Fourteen once-living people are now lying in this tiny bead on the table.
I will no longer speak, laugh, or wait for the little deer drinking water by the river. I will no longer appear in any corner of Yashan with a happy or tired look...
There is no reincarnation for the monks from the Nineteen Continents, their souls have turned to ashes.
The dark shadows in the sky, and the Tantric monks with black energy around them...
Jianchou recalled the night ship that had explored the Tomorrow Star Sea, where he had encountered the ancient centipede-like beast, the Great Venerable Shao Ji, and Liang Tingyu, who had fought with him and whose strength had increased abnormally...
All the speculations were confirmed at this moment.
But she never thought for a moment: How great would it be if all these speculations were not confirmed, if none of this happened
In four hours, they will return to Yashan;
Four hours later, Yu Zhifei could meet her;
After four hours, Fudaoshan will shout loudly in surprise and anger;
Four hours later...
All gone.
He slowly closed his eyes and didn't speak for a long time.
The bright red blood was still on the back of her hand, quietly dripping onto the tabletop and also on her lips, but it added an unprecedented coldness and cruelty.
She was surrounded by a suppressed and chaotic murderous intent, which was constantly stirring and changing due to the complicated thoughts in her mind at the moment.
Fu Chaosheng could easily detect it.
But he neither spoke nor interrupted, but silently lowered his eyes to the universe.
After a long time, the chaotic aura around Jianchou slowly subsided. When he opened his eyes again, except that he could no longer see any warmth, there seemed to be no difference from before.
She just lowered her eyes and said thank you: "Thank you for your help."
What's the point of doing that
The Cosmic Eyes were originally lent to him by her, and now he was just blessing her, helping her see what she wanted to see. He even watched her suffer backlash and get hurt.
Fu Chaosheng doesn't know how to comfort people, but he doesn't think Jianchou needs comfort.
After looking at her for a moment, he reached out his hand again.
This time, it was no longer a bead, but a tiny light of light blue. Jianchou recognized it at the first sight—it was the thunder sign that the Kunwu elder had thrown at Yu Zhifei before his death.
"It was found between his eyebrows when he was buried."
Between the eyebrows
Jianchou understood it almost instantly, but the sadness in his heart became even heavier. This lightning should have finally landed on Yu Zhifei, and then he hid it in his ancestral orifice between his eyebrows before the catastrophe came.
That's why he was able to hide the truth and wait until Fu Chaosheng discovered it.
"No wonder they opened the barrier after the incident, cutting off all communication with the outside world. No matter the wind, rain, thunder or lightning, no communication is possible..."
It turned out that they were all trying to prevent this lightning from leaving the snow area.
All the old clues matched up one by one.
Jianchou raised her hand, and lightly touched her fingertips which were stained with blood but not wiped off. The electric light automatically "crackled" and wrapped around her fingers.
Almost instantly, the content entered her mind:
The ancient gods return to the beginning of time!
Hook up the new secrets, tie up the extreme domain, and subvert the reincarnation! I wish to pray to the immortal to report to the heavens and let the upper celestial world know. If the time is slow, I am afraid that my clan will be in danger and there is nothing we can do to save the situation!
—Jietang, Xuanyangzi.
This was the message that the Kunwu elder was determined to send out at the risk of his life, and that Yu Zhifei should take back to the Central Region.
Yuanshi should refer to the star where they are currently living; Zhenren is undoubtedly Hengxu Zhenren; Shangxu Immortal Realm is the realm where the cultivators will ascend after achieving great success; but -
"Return, the ancient gods..."
"Ancient gods", Jianchou knew a little about them.
But when it was put together with the word "return", she felt an indescribable discomfort. After reading this short Lei Xin, she was still thinking about what kind of existence this should be.
My thoughts were in a mess and not clear for a moment.
Therefore, she only asked an extremely straightforward question: "Besides Xinmi, the real culprit behind this is the 'Shao Ji Da Zun' whom you fought against before on the Night Cruise?"
“It is He.”
Fu Chaosheng’s answer was also very simple.
He had been in the Snow Region for quite some time, and he had the Cosmic Eyes. If others were not on guard, they would not be able to escape the prying eyes of these eyes. It was impossible for him to have found nothing.
But, the clues...
After a moment of silence, he said, "After fighting with me in the Tomorrow Star Sea, he disappeared. It was not until I arrived in the Snow Region that I found his trace. It's just that I didn't arrive early enough. The New Secret Sect in the Snow Region seemed to have signed a contract with him, just like the Night Cruiser did back then. They were able to borrow his power, so their strength increased greatly and they strangled the Old Secret Sect on a large scale."
"So, the Yashan Kunwu were investigating the periphery, and there was no danger originally. But because their strength increased greatly and the old secrets fled, they expanded the battle and implicated others?"
Jianchou closed his eyes slightly, circulated the spiritual energy in his body to regulate his breathing, and replayed the situation in his mind.
Fu Chaosheng nodded. "Originally, the two sects should have lived in peace. But the elder of Kunwu witnessed a fight between the old and new sects in the outer area, and suffered an unexpected disaster. And it seems that because he was able to recognize Shao Ji's identity, he was chased all the way and fled to the south. He was caught up and killed halfway."
As for Yashan, it was indeed an unprovoked disaster at the time.
But if you think about it more deeply, how terrifying is Shao Ji's power? When he was killing the old secret monks, he would have discovered the identities of the people in Yashan in a short time.
Suffering is only a matter of time.
Because their opponents are no longer the original Snow Region, nor the original Xinmi, and they are not even the same as them.
The word "god" already represents a huge gap.
We can probably guess what he meant by sadness.
She opened her eyes again, her gaze falling on the lightning on her fingertips, recalling all the records about the word "god", and also recalling all the details related to "Shao Ji":
The ugly appearance of a centipede, the evil and awe-inspiring ancient murder, the overwhelming black fog that was transformed into a living thing, the black gas that was attached to the corpse...
She folded her fingers and quietly put away the thunder letter. She only asked, "So, the 'god' that Xuan Yangzi mentioned in the thunder letter is this 'Shao Ji Da Zun', right? I remember that when we were in Tomorrow Star Sea, you mentioned that you knew Him quite well."
I understand it quite well, but not really.
He could only roughly sense what kind of existence the other party was, but he had no idea why the other party appeared and what he was going to do in the Tomorrow Star Sea and the Snow Region.
So at this moment, he shook his head instead.
"All I know is that 'gods' were created almost at the same time as the universe. They were the overlords of the ancient times before the light of heaven and earth appeared. They were born with tyrannical power, but as the universe evolved, they gradually weakened. According to the records in the classics, one day, they suddenly disappeared and never appeared in the world again."
This is basically consistent with what Jianchou knew before.
But in her impression, the reason why the power of the "gods" was weakened was also due to the human race and Pangu the Great. A war that lasted almost a century broke out between the two sides, and Pangu the Great died in this war, so there was the "eternal night" at the end of the ancient times.
After the long night, the gods disappeared, and the "Immortal Era" led by monks truly arrived.
From the ancient times dominated by gods, to the ancient times when humans and gods coexisted, to the ancient times when hundreds of races emerged, to the "modern times" they live in today...
The evolution of each era always has different stories.
But in this "past and present" where "immortals" have completely dominated the world, Elder Kunwu mentioned in his thunder letter that the "gods" are coming back!
This is something that is more frightening than the Tantric Buddhism, the Extreme Realm, and even the existence of Shao Ji himself...
Jianchou's brows slowly furrowed. Fudaoshan and his men should have known about this matter. However, Lei Xin was trapped in the snowy area and there was no way to send him out for the time being.
"If what Lei Xin said is true, I'm afraid the real 'great catastrophe' is coming. It seems that we should not stay in the Snow Region for too long."
"Are you planning on leaving soon, old friend?"
Fu Chaosheng asked.
Jianchou nodded: "Originally, I thought there was some movement between Xinmi and Jiyu, but the person who is now interfering is not a simple existence. I am afraid it is much more difficult than everyone imagined. As for the Snow Region, we will leave in two days. As for you, have you achieved what you wanted and resolved the confusion in your heart during this time in the Snow Region?"
Can you help me solve my doubts
Fu Chaosheng couldn't tell whether he had solved it or not.
He thought of the pair of eyes he saw at the Holy Lake that night, and also thought of the countless wonderful existences constructed by the rules of this world. For the first time, a kind of almost empty confusion appeared in those eyes that vaguely contained an evil aura.
“Old doubts have not been resolved, and new doubts have arisen.”
He seemed to ponder for a moment before using these eight words to summarize his current state, and then looked at Jianchou with a strange look.
"That great lord Shao Ji, I always feel that he and I are the same kind of existence, coming from the same place..."
"… "
The same existence, coming from the same place!
At this moment, Jianchou was finally stunned. When she raised her eyes and looked at him, she saw the light in his eyes that was changing like the clouds in the sky, which gave people a sense of impermanence.
What he said is clearly easy to understand.
But when she heard it, it was in great contradiction with what she knew before, and it didn't even make sense. Her frown didn't loosen, but tightened even more.
Jianchou hesitated for a moment before asking, "Are you sure?"
"uncertain… "
But in fact, that feeling couldn't be more obvious.
When they met in Tomorrow's Star Sea, it was still a little vague; but when they arrived in the Snow Region, perhaps because of the changes in the other person, his feeling became stronger.
But Fu Chaosheng himself knows better than anyone else—
He was a mayfly, born in the morning and dead in the evening, a mayfly that could not survive a day under the rules of the six reincarnations. Before him, in the memory of the entire mayfly clan, no mayfly had ever achieved enlightenment.
The willpower of the entire clan gathered in him has made him what he is today.
He knew very well about his origins, and Jianchou understood it too.
Therefore, when he had that feeling, he himself felt it was incredible. He vaguely felt that in addition to the six realms of reincarnation, there was another huge mystery before him.
"As for the way of reincarnation, I have gained a little."
Fu Chaosheng lowered his eyes slightly, smiled slightly, and did not stay on the previous topic for too long. Because even he could not figure out the problem, there was no need to make his only old friend worry about it.
"King Qin Guang of Jiyu is neither a ghost cultivator nor a spirit monster, but the incarnation of the six reincarnation rules. Because he was born and had his own consciousness, there was the Yin-Yang Realm War eleven generations ago."
"If we kill him, destroy his life, and extinguish his will, we can make him become a 'rule' again."
"It's a pity that the rule of the Mayfly Clan, which is to live in the morning and die in the evening, already existed before he was born."
Jianchou also knew about King Qin Guang's origins.
But she didn't expect that even so, she couldn't change the fate of the mayfly clan. For a moment, she was silent for a long time, not knowing what to say.
Fortunately, Fu Chaosheng himself didn't feel too much, and even...
Since the beginning of his journey to the Polar Region, he began to ponder a question he had never thought about before: What exactly is the meaning of his existence
She was born after hearing and seeing the way of sorrow, so she was named "Chao Sheng". She was the only friend in the world.
He was transformed by the power of the mayfly clan, and thus was able to attain immortality. In this long life, he only sought to rebuild his reincarnation and rewrite the mayfly clan's fate of being born in the morning and dying in the evening.
But besides this, what else does he have
His entire existence is only because of the "great wish" of the mayfly clan.
If one day, the rules of reincarnation are finally rewritten, and mayflies no longer live and die in the morning, will such a "great wish" still exist
So-
Will he still exist
So for a moment, he actually thought that not finding a solution yet might not be a bad thing.
But it was only for a moment.
From the moment he was born, he actually knew that this was his "fate" that he could not escape.
The moonlight outside the window shines through the layer of snow-white window paper.
Fu Chaosheng raised his eyes and took a look. The light entered his eyes and reminded him of the small stone pond where he first landed on Tiandao Island. It was also the same light and the same tranquility.
Even though one is about to dawn and the other is just rising.
"All things are equal, but reincarnation is unfair."
He smiled faintly, and when he said this, the evil aura spread all over his eyes, no longer concealed, and completely presented to Jianchou.
"If one day, reincarnation can be rebuilt..."
"That day will come."
His voice gradually faded away, and Jianchou took his place and automatically continued his sentence.
"Xinmi in the Snow Region is restless, and is borrowing the power of the god Shao Ji, not to mention the Eight Directions Yama Palace in the Extreme Region and the Ten Great Ghost Clans, who are plotting all kinds of things. I'm afraid that a war that will sweep across the 19 continents is just around the corner, and all cultivators will not sit idly by and wait for death. If we can destroy King Qin Guang by then, we may be able to find a way to rewrite the rules of reincarnation."
Although, she felt that the word "reincarnation" actually had no meaning.
Perhaps influenced by the story of the owner of the old house in the Jiyu City of the Dead who was reincarnated nine times, when others mentioned reincarnation, she always wondered: what is most important for a person, the unchanging soul, or the memories from life to life
The reincarnation pool will wash away a person's past, so will the person who is reborn still be the same person
Jianchou didn’t know the answer.
She didn't know what others thought, but it seemed that the entire cultivation world was very concerned about it. But when it came to herself, she didn't really want to explore her past life, let alone the so-called afterlife.
That seems to have nothing to do with her now.
Fu Chaosheng had no idea what she was thinking at the moment.
The part he wanted to change did not overlap with the part that Jianchou was confused about. He had not finished what he said just now, but the rest of his words actually just wanted to say:
He not only wanted to change the mountains, rivers, sun and moon, but even the rules of the universe.
It’s just that it hasn’t been said, and there’s no need to say it.
Fu Chaosheng looked at her, listened to her words, and nodded slowly: "If that's the case, it would be the best."
"What a pity! If such a day really comes, I'm afraid the entire 19 continents will be devastated. By then, I wonder if you will..." Jianchou seemed to want to ask something, but after hesitating for a moment, he suddenly didn't ask.
But Fu Chaosheng seemed to know what she was thinking.
This old friend in front of her was born because of her, named after her, and has known her for as long as he has opened his eyes to this world. She also knew that he was a great demon of heaven and earth, but she had never revealed his existence to others.
If he asks in this vast universe, he can only trust one person.
Then, there will be no one else except her.
So at this moment, he looked at her, with the corners of his lips raised, a faint smile, from the bottom of his heart: "If there really comes a day when my old friend thinks I should be here, I will be here."