Death and New Life

Thud, thud, thud!

After bidding farewell to her daughter, Min Shan stepped into the dense fog corridor of chaos one step at a time, traversing the system worlds on either side, climbing upward step by step. At last, she entered the surface layer and arrived at the Origin Continent, which was still nothing but ruins.

She walked onward step by step, the aura of death around her growing denser.

She kept drawing closer to the vast and lofty Origin Ancient Tree. At last, she reached the foot of the tree, extended her hand beneath its roots, and gently, quietly stroked the ancient tree.

After that battle, she had taken her daughter sightseeing everywhere while pondering matters of the future.

Back then, when she fled, Elise had said, "Everything is fate ordained. Min Shan's escape will inevitably become one link in history."

Afterward, she had kept thinking.

How could I possibly submit to fate's arrangements?

I should decide my own choices. How could fate possibly interfere?

If she chose to accept everything, then she would never have spent her entire life searching for a way to resurrect Lin Qing.

Yet the more she thought about it, the more fear filled her heart. In the end, that fear transformed into calm.

She began to understand what her fate was.

Compared with the universe described in the future, what was missing now?

There was an Ancient Dragon and an Ancient Tree. Only the final piece of the puzzle was missing—the ferryman.

Moreover, she herself would willingly become the ferryman before her death.

"Because this, too, will be the fate I look forward to before I die."

What was destiny? At this moment, she understood. History would make someone willingly choose a future in which they knew they would die.

She had to become