Chapter 385: Immortals' Talk (Part 2)

The words of the immortal were calm and composed, without the slightest fluctuation, but Li An was shocked and felt cold all over.

He claimed to be ruthless, but compared to this immortal... he was really far behind.

Li An might be selfish, or cold, but he still had some human emotions. He would be happy, happy, and even feel warm in his heart because of the existence of Shangguan Xiaoxiao or Gu Hong.

It's just that many times, he forced himself not to care about those things.

But the person in front of him didn't have any of them at all.

How many intrigues did he have to go through to walk out of the crowd? How much cruelty did he have to witness? He might have had a partner, but in the end, in order to survive, he had to eat the other party. He might have had a girl who moved him, but before his life, he could only watch the other party die.

Being able to become a human Gu, nothing in the world could move him anymore.

"I was afraid of her, so I killed her."

Li An said. "Yes, I killed them in the most cruel way."

"So, you have overcome your fear?"

The Immortal sighed: "No."

"The human heart is like soil. Once a certain seed sprouts, even if you clear it in time, you will never be able to find peace again. Fear grows day after day... You may not believe it, but since then, I have often had nightmares."

"What did you dream about?"

"I dreamed about her eyes."

The Immortal poured a cup of tea, put it in his mouth, and took a sip. The tea seemed too bitter, which made his face look more lonely:

"Every time I fought until I fainted, I was so depressed. Death, every time I break through the realm, every time I fall asleep in the middle of the night, I will dream of her. The first day I met her, she sat here, brewing tea for her master. I can even remember every detail clearly. She held the purple clay teapot with her bare hands, and the boiling hot tea fell on the tea leaves, exuding a fresh fragrance, and the leaves stretched out..." "She raised her eyes and saw me... I remember the style of her bun on her head, the green flower hairpin inserted in the bun, the purple clothes she wore, the surprise on her face when she saw me, and her eyes, like stars, moons, lakes, and deer eyes..." "And her name." "Yuan Ziyi." Li An said: "So, the fear comes from you, not from her."

"Yes... fear comes from your own heart..."

He smiled and said, "So I decided to save her."

"I found her master. At that time, I was already a Daluo Jinxian, so I could use her remaining karma from the years to make her appear again. Then I repeated the scene of meeting her that year. I fought to the extreme again and then arrived here. This time, I told her who I was, what I did, and how evil I was..."

"At that time, I thought that it was her kindness to me and her goodwill that activated the fear in my heart. If she knew who I was, she would... "She didn't kill me, she still gave me a cup of tea, and saved me again." "This time, she not only aroused my fear, but also made me angry. I didn't let her and her master leave. I killed her master in front of her and let her taste her master's flesh and blood, hehe... Then I peeled her skin and devoured her." Li An didn't ask any questions, because he already knew that this matter would never end so easily. When Yuan Ziyi made people fear and angry... She was already the biggest disaster for this person. "But after eating them... I vomited."

At this moment, it seemed as if I had returned to the Bone-Changing Mountain. In the eyes of the immortals, an inexplicable sadness flashed: "I never vomit after eating people. I have long been accustomed to the smell of blood. When she was alive, her skin was as white as ice and bones, and I felt sweet when I swallowed her. But I vomited, even more than when I ate the first piece of meat on the Ten Thousand People Island."

"I was not only afraid and angry, but I also regretted..."

"So, I let them reappear again."

Li An listened silently.

"This time, I didn't kill them. Instead, I followed her back to her sect... Because I already understood that her eyes are the source of all evil. Everything is because of her eyes. Her eyes are not the moon, but the purity of being untouched by humans. They are not the stars, but the vision of infinite hope for the future. They are not the lake, but the tranquility without fear..."

"I want to destroy her purity, I want to cut off her vision, I want to break her tranquility..."

The calm words of the Immortal suddenly became a little excited at this moment, as if he had returned to many years ago, when he was determined to destroy everything about Yuan Ziyi.

As if he was aware of his own emotional fluctuations, he suddenly smiled and said, "Sorry."

Li An said, "No need, what happened later?"

"The people of that sect were very good to me. They actually gave the disciples the resources they needed. Their elders did not perfunctorily teach, but taught seriously. They even asked the disciples to go down the mountain to do good deeds and help those who needed help every once in a while... Do you know how ridiculous this is?"

"At first, they just asked me to hunt down some evil people. This was very simple for me. It was just killing people. Evil people and good people were the same. The task was very simple, but later..."

"I killed countless people, but she forced me to collect herbs for an old woman. I ate countless children, but she asked me to teach those beggars to read and write in a private school. I like the night because it is safer, but she wanted to take me to watch the sunrise and sunset... It's ridiculous, ridiculous."

Li An noticed that although he was still calm, there was an inexplicable smile at the corner of his mouth. After he finished speaking, he suddenly fell silent for a long time. It seemed that he had a memory, but he didn't want to say it. It was a secret buried in his heart, a taboo that he would never show to others, and a beauty that belonged to him alone and would not be shared. After a long time, he continued to speak: "Later, I got what I wanted, attracted the enemies of that sect, and destroyed that sect. Her master, fellow disciples, relatives and friends all died in that battle. The light in her eyes finally went out. She learned to hate. Her beautiful face was covered with frost and vicissitudes. She knew that all this was done by me and hated me to the bone..." He sighed again: "I gave her a chance, pretending to be severely injured so that she could kill me..." "I look forward to her eyes, look forward to her becoming crazy, paranoid, angry, hateful, resentful... and look forward to her giving all this malice to me!" "Only malice can make me strong, only hatred can make me strong... I used these things to feed my "Actually, I succeeded. She held me and held the dagger against my throat. Everything appeared in her eyes." "I know I succeeded. After seeing her eyes today, I will never have nightmares again. I will never be afraid or angry again... I will never be happy or compassionate again. Her eyes like stars and moons are my deadly poison, and she will give me the antidote." "I am still me, the human Gu who walked out of the Ten Thousand People Island!" There was a slight tremor in his words at this moment. It was hard to imagine that he was now an immortal who had destroyed the entire Changsheng Era and played with great conspirators such as Changqing Xianzun and Yunluo Xianzun. He would feel nervous again because of the memory of that year?? The Immortal closed his eyes and said, "But in the end... she didn't kill me."

"It was like the clouds had dispersed, the fog had disappeared, the crazy paranoia, hatred and resentment in her eyes had all disappeared, leaving only the wind-like desolation and pity. The last time she looked at me, her eyes were full of tenderness, did you know?..."

He had already stopped talking at this point. He recalled to himself, as if he had forgotten the existence of Li An, as if he had walked into the years and returned to that scene again. She held him with one hand, and the dagger in her other hand finally fell after repeatedly clenching it. The hatred and murderous intent in her eyes finally dissipated after condensing again and again...

Her eyes were indeed no longer clear lakes, shining stars, and bright moons, but a kind of tenderness that he could never understand. She leaned on his ear and whispered:

"You are really pitiful... Do you know? You are always like a child. The first time I saw you, you were like a frightened child. I don't know what you have experienced, but for so many years, you have never grown up... Do you think you are ruthless? But it is really easy to hurt you."

She gently stroked his hair: "You are already pitiful enough... I don't want to let this world have another pitiful child."

"I won't be with you in the future... Go back, go back to your darkness, only darkness can protect you."

As she finished speaking, the dagger pierced her own abdomen, blood flowed, her soul naturally dissipated, and she fell into his arms.

At that moment, he realized... She was pregnant with his child.

...

The wind blew, and the leaves on Huagu Mountain flickered, making a low sound, like sobbing. Li An looked up, and the immortal had turned his back at some point. Li An could not see his face, but Li An knew that he must be in tears at this moment.

...

For a long time, for a long time.

He poured himself a cup of tea and drank it. Li An also took the teacup and drank it lightly, but he felt that the taste in his mouth was only bitter.

The immortal's face remained calm and indifferent. He smiled slightly and said, "She was still here when she died."

"After she died, the enemy of their sect came here, and I set up a formation to destroy them all. You have already mastered that formation, the Huagu formation."

His story has been told, and Li An finally understood why Huagu Mountain is so important.

"Later, I thought of many ways to find her, but all failed. Her sect, relatives, friends, teachers and disciples were all destroyed by me. There is no cause and effect about her in this world. I put her in a coffin to keep her body intact."

"Later, I achieved immortality and held the power of life and death, so I buried her at the end of time, and I also slept outside of time."

"Until someone stole her body."

The immortal smiled and said, "When human life ends, the word immortality is an incomparable temptation for all the strong people in the world. Throughout the ages, there have been too many talented people. Yunluo Immortal Venerable and Changqing Immortal Venerable are among the outstanding ones."

"They took her body away, and they also got clues about immortality. They all knew that there can only be one immortal in this world. I am still alive and the power of life and death is in my hands. They can't be immortal, so their only way is to let me give up the power..."

"They use the life-supporting The Immortal Casting Technique restored everything about her and filled her body with vitality, but she still couldn't come back to life. If she wanted to come back to life, she had to find her anchor of cause and effect, and in this world, she actually only had one anchor left..."

"Me."

Li An said: "So, only if you sacrifice yourself can she come back to life..."

"Life and death cycle, in a balanced place, life does not invade death, and death does not disturb life. This is immortality. I hold power and break the balance. I must sacrifice myself, one life for another."

The immortal said: "The arrival of the weird is the price I pay for reversing life and death. Now they have opened the handle of life and death that I left in the Immortal Palace of Immortality, and revived the immortal wind. She should also return, and I should also leave."

A relieved smile gradually emerged at the corner of his mouth. This smile was so simple and calm, but Li An was thrilling. He seemed to see someone crossing endless mountains and seas and overcoming endless fears before walking to the edge of this stone table, revealing such a smile that belongs to humans.

"My story is over. I will leave. I should have left long ago...but what about you?"

He looked at Li An and said, "She is right. My nightmare has never been her, but the endless intrigues and life-and-death struggles on the Wanren Island. My childhood is the nightmare I have been fighting all my life. Because of my obsession to survive, I have reached immortality..."

"She made me overcome the past and everything on the Wanren Island...But after immortality, there is only endless loneliness. As time goes by, no one is happy because of you. As time goes by, no one is sad because of you. No one in this world misses you or thinks of you. You will understand that being detached from time is no different from being an unknown stone on the side of the road. You are just a spectator in the busy streets, joys and sorrows."

"Sleeping can temporarily forget this loneliness, but long-term sleeping will become loneliness itself."

In Li An's heart, he only felt He was at a loss, empty as death. He had entered a strange world, where he gave up all the causes and effects about Gu Hong, Kuyuanzi, Taiqingzi, etc. Now, listening to the words of the immortal, he felt a sense of grief and sorrow for no reason, sweeping over himself...

"In fact, I have seen your future,"

The immortal smiled slightly, "In the downstream of time, another person destroyed everything, and also proved immortality with ruthlessness, that person is you."

"I said that playing with a few immortals and supremes is no fun for me... I chose you just to try, to disturb your fate before you are as ruthless as me, and see if this ruthless curse can be broken."

"There is no enemy in the world, only fate."

He stood up freely, and his figure inexplicably faded, as if what he told Li An was just a residual image.

"You need to know that the Life-Nourishing Immortal Art was created by me. The greatest effect of this art is that it allows my wife and children to regain life. The coffin buried at the end of time was only found and taken away by Yunluo and Changqing. They helped me reverse life and death, allowing my wife and children to reappear in the world. Therefore, I did leave some opportunities for longevity in the Changsheng Palace as a gift."

"In my lifetime, no one except her can hurt me or plot against me. Yunluo and Changqing were just me, and they could do it because I asked them to do so. Already..."

His figure was about to completely disintegrate. At this moment, his graceful demeanor was revealed. Li An seemed to see the demeanor of the invincible man in the vast history who had sacrificed all the opportunities for longevity and killed the world...

It was this man who, in order to save his wife and children, arranged things outside of time. Immortal Changqing and Immortal Yunluo were just chess pieces in his hands. The Yangming Zhuxian Jue was just a skill he created to save his wife and children. The strange arrival and the collapse of the heaven were just dust in his game!

He is still himself, willing to do anything to achieve his goal, even if he sacrifices the entire time and space and kills all the living things in the world, he will not be moved at all, but he is no longer himself. He has given everything, this time it is not for himself, even, he bets his life as a bet, immortality as fuel, just to let a woman reappear in the fire of the world...

"Everyone says that the world is bitter, and they vainly seek immortality to be free, but they don't know that freedom is a great terror. Now I am willing to give up immortality and travel on the mountains with my wife again, watching the clouds roll and disperse, the sun rise and set, how can I get it! How can I get it!"

His voice was lonely and sad, and it dissipated in the wind along with his voice.

It seems that he has never existed.

Li An watched him leave like this, witnessing the world with his own eyes

The death of the only immortal in the world, he was already sad, not knowing where to go.

…

And at this moment.

Somewhere in the world, in a thatched cottage, on a simple wooden bed, a purple-clothed woman seemed to be sleeping soundly, but at this moment, she suddenly felt something and opened her eyes suddenly.

Her eyes were blank, she looked around, with only surprise and disbelief on her face. She walked out of the hut, but saw a field of roses in full bloom, colorful and red, with thousands of flowers weighing down the branches. Not far away, there was a half-acre fish pond. The setting sun was quiet but beautiful.

The purple-clothed woman's eyes suddenly became blurred, and she was already in tears.

She once told someone that she wanted to find a quiet mountain forest, build a small hut, plant roses all around the hut, and preferably dig a half-acre fish pond, work with someone from sunrise to sunset, and give birth to a big fat boy for someone...no longer care about the troubles in this world.

Now everything is in front of her. She gently placed her hand on her abdomen, and could clearly hear the fetus's beating.

But she knew that the man had disappeared forever.

Forever.

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