"You already know who the enemy is?" This time, the Nuwa descendant was shocked. She hadn't even explained yet, and Tianlin already knew.
"Senior, my father-in-law and I have been investigating our enemy for years. I've gathered quite a bit of intelligence. In this world, there are two people who shouldn't exist—myself, and the one hiding in the shadows," Tianlin recalled. "About eight years ago, when I first met Brother Skydream, he told me the Holy Spirit Pearl, Five Spirit Pearls, Demon-Suppressing Sword, and Magic Sword had all come to this world chasing something."
"If they were chasing it, it must also be from your world. Then, five years ago, right before the Soul Hunt operation, Tang Hao visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and brought many corpses from border villages."
"They died in various ways—some with pride, some with anger, some in the act of intercourse, some from gluttony."
"Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust—these are the Seven Deadly Sins, ultimate manifestations of evil. In the second intelligence report brought by Golden Crocodile Douluo, he mentioned that after killing those who attacked the villages, their souls were released. That suggests someone was collecting these seven sins, even devouring them to grow stronger. In the world of Sword and Fairy, who else could do that besides the Evil Sword Immortal? I've suspected it for a long time."
The Nuwa descendant nodded approvingly. "Exactly. The enemy is the Evil Sword Immortal—but not as you know him. The original was killed by Jing Tian, but before dying, he gathered all the world's evil, imitating Nuwa's Holy Spirit Pearl to create an Evil Spirit Pearl."
"This Evil Spirit Pearl can gather others' evil thoughts and create a new Evil Sword Immortal. The original hoped this successor could avenge him, but he knew neither the Shu Mountain Sect nor the Nuwa clan would allow the pearl to exist. So, he poured his obsession for revenge into the pearl and cast it into another dimension, letting the new Evil Sword Immortal emerge and grow in another world."
"To prevent other worlds from being harmed, the Heavenly Emperor Fuxi temporarily restored Jing Tian's Fei Peng powers and, with Demon Lord Chonglou, tore open the dimension to pursue the Evil Spirit Pearl. But with their immense power, if they entered the Douluo Continent, the world's laws would resist them, potentially causing the whole realm to collapse."
"Left with no choice, they retreated. We decided to send the Five Spirit Pearls, Nuwa's Holy Spirit Pearl, and Jing Tian's Divine Sword to this world, and find someone capable of controlling them to fight the new Evil Sword Immortal."
"But the Holy Spirit Pearl and Divine Sword were too powerful, so I kept my soul sleeping in the pearl to suppress part of its power, and split the Divine Sword into the Magic Sword and Demon-Suppressing Sword for a safer transfer."
"So you chose me?" Tianlin asked.
"Yes, I did. We searched many worlds and picked several candidates. The requirements were: weak enough not to trigger world rejection, knowledgeable about both worlds, no heavy attachments to their original world, not too indecisive but not cold-blooded, naturally clever, and in tune with my preferences. In the end, I randomly selected you," the Nuwa descendant explained.
"So my computer exploding was your doing?" Tianlin asked, exasperated—being killed by his new computer was a lifelong trauma.
"That wasn't me! I just chose you—the one who acted was Chonglou. He said that for the world to fully accept you, there were two ways: first, forcibly possess the body and soul of a native, like Tang San, but I refused, as it would harm the world's order. The second was reincarnation—we preserved your memories, but your body and soul were reborn in this world, making you a true native. For that, Chonglou said you had to die once to test it. I apologize again—since I agreed at the time. To make up for it, I imprinted the Nuwa and Shu Mountain clan's techniques into your soul," the Nuwa descendant said apologetically.
"So that's how it is." Tianlin finally understood why he transmigrated, where his knowledge and powers came from, and why the pearls and swords accepted him—it was all a gift from the powerhouses of the Sword and Fairy world.
Tianlin smiled. "No need to apologize. Thanks to you, I've had an incredible life I never would have before."
"That's terrifying—a monster born of the world's collective evil, able to grow endlessly. I can't believe our world gave birth to such a thing," Skydream Ice Silkworm shuddered. "Luckily, Xiao Tian, you can counter it. Do you know where that monster is? And whose evil thoughts created it this time?"
"It's obvious. Who else knows Bibi Dong's past so well, hides in Spirit Hall's shadows, and could create a Fallen Angel? Besides Bibi Dong and Qian Xunji, who else?" Tianlin answered.
"Bibi Dong's anger over her past is so great she wants to destroy the world. Wrath is the Evil Sword Immortal's favorite food. The Evil Spirit Pearl likely sought her out. Plus, Bibi Dong devoured Qian Xunji's soul—his pride, hatred, lust, envy toward the Grandmaster—all those evil thoughts, she absorbed them too. After all, her inheritance is the Rakshasa God, who feeds on evil."
"With all those terrifying evil thoughts gathered, the new Evil Sword Immortal was born from the Evil Spirit Pearl. He has all of Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong's memories. To help Bibi Dong become a god, he must push her into the deepest darkness—by destroying the continent. At that point, Bibi Dong could instantly become a god."
"So he controlled Xue Beng, allied with the Heaven Dou Empire to first eliminate the biggest threats to Spirit Hall—the Upper Three Sects. Once they're gone, Spirit Hall can wipe out the empires easily."
"If I'm right, his real goal is for Bibi Dong to become a god and open the gate to the Divine Realm, so he can follow her in and hunt the Seven Deadly Sins gods. Devouring them would give him nearly all the world's evil thoughts—making him unimaginably powerful. Killing a few border villages is nowhere near enough to satisfy him."