The person holding the bird suddenly sat down on the wooden couch.
Rong Yu placed him back on the bedside table. Suddenly losing the warmth of the embrace, Geng Qi looked up uneasily, then immediately looked down when Rong Yu looked over.
The man ignored his attempt to escape and instead took out a thumb ring from his storage artifact, placing it in front of him.
It was an ordinary-looking thumb ring, gleaming with a translucent light, lying quietly in his palm.
Geng Qi's heart tightened.
Rong Yu said in a low voice, "You're always lost in thought, and I never know what you're thinking. I never imagined that you would have something I didn't know about."
"..." No, he didn't.
“You are not of this world. I once wondered if you chose to destroy the array’s core with your own body because you were tired of this place and wanted to go back to your own world.”
This ring gave him too much information, things he had never seen before and could not understand.
Geng Qi arrived here inexplicably; his fate here may not necessarily be what he faces.
Perhaps if he ends here, he can return to where he came from!
"I didn't think that at all!" Geng Qi, feeling anxious, instantly transformed into human form and said urgently, "Even if I could leave this world without paying a price, I would absolutely not..."
Just as I was about to raise my finger to swear, my wrist was suddenly pressed down, and a familiar warmth covered my lips.
After kissing for a moment, Rong Yu said, "It's okay."
He hugged him tightly, burying his face in his neck: "It's okay, as long as you're still here, as long as you're still here, I'll find you someday."
Even if he escapes to another world, he will not let him go!
Geng Qi didn't know what he didn't say, but felt a pang of sadness in his heart. He put his arms around Geng Qi's back and gently stroked his back like he was comforting a child.
He really didn't want to leave.
They were trapped in the Heaven-Slaying Rebirth Array. For every person who died, the array would become stronger, creating a vicious cycle that would eventually kill everyone in the array.
The system told him that he could destroy the array's core by self-destructing his divine soul.
His life was his life, and the lives of everyone in the formation.
Despite the fear and reluctance, the choice had to be made.
He can be indifferent to those who are unrelated to him, but he can't help but be indifferent to the people around him.
He had no attachments in his original world, but he had many attachments and too many things he couldn't let go of in this world. How could he possibly choose to die just to go back to his original world?
When he rushed into the center of the formation, his mind was blank. When his consciousness returned, he was already on this wooden bed.
However, he remembered everything that happened after the self-destruction.
The phoenix rising from the ashes—it's beautiful and impressive!
Does it hurt?
The warm breath near his ear made Geng Qi recall for a moment, and he trembled involuntarily, whispering, "It hurts."
How can it not hurt?
The body was torn apart, and the soul was scattered.
He went through pain so intense it numbed him, and then pain brought him back to his senses. Having experienced that kind of suffering, if he were to go back to that time and make the choice again, he might not be so decisive.
Rong Yu looked up and gazed down at his even more radiant face after his rebirth. Geng Qi also stared at him. Because they were so close, their hearts were pounding like drums. Although it wasn't the first time they had looked at each other like this, they were both somewhat at a loss.
Perhaps it is because they have experienced life and death separations that their reunion is so touching.
"By the way," Geng Qi swallowed, changing the subject, "how did you manage to access the information in the system?"
"system?"
"It's the ring on your hand."
Rong Yu raised his hand, and the ring he was holding seemed to be trembling.
Seeing the system interface that appeared automatically without him having to wear it, Geng Qi was stunned for a moment. He glanced at Rong Yu and saw that he was also staring at the system interface that had suddenly appeared, so he knew that he could see it too.
A line of text appeared above: Phoenix Nirvana, being put in a life-or-death situation, one cannot be reborn from the ashes without the determination to die.
"..."
"..."
So he was tricked by the system?
After displaying this message, the system retreated back into the ring, and Geng Qi put it on his thumb and didn't come out again.
After a moment of silence, Geng Qi said, "Trash system."
Rong Yu: "..."
After a long silence in the wooden house, Geng Qi spoke up with an ambiguous tone: "Tell me, what can cultivators do after they ascend to immortality?"
Rong Yu had already lay down on his side and was holding him: "What are you doubting?"
Geng Qi said, "When the system first appeared, its ultimate mission was for me to live. Everything it guided me to do was also to save my life. This Nirvana is the same."
Knowing that the phoenix would be reborn from the ashes, he made him self-destruct!
Do you think your father is helping you?
“It’s not just that,” Geng Qi said. “It’s not just Father, but also the original Phoenix; she might still be alive.”
Rong Yu remained silent.
Geng Qi suddenly summoned Feng Yuan and released his divine soul, a golden divine soul that condensed into the shadow of his true form: "I have always wondered, when cultivators cultivate, they temper their bodies and refine their souls. No matter how powerful their divine soul becomes, they only have one divine soul. If that phoenix spirit was originally my divine soul, how did I come to have a complete divine soul when I was so sleepy before?"
Rong Yu stared intently, understanding the meaning behind his words.
If the soul was not his original self, but rather created by someone, then that would also make sense.
When a phoenix gives birth, the mother will perish between heaven and earth when the next phoenix is born, and the phoenix's spirit will merge into the newborn's body, becoming a part of him.
Moreover, the phoenix is a divine beast of heaven and earth, and each new generation inherits the memories of the previous generation. However, Geng Qi did not inherit any of these. Furthermore, the phoenix spirit was separated from his body and scattered across the Xuanling Continent on Mount Kaopan due to Fu Sheng's self-destruction.
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