kingnovel Chapter 662 Price
Chapter 662 Price
"I will wait for you at the end of fate."
To prevent her from getting lost in the endless cycle of reincarnation and forgetting what she truly wanted to do, Jiang Liqian did two things.
Firstly, she entrusted all her memories to Shi Yunyu, asking him to return them to her at the appropriate time. She also engraved a mark deep within her soul, a mark that would subconsciously guide her to seek out the divine artifact she needed. Even after countless rebirths, the mark would not fade.
Secondly, she went in search of a treasure. This object was born from chaos; it was neither spirit, nor immortal, nor god, yet it could link the destinies of two people. No matter how far apart they were, or how far they were separated by the chasm of time, those who possessed it could find each other.
Heaven will surely intervene; she absolutely cannot lose Xu You'an.
When the Spirit-Suppressing Pearl, radiating golden light, was placed in Xu You'an's hands, Jiang Liqian's fingertips trembled. She knew what this meant.
—If she cannot find all the artifacts, he will be dragged into an endless cycle of reincarnation. She has no memory of reincarnation yet and can peacefully regard each reincarnation as a new life, while he will be left alone to guard his past with her, watching in despair as an "incomplete" version of her perishes before his eyes time and time again.
He will never touch her again, the one who once reached out her hand to him in the forest.
But her junior brother held the spirit pearl tightly, his burning palm touching her fingertips, the heat reaching deep into her soul.
He smiled gently, his youthful appearance like a crescent moon in the sky, clean and clear.
He said, "Senior sister, I only ask one thing of you: let me follow you wherever you go from now on."
Her eyes instantly reddened, and she hugged him tightly, her voice trembling, "I'm sorry, Ayou, I'm so sorry..."
Forgive me.
Heaven's intimidation and counterattack against her came immediately.
Xu You'an desperately wanted to save her, and Heaven took advantage of this, causing her junior brother to kill her loved ones, leading her astray and causing her to betray the sect she had tried so hard to protect.
The immense absurdity was the final ultimatum from Heaven, a declaration of its intention to slaughter her.
Her answer was...
—He personally killed Xu You'an, who had committed murder, and then personally ended his own descent into demonic possession.
She wanted to tell her junior brother that those who follow evil paths will only bring about their own destruction, and she would not show mercy to him or to herself.
She wanted to tell the sky above her that no matter what dire situation lay before her, she would not yield, she would not stop.
She will advance fearlessly, sword in hand, even unto death.
How did Heaven respond to her?
It's like a naughty child, cruelly toying with the puppet in its hands, throwing her into a pre-arranged "fun game," watching her struggle and suffer, then burning her body and destroying her soul, making her see the price of disobeying it.
It will sit high on its throne and watch her perish.
First, her parents stopped loving her, then her brothers, family, relatives, and fellow disciples... She no longer followed her own heart to become a disciple of Master Chongdao, but instead followed the original script and became the senior disciple of the Tianqian Sect.
Her relationship with her fellow disciples at Zhenfeng became increasingly distant, and she almost never encountered Master Chongdao. Every time, Xu Youan would go through countless hardships to find her, but she had less and less contact with him, and the way she died in front of him became more and more tragic.
Her Dao heart was gradually worn away. In her heart, the sect became the most important thing first, then her fellow disciples, then her family, relatives, friends, master, lover... until the last life, when she was betrayed by everyone and her Shitian Sword was broken, nothing mattered anymore, neither hers nor theirs.
She began to lose her way, lost the meaning of cultivating immortality, and living became an immense pain for her. Every minute and every second, she had to endure the bitterness of being betrayed by her closest relatives.
She developed inner demons.
She should have realized this long ago: a lightning spirit root is born with the power to slay evil and suppress demons, so how could it breed inner demons? Not to mention that she has a top-grade lightning spirit root that is one in ten thousand years.
It was the will of Heaven that caused her to develop inner demons, so she used her body to suppress evil to obtain the power to destroy inner demons.
Shi Yunyu's warning to her was too lenient; she truly lost everything, and none of the people around her met a good end.
The scene before her eyes began to change rapidly. She instinctively ran frantically in one direction, trying to escape the source of this pain. But the more she ran, the closer these memories chased after her. Suddenly, a huge fragment blocked her way, and on the fragment, a memory unrelated to her kept replaying.
That was... Xu You'an, her junior brother.
Buried deep in his heart, a distant and tragic past. A nightmare he never dared to tell her.
His humility, his fear, all his unease and inferiority stemmed from this.
In the scene, the junior brother is sold into the Chen family by his biological parents, where he endures hardship and beatings. Later, because of his appearance, he is coveted and harassed by the eldest young master. When his attempts to force him fail, he is sold into a brothel. There, he is bullied, mocked, and tortured. He lives in darkness, unable to live or die.
She heard him crying and calling for help.
God, save him, save him... or let him die.
She stood outside the torrent of time, looking at him, staring at him, trembling all over, her teeth almost grinding to powder!
When she saw him make a desperate escape, with Xiaohongfang baring its ferocious fangs to devour him, she could no longer bear it. Even though she knew that what she was seeing was just a memory that had happened in the past, she still rushed into that illusory sea of memories.
Living a life of debauchery, the magnificent Xiaohongfang was cleaved into dust by her sword.
The boy running ahead seemed to glance back once more. He quickly disappeared into the dark, dense forest ahead.
That was where she and he first met.
A dense forest, a new moon, a ragged, tattered boy.
In this vast ocean of fragmented memories, she saw many things the boy had never told her. To reverse time, he endured ever heavier divine punishments to stay by her side, exhausting all his efforts to find a way to change her destined fate of death.
In every corner where she couldn't see him, he would be in excruciating pain, his face pale, veins bulging, and his clothes soaked with fine, cold sweat, yet he refused to let her see it even once.
Knowing that she loved pastries and had a small wish—to open her own pastry shop at the foot of the mountain someday—he would always leave early and return late, searching everywhere for a suitable shop, personally seeking help from others to learn how to make various pastries, pricing them, purchasing them, and recruiting suitable waiters to serve customers. But when he happily wanted to tell her this good news, she had already been forced to commit suicide in the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons.
The moment his primordial spirit dissipated, that heart-wrenching scream contained so much of his pain and despair...
"Senior sister!"
The suffocating feeling of drowning her soul grew stronger and stronger. Jiang Liqian, who was immersed in the Milky Way, suddenly opened her eyes and sat up from the sea of stars.