# 1669
Chapter 1669
【Causeless Cause】
Zhang San?
The most trusted creature He had relied on for hundreds of years?
In the eyes of 【Chaos】, a trace of confusion first surfaced, then suddenly everything became clear.
It was Zhang San!
How could He have forgotten him?
As His most loyal creature, Zhang San had followed Him since several hundred years ago. Though just a child from a mountain village, his talent was decent enough. Back when He was traveling through Zhangjia Valley, He happened to catch this child fighting with other kids.
The child's body was frail and he couldn't beat the other children, but every time after getting beaten, he would use schemes and tricks to lure the child who beat him to the edge of a ravine, then push him down to his death when he wasn't looking.
Slowly, all the children in the village were killed by him. The villagers realized Zhang San's insidious and vicious nature and were about to drown him in a pig basket. It was still Him who intervened to save him.
Later, to repay the life-saving kindness, Zhang San directly knelt and became His disciple. He quite liked this child's personality, so He took him in as His creature. Though the number of believers and gods who followed Him was extremely large, Zhang San was undoubtedly the most loyal among them.
Gongyang Wan's expression softened slightly. She asked Zhang San, "Why can't we kill him?"
"【Chaos】 Great One, how could you possibly not remember?" Zhang San sighed, walking to Gongyang Wan's side, leaning close to her ear and whispering,
"Because... I'm going to kill you."
The moment those words fell, a broken sword pierced directly through Gongyang Wan's jaw and shattered her skull, the gory blood spraying out. A corpse toppled rigidly onto the ground.
Lin Qiye flicked the blood from his sword blade, his cold gaze overlooking the corpse beneath his feet as he calmly spoke:
"Didn't hide on the tongue then... Looks like I'll have to let you cling to life a bit longer."
The corpse of Gongyang Wan on the ground swiftly transformed into a willow branch with eyeballs growing on it. A wisp of black light flew out from her abdomen. The fingertip that 【Chaos】 had severed opened a bloody gash, and a roaring voice screamed from within:
"It's you?! What have you done?!"
At this moment, 【Chaos】 finally regained clarity. He stared at the sneering Lin Qiye before him, recalling his own absurd behavior just now, feeling as if his lungs would explode from rage.
His most loyal creature Zhang San?!
A child who walked out of a mountain village?!
He had actually gone traveling through Zhangjia Valley and expressed great appreciation for this sinister child?!
How had He just accepted such an absurd setting?! These events clearly never happened, yet it was as if He had personally experienced them... to the point that in that brief moment, He truly regarded Lin Qiye as His most trusted creature.
【Chaos】 was very clear-headed. Although His presence here was merely a severed finger with no combat power of His own, making it necessary to rely on the physical bodies of fake Wu Quan, fake Gongyang Wan and others to act, He was after all a finger of one of the Three Pillars. Even certain illusions or cognitive confusion abilities should have almost no effect on Him.
"Did you awaken?" 【Chaos】 seemed to have guessed something. "What kind of ability is that?!"
Lin Qiye's left hand slowly raised. A sphere of light appeared in his palm, and from within it stretched a thread that had, at some point, wound itself around 【Chaos】's finger.
——【Causeless Cause】.
Compared to 【Established Fruit】, the ability of 【Causeless Cause】 was even more obscure and empty. In short, based on Lin Qiye's current understanding, this ability represented "an inexplicable 'cause'" — capable of凭空 creating an nonexistent segment of causality, without logic, absurd, yet serving as the starting point of all things in the world, the cause of all effects.
Of course Lin Qiye would never disclose his Forbidden Ruins to 【Chaos】. Threads upon threads extended from the sphere of light in his palm, extending into the void.
"You guess?" Lin Qiye said coldly.
The words fell, a startling surge of divine power erupted from the Ame-no-Murakumo in Lin Qiye's hand. The surface of this Supreme God artifact, dormant for so long, finally burst forth with a blinding divine radiance, as if fully activated, emitting a sharp hum!
"You're not its master, and you haven't even ascended to godhood. How could you completely control it?" 【Chaos】 witnessed this, connecting it to his recent experience, and spoke in a deep voice, "Could it be that your Forbidden Ruins are related to causality?"
Lin Qiye gave no answer. He gripped the Ame-no-Murakumo and, with lightning speed, slashed an arc of sword light before him!
The sword light swept across heaven and earth. A gash stretched from the ruined earth all the way to the horizon. The dark clouds above Chang'an City and the swirling psychedelic mist nearby were all instantly cleaved apart. No matter how the clouds and mist churned, they could never reconverge, as if an invisible wall stood between them.
This Ame-no-Murakumo was something he and Jialan had seized from Susanoo. Lin Qiye was not its master, and before obtaining divine power, he could barely unleash its full might. Thus until now, Lin Qiye had only used it as a close-combat weapon.
But now was different.
If one looked carefully, one could see a thread of causality extending from 【Causeless Cause】, connecting to the hilt of Ame-no-Murakumo, gently swaying.
Through the power of 【Causeless Cause】, Lin Qiye directly forged a brand-new segment of causality between himself and Ame-no-Murakumo. In that causality, he was Ame-no-Murakumo's master... now, even without having ascended to godhood himself, he could directly unleash Ame-no-Murakumo's true power!
Nothing it cuts cannot be severed, and whatever is struck cannot repair itself, not even clouds or mist... This was the supreme killing divine artifact of Takamagahara, Ame-no-Murakumo!
A blood line surfaced on the surface of 【Chaos】's finger, the sword mark cutting deeply in. But this severed finger was simply too hard. Even Ame-no-Murakumo at its full power could only deliver this one deep wound into the bone, unable to sever it completely.
Once this sword strike landed, the severed finger sensed the crisis. Its form transformed into a streak of light, howling as it flew toward the distance!
He was trying to escape!
Having lost Gongyang Wan as a vessel, He was nothing more than a hard finger. Before Lin Qiye, who had obtained the causal Forbidden Ruins, He had almost no chance of victory. Returning from two thousand years later to this era had not been easy for Him. If He were to fall here, not only would the power of the 【Key to the Gate】 be wasted, but He would also completely lose this finger.
As long as He survived, even in this era, He could orchestrate another scheme to kill Lin Qiye. There would still be a chance to complete His mission!
Lin Qiye stood in place, quietly watching this scene unfold. His right hand gently lifted. A thread of causality that had emanated from that severed finger, spanning hundreds of meters of void, was pinched between his fingertips.
Gazing at this thread of causality belonging to the severed finger in his hand, Lin Qiye said calmly:
"Let's see... where exactly do you think you can escape to?"