Chapter 671 The End

"Shushu!"

"Brother Yun!"

The two called out to each other at the same time when they saw each other, and then their eyes fell on the old monk's face at the same time.

"Is he the person you're talking about?"

Gu Shuyan was stopped earlier and thought that some enlightened master was coming, but she never expected that the person they were waiting for was Yun Yichen.

The old monk smiled but said nothing, only addressing the two men: "Please, gentlemen!"

So the group went together to the main hall for the enshrinement. As soon as they entered the hall, the monk who usually chanted sutras put his hands together and called out to the old monk, "Uncle-Master."

"You guys go and rest first! Come back later."

The old monk seemed to hold a fairly high position in the temple. Upon hearing what he said, the other monk, who clearly looked older than him, immediately acknowledged and withdrew.

Soon, only the three of them remained in the entire memorial hall. The old monk remained silent and walked straight to Gu Rui's coffin.

Under Gu Shuyan's surprised gaze, the old monk slowly said, "The karmic connection between the three of you from your past lives continues today. From now on, I will have your memorial tablet removed. The memorial tablets in your homes will also no longer be worshipped."

The old monk was clearly speaking to two people, but her words implied that she was referring to three people.

Gu Shuyan was clearly agitated and immediately blurted out, "Is Rui'er here? Can you see him?"

"Mother, Mother, I'm here."

The old monk heard the mother and son's words, but he did not answer Gu Shuyan. Instead, he beckoned to Yun Yichen.

"Hey kid, come here."

Seeing Gu Shuyan's excitement, Yun Yichen glanced at her and slowly walked to the old monk's side.

"Place your hands on the memorial tablet."

The old monk continued to give instructions. Yun Yichen didn't know the old monk's background, but seeing that Gu Shuyan seemed to trust him, he didn't say much and followed his instructions, placing his hand on Gu Rui's memorial tablet.

The instant he touched the spirit tablet, a small figure suddenly appeared before him, and Yun Yichen's eyes widened in surprise.

He remembered the child; the child was the one who had asked him to come to the temple today.

"It's you again? Who are you?"

Yun Yichen couldn't help but ask again.

When Gu Rui saw that Yun Yichen could see him, he quickly said, "Tell Mother that I haven't left. I'm right here, I've always been here."

"Alright, now that you've met, let's not waste any more time."

As the old monk spoke, he picked up a needle and handed it to Yun Yichen. Then, under the bewildered gazes of the three, the old monk took a drop of blood and poured it into a stick of incense.

The old monk then lit incense and placed it in the incense burner, chanting incomprehensible scriptures while gesturing for Gu Rui to absorb the incense smoke from the burner.

As the incense burned rapidly, Gu Rui's body visibly became transparent before disappearing completely from sight.

After the old monk finished reciting the last line of scripture, Yun Yichen hurriedly asked, "Who is he? Where did he go?"

Although Yun Yichen was still confused, he seemed to have some understanding in his heart, so he was very anxious as he watched Gu Rui disappear.

The old monk ignored him and turned to look at Gu Shuyan. Seeing Gu Shuyan standing there with deep confusion in her eyes, the old monk smiled slightly.

He slowly approached her, then a talisman fell into Gu Shuyan's palm and instantly disappeared into thin air.

"The cause of your past life is the effect of this life. You three family members were separated in three different places and could not see each other until death. Now I have allowed you to reunite with your past life. I have done a miracle by defying fate. From now on, I hope you will suffer less killing and be more forgiving."

After saying that, the old monk looked at Yun Yichen and said, "I have repaid your kindness. From now on, we are even."

After the old monk finished speaking, he put his palms together in prayer for the two of them, then turned and left the offering hall first.

Before leaving, the old monk reminded the two of the importance of removing and destroying Gu Rui's memorial tablet in their home.

Gu Shuyan nodded in agreement, but she was still somewhat skeptical of the old monk's words.

"Did Brother Yun see Rui'er just now?"

Gu Shuyan looked at Yun Yichen, who seemed a little dazed.

"Yes, I think so."

Yun Yichen didn't know what to say, let alone how to ask Gu Shuyan.

This time, however, Gu Shuyan had no intention of hiding it from him any longer. The monk had already made things clear, and it was time for her to tell him about her experiences and their poor child.

The old monk came out of the main hall, and a young monk who looked like a novice was waiting outside the door.

"Master knows this will harm your cultivation, so why do you still act so against the will of Heaven?"

The young monk clearly harbored some resentment towards the old monk. When he saw Gu Rui in the offering hall, the young monk asked the old monk to guide his soul to the afterlife.

But the old monk insisted that this was not a spirit of the deceased and therefore could not be guided back to the mortal realm. He even said that the child owed a favor in a past life and that he had to help the child return to the human world in this life.

To the young novice monk, it was a terrible and unprofitable deal to try to bring back to life a soul that had already become a dead body.

“The monks are compassionate, and the deceased spirit was concerned about his birth mother. He came here as a single soul to protect his mother and change his fate. Since the heavens have given him this opportunity, and considering the child’s heart to protect his daughter, why not help him along the way?”

The old monk seemed indifferent to what he had done, but the young novice was furious.

"Don't you know your time is almost up? Doing this at a time like this is tantamount to courting your own destruction."

But the monk just smiled after hearing that.

In fact, he did this not only because Yun Yichen had saved him in the past life he had never experienced in his dream, but also because of his own impending death.

He had previously calculated that if he defied the heavens and caused people from another world to descend, it would cause chaos in the constellations on that day, and the date he defied the heavens and brought forward his lifespan would also happen to be that day.

If he guesses correctly, he will be able to avoid divine punishment when his time is up and he undergoes his tribulation at that time.

Therefore, helping others is also helping yourself; this statement is absolutely true.

The young monk didn't have the same deep affinity for Buddhism as the old monk, and he couldn't calculate so many things, so he was very worried that the old monk would die prematurely.

The master and disciple descended the mountain one after the other, and never saw Yun Yichen and Gu Shuyan again.

However, the monk's words left a mark on Gu Shuyan's heart, preventing her from harming innocent people when she was in a bloodthirsty state later.

Behind the temple, Yun Yichen listened to Gu Shuyan's slow narration, his hands already clenched into fists.

Thinking back to how he had only crippled Lu Youming, he felt a pang of regret for not killing him outright.

"So, he not only killed you, but also Rui'er and you."

Thinking back to that time, Gu Shuyan closed her eyes slightly.

"It was all my own stupidity back then. I not only misjudged people, but I also let Rui'er recognize a villain as his father for so many years. In the end, he was killed by that villain in such a cruel way."