Jiang Chen Enlightens Her, Six Paths of Samsara [Please Support with Flowers]

The figures in their eyes seemed to be the same.

But they were shrouded in chaotic mists, making them impossible to see clearly.

Houtu saw a Ghost Face Mask, then a Bronze Ring...

"Divine Blood, Buddhist Blood, Saint Blood, Demonic Blood—all of it was poured over me. But what about my little sister...?" Houtu saw a youth identical to Jiang Chen being led by a group of people to a mysterious place.

All kinds of bewitching blood were poured over him... and he became a Sacrificial Offering.

What she didn't know was that, to write this book and move the Human Race, Jiang Chen had deliberately spent nearly a hundred years traveling in the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin, experiencing the lives of many people.

As a result, almost everything depicted in the Book World bore Jiang Chen's shadow.

"Demonic Blood, Buddhist Blood, Saint Blood!" Houtu stared at those shocking words, her heart filled with astonishment.

In the Primordial World, they represented some of the most supreme legacies.

She recalled how, five hundred years ago, Jiang Chen had confronted Grand Pure on Shouyang Mountain, and the supreme powerhouses of the Primordial Wilderness had all emerged.

The difference was that the youth in the book had fallen, while Jiang Chen had changed the fate of the Human Race.

Houtu was deeply moved.

If anyone understood Jiang Chen's thoughts best, it was Houtu. In all the Primordial World, not even the Human Race itself understood him as well as she did.

Then Houtu continued reading [A Leaf Covers the Sky].

She felt nothing as she read the epic, invincible paths of one Great Emperor after another.

She herself stood at the pinnacle, unmatched in battle.

But... she alone was moved by that little girl.

She had spent her life in the Mortal World.

"Not to become an immortal, but only to wait for your return in the Mortal World..."

When that peerless woman, unmatched in talent throughout the ages, gazed at the Bronze Coffin, Houtu felt something stir within her, too.

Not to become an immortal? Only to wait for your return in the Mortal World?

"Was she waiting for A Similar Flower, as the book said, or for a Reincarnated Person?"

Houtu suddenly froze.

She faintly felt as though she had touched a certain barrier. Beyond it lay an open sky.

Yet she tried with all her might to find the answer to that sentence, but it remained forever beyond her grasp.

She couldn't see through it or comprehend the Dao.

Flip, flip...

At last, Houtu reached the final page.

She had finished reading [A Leaf Covers the Sky].

She slowly opened her eyes and saw Jiang Chen resting with his eyes closed.

In her mind, Jiang Chen's face kept merging with that of the older brother in the book.

Was he a Reincarnated Person, or A Similar Flower...

Or was the person in the book Jiang Chen himself, and was it all him?

"Or... was the elder brother I saw and thought of always Jiang Chen?"

An extremely complicated thought took root in Houtu's heart...

It left her heart pounding!

"Was this the destined outcome sensed by the Heavenly Dao when I entered the Human Race Forbidden Zone back then?"

Houtu's cheeks flushed red. She hid herself in the chaotic mists, not wanting anyone to see.

Chapter 46: Jiang Chen Enlightens Her, Six Paths of Samsara [Please Support with Flowers]

"Whew!"

Houtu emerged from the Book World and let out a long breath.

Only after she had calmed herself did she slowly dispel the chaotic mists concealing her flushed cheeks.

Jiang Chen noticed her stir and felt puzzled.

"Was there nothing in the book that could help you?"

He asked because the system's notification hadn't shown any rewards for insights Houtu had gained from the book.

That left Jiang Chen quite confused.

A Quasi-Saint contemplating a book of this caliber should have found something useful. At the very least, she ought to have been deeply moved by some part of it, right?

Had she opened it the wrong way?

Houtu heard Jiang Chen's question and took a deep breath.

She replied softly, "Elder brother, this book has helped me greatly. Perhaps my aptitude is dull, but I still can't see through that final layer..."

Jiang Chen was puzzled and pressed her for more. "Tell me. What did it feel like...?"

He had experienced the lives of most of the people in the book, so he was the most qualified to speak on it.

He had also been the one most deeply affected by it.

If he could read the book and gain insights from it...

He could almost comprehend everything in it!

The Ultimate Emperor Weapon, Immortal Scripture, elixir of immortality, Bronze Coffin, Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, the Nine Secrets, and more—all of it, completely!

Unfortunately... he couldn't gain insights from it.

Because he was the one who had written it, the one who had created it.

Houtu didn't dare look Jiang Chen in the eye, because everything she had envisioned in the book bore his shadow.

It gave her the feeling that some fine, invisible threads might be winding between her and her elder brother.

So Houtu looked away and said, "I saw a line in the book: 'Not to become an immortal, but only to wait for your return in the Mortal World.' It was spoken by that peerless, brilliant empress."

"She was waiting for someone, but that person was already dead."

"Could A Similar Flower really appear again?"

At those words, Jiang Chen's heart tightened.

The line that had moved Houtu most in the book was that one.

It could be said to be the key thread running through the entire book.

Jiang Chen had experienced it all, and the feeling had been so deep that it was almost as if he had seen, thought, and felt everything himself!

Now, when Jiang Chen thought of that pure, innocent little girl, his heart still ached.

His voice was low, but his words were clear. "In the next life, it exists if you believe it does; if you don't, it doesn't."

"Time stretches on, and sooner or later, two identical flowers will appear in this world. After a thousand years of longing, one flower withers as another blooms..."

Houtu listened, her gaze gradually growing vacant.

Her cherry lips parted as she softly murmured those words again and again.

"In the next life, it exists if you believe it does; if you don't, it doesn't?"

"But the woman in the book kept waiting for someone..."

Houtu was despondent, feeling that this was a tragic tale.

In her heart, she had once gazed upon the Primordial World, where mountains of corpses stretched as far as the eye could see, blood ran like oceans, and flesh and mud became the earth...

That feeling was all too familiar. It touched the softest place in her heart.

She didn't want to see such tragedy...

"Did it answer any of your questions?" Jiang Chen asked.

"Thank you, elder brother. The mist in my heart has lifted a little... Perhaps my aptitude really is dull, and I can't truly grasp the profundities of such a Human Dao celestial book..." Houtu hurriedly replied.

"I'd like to read it a few more times... May I?"

Listening to Houtu's timid question and seeing her utterly clear eyes, as pure as those of the little girl in the book, Jiang Chen felt a pang of tenderness.

"You can read it as many times as you want... I won't disturb you..." Jiang Chen stood and gave Houtu room.

He also expressly told the children of the Great Wilderness not to disturb her.

Houtu gazed at Jiang Chen. Beneath her long lashes, her eyes seemed to speak her gratitude.

Then she closed her eyes and began reading [A Leaf Covers the Sky] again.

Jiang Chen didn't disturb her.

He walked alone through the Human Race Forbidden Zone.

He wanted to guide more people of the Human Race.