Is This Star Radiance Stone? This Is a Knife!
At this moment, Hua Xichen was engulfed in flames... Although he looked only ten years old, he possessed all his power.
"Little Hua... I think I know why you lost the Great Prophecy Art..."
Chu Xinghe has now retrieved his Haotian Sword Casket, because he has done all he could to help, and the rest of the journey should be left to Hua Xichen to walk on his own.
When Hua Xichen was ten years old, he received the help of Great Prophecy Art and escaped with his mother. After that, he returned to the Hua Clan and became the young master of the Hua Clan.
Everyone says that Hua Xichen's path is one of triumph against all odds, but Chu Xinghe doesn't see it that way.
Rather than saying that Hua Xichen is on a path of reversal, it would be more accurate to say that the Great Prophecy Art is on a path of reversal.
Did Hua Xichen's achievements truly stem from his own efforts?
No... it's all due to the Great Prophecy Art. That's why Chu Xinghe said that Hua Xichen started running away when he was ten years old and is still running today.
That rainy night when I was ten years old... This Endless Cycle of Reincarnation isn't just here, it's also in Hua Xichen's heart... This nightmare hasn't ended even today.
Everyone says that Hua Xichen escaped ten years ago, but in Chu Xinghe's opinion, he didn't... He has been trapped in that rainy night when he was ten years old all these years.
Hua Xichen never dared to confront his destiny. No matter what difficulties he encountered, his first thought was to consult the Great Prophecy Art...
The Great Prophecy Art also repeatedly told him the correct path it had chosen for him.
Hua Xichen's life was a constant escape. At the age of ten, he escaped using Great Prophecy Art. After that, he relied on the Great Prophecy Art to make every choice he faced. In fact, this choice was also a form of escape.
Hua Xichen didn't have his own life. Rather than saying that Hua Xichen lived for himself, it would be more accurate to say that he lived for the sake of the Great Prophecy Art.
He doesn't possess Great Prophecy Art; to put it bluntly, he's merely a puppet of Great Prophecy Art... just a vessel for Great Prophecy Art.
In the past, as long as the Great Prophecy Art said it was true, Hua Xichen believed it was true. He felt that the Great Prophecy Art could not possibly be wrong. He had unknowingly become a slave to the Great Prophecy Art, and the Great Prophecy Art existed in this world through Hua Xichen's body.
However, after Hua Xichen met Chu Xinghe, under the influence of the Misfortune Compass, the Great Prophecy Art began to undergo some strange changes...
These strange changes led Hua Xichen to suspect that the Great Prophecy Art might be malfunctioning...
Once, twice... many times... As Hua Xichen's doubts arose, the Great Prophecy Art disappeared... And at the moment the Great Prophecy Art disappeared, Hua Xichen seemed to be pulled back into the nightmare of when he was ten years old.
Without the Great Prophecy Art, he didn't even know how to escape...
He desperately wanted to retrieve the Great Prophecy Art because he was filled with fear; he felt that without the Great Prophecy Art, he, Hua Xichen, was nothing!
Even though he possessed immense power, he only believed in the Great Prophecy Art, and all he wanted was to retrieve Great Prophecy Art...
Standing before the gates of the Hua Clan, Chu Xinghe Chu Xinghe, without any hesitation, pushed open the gates...
As the dark gate opened, a divine light descended from the sky, landing on the Hua Clan Hua Xichen.
At this Hua Xichen's eyes widened, because he remembered this scene; it was the divine light descended by the Great Prophecy Art.
At the age of ten, he obtained the Great Prophecy Art within this divine light... and today, with Chu Xinghe's help, he has once again reclaimed the Great Prophecy Art!
The power of the Great Prophecy Art enveloped Hua Xichen, and within the divine light, the Wise One holding the scepter reappeared. "Hua Xichen, you have broken free from the nightmare in your heart and rediscovered your Great Prophecy Art... Now... you may leave."
The scepter in the Wise One's hand once again guided Hua Xichen to a path to leave this place.
Looking at the familiar path guided by the Great Prophecy Art, Hua Xichen Hua Xichen turned around, intending to follow it. However, the moment he turned, Hua Xichen did not walk towards the path indicated by the Great Prophecy Art, but stood still for a long time.
The Great Prophecy Art has returned... The Great Prophecy Art has also guided him on the right path. If it were in the past, Hua Xichen would have followed the Great Prophecy Art's guidance without hesitation.
But at that Hua Xichen revealed a smile.
"I'm sorry, Wise One, that's not the right path... The right path is here..." At this Hua Xichen's body.
He ignored the Wise One beside him and walked straight into the Hua Clan's residence...
"Hua Xichen... the Great Prophecy Art has already guided you to the right path. Are you now going to choose the wrong one?" The Wise One gripped his scepter, his face contorted with anger.
"That's the correct path of the Great Prophecy Art, not the correct path for me Hua Xichen..." This time, Hua Xichen didn't look back; he stepped into the Hua Clan step by step...
The instant Hua Xichen stepped into the Hua Clan's gates... the gates surrounding the Hua Clan shattered... and the Wise One who had just guided Hua Xichen also shattered...
When Hua Xichen opened his eyes again, he found himself still standing beside Chu Xinghe... and Chu Xinghe was still standing before the gates of the Hua Clan... There was no Great Prophecy Art... nor had Sage's Descent. Everything that had just happened was merely the manifestation of the nightmare in his heart...
"Congratulations... on breaking free from this Endless Cycle of Reincarnation..." Chu Xinghe stood beside Hua Xichen.
Just now, Hua Xichen suddenly Dream Entry world. Chu Xinghe knew that this was the final test for Hua Xichen in this Endless Cycle of Reincarnation of reincarnation... He had done everything he could to help... But in this final nightmare world, no one could help Hua Xichen. If he could not overcome the nightmare in his heart, then he would be imprisoned in this nightmare forever.
Looking at the awakened Hua Xichen, Chu Xinghe knew that Hua Xichen had won!
The torrential rain all around stopped... The crowing of roosters seemed to dispel the rain and darkness, and in the distance, at the edge of the sky, a ray of dawn pierced the darkness, bringing a ray of light to this land!
This whole ordeal, from the time I imprisoned Hua Xichen when I was ten until this rainy night... it's finally over...
At the same time, the divine light of the Great Prophecy Art began to flicker on Hua Xichen's body... As the divine light swirled around Hua Xichen's entire body... the Great Prophecy Art, which had disappeared for half a year... returned to Hua Xichen's body.
In fact, the Great Prophecy Art has never left Hua Xichen... The reason why Hua Xichen cannot use it is because the Great Prophecy Art is sealed in Hua Xichen's own nightmare world.
That nightmare was like Hua Xichen's Heart Demon; if he couldn't overcome Heart Demon, he would never be able to regain the Great Prophecy Art.
The Wise One had previously guided Hua Xichen to the Well of Prophecy for the last time, informing him Hua Xichen he needed to break free from the nightmare in order to retrieve the Great Prophecy Art from the Well of Prophecy...
But the most important thing is not the Well of Prophecy, but that Hua Xichen must confront the nightmare!
If the nightmare cannot be broken, then no well can possibly retrieve the Great Prophecy Art for Hua Xichen.
Today, Hua Xichen did not regain the Great Prophecy Art; to be precise, Hua Xichen regained the self he lost on that rainy night when he was ten years old.
He was no longer the weak and helpless Hua Xichen; he was strong enough that he would still be a powerful being even without relying on the Great Prophecy Art.
Great Prophecy Art can guide one's path, but it cannot completely control the path.
There is no such thing as a always-correct path in this world; it's just a matter of how you choose to take it.
Others may not understand Hua Xichen, but Chu Xinghe understands what Hua Xichen has been through.
In a sense, the Great Prophecy Art and the Misfortune Compass are quite similar. The person who discovered the Misfortune Compass was also remarkably similar to Hua Xichen, who obtained the Great Prophecy Art.
When Chu Xinghe first saw the Misfortune Compass, his immediate reaction was, "I'm going to take off right here!"
I, Chu Xinghe, bear the responsibility for bringing disaster upon the sect!
However, he was different from Hua Xichen. Hua Xichen was completely lost in the Great Prophecy Art. To Hua Xichen, the Great Prophecy Art was absolutely correct, and he would do whatever the Hua Xichen Great Prophecy Art said.
But I'm different... I've never lost my principles when facing the Misfortune Compass. The Misfortune Compass is making me destroy my sect?
I won't do it! I'll exploit the bug and drain the sect's resources... and then grow stronger little by little.
Right and wrong are sometimes hard to define... For example, when someone doesn't know about the Misfortune Compass and sees Chu Xinghe wasting the sect's resources, they would definitely think that Chu Xinghe is an ingrate!
But no one could understand the bitterness in Chu Xinghe's heart... If I really didn't do anything to drain the sect, I would help the sect all the time, and then after a backlash, the sect would really be gone!
And do you really think I have no way to destroy the sect? Do you really think that after being betrayed so many times, I would still go and offer myself up for betrayal?
Is it because I want to be backstabbed? No, it's because I'm struggling against the limits of the Misfortune Compass!
No matter how difficult the road ahead, no matter how many holes he had in his back, Chu Xinghe never forgot his original intention. The world is not black and white, and the definition of right and wrong is not so clear.
However, Hua Xichen's temperament is clearly far inferior to that of the Kaoshan Village.
He didn't grow by using the Great Prophecy Art; he was led by the nose by it. Ever since that rainy night when he was ten, Hua Xichen lost the ability to think independently, and everything seemed to depend on the Great Prophecy Art to determine his fate.
But today, for the first time in the Endless Cycle of Reincarnation Hua Xichen confronted his own heart and realized for the first time that the guidance of the Great Prophecy Art might be correct in the eyes of others, but not necessarily in his own heart.
He shattered the nightmare that trapped him and retrieved the Great Prophecy Art that had been trapped within it. From that moment on, Hua Xichen was no longer a puppet of the Great Prophecy Art, who dictated what should and shouldn't be done. He could now discern for himself whether certain things should be done or not.
The Endless Cycle of Reincarnation shattered into pieces... And with the shattering of the Endless Cycle of Reincarnation, countless starlight re-converged into a Path of Starlight, and at the end of the Path of Starlight, there was an ancient well!
All the starlight originates from this ancient well. The countless stars within the well seem to connect with the heavens and earth. This is the legendary Well of Prophecy!
But right now, Chu Xinghe n't concerned about the Well of Prophecy. He was watching as the starlight from the Well of Prophecy suddenly began to spread towards him... In an instant, Chu Xinghe was completely enveloped in the starlight of the Well of Prophecy!
Chu Xinghe glanced at the Well of Prophecy through the starlight...
Before Chu Xinghe could figure out what those starlight things were, Hua Xichen next to him jumped up excitedly!
"Heaven is helping you Brother Xinghe! This Well of Prophecy is filled entirely with Star Radiance Stone!"
Chu Xinghe looked at the excited Hua Xichen, Chu Xinghe he didn't know what Star Radiance Stone was.
But is this a problem with the Star Radiance Stone?
That's a knife, isn't it?