Chapter 316 Qi Jun's Guilt
While the outside world seemed to be in an uproar, inside the cabin of the Tian Shen No. 1, Ye Luo was sleeping peacefully with her eyes closed.
Yu Xian'er, who had been watching over him the whole time, gently tucked the blanket around him, took the medicine bowl, and went out with the others. The cabin returned to silence for a moment.
After a long while, Ye Luo heard a soft call in his ear, and he reluctantly opened his confused eyes.
At this moment, he found himself amidst wisps of mist, and for a moment he was somewhat confused about the situation.
He raised his eyes to steady himself, when suddenly he met a pair of crimson eyes. A mocking voice rang out, causing him to freeze on the spot.
"Little one, did you sleep well?"
"...No, it's disgusting for you to hold me."
"Heartless."
"If you had any conscience, I wouldn't be injured like this." Ye Luo sat up and looked around. She found that they were floating in the air, and sitting on a white lotus jade couch. This place seemed to be a world of divine consciousness.
He glanced at the open stone door and naturally understood that this must be the world inside the stone door.
"Are you Qi Jun?" Although Ye Luo was somewhat delirious during his battle with Xin Hun Yin, he still learned some things.
"Hmm." Qi Jun smiled and lay down on the jade couch. "What do you want to ask?"
"Many things," Ye Luo said bluntly, without beating around the bush. "For example, why are you in my sea of consciousness?"
"What do you think?" Qi Jun looked at his expression, a smile playing on his lips. "Didn't you already guess? Why do you still ask?"
Ye Luo frowned slightly. "I just don't understand... I'm clearly the reincarnation of Zhu Yue, it seems like I have nothing to do with you."
"Whether it is you or Zhu Yue, you are both my reincarnations. You are the Heavenly Soul, Zhu Yue is the Earthly Soul, and I am the Life Soul."
Ye Luo was full of surprise and asked, "What exactly is going on?"
"Don't rush, I'll tell you slowly." Qi Jun chuckled and continued, "In the great battle back then, I originally thought I could easily kill Xin Hun Yin, but I didn't expect her golden finger to be too strong. She kept reversing time and space to revive, which was very troublesome."
"I saw it, it is indeed quite troublesome." Ye Luo said with a solemn expression. Those were just the power of fragments. If it were a complete Time-Turning Jade, its power would probably be even more formidable.
“I also discovered the crux of the problem at the time, so I did my best to destroy the jade that was then, but I did not expect that she would be able to hide in the scattered pieces of jade and escape even though she no longer had a celestial body.”
Ye Luo curled her lip and said, "That really is an unkillable cockroach... But even so, how did you end up in this state?"
Since they had already gained the upper hand, how could they have ended up sacrificing him alive, and even suffering the fate of having their souls scattered?
Qi Jun sighed, "Back then, I was already at my limit, so I made a deal with the Heavenly Dao, which is why my soul was scattered."
Ye Luo asked curiously, "What kind of deal?"
"As agreed, I erased the Heart Soul Guide. The Heavenly Dao manipulated the power of cause and effect and reincarnation to resurrect the old people from that year. But all of this must be based on a cause and effect connection, and my soul must be sacrificed."
"Human sacrifice..." Ye Luo suddenly realized that the soul was bound by past karma, thus intertwining the fates and ties of everyone.
Our meeting in Peach Blossom Valley in this lifetime is not a coincidence, but an inevitability.
"Alas." Qi Jun's eyes showed guilt. "Back then, I was obsessed with seeking the Great Dao and ascending to immortality. I became obsessed with demonic possession and lost my mind. I accidentally hurt and let down many people... But in the end, they were still willing to die for me."
"At the last moment, I had an epiphany. Perhaps I was too immersed in the mortal world, so I was unable to transcend and become an immortal."
"Then I thought about it again and realized I was at peace. This world is so beautiful; if we didn't have the company of loved ones and friends, wouldn't the long years be much less enjoyable?"
“But… isn’t Jun Yi very pitiful?” Ye Luo’s eyes showed heartache. For the past ten thousand years, he had been searching for his lover, day after day, year after year, and had almost gone mad.
This is so cruel to him.
Suddenly, Ye Luo thought of something and asked in confusion, "Since Zhu Yue is an Earth Soul, why didn't she recognize Jun Yi? Otherwise... we wouldn't have missed each other in this lifetime."
Qi Jun said, "The time was not right then. I did not expect Jun Yi to come ahead of time. Zhu Yue has no memories of her past life, so naturally she could not recognize him. By the time I woke up from my slumber and found that my earth soul was damaged, it was too late."
Ye Luo naturally remembered that the Soul-Destroying Blade directly ended Zhu Yue's life, and even caused his soul to be scattered.
"Originally, true awakening could only be achieved when the three souls were united. However, Zhu Yue's earth soul was completely destroyed. I could only prolong the awakening period and have been cultivating the earth soul for the past thousand years."
After speaking, Qi Jun waved his red sleeve, and a huge lotus leaf stretched out around the white lotus jade couch. On it lay a man in purple robes, who was none other than the Moon Chasing Immortal Lord who had perished in his previous life.
Ye Luo looked at everything in astonishment, only to see that Zhu Yue's soul was sometimes real and sometimes illusory, seemingly about to vanish.
"Is this... not yet successful?"
"Hmm." Qi Jun sighed, "The Earth Soul consumed a lot of my soul power, otherwise how could it have allowed the Heart Soul Guide to run rampant? Moreover, such a reincarnation is worthwhile, at least it can bring Jun Yi back an omega body."
"For Jun Yi? What does that mean?"
"It's all my fault..."
Seeing his self-reproach, Ye Luo became even more curious.
Qi Jun's face was full of guilt as he gazed at the churning white mist and sea of clouds before him. After a long while, he sighed and said, "Since I came to this cultivation world, the more I cultivate, the lonelier I feel. But with Jun Yi's constant companionship, the long years of cultivation don't seem so unbearable anymore."
"But as Jun Yi grew older, more and more female cultivators surrounded him... I gradually developed greedy desires, and over time, they became a demon in my heart, wanting to keep him by my side forever."
At this point, Qi Jun's voice became somewhat hoarse, and he didn't continue speaking, seemingly finding it difficult to say more.
Looking at his expression, Ye Luo had an inexplicable thought in her mind and hurriedly asked, "So... what did you do to him?!"
Qi Jun looked up at him and said in a hoarse voice, "I used the gene serum I brought from my time travel to coax and trick him into transforming him into an alpha..."
"What?!"
Ye Luo was also somewhat surprised upon hearing this. No wonder Jun Yi emitted alpha pheromones, but he seemed to be different from a normal alpha. She never expected that he had been modified by Qi Jun!
If Jun Yi were to become an alpha, and he were to enter his painful, vulnerable period without the soothing pheromones of an omega, he would surely become violent and insane...
This relationship is both a bond and a constraint.
How could you be so selfish...
“He’s obsessed.” Qi Jun gave a bitter smile and sighed, looking up at the sky. “...Later, we were entangled for a while. At first, everything was fine, but then I found that he started to act strangely. Although his physique became stronger through cultivation, he was often easily angered and his mind was not clear... He was about to become a useless person.”
Ye Luo asked, "Could it be that the modification failed?"
Qi Jun said, "Perhaps. Later, I came up with many ways to remedy the situation, and finally I was able to develop a elixir to cure him. After taking care of him and treating him for a period of time, I secretly sent him back to the Dragon Clan, leaving behind a few bottles of eradication elixirs, and then I completely cut off all contact with him."
At this point, Qi Jun bit her lower lip, her breath trembling slightly, and said, "I just didn't expect that silly boy Jun Yi to be so stubborn... he actually didn't take the medicine I left behind!"
"Why...why isn't he eating?" Ye Luo said blankly, then suddenly her heart skipped a beat, and she said in a trembling voice, "Could it be that he's trying to find you through his pheromones?"
Qi Jun nodded and lowered his eyes. "Perhaps so. Since then, I have wandered all over the world, firstly to avoid Jun Yi's search, and secondly to seek a way to sever our ties."
"Later, I finally created the Nine Netherworld Ruthless Technique, but who knew that my heart would be destroyed by demonic obstacles and I would fall into demonic ways. I was sometimes clear-headed and sometimes confused, and I forgot many people and things. Now that I think about it, it really is retribution."
Qi Jun gave a self-deprecating laugh.
Ye Luo listened to his story, unable to calm her emotions for a long time, and didn't know what to say for a moment.
He roughly learned the whole story of what happened afterward. Qi Jun fought for the sake of the common people in the lower realm, and thus perished and his soul was scattered.
Qi Jun's death did not end everything; instead, it exacerbated Jun Yi's suffering, which continues to this day...
Ye Luo's eyes were bloodshot and his lips trembled slightly. He really couldn't imagine how Jun Yi had survived all these years without any inhibitors or soothing pheromones.
He didn't go crazy?
"Thank you."
Ye Luo: "Hmm?"
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