Chu Nian explained, "It's a beast tide!" He thought to himself: How can someone like you see monsters?
Lin Jingting exclaimed in surprise: "A beast tide? There's actually a beast tide..."
Judging from his appearance, his consciousness still seems to belong to a ghost immortal living in that Dharma-ending Age. Because demonic beasts are scarce in the Dharma-ending Age, beast tides naturally do not occur.
Chu Nian suspected that he might have slept with one or even several human civilizations.
She patted Qi Meili on the shoulder and said, "Meili, put me down!"
Qi Meili then carefully put her down.
Lin Jingting said, "You're exhausted."
Chu Nian said helplessly, "You don't need to tell me, everyone knows I'm exhausted."
Lin Jingting: "Is it because of an energy deficit?"
Chu Nian's lips twitched, but she remained silent.
Peng Jian chuckled and said, "She ate something bad and had diarrhea for a long time, leaving her feeling weak and exhausted."
"Diarrhea?" Lin Jingting repeated in a low voice, then released his spiritual power to examine Chu Nian.
Chu Nian suddenly asked him, "Do you know why the beast tide happened?"
Lin Jingting paused for a moment before saying, "When I came here, I only symbolically exerted some pressure."
It really was him! Chu Nian rolled her eyes at him.
Lin Jingting suddenly asked, "Have you seen my Senior Brother Hua?"
Chu Nian was shocked upon hearing this and asked in surprise, "Senior Brother Hua? Which Senior Brother Hua?"
Lin Jingting immediately smiled, her smile as gentle as spring water melting. Everyone present, not just the women, but even the men, were stunned.
“It’s my senior brother Hua Tianling,” Lin Jingting said. He just wanted to test whether the Nian Nian in front of him was the Nian Nian he knew, and sure enough, it was.
He continued, "However, he was reincarnated and his soul is now attached to a ginkgo tree. He may not have the memories of his previous life before reincarnation."
Upon hearing the name "ginkgo tree," Jingyue immediately guessed that he was referring to the male lead, Han Chao. However, although everyone had seen Han Chao twice before, none of them knew he was a ginkgo tree spirit, so she couldn't reveal it at this moment.
Jingyue should now be able to guess that the man who suddenly appeared in front of them, who was even more handsome than Han Chao, was probably a demon like Han Chao.
However, this demon's behavior was strange. It seemed to recognize Wu Nian and kept looking at her while talking.
At this moment, the demon said again, "Although I had to sleep in the environment of ice and fire due to the chaos of energy in my body, I still retained a part of my soul to keep an eye on the outside world. I know that he has already taken human form, and it seems that I met you a while ago."
His words puzzled others, but Jingyue made all sorts of guesses, suspecting that this demon knew that Han Chao and Wu Nian would be a couple in the future, and that he acted like he knew Wu Nian because he was close to Han Chao.
Jingyue had seen the male lead twice, and although she was already stunned by his handsome appearance, she hadn't yet fallen in love. Now, seeing Lin Jingting, who was even more handsome than Han Chao, she naturally felt more favorably towards him.
Her eyes were sparkling when she looked at Lin Jingting!
Sigh, looks are such a thing! Because Chu Nian considers herself a looks-obsessed person who likes pretty girls, she really can't say much about Jing Yue, who is also looks-obsessed.
Chu Nian used her mental power to transmit her voice to Lin Jingting: "Do you know who I am?"
Seeing that she was using telepathy, Lin Jingting also changed her telepathy and said, "My master! Niannian! Hua Nian, is also a wasted effort!"
Chu Nian understood now. It seemed her previous guess was correct; this Lin Jingting was indeed the ghost immortal who had only experienced the time when she was Hua Nian and Bai Nian.
Chu Nian asked again, "How did you come to be a corpse cultivator?"
Lin Jingting's expression immediately turned solemn. He said, "Shortly after you left Bai Nian's body last time, the world suddenly went into chaos. Many of me appeared, as well as Bai Nian, and that... Chen Qingqing. Do you still remember that disgusting woman surnamed Chen?"
Some of them I'm going to marry, some I'm going to devour Bai Nian, and some I've even made some kind of agreement with Li Feibai. Strangely, I don't seem to know about any of these... your existence.
No, that's not right. It's not just that many versions of myself appeared, but also many Bai Nian, many Li Feibai, and even multiple versions of Li Feibai's parents.
How could this be? Chu Nian was horrified and asked telepathically, "When Bai Nian first moved into that apartment building, didn't you also want to devour her soul energy to enhance yourself?"
Lin Jingting: "That's true. If I hadn't discovered the sudden appearance of another person's aura within Bai Nian's body, I would have indeed devoured her soul."
Chu Nian: "The other two of you don't even know I exist? And those Bai Nian, do they not have my aura on them either?"
Lin Jingting: "Yes." She paused, then said, "I know they are not you."
Chu Nian recalled the pen she had seen writing furiously when she passed by the sacred mountain during her time travel...
In the book where the male lead is Hua Tianling, according to the original plot, Lin Jingting should have disappeared at a certain age. Chu Nian now calculates that the time of his disappearance is roughly the same period when she encountered the five-year-old Lin Jingting, who was then killed by the female lead, Wen Ruyan.
However, the plot only mentions him in that sentence; he never actually appeared in that book.
If Chu Nian hadn't traveled back in time, Hua Tianling wouldn't have been seriously injured and crippled, Wen Ruyan wouldn't have gone rolling down the hillside with Ouyang Hao, Lin Jingting wouldn't have witnessed this scene, and naturally, the female lead wouldn't have killed Lin Jingting to silence him.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the ghost immortal Lin Jingting of later generations would not have the memory of "Master Hua Nian".
Chu Niansui then asked, "Have you found out why so many of you suddenly appeared?"
Lin Jingting: "I feel there's no way to investigate. However, I speculate that in addition to the space we live in, there are other dimensions where similar scenarios are taking place, with the same characters, similar stories, and so on."
However, the characters in each alternate dimension will differ in abilities and temperament due to their different experiences. If these alternate dimensions overlap for some reason…
Chu Nian understood and said, "You'll encounter the same kind of person. You've met many versions of yourself, and then what?"
Lin Jingting: "I swallowed them."
Chu Nian: "What?"
Lin Jingting: "They absorbed all their abilities..." He paused, then continued, "Because they had already begun to absorb and devour each other, and later they even set their sights on me."
Chu Nian sighed, realizing she had overthought things back then.
She thought that the child had been influenced by her when he was young, which was why he liked to absorb external energy to improve himself; however, since other Lin Jingtings who had never met her also liked this, it meant that the problem was not with her.
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