In the endless abyss, only Chen Qian sat there, his face silent, stroking the long sword in his hand.
The sword is four inches long, with its outer shell forged from millennia-old ice, and two small characters, "Moon Falcon," are engraved on the hilt.
Tantai Qin's SSS-grade psionic longsword was actually named after a girl from the Great Yuezhi tribe.
Shen Qian didn't know the reason. Perhaps it was because that girl's feelings had planted a seed in Tantai Qin's heart, but it only blossomed and bore fruit today, millions of years later.
For a swordsman, the sword is his life, and the sword dies with him.
If the sword remains while the person dies, then there is only one explanation...
She had something more precious than a sword.
Shen Qian always felt that his life should be a comedy, with everyone still by his side in the end, but this ideal seemed to collapse completely overnight.
On this day, he lost two of the most important people in his life.
But Shen Qian found himself not so sad. He had no urge to cry, but he also seemed to have lost interest in everything. Even when facing the Word King, who embodied the rules, he did not feel so tired.
"Master, is this my fault?"
Shen Qian murmured, "Actually, I should have thought of it. Given her personality, how could she just leave like that? When she stopped talking, she had already made up her mind."
The figure of the Azure Lotus Buddha appeared beside Shen Qian at some point. He chanted a Buddhist prayer and slowly said, "When sentient beings sow seeds, the fruit will grow from the ground. Without sentient beings, there are no seeds, and without nature, there is no birth."
Shen Qian fell silent upon hearing this, and after a long while, he said, "...I don't understand."
"Every phenomenon in the world has a cause for every effect. The reason you are confused is simply because sadness has blinded you."
The Azure Lotus Buddha smiled slightly.
"Um?"
Shen Qian was taken aback. What did those words mean?
“Sadness has blinded my eyes…”
He murmured to himself, unable to resist recalling the memories in his mind... all the details of his time with Tantai Qin that he had been avoiding were now appearing in his mind in great detail.
Suddenly, Shen Qian was startled and saw a scene from more than half a year ago.
At that time, in the Heavenly Realm, Tantai Qin had just regained her past memories.
Shen Qian once asked her if the two of them had met since ancient times, and Tantai Qin only said, "You don't remember."
The implication was clear: the two had indeed interacted after the ancient times, but had no memory of it before the sinking.
Now he knows that the man in white is not him, but a flashback of the White Emperor, King Jiangling, and others he once saw. In other words, he himself does not have memory confusion. So why did he see himself in Tantai Qin's memory, but he did not see Tantai Qin?
There's only one explanation... it's something that hasn't happened yet.
Philosophically speaking, it means that Shen Qian will return to the river of time every day afterward, and then get entangled with Tantai Qin at some point or more of these periods.
Thinking of the long river of time, Chen Qian suddenly recalled the battle of the Nine Heavens.
His eyes lit up.
Yes, the battle of the nine heavens... Back then, the teacher also predicted "nine deaths and one life." At first, I thought it meant that only one out of ten people could survive. But it wasn't until the timeline changed the outcome that I realized the true meaning was "even if it is extremely difficult, there is still a glimmer of hope."
Just as the Prince of Jiangling said, before sinking, one can save more than just oneself.
Could it be... that this is the true meaning of what the Buddha spoke of?
Since he saved Lin Sanmo and the others before, why can't he save Tantai Qin again?
Although the difficulty involved was clearly on a completely different level, Shen Qian knew perfectly well that with his current strength, no matter how many times he tried again, he could never truly defeat "her".
Gao Wenyuan had already warned Shen Qian that she should not enter the River of Time lightly, because Shen Qian would also be locked onto there.
But regardless, it is a hope.
It's not possible now, but that doesn't mean it won't be possible in the future.
In fact, if he were strong enough, he could save not only Tantai Qin, but also his teacher, and perhaps many more people...
Shen Qian suddenly stood up, his eyes having regained their sparkle. He was not afraid of hardship; what he truly feared was the loss of all hope.
"Thank you, Master..."
Thinking this, Shen Qian was about to thank the Azure Lotus Buddha, but when he turned around, he found that there was no one around.
Shen Qian couldn't tell whether the illusion of the Azure Lotus Buddha had really appeared just now, or whether it was just his own imagination, and that he was just asking and answering himself.
But it doesn't matter anymore.
Only after a moment of mental calm did I have time to examine my own condition.
Although it was just a soul, it was extremely weak at this moment. It should have been asleep for at least twenty hours, but it woke up before it fell asleep. In its perception, only about ten hours had passed.
Furthermore, the system was indeed unresponsive, and no matter how Shen Qian tried to summon it, there was no reaction whatsoever. It was clearly waiting for energy to be injected to reactivate it.
As for how to get out, Shen Qian had already thought it through.
In his perception, the passage between the "Sea of Learning" and Earth still existed. After all, the ten-day period was far from over. It was just that Earth had temporarily closed the passage, perhaps because it had sensed something beforehand.
Once Wu Wei discovers that he has not truly perished, he should reopen the passage.
Thinking this, Shen Qian stood up, stuck Tantai Qin's longsword into the pillar, watched it silently for a while, and then activated the mark on his arm with his remaining soul power.
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