178: Chapter 178 The Nameless Well

The bronze door stood at the end of the ruins of the Naming Room.

There was no light behind the door.

Only the sound of tapping.

Thump.

Thump.

It sounded like someone sitting underground, waiting for many years.

Jiang Feng stepped forward.

Zero Seven immediately warned, "Mr. Jiang, this door is connected to the ancient traces beneath the Blue Star."

"It might not be a projection."

Li Yan followed with his fists clenched, his temper not suppressed at all.

"It’s better if it’s not a projection."

"We can't let these old geezers play ghost from behind a door every single time."

The Dragon Girl held the infant pod, her tail sweeping around to pull Zero Seven and Zhang Changlin closer.

"Follow Master."

"Safe."

Zero Seven's lips twitched.

Anywhere else, these words would be somewhat ridiculous.

But by Jiang Feng's side...

They were very reasonable.

Jiang Feng walked to the bronze door and pressed his hand against the panel.

From within the door, a voice spoke calmly.

"Don't be in a hurry."

"This is not how the door opens."

Jiang Feng exerted force with his fingers.

Crack.

He tore the bronze door directly off its frame.

The voice stopped.

Li Yan grinned.

"It told you to open the door."

"And you dismantled it."

The Dragon Girl nodded seriously.

"Master does not follow procedures."

The bronze door vibrated in Jiang Feng's palm.

The ancient engravings on the surface lit up one by one, trying to struggle out of his grip.

A System prompt popped up.

[Contacted: Entrance to the Source of Mythical Naming.]

[Detected: Outer Door of The Name Writer's Afterimage.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng said indifferently, "Plunder."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundered The Name Writer's outer door authority.]

[Gained all attributes: 15 ganges sand.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 195 ganges sand.]

The bronze door instantly lost its color.

Behind the door, a downward stone staircase was revealed.

The staircase was very narrow.

The stone walls on both sides were covered with names.

Pangu.

Nüwa.

Zhulong.

Xingtian.

Kuafu.

Gonggong.

Behind each name was a line of small text.

[Purpose: Creation.]

[Purpose: Mending.]

[Purpose: Time-keeping.]

[Purpose: Warfare.]

[Purpose: Sun-chasing.]

[Purpose: Realm-crashing.]

Li Yan's anger surged to his head as he looked at them.

"They really wrote myths as if they were instruction manuals?"

Zhang Changlin's expression also darkened.

"This isn't mythology."

"This is a production template."

Zero Seven gripped the black and gold papers in her hand, her voice dry.

"The Naming Room is just for transcription."

"This is the Original Engraving Area."

Jiang Feng walked down the stone steps.

With every step he took, the names on the stone walls lit up once.

Those names were like living things, trying to burrow into his body.

The first to move was the name [Pangu].

It turned into a colorless axe sigil, heading straight for Jiang Feng's chest.

A System prompt immediately popped up.

[Detected: Pangu's Original Purpose Imprint.]

[Effect: Forces the host to undertake the mission of opening the heavens.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng reached out and grabbed it.

"Plunder."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundered Pangu's Original Purpose Imprint.]

[Gained all attributes: 25 ganges sand.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 220 ganges sand.]

The axe sigil shattered.

On the stone wall, the four characters for [Purpose: Creation] behind "Pangu" were forcibly erased.

Only two characters remained.

[Pangu]

Clean and clear.

There was no longer a so-called purpose.

Li Yan's eyes lit up.

"That's more like it."

"A name is just a name. Why should there be a job assigned behind it?"

The Dragon Girl said softly, "Master helped him resign."

Zhang Changlin was silent for a second.

"Very accurately put."

At the end of the stone steps, an underground hall appeared.

In the center of the hall hung a giant stone tablet.

Half of the tablet was buried in black soil, and half was exposed in the air.

There were no complex patterns on the tablet.

Only a single closed eye.

That eye was exactly the symbol on the golden seal of the Naming Room.

In front of the stone tablet stood a grey figure.

The figure was very thin.

Like a layer of shadow rubbed off from a stone.

He had no face.

But he held a carving knife in his hand.

The voice rang out again.

"Jiang Feng."

"You shouldn't have erased the purpose."

Jiang Feng looked at him.

"You are The Name Writer?"

The grey shadow replied, "An afterimage."

"The real me is not here."

Li Yan sneered.

"This routine again?"

"Afraid to show your face, so you put out a shadow to take a beating?"

The grey shadow ignored him.

It only looked at Jiang Feng.

"If names have no purpose, all living beings will fall into disorder."

"If Pangu does not open the heavens, the world is not born."

"If Nüwa does not mend the realms, the people do not survive."

"If Xingtian does not wage war, the chaotic world is not pacified."

"By abolishing names, you are severing the order of the myriad worlds."

Jiang Feng walked to the stone tablet.

"Sounds quite noble."

The grey shadow said, "It is inherently noble."

Jiang Feng raised his hand and pressed it against the stone tablet.

"Then why did you gouge out their hearts?"

The grey shadow fell silent.

Jiang Feng flipped his wrist.

The scrap of golden paper from the Naming Room appeared in his palm.

The dense records of model numbers on it were still glowing.

Jiang Feng slapped the golden paper onto the stone tablet.

"Pangu Unit 01."

"Pangu No. 2."

"jiachen 17."

"First Blue Star production line."

"Mother Source Pool."

"God-Bestowing Well."

"Naming Room."

He looked at the grey shadow.

"You call this order?"

The grey shadow slowly raised the carving knife.

"Sacrifice is a part of order."

Li Yan cursed on the spot.

"Bullshit!"

The Dragon Girl also bared her little teeth.

"Bad stone."

Jiang Feng nodded.

"I understand now."

"You aren't writing names."

"You are writing livestock tags."

The closed-eye stone tablet behind the grey shadow vibrated violently.

A pressure far exceeding that of the Naming Room's Scribe bore down.

The floor of the hall cracked open.

Countless names crawled out of the black soil.

They were not simple text.

But remnant souls, each engraved with a purpose.

There was a giant propping up the sky.

There was a woman mending cracks.

There was a headless warrior swinging an axe.

There was a dragon shadow coiled around the ages.

They were all locked by stone chains.

The ends of the stone chains were connected to that closed eye.

Zero Seven's face was deathly pale.

"These are not the originals."

"They are the providence remnants left behind after the names were used."

Zhang Changlin's voice was heavy.

"So Huaxia mythology isn't just a legend."

"They were once deployed."

The grey shadow pointed the knife at Jiang Feng.

"The pangu godhead has been formed."

"Purpose backfilling."

"The name of Jiang Feng shall be subsumed into the Pangu sequence."

The closed eye on the stone tablet slowly opened a slit.

A grey light descended.

Two characters floated in front of Jiang Feng's chest.

[Jiang Feng]

The grey light tried to add a line behind it.

[Purpose: Heaven-Opening Archiving.]

Jiang Feng looked down.

"You have itchy hands."

He grabbed the grey light.

[Contacted: Purpose Backfilling Rule.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng spoke.

"Plunder."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundered Purpose Backfilling Rule.]

[Gained all attributes: 30 ganges sand.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 250 ganges sand.]

The grey light snapped.

In front of Jiang Feng's chest, only two characters remained.

[Jiang Feng]

No purpose.

No ID number.

No archiving.

As clean as it could possibly be.

The grey shadow took a step back for the first time.

"You can already plunder purpose rules?"

Jiang Feng walked toward it.

"I just learned."

Li Yan rolled his eyes.

"Every time he says he just learned something, the opponent is basically done for."

The grey shadow raised the carving knife and stabbed it hard into the stone tablet.

"Source Tablet, open your eye!"

Boom!

The closed eye opened completely.

The ceiling of the hall simply vanished.

Beneath everyone's feet, an inverted core of Blue Star appeared.

It wasn't the First Blue Star.

It was Blue Star jiachen 17.

Beneath Dongjiang City.

The remains of the Eye of Eternity.

The roots of the Awakening Array.

The deployment point of Pangu's remains.

All lines overlapped at this moment.

At the base of the stone tablet, a black root pierced through the Void Realm and took root in the deepest part of Blue Star.

Zero Seven's voice changed.

"Mr. Jiang!"

"This stone tablet has been sucking things from beneath your Blue Star!"

Jiang Feng's gaze turned cold.

The grey shadow's voice returned to calm.

"Blue Star jiachen 17 is not an experimental field."

"It is a storage site."

"The true First Name is buried there."

Li Yan was stunned.

"The First Name?"

The grey shadow said, "Before Pangu."

"There was another name."

Jiang Feng looked at that black root.

A System prompt popped up.

[Detected: Main Root of the Blue Star's Ancient Traces.]

[Detected: Coordinates of the Core Stamen of the Entire Book.]

[Currently able to plunder the leaking roots.]

[After plundering, the entrance to the deepest layer of Blue Star can be opened.]

Jiang Feng did not hesitate.

He reached out and grabbed the black root.

The root struggled violently.

Grey blood began to flow from the eye on the stone tablet.

The grey shadow finally grew anxious.

"Stop!"

"That is the root The Name Writer left on Blue Star!"

Jiang Feng tightened his grip.

"Then it should be pulled out all the more."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundered the leaking main root of the Blue Star's Ancient Traces.]

[Gained all attributes: 80 ganges sand.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 330 ganges sand.]

[Gained special clue: Fragment of the First Name.]

[Gained authority fragment: Right to Abolish Mythical Purposes.]

The black root was forcibly torn apart by Jiang Feng.

At the same time.

In the Wuji Source Realm.

Inside Tianshu Dragon Garden.

The bowls on the table vibrated slightly.

Liu Cuilan looked up.

"Was that an earthquake?"

Jiang Jianguo immediately steadied the table.

"Are you okay?"

The Dragon Girl's Clone staying at home shook her head.

"No."

"Master is pulling radishes."

Liu Cuilan was stunned for a moment.

Then she sighed.

"This child, he's a god now and still can't stay quiet."

In the underground hall.

The stone tablet cracked.

Those locked remnant souls looked up one by one.

The stone chains snapped.

The giant let go of the sky.

The woman stopped mending the realms.

The headless warrior put away his axe.

The dragon shadow closed its eyes.

They didn't speak.

They only gave Jiang Feng a slight nod.

Then, they scattered into light and flew toward Blue Star.

A System prompt sounded.

[Right to Abolish Mythical Purposes in effect.]

[Blue Star's mythical remnants released from external purpose binding.]

[Huaxia's lifeblood integrity increased.]

[Contract feedback triggered.]

[All attributes increased: 20 ganges sand.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 350 ganges sand.]

Li Yan watched the lights fly away, his throat moving.

"They... have gone home?"

Zhang Changlin said in a low voice, "Perhaps they are returning what was written away back to Huaxia."

The grey shadow knelt before the cracked stone tablet.

Its body was crumbling.

But it felt no fear.

Instead, it smiled.

"Jiang Feng."

"You pulled out the root."

"He will see you."

Jiang Feng looked at it.

"The Name Writer?"

The grey shadow shook its head.

"Not an afterimage."

"His true self."

As the words fell.

The stone tablet shattered completely.

Behind the rubble, a vertical downward passage appeared.

At the end of the passage, it wasn't darkness.

But a familiar geological layer.

Dongjiang City.

Beneath the Fourth High School.

Deeper still.

An old door sealed with mud slowly revealed itself.

Three characters were engraved on the door.

They weren't Blue Star characters.

But the moment everyone saw them, they understood the meaning.

[Nameless Well]

From inside the well came a soft sound of someone turning over.

As if something had slept underground for too long.

And then woke up.

In the next second.

A voice, both infantile and ancient, rang out from beneath the Blue Star.

"Who erased... my name?"