Chapter 76: Side Story 1: Feng Jin: “has The World Fallen Ill?”
Land of Dreams—Night Curtain Garden, is the most mysterious place on the Douluo Continent, only children under ten years old can reach it in their sleep.
Legend has it that a Cyclops will hold up a boat in the Sea of Dreams to welcome those guests from reality.
Every child who has been to the Night Curtain Garden has said that there are beautiful angels, pure white Dragons, houses made of candy, and rivers flowing with milk and honey.
Countless strong persons on the Douluo Continent once wanted to forcibly open the doorway to that strange land by relying on their strength.
But without exception, no one succeeded, as if it were a paradise belonging only to children.
It is a gathering place of innocence and fantasy.
In the ballads circulating on the Douluo Continent.
That weaver slumbering in the curtain, holder of the key to the threads of all things, ruler who opens unborn worlds and thinking creations, observer and incarnation of myriad possibilities.
Spirit Master, the great The Above All Things sits quietly in the center of the Night Curtain Garden.
Indifferent to the follies and clumsy thoughts of all living beings.
However, there was once a Blasphemer—Anaxagoras who sharply critiqued that The Above All Things.
“Heh, The Above All Things?”
“Just a pitiful worm imprisoned by divinity and authority.”
“Indifferent to all development on the Continent?”
“Or rather, the scant humanity left in Him makes Him unable to understand the changes in life.”
No one listened to this madman’s words, and many believers of The Above All Things wanted to put him on a barbecue spit for it.
But he was saved by Shrek’s Bai E and taken to Shrek City to continue his research.
No one knows whether this Continent is developing toward the good side or the bad side.
For Soul Masters, this is the best era; the Spirit Master has illuminated the path of life evolution, and everyone can strive for that legendary position of gods.
For Soul Beasts, this is the greatest era; the great The Above All Things has undone the prohibitions on life, spreading benevolence to those thriving, running, soaring, and diving ones.
But for a doctor, this is the worst era.
Slaughter, crying, plague, death, war, and madness inject a chaotic undercurrent into this world.
Each patient’s death, each child’s cry, each shout longing to live on makes Feng Jin’s heart feel numb.
“Exactly when was it?”
Feng Jin sits on a high platform, holding a white pony and looking at the shattered Scorching Sun in the distance.
That is not the real sun; it is the afterglow of the God Realm’s fall.
The real sun disappeared long ago in history, disappeared in the dream.
“Oh, it seems like it was around the time I parted ways with Bai E and the others in Shrek City.”
Feng Jin strokes the unicorn of the white horse, her green star-like eyes slightly cloudy, from having seen too much tragedy.
It is a doctor’s lament for the world’s sorrow.
“Bai E told me he would change this world!”
“Ti Bao told me she would guide this world!!”
“Mademos told me he would protect this world!!!”
“Na Kexia told me he would unravel this world!!!!”
“But in the end, this world is still the same.”
“This is a world racing madly toward Hell.”
“The sun has gone out, and the stars have welcomed not a savior, but a tyrant.”
“Spirit Master?”
“The Above All Things?”
“If you really exist, really have eyes, why allow such a world to exist!”
“Is your heart truly as Anaxagoras said, only divinity?”
Feng Jin sits on the high platform; her once glossy pink-to-blue gradient twin tails have long disappeared, leaving a neat single ponytail.
She doesn’t know what this world will become; she is just a doctor, providing medical care for patients.
Afterward, she followed in the footsteps of her teacher who taught her medical arts—Doctor Roman, traveling the Continent.
Measuring every inch of land with her legs, witnessing every tragic fate, every newborn’s painful cry.
Feng Jin doesn’t want to think, just mindlessly treats every patient who comes to her.
“Doctor, I’m in so much pain! Can I still be saved?”
This is an ordinary person affected by alchemy; half of his body has been petrified.
Feng Jin forces a cheerful tone: “Yes!”
“Doctor, it hurts so much, I want to die.”
“Mom said people go to Heaven after death; is that true?”
This is a child infected with plague.
Feng Jin says sadly: “It’s true.”
“Doctor, I can’t see the light anymore; the dark world is so peaceful.”
“Can I still see the light?”
This is a pitiful person blinded in both eyes by a Soul Beast.
Feng Jin says expressionlessly: “Yes.”
Will it really happen? Feng Jin knows the answer better than they do.
She often closes her eyes to recall those children’s sobs, each tone piercing her heart.
“What would Doctor Roman do?”
Feng Jin often thinks of that mentor who always kept a smile.
She thinks about what he would do, only to find she can’t do it.
She can’t smile.
And so, the girl continues wandering the Continent, watching the God Realm’s afterglow, recalling the image of the sun.
The girl has grown up, her cultivation becoming unfathomably deep—Limit Douluo? Or Level One Hundred true god?
She herself doesn’t know; she only cares if her patients are cured.
The world is a circle; she finally returns to her original starting point—Shrek City.
In Shrek City, she often sees Bai E, once a fellow Shrek Seven Devils and now Sea God Pavilion Master, bustling about on the Soul Tool Screen.
He is still the same as before, a Scorching Sun, warming friends and incinerating enemies.
Clearing away evil everywhere, expelling plague, wanting to save this pitiful world.
Feng Jin puts on her hood; her dim eyes no longer look at Bai E on the screen.
“Bai E is still the same as before.”
“But the world is sliding toward the Abyss.”
“Heaven?”
“Does it really exist?”
Feng Jin has asked many patients, and the answers are quite uniform.
“It exists!”
“It doesn’t exist!”
A voice comes from beside Feng Jin; a man with a black eyepatch over his left eye, red-to-blue gradient eyes, and light green long hair tied in a low ponytail suddenly speaks.
It is that Blasphemer Anaxagoras.
“Humanity is like that, liking to deceive themselves.”
“Heaven doesn’t exist; there’s only Hell disguised as the human world.”
After bidding farewell to the Blasphemer, the girl doesn’t stay in Shrek City; after twists and turns, she returns to her hometown—Xilu City.
She sees the orphanage that has become ruins.
Her mentor Roman has long gone who-knows-where.
Some say he followed in the footsteps of The Above All Things to the deepest part of human consciousness.
Feng Jin knows her mentor’s character; he loves humanity and wouldn’t go to that depth of consciousness.
In the ruins, she sits for a long time until night falls.
The stars are still the same, bright and clear; the shattered God Realm hangs in the sky like a garden, with stars as potted plants.
Feng Jin seems to have understood something and says:
“If a person is sick, I can treat them; but if the world is sick?”
Feng Jin seems to have thought of something; she runs to the spot in the ruins that was once the Medical Room and starts digging.
Until a thick book is held up by Feng Jin’s hands into mid-air, as if in reverence.
The night breeze helps her flip open the books; inside is recorded an incantation to heal the world—Humanity’s Burning Incineration.
Side story one, just for fun, has nothing to do with the main story, purely Parallel World, will write more depending on the situation.
