Chapter 95 Epilogue Part 1
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Li Fenglan slowly walked down from the long sword. At this time, there was snow piled up all over Shenwu Mountain, and of course, under Li Fenglan’s feet as well.
With a light “creak” under his feet, Li Fenglan finally stepped onto the snow of Shenwu Mountain.
Seeing this, Cheng Huang also jumped out of Li Fenglan’s arms.
After shrinking, its paws left a few small paw prints on the ground, looking particularly cute.
It was at this moment that Ling Buyan suddenly whispered in Li Fenglan’s ear, “In order to establish Tanyi Pagoda, I searched for spiritual objects in various places in the three realms. Unexpectedly, although I didn’t find what I wanted by the Underworld River, I saw clusters of Wumei here.”
As Li Fenglan listened quietly to Ling Buyan’s words, he looked towards the valley of Shenwu Mountain.
The Wumei here are completely different from those in Snowy Meizhou.
They were not cultivated by anyone, but born and raised by nature.
The branches of every Wumei tree had weathered through wind and frost, and every Wumei flower bloomed wantonly.
At this point, Ling Buyan suddenly stopped and smiled before continuing, “So I thought at that time, when you came back, I must tell you about this place, and you will definitely like it here.”
As the two of them talked, Cheng Huang had already run far away. Li Fenglan saw that the sky was full of flying Wumei, while the snow on the ground was marked with Cheng Huang’s footprints, just like snow plum petals.
“The Wumei in Snowy Meizhou are probably impossible for Meng Linzhou to grow,” Ling Buyan laughed.
Li Fenglan walked forward with Ling Buyan while laughing as well. He nodded lightly and said, “Meng Linzhou has been digging up the soil in Snowy Meizhou for so long, but besides digging up big pits on the ground, he hasn’t been able to grow any trees.”
Speaking of this, Li Fenglan suddenly remembered the feeling he had when he first saw the rebel disciple burn the Wumei in “Tianmian Daosheng”.
To put it bluntly, Li Fenglan wished he could rush into the book immediately and expel the rebel disciple from the sect.
Wait a minute… When he thought of this, Li Fenglan, who was walking forward with Ling Buyan, suddenly stopped his footsteps.
At the same time, even Ling Buyan’s smile slowly froze on his face.
“What’s wrong, Fenglan?” Seeing this, Ling Buyan frowned and asked Li Fenglan, while Cheng Huang, who was focusing on leaving footprints on the ground, also stopped when he saw Li Fenglan’s expression.
Li Fenglan’s gaze fell on the tree in front of him, and then he slowly clenched his fists.
Just at this moment, a petal of plum blossom fell from the branch and brushed past Li Fenglan’s forehead. In a trance, the Dao imprint on his forehead seemed to come alive.
Li Fenglan remembered something very important…
What is the relationship between this world and the book called “Tianmian Daosheng”?
“Master,” he took a deep breath, turned around slowly, looked at Ling Buyan and said everything he had just thought, “I suddenly remembered something.”
Perhaps Li Fenglan’s expression was too serious, and the smile on Ling Buyan’s face also disappeared slowly.
He nodded lightly at Li Fenglan and then a small table with two cushions appeared not far away from a huge Wumei tree.
“Sit down and talk.” Ling Buyan nodded.
“Okay.”
Cheng Huang was a fierce beast born in profound ice and naturally liked this kind of scene. But when he saw Li Fenglan and Ling Buyan sitting down, Cheng Huang hesitated for a moment and then jumped into Li Fenglan’s arms.
For a while, the only sound in the valleys of Shenwu Mountain was the wind.
Li Fenglan looked at the tea cup on the small table that Ling Buyan had conjured out of nowhere, and after a moment of silence, finally lifted his head.
However, this time, Li Fenglan didn’t immediately tell Ling Buyan about what happened back then. Instead, he asked, “Master, do you know if ancient books have written about whether consciousness exists when someone is in Tanyi Pagoda?”
Seeing Li Fenglan suddenly become serious, Ling Buyan realized that his question was not ordinary. And when he heard him mention “Tanyi Pagoda”, he fell silent as well.
After a long while, Ling Buyan shook his head gently and said, “I don’t know.”
“You don’t know either, Master?” Perhaps used to Ling Buyan knowing everything, Li Fenglan was somewhat surprised to hear his answer.
Ling Buyan laughed and rubbed Li Fenglan’s hair, saying, “Of course, I don’t know everything.”
This sudden remark made Li Fenglan blush slightly. He coughed twice and turned his gaze to the side.
But upon hearing Ling Buyan’s words, Cheng Huang, who was nestled in Li Fenglan’s arms, suddenly became excited.
“Tsk tsk. Of course Ling Buyan doesn’t know many things,” Cheng Huang said, showing off in a soft childish voice to Li Fenglan. “For example, he doesn’t know about our Beast Clan. If Fenglan wants to know, just ask me!”
However, Cheng Huang’s plan fell through.
Upon hearing its words, Li Fenglan only smiled and shook his head, seemingly not interested in learning about the gossip of the Beast Clan.
He saw Ling Buyan pause for a moment before continuing, “Although there are records of Tanyi Pagoda in ancient books, no one before you has successfully condensed their soul after experiencing dispersal.”
“So that’s how it is…” After Ling Buyan said that, Li Fenglan also thought about it. There are many cultivators who have experienced soul dispersal in this world, but there truly hasn’t been anyone who, like themselves, has luckily reincarnated and successfully condensed their soul.
“What’s wrong?” Ling Buyan asked, “Did something come to mind that’s related to the Tower?”
“Um.” Li Fenglan looked at Ling Buyan sitting across from him and nodded seriously.
He had once thought that he would never tell anyone about this in his entire life, but now, there was no hesitation in his heart.
Even though this was once the biggest secret buried deep in his heart.
“Before I was reincarnated… when my soul was still inside the Tower, I had gone to a place.”
Speaking up to this point, Li Fenglan suddenly became nervous.
He remembered something- he and Ling Buyan were both once geniuses of the heavens, thinking that they had firmly grasped their destiny. But then, they were both separately harmed by the will of heaven.
But knowing that his fate was “arranged” by the will of heaven, and knowing that everything in this world was nothing but a “novel”, were two completely different concepts.
“What place?”
“A place… that doesn’t belong to this world, a place that I had never heard of before.”
Doesn’t belong to this world?
As the Primordial Immortal Ancestor, Ling Buyan may be the person who understands this world the most. He not only found the Wumei forest hidden in the upper reaches of the Underworld River, but he even experienced a trip to Endless Purgatory.
He didn’t know that there were still places that “do not belong to this world” existing.
As he spoke, Li Fenglan slowly clenched the teacup that was resting on the small table. He encouraged himself in his heart and finally spoke up.
“Master, I saw a book, it was called ‘Tianmian Daosheng’.” Li Fenglan’s eyes were fixed on Ling Buyan without blinking when he said this sentence.
Seeing Ling Buyan frown, Li Fenglan finally confirmed that his master really didn’t know about the existence of this book, just as he had thought.
He said, “Book? I only know that there is a huge stone in Tianmian Palace, on which I once carved these four words.”
“Uh-huh,” Li Fenglan nodded, “Yes, but the book I want to talk about has little to do with that stone.”
Before speaking, Li Fenglan thought about how he should organize his language. But after speaking, he was urged by some force in his heart and directly said everything he knew in one breath.
“That book seems to be written by someone from another world completely different from ours. The ‘protagonist’ in the book was my junior brother, Lin Chaochen.”
At this point, even Cheng Huang slowly opened his mouth, looking at Li Fenglan with a stunned expression, while Ling Buyan nodded and his eyes became particularly deep.
Li Fenglan continued, “The novel called ‘Tianmian Daosheng’ was naturally written about my junior brother Lin Chaochen’s experiences. Most of the story takes place a thousand years ago. It mainly talks about my junior brother’s continuous advancement, as well as my… demonic possession that caused great suffering to all living beings in the world.”
“People who have read that book say that I am the ‘villain’ in it, and my ending in the book is the same as in reality.”
“Mmm.” Ling Buyan nodded without saying a word.
“Afterwards, perhaps because I, the antagonist, died, the story became dull. It was mostly about my junior brother’s cultivation and becoming a powerful figure in the world of cultivation. And we – you, me, and even Mo Shenyu – were minor characters who appeared a few times in the second half of the novel.”
“Ah?” Cheng Huang was completely bewildered when he heard this.
Li Fenglan thought for a moment and said from a different angle, “In other words, many things that happened later, including the people we were about to meet, I already knew about them before my reincarnation.”
Unlike Cheng Huang, Ling Buyan at this point fully understood Li Fenglan’s meaning.
He wanted to know if this world was really real and what connection it had with that book.
“And then?” Ling Buyan suddenly asked, “Is our ending in the book the same as today?”
At these words, Li Fenglan shook his head and said, “No, the ‘Li Fenglan’ in the book died due to an accident. He died while he was with Mo Shenyu.”
“So you have been on guard against Mo Shenyu all this time?” Ling Buyan finally smiled.
Li Fenglan also nodded somewhat embarrassedly and said, “Yes, although I don’t know why, I just had a feeling that he might be a threat to me.”
“How did Mo Shenyu end up in the book?” Ling Buyan asked.
“You both died together,” Li Fenglan said these four words suddenly without warning. “In ‘Tianmian Daosheng,’ it was vaguely mentioned that Mo Shenyu and you suddenly had a conflict, and then Mo Shenyu stole a sword and defected from the sect. You fought and died together in the end. It did not mention your identities, only hinted that you were not ordinary people.”
Upon hearing this, Ling Buyan slowly stood up.
He looked at the distant snow-capped mountains, not knowing if he was digesting the information Li Fenglan had just revealed or doing something else.
After a very long time, he finally lowered his head and looked at Li Fenglan with a smile, saying, “Fenglan, I understand why now.”
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