"The Other Shore Plan?"
"Nothing but a scheme riddled with holes. It's doomed to fail, too."
The Bridge Spirit shook his head.
He did not care in the slightest.
"A pointless struggle, that's all."
"That little girl from the Green Lotus Sect has never been to the Other Shore. She thinks far too highly of it. Seeing that both the red moon and the Three Lives Stone came from there, she assumed the Other Shore was a utopia."
"The Other Shore..."
"If it were really that wonderful, the Deities back then would have found a way to send everyone there long ago."
"She wouldn't have had a chance to try."
"There is a great terror on the Other Shore, at least for the people of our world."
"That's how it is."
The little girl the Bridge Spirit mentioned was clearly the Holy Mother of the Green Lotus Sect. That alone showed how astonishingly old he was.
"The Other Shore Plan is a pointless struggle."
"And to you, my search for the Three Lives Stone only treats the symptoms, not the cause... Though I know nothing about the Three Lives Stone. I'm only looking for it to advance, and I don't know what I'll do afterward."
"But regardless."
"Following your logic, everyone should just give up and wait for the great calamity to arrive."
"Everything we do is meaningless."
"All we're doing is prolonging the pain."
"Right?"
Jiang Qiao spoke.
"Yes."
"It's good that you understand."
"Go back."
The Bridge Spirit said calmly, "This story should end. This cycle of reincarnation should stop."
As he spoke,
the Bridge of Helplessness began to change.
The bridge, which had stretched to an infinite length, still had no visible end in the direction of the opposite shore. But the way back had returned to