Li Mu's soul completely gave up resistance and allowed itself to fall toward the bottom of the endless darkness.
His consciousness was growing weaker and weaker, and he could see that the endless darkness was about to bury his soul completely.
Suddenly, a figure swooped down rapidly from the barely visible light exit above.
In just a blink of an eye, the figure appeared in front of Li Mu's soul.
"Li Mu, wake up!" the person called softly.
This voice seemed to have magical power. When Li Mu heard the call, his mind regained a bit of clarity. He opened his eyes with difficulty and saw the somewhat blurry figure in front of him.
She was a beautiful woman. Although her face was blurry, Li Mu could feel the familiar aura emanating from her.
"It's you..." Li Mu said in disbelief, "Ji Gulan!"
Ji Gulan was one of the first cultivators who cut off his own roots and re-attained enlightenment in Lingxiao Jianmu. He was also the last cultivator in the higher-dimensional universe that Li Mu saw before he left Lingxiao Universe.
However, Li Mu had already sent Ji Gulan to the Lingxiao Palace headquarters before leaving the Lingxiao Universe. How could she appear here at this time?
This is the deep space of the sky, at least 10 light years away from the Lingxiao Universe! Ji Gulan is just a 7th-level cultivator of the Hongmeng Ancestor, how could he leave the Lingxiao Universe and run so far away on his own?
Moreover, this place is deep in Li Mu's soul and will. How did Ji Gulan invade?
Just as Li Mu was lost in his thoughts, Ji Gulan gently held Li Mu's hand. Her voice was full of tenderness and concern: "Li Mu, you can't just give up like this. You still have a lot of unfinished things, and there are still many people who need you to protect."
"This is all fate. We are two of the same body. Since I have already lost, I have to accept my fate. Besides, my life has no meaning. Even if I win, I am just a puppet carefully trained by him." Li Mu smiled bitterly.
"No, you are wrong." Ji Gulan said in a deep voice, "You said that your life is meaningless and it is an illusion arranged by Tianyi, but what about your sorrows and joys? What about your parents? And what about Yunqing, Yunxi and Yunjin? Are they also illusions? Don't they have any meaning to you?"
"You..." Li Mu's soul trembled violently when he heard the words.
He could understand what Ji Gulan said before, but when he said "Yunjin", he was completely awakened. A crazy guess quietly appeared in his mind.
"What about me? Am I meaningless too?" Ji Gulan said tenderly.
"Are you Ruolan?" Li Mu said in a trembling voice.
"It's me. Just like Jiang Yuer 10 trillion years ago, we are both transformed from a trace of Yin Ruolan's soul, just to provide you with guidance at these two key nodes. Before the node is triggered, I am Ji Gulan and she is Jiang Yuer. When the node arrives, our souls will regain their original consciousness." Ji Gulan said softly.
"Two nodes..." Li Mu murmured.
Yes, ten trillion years ago, when he completed his first journey of transforming into a hundred trillion clones to walk the world, according to his original plan, he was going to restore the consciousness of the last clone named "Chen Rui" and let him return to his original body. Although he felt a little reluctant at the time, he still planned to proceed according to the established plan. However, Jiang Yuer came out to stop him at the last moment and claimed that that path was wrong.
Because Jiang Yuer's appearance was too abrupt, and she also vaguely revealed that she was Yin Ruolan, and her words and deeds made Li Mu feel familiar, he chose to believe Jiang Yuer at that time, follow his own heart, and choose to cut off the relationship with Chen Rui and let her become independent.
In the end, it was proved that his choice was not wrong. At least he was able to improve his cultivation by following this method. Finally, after experiencing hundreds of rounds of clone training, he improved his cultivation to the peak of the 9th level of Hongmeng Ancestor.
And now, just when his Taoist heart collapsed and his body was about to be assimilated by Tianyi, Ji Gulan pulled back his consciousness when it was about to be buried by darkness.
Obviously, these are the "two key nodes" mentioned by Ji Gulan.
In fact, Li Mu had discovered that something was not right with Ji Gulan and Jiang Yuer a long time ago. When he recruited so many people in the Qiongzu Universe and asked those enlightened monks to attain enlightenment again in Lingxiao Jianmu, they all resisted strongly. Even if some of them obeyed on the surface out of formality, they were very resistant in their hearts.
Only Ji Gulan and Jiang Yuer were very cooperative, and even seemed to be impatient.
Li Mu didn't think much about it at the time. After all, he had recruited at least trillions of accomplished monks in the Qiongzu Universe, so it was natural to make two exceptions.
Now that I think about it, the biggest anomaly is that there are only two exceptions among trillions of cultivators, but if it is linked to Yin Ruolan, everything makes sense.
Li Mu found that the higher his cultivation level was, the more mysterious Yin Ruolan felt to him. Li Mu even suspected that Yin Ruolan's cultivation level might have surpassed that of the ancestor of Hongmeng, and that she had reached the level of the Supreme Creation.
Suddenly, Li Mu realized that something was wrong.
Ji Gulan said that she and Jiang Yuer were two strands of Yin Ruolan's soul, and were specially arranged to resolve Li Mu's two critical crises.
If this is the case, how could Yin Ruolan know these two so-called "nodes" in advance? How could she plan ahead?
Seeing Li Mu's puzzled and shocked expression, Ji Gulan was not surprised. She seemed to have seen through Li Mu's doubts and said with a naughty smile: "Now, do you still feel that your life is under Tianyi's control? Tianyi doesn't have a Taoist partner as powerful as me."
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