they go back to the past, they don’t leave a line back to the past, and even if they try to erase the future in the past, it won’t affect themselves."

"But it’s different for Li En and the others. When they return to the past, they come from the future. They can’t make actions that would negate their future selves, as this would not only provoke a temporal disturbance, but also cause their own disappearance."

"And then... as time corrects again, new possibilities emerge until they no longer attempt to negate their future selves."

"So, to put it simply, creatures like Agunas can end the world in the past, but Li En and the others can’t?"

Dou Yanlan summed it up, while Feng Yuan was taken aback and glanced at Dou Yanlan saying,

"That’s correct, but your analogy..."

"It seems that the only ones that could exist alone after annihilating the world are..."

Agunas looked at Feng Yuan speechlessly, just as ordinary people can’t lift themselves, their detachment from time comes from the world itself. How could they possibly have the ability to destroy the world without being affected?

"So, did Li En choose to change Shen Mingxin’s history? But if that’s the case, what’s the situation with the Li En that Shen Mingxin knew? Another self?"

Dou Yanlan still couldn’t quite grasp it and shrugged her shoulders as Feng Yuan said,

"Not exactly. He was affected by the Time Roar from Lorraine Tower and entered the river of time by mistake, carrying a trace of uniqueness. At that moment, he must have inherited everything from the Li En of that time point. But how he managed to alter the past afterward, I have no idea..."

Feng Yuan was certain that when Li En changed history he must have died on the spot, and the time point was definitely not when Lorraine Tower launched the Time Roar.

On Li Nian’s shoulder, the Spirit Beast doll seemed to be gesturing as if trying to say something. Agunas listened to the other party’s words and looked back at the mansion with a startled expression saying,

"So that’s how it is..."

"Did Shen Mingxin fall ill during her childhood because of an accident, and was that the cause of the previous quarrelsome images?"

Agunas, listening to the explanation of the Spirit Beast, couldn’t stop wagging its tail, while Feng Yuan looked at Agunas curiously saying,

"What is it? Explain it to us～"

Agunas looked at Feng Yuan with annoyance and said,

"What else is there to explain? They met, fell in love, and then the rest you’ve seen. Because of her physical condition, Li En was always reluctant to have children with her, but she always believed that it was necessary to leave descendants for his family. Anyway, the final outcome is that Shen Mingxin left behind two children for Li En."

"What about running away from home? What was that all about?"

Feng Yuan asked curiously, and Agunas, speechless, glanced at Feng Yuan and said,

"That wasn’t running away from home. It’s just that after giving birth to two children, Shen Mingxin’s body couldn’t take it anymore, and Li En was seeking medical help all over for her. The already declining Li family was further worsened by this, and with the outbreak of the guardian wars, she chose to leave on her own in the end."

"As for what happened afterwards, Li En was inadvertently affected by the Time Roar from Lorraine Tower and returned to the past, coincidentally to the time point when her accident happened."

"The rest is pretty much as you’ve guessed. Li En, to change that future, stayed at that time point and became a wandering spirit. Although he inherited everything from the Li En of that time, there’s a big difference between a wandering spirit and an ordinary person. It’s just that at the time, he found a group of willing Ghost Series Spirit Beasts to conceal the past."

"As for his close contact with Shen Mingxin later, he actually borrowed the power of the Ghost Series Spirit Beasts to turn the ethereal into reality."

"Even to let them live like normal people for a few years, many of the Ghost Series Spirit Beasts gave up all of their lives."

Agunas said with a tinge of sorrow, and Feng Yuan pause for a moment before saying,

"Why would they be willing to do that?"

"Because of the Li family’s kindness. After all, the Ghost Series Spirit Beasts weren’t so..."

Agunas didn’t explain further. For it, humans’ attitude towards them wasn’t important, as long as they didn’t maliciously destroy the Spirit Beasts’ living environment. Agunas really didn’t care about such matters, especially since the actions of these Ghost Series Spirit Beasts reminded it of someone.

That person also seemed to be a Ghost Series Spirit Beast... Thinking this way, it seemed like Ghost Series Spirit Beasts were quite easily ’deceived’? Hearing Agunas’s explanation, Li Nian froze, and after a while, looked at the Spirit Beast doll on his shoulder saying,

"Is what it said correct..."

Nodding its head, the Spirit Beast doll sat on Li Nian’s shoulder, swinging its little legs and looking towards Li En and Shen Mingxin in the distance, Li Nian sighed heavily and said with a heavy heart,

"No wonder they say ignorance is bliss... Why..."

"The cost of changing the past, huh..."

Dou Yanlan looked at Shen Mingxin and Li En confiding in each other and murmured in a low voice, while Qi Chen scratched his head and looked at Feng Yuan asking,

"Then you often change history, doesn’t that mean..."

"Hey! It’s not me who changes history, all right? It was clearly Agunas’s own doing, and you’re still blaming me?!"

Feng Yuan retorted to Qi Chen, exasperated.