Qi Nuan wanted to ask, if that's the case, then why ask her who she wants to live?
Aren't they all the same? But she didn't say it aloud. In fact, she vaguely sensed the difference between the two, and Gu Yucheng naturally knew it too. The two of them understood each other without saying a word.
She closed her eyes to avoid looking at the two people engaged in fierce combat high in the sky. To her, they were the same, and she knew she had no right to interfere with their decisions, and even if she did, the outcome wouldn't be much better.
On the contrary, she wasn't sure if whatever the outcome, it would be what she wanted.
A very long time seemed to have passed, but in reality, it wasn't that long; it was just Qi Nuan's illusion.
They were one, and they knew each other's weaknesses all too well.
A flash of white light appeared, and the two of them fell from the sky.
Jiang Yu in white had a cold and stern expression, while Jiang Yu in black laughed ostentatiously.
"You let the water go."
After saying that, his expression turned cold. "Since you've softened your heart, why fight again?"
No sooner had he finished speaking than he teleported to Jiang Yu's side like lightning, grabbing Jiang Yu's neck tightly with one hand.
His eyes were cold.
"Ah Yu!"
In a moment of desperation, Qi Nuan called out urgently, and the two men turned around at the same time, their eyes fixed on her.
She was slightly taken aback. She didn't know who she was calling or what she wanted to do with him; it was just instinct that drove her to do it.
"Ah..."
Just as she opened her mouth to say something, her eyes suddenly widened.
“Ayu…”
She screamed and ran towards them, but it was too late. The white-clad Jiang Yu had completely disappeared, or rather, had been devoured by the black-clad Jiang Yu—not merged with, but devoured.
It was his own choice. She watched as he turned back and smiled at her before turning into a wisp of smoke and disappearing into the figure of Jiang Yu in black.
She only caught a gust of breeze.
She stared blankly at her empty palm.
An indescribable melancholy welled up in her heart, even though her Ah Yu was still by her side.
Jiang Yu hugged her tightly. "It's alright. I am him, and he is me. I will always be with you."
Ye Sheng was bewildered by the scene before her and could only look at Gu Yucheng beside her. Gu Yucheng finally seemed relieved and silently took Ye Sheng's hand.
I was unsure whether I felt more scared or relieved.
With this matter settled, they continued their journey toward the Mirror of Void. The trip was exceptionally smooth, and they encountered no further trouble.
Until Qi Nuan and the others felt everything go black, and when they opened their eyes again, they were already in complete darkness.
Strangely, even in the dark, they could clearly see each other's figures.
"This is the Realm of Void."
Qi Nuan and Ye Sheng looked toward the source of the sound and saw Jiang Yu and Gu Yucheng slowly approaching from the void.
"The void, as its name suggests, contains nothing, or rather, only darkness, endless darkness..."
They walked and talked, and then Jiang Yu approached them and walked past them to walk behind them.
Only then did they notice a towering ancient tree standing silently behind them. Its black branches climbed upwards, and its bare branches, devoid of leaves, stretched out in all directions, as if they contained boundless vitality.
Everything seemed so strange, yet somehow perfectly logical.
Jiang Yu waved.
A gap opened in the black tree trunk.
The group walked inside.
"This is?"
Ye Sheng was astonished. She looked at Jiang Yu and then at the corpse lying in the heart of the tree.
It looked exactly like Jiang Yu, and even the clothes they wore were the same—the same black robes embroidered with the same gold stripes, without a single difference.
So is this also an avatar of Xihe, the God of War? Or is it his true form?
However, Gu Yucheng's words quickly refuted her conjecture.
The void was the place where the gods fell, and this corpse is the remains of the gods. Legend has it that eating the flesh and blood of the gods can grant immortality, but the gods no longer exist in the world.
The remains of the gods became the only hope for mortals to become gods.
Perhaps this is the lie that one can attain immortality by breaking through the void.
What Jiang Yu and his group were guarding was not the void, but the remains of the gods, and the void was slowly evolved and created from these corpses.
"Then why is Jiang Yu's skeleton exactly the same as the remains of the gods?"
Gu Yucheng glanced at Jiang Yu.
Of course, Jiang Yu is no longer human, or rather, Xihe Shenjun is no longer human.
As the saying goes, "Even a centipede with a hundred legs does not fall down when it dies." How much more so for gods. When all the gods die, their bones pile up together, and the remaining divine power and the evil aura of the corpses slowly accumulate, and a new will begins to emerge, thus the void is born.
In order to suppress the spread of the Corpse Fiend.
The remaining will of the gods gathered all their power and fused the bones into one.
And it extracted the newborn will from it.
This is Jiang Yu, or rather, the true form of Xihe, the Divine Lord.
During the extraction process, they sealed all of Xihe God's negative emotions and evil thoughts into this body, leaving behind Xihe God as a guardian with the purest and highest divine power, devoid of emotion.
What he had to protect was his own body, and the rules that the gods had set for him.
However, everything comes from nothing. Once there is something, all things can be created. With the passage of time, the purest Xihe God learned many things and felt all things in the world, which is how she became the Xihe God she is today.
The more he senses and the more emotions he possesses, the more malevolent energy accumulates within the sealed body, and the larger the void becomes.
That is precisely why Jiang Yu is both the greatest guarantee and the greatest hidden danger.
Thus, Gu Yucheng was born in the world, serving as both the guardian of Xihe God and his future successor.
They have existed in the void for countless years.
So long that they began to tire of everything about being here.
As for the so-called main god behind the system that Qi Nuan and the others claimed, he was just a demonic cultivator who somehow knew about the existence of the Void Realm and was delusional about collecting the energy of the small world by relying on them as hosts.
Finally, he broke through the void to take the bones of the gods, thinking that he could become a god in this way.
Jiang Yu and Gu Yucheng didn't mind playing with it, after all, such a long period of time was really boring.
However, now, Gu Yucheng looked at Xihe, the God of Gods, who had completely regained his seven emotions and six desires.
He felt that his mission should come to an end.
only……
He didn't know if Xihe Shenjun could control this body.
After hearing his words, Ye Sheng smiled bitterly. So all they had been pursuing all along was a lie?
Suddenly, she stared intently at the body inside the tree, wondering if attaining enlightenment would truly grant immortality or make one a god.
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