Deep in the Living-Chapter 894 - 873: Reversed

Capítulo 894: Chapter 873: Reversed

“Mura? Who is that?”

Luo Di clearly remembers all the teachers’ names from his school days, except this one feels very unfamiliar.

He climbed out of bed and quickly put on his clothes.

Considering his disheveled appearance upon waking, he didn’t immediately head to the living room but instead made a quick detour to the bathroom to freshen up.

“Is this me?”

Wiping away the mist from the mirror,

the reflection was not of a high school student at all, but rather more like a homeless man living under a bridge, the kind who hadn’t bathed in ages.

With shoulder-length black hair, scraggly beard, a gaunt face, receding gums, and even a few missing teeth, Luo Di felt as if he hadn’t eaten in a long time.

Strangely, though, he didn’t feel hungry; instead, he felt light, as if he’d realized something.

Luo Di found a pair of scissors and quickly tidied up his hair, cleaning his face as thoroughly as possible.

Once he looked somewhat human, he exited the bathroom.

The “Teacher Mura” had already been invited in by his mother and was sitting at the dining table, slurping noodles heartily.

With his severely yellowed skin and hanging black hair, he looked more like someone from the Middle East.

He appeared to be about 35 to 40 years old, a little over 1.7 meters tall, with a lean frame and forearms etched with secret spell markings Luo Di couldn’t comprehend.

“Not bad, Luo Di.

You managed to enjoy such delicious food and have such a happy family, even though it was interrupted by a malicious person, but at least you had it.”

Teacher Mura slowly lifted his head, revealing his eyes, where a reverse-spinning green array pattern was emanating a profound green light.

As the green light shone on Luo Di, it pulled him out of this warm family environment.

Buzz! A ringing in the ears.

In an instant,

Luo Di found himself deep underground, in that ever-familiar, original dungeon.

It was the place where he first learned about reversed paths.

Related memories surged into his mind, he knew clearly that he was in a dream, and he knew that due to issues with his divinity, he couldn’t make any progress for six months, just stagnating.

Returning to the dungeon in a dream, he saw Emperor Mura again, yet Luo Di didn’t show any killing intent but instead knelt on one knee.

Even if this was just a dream, even if the death row inmate in front of him was a figment of his imagination, Luo Di had to express his deepest gratitude.

Without the insights from reversed paths, he wouldn’t have reached his current level, he might have been eliminated during the great selection, undoubtedly eliminated.

Mura already stood in front of Luo Di, his voice came from above:

“You don’t need to thank me, it’s your own insight. The understanding of reversed paths, across the universe, only about a hundred people have it, most of them gathered in the Church.

You are a very unique existence, your system itself involves this aspect, you’re inherently suited for reversed paths.

My appearance, along with your awakening in a desperate situation, made everything fall into place.

I personally enjoyed the novel you just read, I haven’t read a similar piece since.

The old gentleman had the lowest talent I’ve ever seen, and his brain wasn’t the smartest, yet he comprehended a reversed path that billions couldn’t understand or dared not try.

He wasn’t smart, but he was the purest one.

This purity moved me, to the point that when I finished reading, a vibrant thought imprinted on the book, and that’s what you’re seeing now.

After you completed your reading, you gained similar insights, this thought can temporarily blossom in your mind.

Which also means,

this is my last footprint left in the world.

Indeed, you didn’t disappoint me, the divinity you refined is so intriguing, that someone actually refused that malice. It made me want to live a little longer to see how far you can go.

When I became divine, those things disguised themselves as corrupt old beings in reversed path, I couldn’t control it and rapidly fell into a mire of malice.

For a long time after, I used reversed paths to suppress it.

But once those things are engraved on your divine status, the rampant malice will always find holes to affect the individual eventually.

Ask, it seems you have questions for me.”

“I rejected the god’s malice, I was rejected from the universe, my divine status was undefined, my system couldn’t grow.

I’ve read your works,

I thought I had completely familiarized myself with the reversed path,

I believed I had maxed out my system, while also integrating the part of the Moon God.

Even so, I can’t gain any growth.

My friends, classmates, and teachers, in these six months, probably struggled to live, while I could only stagnate.

Senior Mura, I want to know if this undefined path really exists, can it truly be walked down?”

Hahaha~

Laughter accompanied the release of green light within the cave.

“You’ve already found the ‘answer’, yet you’re still asking me. Should I say you’re highly gifted or blindly ignorant?”

“The answer…”

Luo Di subconsciously reached out and the novel that calmed him appeared in his hand.

Emperor Mura suddenly crouched down and snatched the novel. Strangely, he didn’t open it from the front but started reading from the last page.

Accordingly, the story content depicted a journey from old age to youth.

The purity of the reversed paths never changed, and the story’s conclusion was fixed at the moment he first encountered reversed paths, filled with curiosity and longing, when everything was at zero.

After reading it in reverse,

the book was handed back to Luo Di.

“Take it, read it again, then start walking your path… If you have time, please take care of the Reversed Church for me. The people there are those who could understand and were willing to follow me.”

“Okay.”

By the time Luo Di lifted his head, the last of Mura’s thoughts had dissipated in the dream.

The dream collapsed along with him.

Luo Di emerged,

but nothing had changed, no growth, he was just as before, the same as six months ago.

However, he didn’t care, his thoughts were fully focused on one thing. He walked through his kingdom’s streets, beneath Moon City’s night skies,

reading the novel in his hand under the streetlights, reading it backwards like Mura did.

In his eyes, there was only the content between the pages of the novel and the path beneath his feet,

The news of Luo Di’s emergence quickly spread across Hell Star,

including Hua Yuan, Hook, Oculus, Lai, and even the cloth man, all came to see his progress.

What they saw was Luo Di, like a drifter, devoid of divinity, even reading a non-academic text,

first bewildered,

but soon someone saw the underlying issue.

Hook was the first to release the hook torture device, grabbing everyone’s clothes, prohibiting anyone from disturbing Luo Di in his current state.

Just like that,

Luo Di walked step by step into the central park, to the lake’s heart, into this dilapidated theater.

Inside was where his most important system product was stored, a gift from the Prison Director, the ultimate expression of Black Door Fear.

It had evolved from the initial pituitary seed to the current garden.

Rows of plants representing victims sat in the audience seats, admiring the performance of the core tree on the stage.

§ Under the moon, the murderer is solo dancing §

According to the predetermined path of growth,

as the divine status melds with the trees on the stage,

with the gradual increase of divinity, this tree would grow larger and larger, breaking through the theater, touching the sky, becoming part of the World Tree’s structure.

Then the individual would also reach the level of death row inmates, the so-called upper position.

However,

Luo Di’s tree was only this large, the same size as him, still dancing on top.

The colorless divine status had no divinity, couldn’t accept divinity, was completely rejected from the universe.

Returning here once more, Luo Di still held the novel.

As he approached the stage step by step, traversing the aisle. Those victim plants seated in the audience began to progressively degrade, to disappear.

Just like characters in a book returning from old age to youth.

Luo Di soon stepped onto the stage, but this time he didn’t dance but sat on the edge of the stage, completing the final touch of his reading.

Clap! He closed the book and gazed at the platform below.

There was no one below anymore, not even a single plant.

The once flourishing garden had reverted to the state of mature plants, Luo Di’s rank had not only failed to advance but had regressed, from ‘teacher’ back to ‘student.’

However, 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

on his face was the first genuine smile in six months.

His system was indeed walking the reversed path…