[All around you echoed the little moments Senior Lin Feng had shared with him.]
[Hateful Monk had actually told him about his past:]
[He had spent his entire life running away, forever regretting it.]
[When his parents were seized in his childhood, he ran away and regretted it.]
[When the girl he admired in his youth wanted to pledge her life to him, he ran away, and he regretted it.]
[In his middle years, the dynasty had not yet become what it was now, but treacherous ministers already held sway. A chivalrous wanderer upheld justice and rescued him from trouble, only to be arrested as a malefactor. Had he appeared in court to testify, that wanderer would still have had a sliver of hope, but he... ran away again!]
[Whenever he recalled it, he still regretted it...]
[Finally, now, he—had not run away!!!]
[Whether it came from his heart or something else, at least he... had no regrets this time!!!]
[Hateful Monk had once said that if he had never run away, perhaps he would have become a chivalrous wanderer himself!]
[But once a piece was placed, there was no taking it back. His entire life had been spent running away and regretting it, and he had entered Buddhism!]
[He had found faith, yet still could not face his failed life.]
[He said:]
["When I was young, I actually scoffed at religious traditions. Yet, laughably, I ended up believing in the Buddha Ancestor!"]
[Back then, he had also sighed:]
["Yet in the final stage of my life, I met you. I think perhaps this was heavenly will!"]
[At death's door, he spoke in a trembling voice:]
["Eat me... live on..."]
[His withered hand suddenly seized the young Senior Lin Feng:]
["You must... live on!!!"]
[Watching this scene, you felt little