Chapter 458: Evil God Festival - Boathouse

Bai Liu in the form of Sheta smiled and shook his left hand, the silk threads hanging from his fingertips swung one by one, and the samurai who had been beaten by Bai Liu fell to the ground, covering their bodies and wailing, sat up on their knees in a twisted position with a miserable scream.

The samurai moved fast and crawled like spiders across the crumbling wooden floor, swiftly approaching Sheta, who was in the corner.

Sheta's eyes and nose were covered by the dense silk threads which were almost practiced into cloth, her arms and legs were bound by the silk threads on the ground, she could only move slightly, her bloodstained white hunting clothes were scattered messily on the ground, she slightly turned her head sideways and aimed at Bai Liu's position, on the edge of the hunting clothes was the coin which was just given to her by Bai Liu, but then was sent flying by Bai Liu's whip.

His fingers trembled slightly as he clasped the boards underneath, bracing himself against the heavy silk threads as if trying to stand up, his hand groping the ground for the coin he'd dropped.

The samurai whose limbs were drawn over to him screamed in a twisted grimace as he raised his short sword high, slashing hard at Sheta's slender five fingers that reached out and lightly touched the ground, "Death to the monster, death to the monster!!!"

The long white whip was thrown over with harsh momentum, and the spikes on the head of the whip passed directly in front of this warrior's chest.

The samurai looked stunned as he let go of the whip, his heart nourished a column of blood that spattered everywhere, and he slowly collapsed.

Bai Liu breathed in sharply and choked out a cough, blood gradually overflowed from his lips, and a short knife was completely inserted into his right shoulder, and Bai Liu, who was holding this short knife, hooked up the corner of his mouth and gripped the handle of the knife and pulled it upwards.

Blood spurted out.

"It's so touching." Bai Liu smiles and says, "When both myself and Sheta were attacked by me at the same time, and I couldn't take care of both sides, I didn't hesitate to choose myself to save Sheta."

Bai Liu quickly withdrew his shoulder and stepped back, he covered his still bleeding shoulder, there was little expression or blood on his face, just the usual calm level stare across the table at Bai Liu : "Isn't that the choice you want to see me make?"

"That's true." Bai Liu smiled as he stroked his chin thoughtfully, "But there's another feeling, or pain, I want you to understand."

The soft and ethereal silver-blue eyes on Bai Liu's face curved into a smile, "What is it like to be hurt and tormented by someone you love, Bai Liu?"

Bai Liu breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's what Sheta suffered before." Bai Liu smiled, "Now you've tasted it too, how does it feel?"

Bai Liu slowly raised his eyes as he released his left hand that was squeezing his shoulder and suddenly laughed softly, "It's not your turn to give me the pain I gave him."

"Are you worthy?"

"Is that so?" Bai Liu curled up the silk threads on the ring and index fingers of his left hand and smiled sardonically, "It does seem as if I cannot bestow pain upon you as if I were changing the fate of other creations in this world line."

"You are the only one of so many humanoid creations in all the worldlines I have created whose pain is not dominated by me."

"I'm just very, very curious-"

Bai Liu hooked up the corner of his mouth and loosened his fingers, pressing down on the silk threads wrapped around the ends of his fingertips, "What exactly do I, a god, have to do to get you to spare me a little bit of pain to savor?"

The moment the silk vibrated, a samurai lurched up from the ground and kicked away the coin Sheta was about to touch.

The coin was kicked and banged against the corner with a crisp thud before sliding into the water.

Bai Liu's line of sight followed him closely, at the same time a black bone whip stabbed at his back from the blind spot of his perspective, Bai Liu sidestepped and caught the whip with his left hand that transformed into a monkey's paw, at the same time his right hand gripped the white bone whip and threw it out.

The bone whip swept against the wooden floor in a forceful sweeping circle, sweeping all the warriors on the wooden floor into the blackened colored pool of poison.

Bai Liu's monkey paw holding the black bone whip disappeared the moment he let go, a poison bottle appeared in his hand, he looked down and quickly popped the cap with his thumb, then raised his hand and threw it into the pond.

There was a steady stream of screams coming from the pond, a constant stream of warriors with all their metal shells melted off trying to climb out of this corrosive pool of poison, but usually as soon as their hands reached out, they were whipped down by Bai Liu, and continued to scream as they collapsed back into the pool.

The second the screams in the pond stopped, Bai Liu raised his hand and withdrew the puppet silk.

The threads burrowed through the opening at the end of his glove, and Bai Liu looked at Bai Liu with a smirk: "You're done clearing the room, now it's my turn to clear the room."

After saying that, Bai Liu's eyes swept to Sheta in the corner.

The moment Bai Liu's sight was about to come into contact with Sheta, Bai Liu's Bone Whip was swung face downward towards Bai Liu's face, Bai Liu jumped back two times to avoid it, and he raised an eyebrow and looked at the opposite side of Bai Liu.

Bai Liu look and tone is very cold, he looked at Bai Liu, turned the bone whip in his hand, all the bone spurs on the bone whip "click" sound protruding.

"Who says I'm done clearing out?"

"Isn't there one of the biggest pieces of trash that hasn't been cleared out yet?"

"Maximum trash, is that about me?" Bai Liu smiles and tilts his head to see Bai Liu's expression, "Angry? I've been observing you for twenty-four years, it's rare to see you so emotionally exposed."

Bai Liu didn't take Bai Liu's words and threw another whip over.

Bai Liu's palms flipped up and a watery wall appeared in front of him, and the whip struck it as if it were latex, bouncing back loosely.

[System Alert: Evil God Bai Liu using divine skill - (Audience View)]

[This skill can be used to trap the opponent in the position of the viewer's perspective with a wall of water, so that the opponent can only watch but cannot attack the world behind the wall, the field on one side of the wall is (the viewer's field), and the other side is (the field of a small TV), for the Creation Skill.]

Bai Liu's head snapped around to look at Sheta, who had joined Bai Liu behind the wall of water ripples, and her pupils plummeted to a tiny dot.

Bai Liu smiled and clapped his hands, "Okay, please our only audience focus their eyes on me and stop looking at the game NPCs."

"Our interactive TV game is coming up later."

"Before we start our game, let's first introduce the story background of this game to our lovely audience's."

Bai Liu said, he smiled and snapped his fingers, the silk threads that suspended Sheta dragged Sheta suspended.

The silk threads placed Sheta in a chair that had appeared at some point in front of the watery wall, and Sheta dropped her head as if in a deep sleep, facing Bai Liu across the watery wall.

Bai Liu slowly and methodically waved his hand to the left, and crimson velvet curtains hung from the shattered wooden pillars on both sides of the shrine, and the battered wooden boards on the ground automatically repaired themselves to what they were before they were struck as if they were being rewound in slow motion, shining like new, just like the texture of those meticulously cared-for wooden boards on the stage of the Evil God's Festival that Bai Liu had seen before.

"Pah-!"

Bai Liu struck his palms together with a loud sound, and in response the crimson velvet curtains descended slowly, fitting into each other and concealing Sheta, who was seated behind them, and in the center of which hung a rattling wooden, red-lacquered sign, which read in yellow letters-

-- [The Evil Sacrifice Boathouse - Act I play.]

Bai Liu looks across the watery wall and smiles softly, "I hope you don't mind if I take on the voice-over job for the game's background introductions."

"Pah-!"

Bai Liu gave another brisk smack to the palm of his hand.

The curtain rises, and as if by magic, Sheta, who was sitting behind the curtain, disappears, and is replaced by a wax model, whose features are not even finished, sitting in the chair where Sheta was sitting.

The wax figure was leaning crookedly against a chair like a human statue in an art class, with a gauzy white cloth resting in front of it that fluttered with the night breeze and felt like it could slip off when the wind blew.

Bai Liu put his left hand behind his waist and his right hand in front of his body to swing his hand outward, slightly indebted, made a gesture standard gentleman's salute, then raised his eyes, he smiled:

"At the beginning of the story, first allow me to introduce myself."

"According to the division of identity, I should be the big villain in this game, an evil god who will attack all players without discrimination."

"To call me in human terms, I would be called the God of All-Seeing, and I can see everything that is happening through the medium."

Bai Liu straightened up without a hitch, and he looked at Bai Liu behind the watermarked wall, still with a loose smile on his face:

"Humans call me an omniscient god, describe me as having the power to dominate space and time, and call me the gateway to all time and space in the universe."

"The past is me, the present is me, and the future is me, all time and space converge and cease in me, I am an unimaginable entity, and human texts interestingly portray me inside saying that even just a millionth glimpse of me through dreams and fantasies would be maddening because of it."

Bai Liu lowered his eyes, his index finger tapped in the air, and in an instant, all the scenery around him was swallowed up by the darkness spreading out from his fingertips, leaving only the stage planks on the crimson curtained floor.

The original background of the shrine turned into a pitch-black night, with no light whatsoever to be seen.

Bai Liu The shattered wooden boards under his feet instantly disappeared, and he stepped on both feet, as if he had fallen into the boundless universe or the deep sea, descending and descending in a feeling of weightlessness, a sense of suffocation slowly surfaced.

"Huh."

Bai Liu behind the wall of water ripples laughed softly twice, he elegantly extended his hand wearing black leather gloves from behind the wall of water ripples, and pulled the wrist of the descending Bai Liu with a piece of puppet silk.

Bai Liu looks up along his dangling wrists, and Bai Liu looks down at him from behind the watery wall with downcast eyes, as if in pity, as if out of the corner of his eye, whispering:

"See, incompetent and ignorant mortals are always so vulnerable in the universe."

Bai Liu let go of the puppet silk, Bai Liu began to fall again, but was soon caught by a stool in the audience, he sat on the stool and slowly floated to the opposite side of the water ripple wall, once again face to face with Bai Liu, but surrounded by a strange universe, a universe so dark that it was impossible to see anything.

"Too dark is it?" Bai Liu heard Bai Liu ask him in a low voice, "It was an oversight on my part."

"Our spectator should be given some light so that he can see the best of the game."

Bai Liu smiled and opened his hand, colorful dense light globes spilled out of his body in rapid succession, these glorious globes erupting out of Bai Liu's body seemed to carry some kind of heat and energy, bringing out the wind as they flowed, blowing away the broken hair in front of Bai Liu's forehead.

Bai Liu sees Bai Liu's pitch-black eyes without a trace of emotion under his broken hair reflecting these infinite mottled clusters of light, as if the brightest part of the universe had been cut and pasted into these eyes, and then the unknown of the universe was shown to mortals through these emotionless, pure black eyes.

These flowing balls of light flew in all directions, flowing and floating in the darkness of the universe, coming together with each other, and then slowly forming a river of stars glowing with radiance, and the bands of light that these spheres converged into lit up the endless darkness on both sides of the watery wall.

It's a scene that's so eerie and magnificent, it's as if the universe was lit up by a single word from Bai Liu.

"Humans always like to describe my appearance in terms of glowing orbs, but they have no idea what they represent."

Bai Liu whispered softly, countless orbs of different colors of light suspended around him, and then he held up a flickering pure white orb with his right hand, stretching out the wall of water ripples and handing it to Bai Liu's face.

Bai Liu's face was illuminated by the ball's warm glow.

Bai Liu laughed softly at this, "Do you know what this sphere is?"

Bai Liu asked, "What is it?"

"It's time, it's space, it's the future, it's the door." Bai Liu said calmly, "It's the myriad world lines I've created."

"--and this one next to you is the 658th world line where you are."