Chapter 487 Finale

The moment Mingnan was burned by the flames and perished together with the fake Heavenly Dao, the severe pain made him lose consciousness briefly.

When she woke up again, she had returned to the system space.

Before she could recover from the shock, a glowing ball flew straight into her arms, and she started crying.

[I'm scared to death, host, wuwuwuwu——]

[I almost thought I would never see you again...]

[The fire is so strong, it must hurt you! ]

Mingnan held the ball helplessly and said, "Alright, alright, I'm fine, right? Stop crying, it really doesn't hurt, it's just the past repeating itself."

205: [I don’t believe it…]

Mingnan had no idea what to do with it. The shock just now was too great. She was still a little dazed and had no mind to comfort it. She could only hold it and let it vent, and let it go when it was tired of crying.

Fortunately, 205 still had some sense, and curiosity got the better of him.

It withdrew from Mingnan's arms, and hung in the air, flashing. [Host, what's the matter with that fake Heavenly Dao? What do you mean by saying that your master wouldn't have died if it weren't for it? Why don't I understand a word you say?]

Mingnan sat cross-legged on the ground and did not answer immediately. Instead, he touched his sleeve.

But she is a spirit now, without sleeves, and the Samsara Mirror is naturally gone too.

She let out a long breath silently and smiled in a casual manner, "Let's continue from the last time."

205 immediately fell in front of her obediently, "Okay, I'm all ears. 】

Mingnan sorted out his memories and spoke slowly:

"In my previous life, after I saw the miserable state of the mortal world at the Guanyun Terrace, I wanted to ask the Emperor of Heaven for help, but I gave up the idea when I remembered his so-called theory of the supremacy of heaven. I turned back and wanted to solve the problem from the source, so I flew to the sky to investigate and found the hole."

Just like in this life, she discovered the faint light after entering the black hole.

At first she didn't know that it was the way of heaven, she just felt confused, why was there such a strange thing behind the sky?

But when she got closer, she found something.

Several pure forces floated in from outside the cave and merged into the ball of light.

She smelled the breath of human beings from those powers.

She reached out to touch it, and saw a small memory of that person's life.

At that moment she suddenly realized that this was a power refined from human souls.

After a person dies, his soul is supposed to enter reincarnation, but it is abruptly cut off and sent here.

She felt something was wrong, so she tried to block these forces.

Then the ball of light spoke, saying that it was the Way of Heaven and that harming it would backfire on oneself, and asked her not to forget her identity.

It was in that split second that Mingnan figured everything out.

She pretended to believe it and asked a few more questions, which completely verified her guess.

Why has Heaven, the source of all things, become so cold and indifferent, even attempting to destroy all things?

Why are gods not allowed to intervene in mortal disasters?

Why has no one achieved immortality through cultivation in all these years?

All the clues put together point to one possibility - the way of heaven has been controlled.

After guessing the truth, she observed for a while and found that the fake Tiandao could not move, so she took immediate action to attack it.

During the fight, she keenly noticed that the fake Tiandao was in a weak period. She estimated that he had just fought with the real Tiandao, so he was exposed. The hole was left during the fight.

However weak she is, with her current level of cultivation, she cannot completely destroy the false Heavenly Dao.

Just as she was hesitating, the fake Heavenly Dao, like this world, transformed into the phantoms of Yuan Ying and the other two, which completely angered Mingnan.

The subsequent developments were the same as today. Mingnan extracted his bones to refine the axe, split the sky and shattered the delusion, and died together with the false heaven.

That is, at the moment she rushed towards the fake Tiandao, she saw Tiandao's memory and knew the whole truth.

…

When heaven and earth were first separated, Qiankun, good and evil, existed side by side, each distinct and following its own path, maintaining a delicate balance.

However, at some point, the evil side of the Heavenly Dao gave birth to a spirit that wanted to swallow up the entire Heavenly Dao and completely control the world.

But the power of good and evil is equal, and even if it has consciousness, it is difficult to completely suppress the good side, so for a long time, both sides have been fighting for control.

Whenever a natural disaster occurs in the human world, the evil side will take the opportunity to absorb people's souls and resentment to nourish itself. Gradually, it has the upper hand more often, and the good side is at a disadvantage. The entire heavenly palace is subtly influenced by it and becomes increasingly indifferent.

But this alone is not enough to stabilize the position of the false heavenly way.

It first severed the connection between heaven and the human world, so that people could only ascend but not return, and all new gods and immortals would be controlled and bewitched by it.

Over time, their feelings and memories of the human world became increasingly vague. They only remembered their identities as immortals and believed only in the false way of heaven.

In this way, the power of the false Heavenly Dao continued to grow, suppressing the true Heavenly Dao and making it unable to recover.

But it is not satisfied and reaches out to the human world.

It brought heavy rains in March, causing floods and drowning countless people and animals.

According to the original plan, if half of the people were drowned, the power of those souls would allow it to completely devour the True Heavenly Dao.

But a God King happened to appear halfway and destroyed its plan, resulting in it absorbing less than one tenth of the power.

In a rage, it sent down punishment from heaven to kill the man, but it was still not satisfied and did not stop until he was struck to pieces with his soul.

The people were grateful for the kindness of the God and built many temples on earth to offer incense to him. The power of goodwill and faith helped the declining True Heavenly Dao to revive.

As God was too busy taking care of himself, the world was at peace for quite some time.

But soon it returned and opened up the source of the Heavenly River and the Earthly Water, which was the lake that Mingnan and his friends saw in the secret realm in the Far East.

It was truly an unprecedented catastrophe.

The water from the sky and the underground mixed together and continuously poured into the human world, leaving no one alive wherever it passed.

The fake Tiandao learned from the last lesson and brought a magic dragon to stir up trouble.

But despite all its calculations, it had overlooked human hearts.

It didn't expect that mortals were much braver and more united than it imagined.

At that time all the immortal cultivation sects stood up and collectively rushed to the Far East. Using the essence and blood of several powerful men as a guide, they drew a sealing formation, then captured the magic dragon, used it as the eye of the formation, and extracted its and the powerful men's cultivation to supply the formation's operation, and only then did they manage to stop the water.

The True Heavenly Dao wanted to take the opportunity to select a few people with sufficient merits to ascend, but was stopped by the False Heavenly Dao.

The two sides were tug-of-war, and the fake Heavenly Dao was unable to cope with the situation. The world once again welcomed a thousand years of peace.

Later, the fake Tiandao came up with many vicious schemes one after another, but they were half successful and half failed.

It was never able to completely devour the True Heavenly Dao.

In a fit of rage, the Fake Heavenly Dao completely cut off the path for mortals to ascend to heaven, and even drew away half of the spiritual energy, intending to weaken the power of the human world.

This went on until the array's power was exhausted and the dragon gradually revived. It secretly gave the dragon an order to release the water to destroy the world, and it would give it freedom.

But it didn't expect that another group of brave and fearless people would sacrifice themselves for the greater good.

If the dragon caused trouble, they would die with it. Without any warning, Mingnan cut out his own heart and filled it with blood, and sucked the flood back.

The death of the magic dragon had a significant impact on the false heaven.

The True Heavenly Dao once again gained the upper hand. It took the opportunity to open the passage and seized the moment to make Mingnan an immortal when she was only taking her last breath.

So Mingnan became the only variable in these ten thousand years.

The real Tiandao deliberately broke the sky curtain to lure her over, and then entangled the fake Tiandao, making it unable to escape, which gave Mingnan the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

At this point, the false Heavenly Dao was completely destroyed, and the true Heavenly Dao regained control.

…

After saying this, Mingnan let out a long sigh, feeling mixed emotions in his heart.

The whole story was clear to 205, who suddenly understood and was quite shocked.

[This game lasted for tens of thousands of years, costing several generations of lives, and finally ushered in the final victory. It was not easy, too difficult. If one generation had given up during this period, the result would not be what it is today. ]

Mingnan shook his head. "No."

205 was stunned: [Ah? Why? ]

Mingnan looked at his hands and smiled softly, "Because someone will always stand up."

Even if someone retreats, there will always be new people to take their place.

At the moment of life and death, people are always the most united and fearless.

205Thinking, [Yes. ]

Mingnan paused for a moment, then stood up and walked towards the screen in the space.

"In fact, I am more curious about what happens after I die. How do I leave this world and go to a completely strange place?"

205: [Ah? Host, don’t you know it yourself? ]

Mingnan shook his head. "I don't know. When I first met you, I didn't remember anything, or -"

She paused, turned her head to look at it, and said awkwardly, "You already know everything."

205 Youyou said: [Yes, you really deceived me so badly. ]

Mingnan smiled awkwardly, "I didn't mean to do that. My soul had just been put together at that time, and I didn't remember anything. It was only after I bound you that I slowly remembered."

[Hmph.] 205 snorted coldly, [For the sake of our friendship, I'll reluctantly forgive you. No——]

It suddenly fell silent.

Mingnan raised his hand and waved it in front of it. "Nothing? Short circuit?"

205 jumped, rushed to the screen and said: [Host, look! There's someone!]

Mingnan thought to himself, what's so good about it? But he took a quick glance and was stunned for a moment.

A huge red lotus appeared on the screen, the lotus blossoming. A barefoot person in a red robe, so beautiful that it was difficult to tell whether she was male or female, was standing on the lotus throne with her eyes closed.

Mingnan's breath stopped, and a familiar feeling coming from the depths of her soul made her tremble.

He is... Yanshan?

At the same time, Yan Shan slowly opened his eyes and opened his palm, inside which lay a glittering fragment.

205: [That can’t be your remaining soul, right? ]

Mingnan stared at it intently and said harshly, "Yes."

At this moment, she vaguely knew what was going on.

Sure enough, the next moment, Yan Shan took out a drop of blood from his forehead and dripped it into her soul.

After the two were united, Yan Shan closed his eyes and whispered an ancient and obscure spell. As he finished speaking, thunder was heard from the sky, indicating that the oath had been fulfilled.

Then a red mark appeared between his eyebrows, exactly the same as the one they had seen in the mermaid world before.

Mingnan suddenly realized that they had made a soul contract so long ago.

Yanshan opened his eyes again, tore through the void, and flew out of this world.

The picture suddenly changed and turned into the vast universe of time and space.

205: [Isn’t this the three thousand small worlds we traveled through?!]

Mingnan's eyes trembled as he watched Yanshan use the Samsara Mirror to continuously travel through the Three Thousand Worlds, collecting her soul piece by piece.

After repeating this countless times, I finally gathered them all.

He held the broken pieces in his hands and patiently used his own blood to stitch them together bit by bit.

The speed of time in the space-time universe is different from that in the outside world. Mingnan could not estimate how long it took him to repair her soul.

All I saw was his solid body gradually becoming transparent, and then turning into a phantom that would dissipate with the wind.

Finally, the last bit was completed.

Her dark and mottled soul was covered with tiny red marks.

Looks gorgeous and weird.

Yan Shan pulled his lips bitterly, hugged her soul and leaned over to kiss her, muttering, "I'm sorry, I'm late."

When Mingnan ascended, he was also illuminated by the rosy glow. His cultivation level increased greatly, and he spontaneously closed himself off to digest the energy.

He had no idea what was happening in the outside world.

By the time he completely refined those powers and cultivated a physical body, Mingnan had already died.

In a hurry, he only captured a fragment of soul.

Thinking of this, he said with a lingering fear: "Fortunately, I didn't lose you."

After saying this, he counted with his fingers and found a glimmer of hope, so he held her up and walked towards one of the worlds with determination.

But his body had already been worn out to the limit from repeated time travel.

Halfway through the journey, he couldn't hold on any longer and fell down. Before he disappeared, he used the last bit of his divine power to send Mingnan to his destination.

At this point, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, smiled with relief, and murmured, "Wait for me..."

Afterwards, he shattered into countless red lotus petals and disappeared into the vast void, and the Samsara Mirror was also lost.

…

Mingnan was stunned for a long time, and his nose suddenly felt sore.

"so it is."

She murmured, "I should have thought of it earlier."

Her meeting with 205 was never a coincidence, but a chance of life that he had worked so hard to get for her.

205 was also shocked and speechless for a long time.

When the flying petals had all dispersed, it suddenly came to its senses, and its first reaction was: [So, he is the big liar?!]

Mingnan burst into laughter, and as he laughed he felt relieved.

She let out a long sigh and sighed:

"I never got to see him until I died in my previous life."

“So this is what he looks like.”

She touched her forehead, and the mark was slightly hot. "As expected, everything in this world cannot escape the word cause and effect."

When they first met, she helped him overcome the disaster because of...

Later, he replenished her soul, and it turned out to be a result.

No matter human or god, life and death are predetermined. If you go against the will of heaven, you will definitely have to pay a price. Yanshan saved her by exchanging his life for hers. When her soul was gathered together, his soul would be scattered.

But they have a soul contract. As long as one of them is alive, the other will not be completely dead, and the bond between them will always be there.

Therefore, Mingnan's vitality is also his vitality.

Mingnan bound to system 205 and began his journey through time and space.

The most matching routes calculated by the system are the result of the mutual attraction between the two people's souls.

So no matter where Mingnan goes, he is bound to meet Yanshan.

The same red mole on their fingertips was the knot left by Yan Shan with his blood, engraved on their souls, forever indelible, and later became the clue for them to recognize each other.

The so-called mind-reading technique was not something Yanshan did intentionally. It was just a wonderful accident caused by the passage through the magnetic field and data disorder.

Later, following the guidance of fate, they came to the mermaid world and found the lost reincarnation mirror. The old events were repeated and Mingnan successfully recovered his previous memories, solving years of confusion.

Fate is like a circle. They go from the beginning to the end and return to the starting point.

But what about the person who has always been by her side?

As soon as the thought came to his mind, Mingnan felt a strong push from behind.

She was pushed and staggered without any preparation, and she vaguely saw something passing through her.

When she came back to her senses, she was standing in the space-time universe.

205 wondered in her mind: [Hey? What's going on? ]

Mingnan thought for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Do you still remember the ending of the mermaid world?"

205: [Ah?]

"After the mermaid world ended, Yanshan and I entered the Samsara Mirror together."

205 suddenly realized, "Oh! So everything before was a world in the mirror, and you just walked out of the mirror!"

Since they went in together, then her coming out doesn't that mean——

"Mingnan."

In an instant, a familiar yet unfamiliar voice with a faint smile sounded behind Mingnan.

This belated call, across countless mountains and seas and time, struck her heart once again.

Mingnan turned around suddenly and saw the red figure standing quietly behind her, as if it had never left.

When their eyes met, he slowly opened his arms and smiled: "I'm back."

The real person was right before his eyes, but Mingnan was afraid that the meeting was just a dream, so he did not dare to go forward.

She asked softly, "Yanshan?"

"I am here."

Yan Shan's smile deepened, his eyes filled with love.

Mingnan immediately threw away all his concerns and ran towards him.

Yanshan walked forward quickly and caught the person steadily.

Feeling the familiar temperature and the real heartbeat, Mingnan held his face and kissed him without saying anything.

Yanshan smiled and responded enthusiastically.

They had waited for this kiss for so long.

So long that it spans the first meeting and the reunion, the past and the present.

But fortunately, they still have countless bright and brilliant futures to embrace.

Until the seas run dry and the rocks crumble, and the earth ends.

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