Chapter 75.1 – The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love

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Chapter 75.1 – Tower of God: The Dragon’s Cave.

After hearing Du Ze’s question, Soth was slightly dazed. The true essence of the world?

Soth immediately thought of the elements – the foundation of the world. But this answer is too simple since it only speaks of the composition of the world, not its essential nature.

Essence means the origin of a thing and its inherent nature.

This man was able to ask the question, which means that “the rules” recognizes his knowledge of the answer. Looking at the impassive face of Du Ze opposite him, the human god’s heart beat irregularly; from that man’s question, he knows the true essence of this world that Soth knows nothing about?

The Temple of Knowledge was strangely silent. Du Ze didn’t look behind him but he could feel everyone’s eyes boring into his back. He stared at the god who was deep in thought, but he wasn’t worried at all since he is cheating – only he knows that this world is a novel called “Mixed Blood.” Most importantly, even if Soth knows the answer, he will be stopped from speaking it out loud. Therefore, there is no way that Soth can answer the question.

One cannot know; one cannot say. This is the truth hidden outside of this world.

As Du Ze waited, Lord Soth finally sighed.

“I can only think of ‘elements’ as the answer but I know it is not accurate.”

The god had just finished speaking when the crystal ball at the top of his wooden staff suddenly exploded. A white light descended to the floor and became a white pillar that rose to the sky – it’s the exit portal.

“It really was wrong …” He congratulated Du Ze and others: “Congratulations on passing the test of the Temple of Knowledge.”

They were able to pass customs through the shameless and despicable actions of the silly, cute reader. Enoch pumped his fist in a silent “yes!” gesture. Violet pulled Alice into a hug and jumped up and down with her. Ariel signed “very awesome!” to Du Ze.

Then Xiu came to Du Ze’s side and held his hand tightly. Du Ze saw that although Xiu smiled at him very gently, Xiu was actually not very happy.

Why are you unhappy? He was finally able to help a little.

Before Du Ze could open his mouth, Xiu closed his eyes and fell into a coma, perhaps because they had already passed the trial and he had relaxed. The moment the crystal ball exploded, the darkness came rushing in from all directions and started swallowing up this reading room that was floating in a void. The Tower of God was once again forcing them to rush forward. Muir carried Xiu and when Du Ze was about to leave the Temple of Knowledge through the white light, Soth suddenly spoke.

“If you can, could you tell me the answer to that question?”

Du Ze was silent, not because he didn’t want to speak, but because he couldn’t speak at all. Soth thought it was because there was no benefit in speaking and Du Ze would not make an effort without a reward so he continued: “I can speak freely now. If you wish to, we can exchange information.”

Du Ze was immediately excited. There is something that he wants to ask about – the God of Creation. The people who were living in the world today can only know the legends about the creation of the various races, but the gods who have lived for thousands of year are likely to know more than ordinary folk.

What is more, the god in front of him is the owner of the Temple of Wisdom. For the Moe Lord’s future, even if he knows that he won’t be able to answer, Du Ze still doesn’t want to give up this opportunity.

“Have you ever seen the Creator God? I want to know more about him.”

The god was surprised when he heard this but he replied seriously: “No. When I became a god, there were only legends about the God who created the world.”

Before Du Ze could be disappointed, Soth went on: “But I was interested in this topic, so I found some information. Before the first era, the world was created by the God and all living things lived together in harmony. However, after some time the Creator disappeared – legend says that he fell asleep but I think the phrase ‘went missing’ is more appropriate.”

In the original plot of the “Mixed-Blood” novel, Yi Ye Zhi Qiu first wrote about the Creator God when he made the “trade” with the eight races. Du Ze had thought that the god was part of a fable meant to illustrate the pros and cons of each race but now he has a conjecture – perhaps this was something that really happened?

“Not long after the Creator God disappeared, the war between the angels and demons broke out during the beginning of the first era. This was a time when there was no god and the creatures who had been alive during the creation of the world had all died off. Only the gods of the first era could have seen the God of Creation.” A complex expression flashed through Soth’s eyes: “For example, the god of light, or … the demon god Bael.”

The god of light and Bael?! Du Ze almost coughed up blood. One is an irreconcilable enemy; how can they possibly have a friendly conversation with him?! The other one was already overthrown; how can they find the truth?!

“That’s the only information I can offer.” Soth stared at Du Ze: “Your answer?’

He got so much information that some silly, cute person was too embarrassed to run away without paying. Even though he knew that he would be censored (harmonized), he tried to say: “–” The world is a novel.

… Lord Mosaic is always on the job.

Although Du Ze did not hear any sound, the god seemed surprised.

“It seems the answer is not something I can know.”

Huh?

Du Ze wanted to ask Soth what happened, but right after the god finished speaking he opened his book and started reading. Du Ze had no choice but to join the others in the pillar of white light.

The darkness engulfed the human god and the white light sent Du Ze and the others back to the hall. Enoch, dazed at first, began to cheer: “The clever thief is back!”

With one glance, Du Ze verified that there was now a statue of a man at the stone platform. Muir put Xiu down. Antonio drank some wine and came over. First he gazed at the comatose Xiu then said to Du Ze drunkenly: “Thank you for bringing this old man along with you. I and these little bastards will now say good-bye.”

Antonio’s farewell was too abrupt, not only was Du Ze surprised, the gold mercenary team was also startled. Honey shouted disbelievingly: “Grandpa?”

“Honey, this is not a fun place. Your grandpa is an old bag of bones that can’t afford to be rattled about like this.” Antonio stroked Honey’s head and sighed: “If it wasn’t for me trying to find you little bastards, this old man would not have come to this place.”

Enoch kept on scratching his head while Honey wanted to protest but Antonio looked away and said, perhaps to Du Ze, perhaps to the gold mercenary team: “We are not joining your team.”

Du Ze understands the subtext that Antonio is not saying. The first Mage God doesn’t believe in Xiu. Xiu does not believe in him either. They cooperated because of their common interests, but that was only a short-term thing and they will eventually have to part ways.

Antonio pulled the somewhat unwilling Honey away with him and they left the tower. Naturally, Bart followed them. But Enoch did not leave. This rash fellow didn’t care about Xiu’s identity, so just like that he casually decided to stay.

“I will definitely help,” said the thief.

Xiu was in a coma for a day. When he woke up he didn’t seem surprised by Antonio’s departure and he also agreed to let Enoch join them. They were immediately ready to challenge the next level of the Tower of God due to the surprisingly easy human race trial.

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Translator’s notes:

I was going to explain the “Lord Mosaic” joke above but when a joke is explained it becomes less funny. I hope everyone understood that bit. Du Ze called the invisible force that won’t let him speak spoilers “Lord Mosaic” since pixelization/mosaic is often used to blur censored images.

lord mosaic
This is Lord Mosaic, he censors whatever needs to be censored.

Previously, the god said that only questions with an answer can be used during the trial. Hence, a nonsense question like “which came first the chicken or the egg?” is not allowed. If that’s true then Du Ze’s question should have been disqualified. However, it is a question that is not only “answerable,” it is also something that is “widely known” – just not in that world. The readers in Du Ze’s world know perfectly well that the world is a novel.

By the way, Soth’s name is actually “Suosi” but I prefer a more Westernized translation since everyone else has Western-sounding names.

Du Ze thought that the human trial is easy but I think it’s actually super hard! Even Antonio couldn’t pass it.

I was rather surprised that the Tower of God had such a difficult trial. Now we will never know how Xiu would have gotten through that test. Do you have an idea of what Xiu would have asked? Do you think the test was easier than the other races’ trials (so far)?

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47 thoughts on “Chapter 75.1 – The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love”

    1. I feel like you’re definitely talking about a certian squid. 💀😂

    2. It’s definitely about a certain squid people call ugly since lord mosaic was working hard since day 1 *cries* I wanna fight that lord mosaic for our precious squid but my whole existence would be censored to dust ;-;

  1. Is it just me or when I read “Soth”, I think of “Thoth” the Egyptian god of writing, magic, and *wisdom*. 🤔

  2. If I was him, I would have asked something chemistry or physics related. If they think that the main elements are fire, water, air and earth, that should be safe. Something like: “What are the names all of the elementary particles?” or: “What are the names of the first 10 elements on the period table?” should suffice.

  3. Ngl I was low key excited to see what Soth’s answer to Antonio’s question was. Then they just hit me with that curve, where they didn’t need to explain it at all. Not entirely surprised, but I’m kinda disappointed bc in depth answers when solving a problem is something I’m really into. Then again, this novel isn’t really like that.

  4. What’s on my mind is that… I feel that Xiu feels Du Ze getting further away. I think it’s hard for Xiu to know that Du Ze knows “the true essence of this world”. Doesn’t it seem so sad? If I didn’t know Du Ze, and were in their place, I’d wonder who Du Ze is to have such knowledge.

  5. It always bothers me when Du Ze can’t speak… have you never played charades in your life, hikkikomori?! ;____;)/

    Even if I couldn’t verbally tell Thoth anything, I would have just tapped on a book while looking him in the eye.

    C’mon, DuZe! You thought of that riddle, why can’t you ask guided questions or just comment single, related words? Scribble on the ground? “Ascension – don’t.” Why did you blindly decide there was no work-around, that you wouldn’t try?

  6. Don’t you think our reader does have all the qualities the 8 races gave away . Same as the quality the god of creation took in exchange?
    Xiu is more aware than anybody that his lover does not belong, that scares him… he can’t keep holding him and stay with him forever if he’s not from from there. I would believe everything tht remind him of it, is like a bad premonition

  7. An anwer to “the esence of the world” that even the God of Wisdom couldn´t resolve…Xiu may be thinking that if even if I become a god…what good is in it if you are not even one step closer to my grasp? Will someone takes you away from me…and I will be always wondering about it? now I understand a lit bit more Mu Chen´s father longing of Mu Chen´s mother…the only way to endure it was treasuring his son…ohhh my…and the posibilities of why Qiang Ye became a demon when Gu Ruoyun in her past life dessapeared…now we are all weary of what will happen…(sigh…)

  8. Now i’m worried about xiu is not happy after du ze finally turned down the god of human race. I hope they would stick together. I’m afraid that one day they had to separated TAT

  9. I think the cause of Xiu’s unhappiness is a combination between the distance between them and that he wants Du Ze to rely on him.

    Thanks for the chapter!

  10. I wonder what Xiu would have asked.
    Tbh I think he would have asked about Du Ze if from what you said is correct that would have also stumped Soth

    We have a couple more trials left which Chaos continent race will it be?!

    Gnome? Dragon? Angel? Beast? Elf?

    (Hehehe)

    Thank you for translating!

    1. I don’t think he will ask about Du Ze since he also doesn’t know much about Du Ze. They have to ask a question to that god that they have an answer to.

    2. notsorecentnoveladdict

      If he does ask about DuZe probably will be something along the lines of the ability of DuZe

  11. I think Xiu is unhappy because Du Ze has knowledge even a god doesn’t have—which makes him more elusive/harder to tie down. I forget which chapter but I believe Xiu’s said something along the lines of feeling like one day Du Ze will disappear forever. Really feel sad about this 😞 bc eventually Du Ze will have to pick between going back to his world or staying.

    Also, I think the creator god might be the author? Or another transmigrator? It’s giving me the vibes. Though honestly authors have the worst luck when transmigrating XD no golden finger for them

    1. The creator god has aspects from each race, he took something from each race in place of a gift…

      humility, mercy, passion, tranquility, self-control, kindness, reason, tolerance

      Strange things to ask for… does the creator god lack these?

      And seeing as how Xiu seems to possess the ‘gifts’ from all the races, maybe he was always meant to be the antithesis to the creator god, a destroyer…

      I wonder if the novel Xiu asked him about something he didn’t want to admit? Though pride seems to be the angels’ thing…

  12. It really was a clever question, although now Xiu is reminded of the distant between DuZe and him because he knows DuZe is a special existence in their world
    Haha well if Xiu asked a question about who starred in Doujinshi san… hehehe many people would know it and he should knows it, I mean if he didn’t figure it out by now…maybe thats why he wants to kill Eric so badly too

  13. It actually makes a lot of sense in a way. The trial would not have existed without Du Ze changing the novel simply by existing so it is easy for the gang. His life outside the novel should be used after all. Even if he doesn’t know the storyline the same way anymore.

  14. Hahahaha I knew the god couldn’t possibly know the answer, but I never thought that even if he knew, he couldn’t say it! Sneaky, sneaky little Du Ze~! XD

    1. This is somewhat a loophole, I think we are used to think (or being mislead by the author, kinda 😂) that only Du Ze will be affected by the taboo (unable to say the truth of the world, aka spoiler). It turned out that everyone are also affected by it and wont be able to say those facts. Or at least, Du Ze thought so. To be honest it really didnt cross my mind either 😂.

      As expected of our reader, he is actually very smart, underneath all those silliness and absent-mindedness >___< (which is caused by his over-atentiveness to Moe Lord 😂)

  15. Xiu is probably dissatisfied with Du Ze’s secrets. But Du Ze cannot really say since when he tries to, he is censored.

    Thank you very much for the chapter!!!

  16. Thank you for the update! I think a test of wisdom is harder than demon battle royale and undead scourage. I feel like Xiu once answered the cake question with the same answer. My memory is not very clear. He is definitely lonely because there are so many things he cannot understand about Du Ze.

  17. Why was Xiu unhappy? Because everybody attention is on his beloved? Because his beloved knows things that he don’t know (I guess he would somewhat feel the distance between them because of this knowledge)? Thanks for the chapter.

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