He returned to the dilapidated imperial city and picked up the dying Xu Xinrou.
He held her tightly, his head bowed, and remained silent.
"You're back..." Xu Xinrou asked weakly with a smile, "Did you defeat the Ghost Immortal?"
Su Nian gave a soft "hmm".
"I see... The cunning immortal is extremely treacherous... Junior brother, you must be careful, lest he return with a vengeance..."
"No, Senior Sister." Su Nian took Xu Xinrou's hand and gently placed it on her face. "I crushed his soul and body into powder. He will never have a chance to make a comeback."
"I see...that's good."
Xu Xinrou choked on blood, reached out, and ran her fingertips across Su Nian's face. "The cycle of life is predetermined. As long as time is stretched out long enough, then... one day, history will repeat itself, and then... we will meet again in the future..."
"Senior sister, your time as the Reincarnation Immortal Emperor has come to an end. From now on, you will be the new Reincarnation Immortal Emperor. Don't worry about the world dying; it will continuously heal itself and then be reborn. This process may take a very, very long time... long enough for the seas to turn into mulberry fields, for the seas to dry up and the rocks to crumble, until a new civilization is born. This long waiting process will be agonizing and may even cause you to have a mental breakdown. But... before I die, senior sister still has a greedy wish that she wants to tell you."
Xu Xinrou's blood-stained lips held a smile, warm as spring flowers in bloom, "Junior brother...would you...wait for me...in the distant future?"
Su Nian held Xu Xinrou's soft little hand. Her body temperature was dropping steadily, and it seemed that she could reach the critical point of death at any moment.
Su Nian grasped Xu Xinrou's hand, and the tears that should have dried up in his first life welled up again in this one. He gripped Xu Xinrou's hand tightly, helpless like a child. "Can't I enter reincarnation again? I am now the Reincarnation Immortal Emperor. Shouldn't I be able to decide whether reincarnation restarts? I can't accept this so-called lonely ending! At worst, I'll go back to the beginning and change everything again!!"
Su Nian spoke excitedly through sobs, but Xu Xinrou reached out a finger and pressed it against his lips.
"Don't force yourself into reincarnation anymore, junior brother. You can't reincarnate anymore. This hundredth life will be your final liberation." Xu Xinrou tried to move her body and snuggle closer to Su Nian's arms, but she was almost exhausted. Even moving a little bit took all her strength. Su Nian noticed this and hugged her even tighter.
She nestled in Su Nian's arms and whispered, "Didn't you say you didn't want to continue the cycle of reincarnation? Reincarnation... is very painful, isn't it?"
"It's not bitter, it's not bitter..." Su Nian stammered, tears streaming down her face, "As long as I can have a happy ending with my senior sister, then nothing is bitter!"
"I see... Junior brother can accept senior sister's reincarnation destiny, that's really... wonderful... In this way, can it prove that senior sister is me?"
Xu Xinrou smiled warmly, a smile that touched the softest part of Su Nian's heart.
"Finally... my junior brother has accepted everything about me."
As the last words fell, Xu Xinrou's slender arm also fell to her sides.
The world became quiet, and the sea of clouds became desolate.
Beneath the vast sky, on the desolate land, only one person's heart-wrenching cries echoed for a long time.
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...
Su Nian arrived at Immortal Mountain and found the last True Immortal there.
Celestial Master of Heavenly Secrets.
He raised his withered face and asked in a low voice, which drifted leisurely through the cave.
"Su Nian...do you know why the Immortal Emperor named himself Xu Xinrou?"
Su Nian kept her head down and remained silent for a long time.
"Reincarnation is both a blessing and a curse. She was always afraid that you would hate her and her power, but in order to change your fate, she had to do it, even if it might provoke your resentment. So she has always carefully protected your growth, and finally, she made such a wish."
"That is, I wish that your heart would become gentle."
Su Nian was stunned.
He was unable to recover for a long time.
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...
He sat down on the mountain in the celestial realm, overlooking the changing times in the human world.
Countless memories intertwined and clung to Su Nian, who was as still as a stone statue.
One year, ten years, one hundred years, one thousand years...
In an infinitely stretched period of time, memories emerge like bubbles, only to burst later.
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"Hello, junior brother. My name is Xu Xinrou. Please take care of me!"
...
Snowflakes covered his body, but he seemed oblivious, remaining motionless in one position.
Those lifeless eyes gazed at the earth, and he saw new green shoots sprouting from the barren soil, vegetation growing, and after countless years, the desolate world became vibrant again.
Ten thousand years later, he witnessed the birth of a new human species.
They learned to write, discovered fire, developed weapons, and founded dynasties.
A new name has appeared here; it is not Kyushu, but Daxia.
Though it is my homeland, the people are not the same.
Su Nian watched quietly, without moving.
...
"Senior sister, with your physique, you are clearly more suited to the cultivation methods of the Sixth Peak, so why do you insist on joining our Seventh Peak?"
"This... guess?"
...
History changed, dynasties rose and fell, the Great Xia Dynasty was destroyed, war left the land scarred, and in the millennia that followed, the demon race was born.
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"Senior sister, my name was given to me by our master. What about your name?"
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