When Hua Xiangwan was in the Demon Palace, Xie Changji had already returned to the Hehuan Palace early.

Chasing the Demon Lord across thousands of miles with that sword consumed almost all of his spiritual energy. Although most of the evil energy in Qin Yunyi's final magic circle was killed by him, a part of it still entered his body.

If it was in the past, there would be no problem, but now his Taoism heart is flawed, even this part of evil spirit can easily disturb his mind.

He hurried back to the palace. Most of the people in Hehuan Palace had gone out to fight. Only some disciples were still maintaining the operation of the palace. He hurried back to the room, set up a magic circle, raised his hand and pointed, and the Sword of Heart and Mind hung in front of him.

The lightsaber slashed at his body without hesitation. He closed his eyes and sealed his meridians, but the sword of the heart continued to hunt down the evil spirits in his body.

The lightsaber pierced his veins and tendons. This kind of pain was unbearable for ordinary people. However, his expression remained unchanged. He just chanted the Heart Purification Mantra calmly to prevent the evil spirits from invading his sea of ​​consciousness.

However, despite this, Qin Yunshang's voice kept echoing in his mind: "Shangjun, have you seen the face of the man under the glacier?"

Have you seen it?

Have you seen Shen Yichen's face?

A voice echoed in his mind, urging him: "Go, go and take a look under the glacier."

"Why do they always ask you to go over there?"

"What does Shen Yichen look like?"

"What are you afraid of?"

The surroundings seemed to be empty, and the evil spirit laughed.

"Yes, the Jade Sea Pearl has been taken off. She said she wants to live. She has promised to stay with you and have a child. What are you afraid of?"

The devil was whispering in his ears.

"Oh, because you know she lied to you again. She lied again. She refused to tell you how she got the scar on her chest, and she never told you about her relationship with the Demon Lord."

"She said she wanted to have a future with you, and she was happy that you had someone else in your heart besides her. How is that possible?"

The Sword of Honesty fiercely cut the evil energy apart, but after the evil energy was split into two, it became more and more.

Their voices were everywhere, repeatedly questioning him: "She was abandoned by you in the past, how could she not resent you? How could she be happy because you still have other people and other things in your heart? Just like you - you love her, you want her wholeheartedly, why doesn't she want it?"

"Because she lied to you!"

Another voice answered, and countless voices laughed.

"It's not the first time I've fooled you, so what's the harm in fooling you a few more times?"

"Get out of here!"

Xie Changji suddenly opened his eyes, and golden light burst out from his Dharma body. He raised his hand, grasped the sword, and blasted it fiercely towards the surroundings. The evil spirit dissipated in an instant, and he breathed softly.

Look around vigilantly.

The evil spirit seemed to be driven away by him, but in a moment, a hand suddenly grabbed his collar again.

He lowered his head and saw Wen Shaoqing's face. He grabbed his sleeve and looked up at him.

"Go ahead."

His face was full of sarcasm: "Didn't you say you don't care about the dead? Go and see."

"Go ahead."

Hands stretched out from the ground and pulled him.

Xie Changji looked around silently. He knew that this was not just the evil spirit of the ghost, but also the demon in his heart.

If the inner demons are not eradicated, the obsessions are not eliminated, and the mind of Tao is not stable, these evil spirits will never be completely eradicated.

He gave up meditation, picked up the sword and stood up. The ghost hands on the ground immediately made way for him, and he walked straight forward all the way to the glacier in the backyard.

He saw the frozen river from a distance and vaguely felt that there seemed to be a woman standing there, with her head lowered, gazing tenderly at the ice.

He paused, knowing that he was hallucinating.

Hua Xiangwan should be in the Demon Palace, it is impossible for her to appear here.

The other person seemed to hear his footsteps, raised his head and looked at her quietly.

She looked at him in surprise, with the same expression as when they first met.

Full of shock.

He looked at the phantom silently. Evil spirits would never create hallucinations without reason. It must be guiding something.

He walked to the surface of the river with his sword in hand, came to the side of the woman, and both of them lowered their eyes to look at the person under the thick ice.

Years of ice had obscured his features, and only a silhouette could be seen. He had his hands clasped across his chest, and seemed to be sleeping very peacefully.

"Open it."

The woman next to him spoke softly, Xie Changji turned to look at her, and the woman noticed his gaze and turned her head as well.

"I've been waiting for this for a long time."

"What are you waiting for?"

"I'm waiting for him."

As she spoke, the woman reached out and grasped his sword: "Come, he's right down there."

Xie Changji said nothing, pointing his sword at the ice, which began to crack.

He didn't know why, but he suddenly felt a little nervous. He wanted to retreat, but countless evil demons were looking around him, and the woman next to him was holding his sword tightly.

"If you move back," the woman laughed, "we can follow you."

He can't retreat.

He must destroy all the terrifying things in this world.

Xie Changji exerted a little force, and the tip of the sword broke through the ice bit by bit.

The cracks grew bigger and bigger, and the ice on the face began to break and melt inch by inch.

The evil spirit lingered around him, and countless people poked their heads out from behind him to look at the face that was becoming clearer and clearer under the ice.

His eyebrows, his nose, his lips, his features...

He slept peacefully, and even though he was already asleep, he had a gentleness that was completely different from Xie Changji.

Xie Changji stared blankly at the face under the ice that looked exactly like his own. There was only a thin layer of ice between him and the tip of his sword.

In an instant, countless memories came flooding back, and each hint seemed to have been foreshadowed.

Wen Shaoqing's cry before his death -

"Do you know, who is she working so hard for? Hahahaha, she doesn't love you! She doesn't love me either! You will never get her! You can't get her even if you die for her!"

On the Goddess Mountain, the last words of the Saint of the Goddess Mountain -

"Yusheng, I've figured it out. Yang Su just looks like you, but he is not you after all."

At the banquet in the Demon Palace, the Jade Blood Lord made a seemingly ambiguous provocation—

"Shen Yichen is the only person in this world who belongs exclusively to Hua Xiangwan. He has no stance and no barriers. From beginning to end, from body to heart, he belongs exclusively to Ah Wan."

And Qin Yunyi——

"He will be back soon, and then you should leave."

"A fake is a fake."

…

Xie Changji's hands were shaking slightly. He stared at the person in front of him who looked exactly like him, and began to breathe slightly.

What is a counterfeit?

Who is a fake? Who is a fake of whom?

Jiang Rong regards Yang Su as a substitute for Yu Sheng, because she doesn't dare to love Yu Sheng, so she thinks she loves Yang Su.

What about Hua Xiangwan? Did she love him? She fell in love with him at first sight, clung to him, spent all her efforts on him, and jumped across the boundary of life and death. Was it really for his sake?

The doubt flashed across his mind, and at that moment, the young man who had been sleeping for a hundred years under the glacier suddenly opened his eyes.

The evil spirit instantly screamed and rejoiced, as if it had found a breakthrough, and instantly flooded into his sea of ​​consciousness!

He was unable to react and felt his sea of ​​consciousness being invaded and occupied by black energy in an instant, and countless voices clamoring.

"Hasn't she lied to you enough?"

"If she really likes you, how can she let go so easily? You practiced the Sword of the Heart, and you couldn't forget her for two hundred years, but she could forget you easily. Is this love?"

"There's no such thing as love at first sight. I just fell in love with her face."

No! No!

He shook his head, staggered back a step, and tried to clear his mind.

Shen Yichen is a mermaid. He can freely choose his own appearance and gender. When he met Hua Xiangwan, he was wearing a mask. Is he an adult? Is this face his own or has he changed it?

Wanwan said that she was sincere back then, Wanwan really liked Xie Changji, and she would not lie to him.

The Jade Blood God consumed his spiritual power, and Qin Yunyi sacrificed himself in an attempt to let the evil spirit corrupt him, step by step, in order to let him be swallowed by the evil spirit.

These are all lies, they are a trap set by them, he can't believe it.

He tried hard to control himself and calm himself down, but the laughter around him grew louder and louder, as if mocking his self-deception.

"You want to wait and ask? Then wait. But what if it's true?"

"What if you're really just a fake?"

"You are just a fake. That's why she understood Shen Yichen's feelings after his death and left so calmly. After two hundred years of separation, she doesn't even want to recognize you when we meet again."

"You are just a fake, so no matter what you do, she will not take you to heart, she will not care about you, she will walk on her own way, and never think about looking back. She will not tell you what she does, and she will never give you trust."

"shut up!"

"She said she loved you? She said she lived for you? She took the Jade Sea Pearl for you?"

"She's lying to you! You fool, she just wants to deceive you, help her become the Demon Lord, help her get the Blood Order, so that she can revive Shen Yichen!"

"Shut up!"

"Now that Shen Yichen is back," all the voices laughed, "there will be no need for Xie Changji anymore."

"You gave up the Way of Heaven, gave up the sect, gave up everything. You put everything on her, but she doesn't want you anymore."

"Get out! Get out!"

He couldn't control himself and raised his sword to the side.

However, the evil spirit cannot be completely eliminated and instead grows more and more.

"He's going to come back to life,"

"Kill Shen Yichen," countless evil demons lingered around him, half of their bodies sticking out, and gathered beside him, "and you will get her completely."

After hearing this, Xie Changji was stunned.

The demon lowered his head, whispered in his ear, and seduced him: "Whether he is a fake or genuine, he covets your wife, and that is a sin."

"Doesn't she love you? If she loves you, what does it matter if you killed Shen Yichen?"

The Sword of Honesty rang wildly, and Xie Changji slowly lowered his head and looked at the person under the ice.

The other person had the same face as him across the ice, but his eyes were unusually calm, and he looked at him quietly.

"Kill him!"

Countless evil thoughts entangled him and gradually swallowed him up. Black energy entangled the Sword of Questioning Heart. He suddenly raised the sword and slashed towards the ice!

The sword energy slashed through the ice surface fiercely, and the magic light protecting Shen Yichen suddenly bloomed, colliding with the sword energy, making a deafening sound.

Sensing Hua Xiangwan's aura on Faguang, he became even crazier, and the second sword followed closely!

The ice surface cracked with a rumble, and a startled shout came from behind him: "Eternal Silence!"

As he spoke, the whisk suddenly wrapped around his sword blade. Xie Changji's sword twisted, and Kunxuzi hastily pulled out the whisk and struck at the sword, saying hurriedly, "Changji, stop!"

Xie Changji said nothing. He stared at him with his red eyes and attacked the person who was blocking him like a madman.

It is Kunxuzi.

He recognized it, but for some reason, he couldn't stop. There was only one thing in his mind and eyes.

Kill him, kill Shen Yichen.

Damn him for having a face like his!

His sword was extremely fast, and black energy filled his surroundings. Even though he had just been in a fierce battle and his spiritual power was almost exhausted, he was still suppressing Kunxuzi with his sword intent.

Kunxuzi looked in shock at the young man in front of him who looked like a mad beast. He was terrified and realized that this was the last moment of his possession.

Although he didn't know what he was going to do now, he understood that once this was done, Xie Changji would be completely ruined.

He tried his best to stop Xie Changji from moving forward. The ice around him broke into pieces. The disciples of Hehuan Palace hurried over, but they did not dare to step forward as the monks who were undergoing tribulation were fighting.

Huge pieces of ice blasted into the water, but mysterious spiritual power came from all directions and poured into the person underwater.

The light bloomed softly on the other person's body, lifting him up slowly from the water.

Seeing that person coming out of the water, Xie Changji moved faster and shouted at Kunxuzi who was blocking him: "Get out of the way!"

Kunxuzi noticed something strange and was filled with doubt. He turned around subconsciously, and was stunned when he saw the face of the person emerging from the water.

In that moment of hesitation, Xie Changji's sword energy suddenly blasted him away, then he jumped up, raised his sword and chopped towards Shen Yichen!

The sleeping person did not move, only the mermaid's singing echoed around. Seeing that Xie Changji's long sword was about to reach Shen Yichen's head, the Dharma light suddenly exploded in front of Shen Yichen. Xie Changji's pupils contracted and he quickly retreated, but was still hit in the abdomen by the Dharma light and was blown away.

The ice surface instantly refreezed, and Hua Xiangwan's figure appeared in front of Shen Yichen. Xie Changji spat out a mouthful of blood, raised his sword and inserted it into the ice surface. The sword left a long mark on the ice surface due to the impact, and finally stopped with difficulty.

He held a sword in one hand and knelt on one knee on the ice. The blood at the corner of his lips was still wet, his eyes were bloodshot, and a black aura lingered around him.

Hua Xiangwan was stunned by the scene before her. She stared blankly at Xie Changji who was staring at her, and was a little at a loss for a moment.

Xie Changji looked at the person in front of him. He saw her standing in front of Shen Yichen. The other person was surrounded by white light and was as holy as a god.

He seemed to be back in his youth, when he could only follow behind them and watch them walk away from afar.

No—more than that.

Before his eyes was the Jade Sea Pearl swaying between the beds, the two hundred years when she stood on the ice and whispered to him, the past that he could not see, and the future that he could not own.

Based on what?

Why do you say you love him but hurt him in front of another person?

"Get out of the way."

He gripped the sword tightly, stared at Hua Xiangwan, and hissed.

At this moment, a bright light suddenly appeared behind Hua Xiangwan. Hua Xiangwan turned around subconsciously and saw the person floating in the air behind him, who slowly opened his eyes.

His eyes were the same as they were back then, gentle and bright, like the surface of a lake under an autumn moon, reflecting her surprised face, with an inexplicably attractive depth that made people unable to look away.

He looked at her and slowly extended his hand towards her.

Panic suddenly surged into Xie Changji's heart, and he rushed forward like a madman.

He couldn't let him take her away.

He couldn't keep him alive.

This sword used all his strength to chop fiercely towards Hua Xiangwan and Shen Yichen.

Seeing this, Kunxuzi hurriedly raised his hands to form seals, and Kunxuzi's magic circle and Hua Xiangwan's magic circle lit up at the same time. Hua Xiangwan blocked his sword energy behind him, and the light vines that grew out of Kunxuzi's magic circle grabbed him tightly and dragged him backwards.

He watched in the magic circle as Shen Yichen gently placed his hand on Hua Xiangwan's head.

"Ah Wan," Shen Yichen said softly, "I'm back."

For a moment, he could hear nothing and see nothing, as if he had returned to the two hundred years when he was alone in the world of life and death.

Snow and blood became the only colors, cold and pain became the only sensations.

Fear overwhelmed him completely. He struggled with all his might and rushed towards Hua Xiangwan, screaming: "Hua Xiangwan!!!"