Chapter 2: Hope and Awakening_3

[Detected that the winner of the Festival, Lu Ping'an, has lost his life. How can the winner of the Festival of the Mother of Life lose his life! Adjust and upgrade the gift of 'Gift of Life' from the Mother Goddess... Burn the spirit substance of the loser Kerdalais to make up the difference!]

[The difference has been made up, the Decree-level abnormal ability is upgraded to a Rule-level abnormal ability. Congratulations to the host Lu Ping'an for awakening the Rule-level (God-level) abnormal ability—Life Bank.]

[According to the Ascension rules, the winner takes all the spoils of the ceremony. Congratulations to the host Lu Ping'an for obtaining the spoils of the Independent Secret Realm 'Hidden World Courtyard' and 'The Bound Soul of Kerdalais'.]

[Detected that the host has lost his vital signs, automatically activated the sub-function of Life Bank, the extension of life payment, current credit rating is ordinary, divided into six stages of payment, now loaning life-points 6000....]

Looking through the system prompts, Lu Ping'an was excited by the generosity of the Sacred Beast.

Although he hasn't found a stable source of life-points income to this day, but...

"As long as I'm alive, there's hope. By the way, my lovely Little Kleris, do you know how to dance, the Meow dance is fine too, do you plan to make money from your debut, I'll give you ten to nothing type...."

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[1998 May 7th, a panoramic report on the "Kerdalais Ancient City Ascension Ceremony]

Security level: Z-level top secret.

Event participant 1: 'Balancing Disaster Beast' Kerdalais, ninth-order Quasi-God, known career paths include Beast Tamer, Healer, Black Knight, etc., involved in more than a thousand cases, affecting millions of people, wanted by seventeen worlds.

Event brief: After verification, it was discovered that Kerdalais 'replaced' the probationary healer Liu Yiyi and infiltrated Lin Ci Hospital in the ancient city for three years and four months, collecting sacrifices in preparation for her own Ascension Ceremony.

Ascension ceremony description: As a Quasi-God, the Ascension Ceremony requires proving one's "doctrine" to the "origin", which is a "truth" in reality, a lasting rule, and completing the sublimation from a physical individual to "conceptual eternity".

The doctrine that Kerdalais was preparing to verify: Life is merely an instinct for survival. In order for one's life to continue, everything can be forsaken, and any so-called morality, friendship, and law are nonsense. I, Kerdalais, am the zenith of life.

Process of the ritual: Force two people who are "closest" to each other to fight, the winner lives, the loser dies.

Secret Realm rules: Anyone can exchange life for power.

Ritual completion status: Both sides of the battle will be exhausted, and the winner is often close to old age. Before the Wind Reverser appeared, professional Secret Keepers who were forced to fight either died or retired.

If the 'Wind Reverser' had not appeared, the ceremony would have continued to expand, constantly inviting "mortals" to participate in the one-on-one life contest, and it was expected that millions of people in the ancient city would gradually be drawn in to become an "example of the doctrine".

The remains of the losers will become the Holy Image components of the "Mother of Life", and when all the lives in the city have finished their sacrifice (possibly involving repeated invitations), the "tree of Ascension" will be completed, and the Ascension Ceremony will end.

Event participant 2: "Wind Reverser" Lu Ping'an (Surveillance Number Z7862).

Lu Ping'an, the second party in this event, is suspected to be Kerdalais' "fate reverser". He was the patient of Kerdalais' infiltration and disguise, originally estimated to be the sacrifice to start the ceremony (666 despairing fallen people), but later found to have too positive a life attitude (?), so was abandoned.

At 1:20 a.m. that night, he appeared at the ritual site for unknown reasons and was also drawn into the ritual. (Note: It is suspected that he has awakened an unknown high-level rule system ability, and retrospective detection abilities are ineffective on him)

The "Wind Reverser" Lu Ping'an chose to challenge the Secret Realm Master Kerdalais in order to save others, directly offering all his life to exchange for power, and defeated Kerdalais with it, proving that her "reason" was a dubious false proposition, and the newly established proposition might be:

"Life is not only about survival instinct; sacrifice for others does exist. Kerdalais is not the pinnacle of life... Lu Ping'an is above Kerdalais."

Note: Ascension is against the wind, and any form of Ascension will face difficulties. Any action they take may be met with "fate" and even the denial of "the world's" adversity.

Germination of the Ascension ceremony will be divorced from existence by reality, and it will be impossible to challenge... At that time, all attempts to hinder it will be in vain, and only when someone voluntarily sacrifices themselves at the beginning of the ceremony can it be stopped.

Considering that the disguised identity of Participant 1 is the attending doctor of Participant 2, and the relevant intelligence of his "Secret Realm" was leaked by Participant 1, he generated multiple causal relationships without knowing it (saving and hunting). The reporter highly suspects that Lu Ping'an is her fate reverser, and his sudden appearance is the arrangement of the fate reverser. 未完待续+'

Event outcome: Kerdalais dead (doubtful), Lu Ping'an survived, 13 professional Secret Keepers sacrificed, 24 professional Secret Keepers withdrew from the sequence.

Post-event handling suggestions: According to the Third Law of Contamination, the Wind Reverser Lu Ping'an has been confirmed to be contaminated, and has a high probability of awakening the highly threatening Mother Goddess system abnormal ability. In accordance with the Secret Keeper law Article 97, he is regarded as a Z to ZZZ level contamination source, recommending his eradication... or under the supervision of a guarantor, carrying out long-term surveillance residency.

Surveillance time: Lifetime.

Designated surveillance personnel and guarantor: Deputy Captain of Zion District special service team three in Ancient City, Xia Qin]