Lilly’s pupils significantly shrank.
She cannot bear the lightning bolt much longer!
In that moment she could see glimpses of her getting electrocuted to death while her father held her in his arms with despair flash before her eyes.
Was she… going to die again?
She couldn’t recall what she was thinking about right before she died the first time.
But now, in the face of death, all could she think about was her parents and her eight uncles…
And her grandma who she couldn’t bear to lose. It was going to be the New Year soon in the real world, right? Her grandma would probably prepare a table full of dishes, and wait for her to return by the front door with little Matt in her arms…
Lilly did not want to die. She still had so many things to hold on to.
She cannot die!
In the lightning strike, it was as though she could hear the heavens speak to her:
“Do you have The Order?”
“Have you fulfilled The Order yet?”
“Have you experienced the three affections, the four pains and the four struggles of humanity? Have you understood the destination of the thousands of fates of the world?”
“...”
She hasn’t completed The Order yet!
What was she going to do?
Lilly’s logic was very simple. Fill in the gaps wherever incomplete.
She had the thing she needed to complete The Order!
Right in this critical moment, she remembered that she had the immortality stone that she retrieved after scraping a belt.
As soon as the thought came up subconsciously, a huge tombstone appeared in her hands. It was the immortality stone!
Ka-zam!
The lightning bolt struck onto the gigantic immortality stone, and Lilly managed to escape death, but she didn’t have the chance to comprehend the Order within the stone.
The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth lightning bolts continued to strike down. And with each strike, Lilly would raise the stone. When one stone was smashed, she would take out another. And another.
The Rulers of Hell were dumbfounded as they watched from their respective palaces far away.
How could this happen?
It turns out that the King of Judgement and the King of Contemplation could not see the center points of the thunderstorm clearly. They could vaguely see lightning bolts striking down while Lilly raised one tombstone after another.
“Brother, I’m not mistaken right…?” The King of Five Offices couldn’t help rubbing his eyes. “The thing that she’s lifting up.. It’s a tomb house?!”
“You’re right…” The King of Contemplation replied.
It was indeed a house.
The houses that people lived in weren’t that small, but normal tomb houses weren’t that big either.
What was Lilly up to, raising tomb houses like that?
The King of Transformation got closer and was utterly shocked. “It’s the immortality stone!” He thought to himself.
She had turned the immortality stone into a tomb house?
Seeing the tomb houses growing in size one after another, the King of Transformation could feel his heart throb harder and harder.
Lilly had to bear nine lightning strikes in one go, her heart was also throbbing harder and harder as well.
“That’s got to be the last of it right…”
…And it was!
Sounds of thunder roared on, but the storm clouds had already started to dissipate.
She… She made it through?
He used up all his efforts to send the Test of Thunder over, but failed in the end.
Now his only hope was that she would get confused by the questions that he took the chance to ask her, and be sent into a mad spiral and disrupt the Order in her heart!
**
Lilly was in a daze within her own world.
She kept thinking about what was said to her earlier.
“Do you have The Order?”
“Have you fulfilled The Order yet?”
“Have you experienced the three affections and the three pains of humanity? Have you understood the destination of the thousands of fates of the world?”
Does she have The Order…
Lilly couldn’t understand. She had realized the Order so many times, didn’t she have it by now?
Has she fulfilled the order? – Nope, she knew very well that she still had not.
Has she experienced the three affections and the three pains of humanity?
After training with her masters for so many years, she knew of all kinds of things in the world, including these emotions and struggles that they spoke of.
The three affections must be those between friends, family members, as well as a man and woman who loves each other.
The three pains must be those when a person is born, is dying and is forced to leave someone or something they love.
She was just an eight year-old child. Why did she have to experience such things herself?
But she has. She had experienced the depth, tolerance, and love of familial affection…
As for the others… Why did they have to question those things to her now? Doesn’t the Order know that she’s only eight? Ugh, it’s all so stupid.
Is it appropriate to ask an eight year-old baby such questions?
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