Chapter 96 Epilogue Part 2
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“‘Why?'” Li Fenglan’s mood was unexpectedly nervous.
“Do you know about the ‘Three Thousand Worlds’?” Ling Buyan asked.
At the words, Li Fenglan nodded lightly.
Any cultivator had heard of this term.
It was said that any place where the sun and moon shone upon in the world was considered a world. And there were countless such worlds in the vast universe.
Although it was just a basic concept, it was too ethereal for cultivators. Everyone usually didn’t care about it, and Li Fenglan had never thought of it before.
But after Ling Buyan spoke, he seemed to have some idea in his mind.
Just as Li Fenglan was pondering, Ling Buyan spoke again. He said, “The spirit is a kind of spiritual existence that is not bound by any external force. If there is something that can freely cross between different worlds, perhaps only the spirit can do it.”
Ling Buyan paused, and Li Fenglan began to think at this moment.
He felt that he seemed to understand Ling Buyan’s words.
Ling Buyan meant that the book he saw existed in another real world, and the reason why he saw the book was that a few strands of his soul wandered there after his soul scattered.
“But the contents of that book…” Li Fenglan paused for a moment before asking Ling Buyan again, “Since it’s something from another world, why are the contents of the book the same as our world?”
“Everything in the world is interconnected in the vastness of the universe, and so are the worlds between them,” said Ling Buyan.
Since Cheng Huang regained his memory, he had been at odds with Ling Buyan. But now, even it listened attentively when Ling Buyan spoke about these things.
“And then, what happened next?” Cheng Huang became very anxious when Ling Buyan paused for a while.
Perhaps it was because Ling Buyan’s soul was somewhat involved with the Heavenly Dao, and he knew some things that far exceeded the understanding of people in this world.
After taking a sip of tea, Ling Buyan continued to explain to Li Fenglan. This time, he really looked like a mentor, citing various books and records of the cultivation world.
After a while, Li Fenglan finally understood what Ling Buyan was trying to say.
Although these worlds exist independently, they are all born in the same universe, so there must be some connection between them.
Li Fenglan’s spirit can reach another time and space unintentionally, and so can other people.
Even every person can do it.
Perhaps it’s a dream or a sudden idea.
These thoughts come from nowhere, and some are influenced by other times and spaces.
According to Ling Buyan’s meaning, the author who wrote “Tianmian Daosheng” was influenced by the time and space they were in.
Everything that happened in this world appeared in the author’s mind by chance, and they subconsciously recorded it into a book. It was all an unconscious act, much like someone waking up from a dream and recording their dreams.
Everything in the world has mental power, and the familiar mental power that originated from that book attracted the remnants of Li Fenglan’s soul after it dispersed.
“So, that author is not a prophet, just a recorder,” Ling Buyan said, and Li Fenglan, as a highly skilled immortalization stage immortal, naturally understood Ling Buyan’s words, but not Cheng Huang.
The only thing it understood was the last sentence Li Fenglan said.
Seeing that Li Fenglan seemed to believe Ling Buyan’s words and wanting to argue with him, Cheng Huang suddenly thought of another question.
“If the author is a recorder, not a prophet, then why is the ending of that book different from what really happened in this world?” Cheng Huang thought this and said it out loud.
Li Fenglan was also curious and looked at Ling Buyan.
Then he heard him say, “Some of those worlds are innate worlds that existed since the beginning of the universe. There are also some worlds that were created after the innate world split. If I’m not mistaken, ‘Tianmian Daosheng’ refers to our world, and yet it doesn’t.”
“It talks about the world that emerges after the division of our world,” Li Fenglan said slowly.
But what he didn’t say was that “Tianmian Daosheng” actually talked about another possibility…
Li Fenglan involuntarily clenched his fist.
Although he didn’t say the sentence he had just thought of, Ling Buyan said it for him.
“When I emerged from Endless Purgatory, I had two choices,” Ling Buyan said.
Hearing the words “Endless Purgatory,” Cheng Huang suddenly became interested.
“What were the choices?” it asked, preempting Li Fenglan and asking the question.
“One was to do as I did and save you,” Ling Buyan said.
Upon hearing this, Li Fenglan nodded gently.
“What was the other choice?”
“The other choice was to not save you,” Ling Buyan said.
Resurrecting Li Fenglan had cost Ling Buyan a great deal of spiritual power, and even his soul had suffered some damage. That was why he had been in closed-door cultivation until a few months ago.
For Ling Buyan at the time, not reviving Li Fenglan was actually the best choice because he could not be sure when he could recover the spiritual power he lost or if he could ever recover it.
Most importantly, Ling Buyan had no idea what Mo Shenyu wanted to do in the mortal world.
This choice was too risky for him.
But in the end, because of the memories of more than a thousand years…even though they had only met once many years ago, Li Fenglan had become the person who could pull Ling Buyan’s heart out of Endless Purgatory.
So at that moment, Ling Buyan did not hesitate and made the first choice.
…
The wind and snow in the valley grew stronger. Li Fenglan and Ling Buyan sat quietly here, and not long after, their hair and shoulders were covered with a thin layer of snow.
After a moment of silence, Ling Buyan turned around and looked into Li Fenglan’s eyes. “Do you know?” he said. “Fenglan, I saved you and brought you out of Endless Purgatory. I not only saved you, but also saved myself.”
All of this was destined by fate.
The two divine swords, Finished Karma and Split Karma, complemented and restrained each other.
Mo Shenyu stole Finished Karma because he knew this.
If Ling Buyan had not brought Li Fenglan out of Endless Purgatory, there would have been no Sword that moved mountains and divided seas.
Even if Ling Buyan could kill Mo Shenyu with all his might, in the end, it would only end up like “Tianmian Daosheng”, where both parties would perish.
All of this information hit Li Fenglan at once, and for a moment, he couldn’t say a word.
At the same time, Ling Buyan slowly took Li Fenglan’s hand.
“Master?”
“Fenglan,” Ling Buyan’s gaze was extremely deep, like an endless ocean, “You told me your biggest secret, so as an exchange, I also want to tell you something that was not written in the book.”
For some reason, Li Fenglan was extremely nervous at this moment when he looked at Ling Buyan, his fingertips even trembling slightly.
“What is it?” he asked Ling Buyan softly.
“During the years in Endless Purgatory, if I hadn’t been able to see you, I would have lost my mind and eventually become a great disaster to the world. That’s one thing.”
“What about the second thing?” Li Fenglan asked softly.
“The second thing is that I don’t want to be Fenglan’s master anymore.”
“I don’t know if Fenglan is willing to become my dao companion?” At this moment, Ling Buyan’s eyes had no more Shengwu Mountain’s valley, nor misty plum blossoms and snow, only Li Fenglan.
And Li Fenglan was the same.
The millennium of time and memories quickly passed through his heart. In the blink of an eye, there seemed to be only the person in front of him left in his world.
Just like Ling Buyan seeing Li Fenglan in Endless Purgatory, that was the reason he didn’t fall into madness.
And wasn’t it because of Ling Buyan that Li Fenglan could live well in this life?
Trust, reliance, anticipation, and joy, all these have already condensed into a simple word.
Love.
Dao partners?
Li Fenglan, adding up his past and present lives, seemed to have never thought that he might have a dao partner.
But at this moment, when he heard these two words, only one person remained in Li Fenglan’s heart.
Even the dao imprint on his forehead emitted a faint red light at this moment.
He suddenly smiled and quickly leaned towards the person beside him.
Li Fenglan’s lips touched Ling Buyan’s ear, and his breath gently scattered. The next moment, Ling Buyan heard Li Fenglan’s voice, which only the two of them could hear, saying, “Okay, Ah Ling.”
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