Beholding the Origin

On the barren mountain, Lu Ye comforted Yiyi for a while before her emotions finally settled.

With Lu Ye's explanations, she gradually came to understand their current situation.

"So Longteng had already perished long ago, and everything we experienced was just an illusion?"

"Calling it an illusion... wouldn't be wrong, but it was more like history replaying itself."

"Was Liuli truly the manifestation of Longteng's final World Will?"

"There really was a Ye Liuli in Longteng's history, but the Ye Liuli we encountered was not the real her. The Liuli we met bore the last remnants of this world's Origin, as well as the obsession that this world's will had refused to let fade away."

Yiyi asked many more questions, and Lu Ye answered them as best he could.

At last, a trace of complicated emotion surfaced on Yiyi's face. "That's still good. At the very least, this world saw everything you did. Liuli... must have been very happy in the end. That was why she gave you her strength."

Gradually, she let go and revealed a smile.

Ever since Ye Liuli had dissipated between heaven and earth, Yiyi had been in low spirits. Only now had she finally untied the knot in her heart.

Lu Ye could not help recalling the words Ye Liuli had spoken on Wangyang Peak.

She had said that she had waited for a very long time and was nearly unable to hold on any longer...

Looking at it this way, throughout all the years since Longteng's destruction, this world's will had also been struggling to endure, all to personally witness that possibility whose arrival she could not know.

Fortunately, in the end, she saw it.

Setting aside his many thoughts, Lu Ye turned to survey his surroundings.

The journey through Dragon Ascent World had