She wanted to try. She had been listening to Su Mo all along...
But Su Mo had never summoned her out. She could only listen to his words and watch his busy figure whenever he entered the Spirit Sea.
Su Mo gazed at the beautiful face he had not seen for countless years, and his eyes instantly reddened.
"But I'm not certain what lies... beyond this bridge."
This remnant soul of Shi Jiuxuan looked at Su Mo's weathered face and wanted to raise a hand to stroke it, her heart aching a little, but it was ultimately only an illusion.
She could not touch Su Mo...
"But I still want to try. Remaining beside you in death is not what I wish, husband." Shi Jiuxuan smiled softly, seemingly with hope, and seemingly with reluctance to part.
"Wasn't the reason you trapped me in that coffin back then so that one day I could cross this river?"
Su Mo closed his eyes and nodded gently.
Yes, he had confined Shi Jiuxuan in the coffin back then because he suspected that the fifth volume of the Book of Life and Death was very likely the Reincarnation Scroll.
In the myths and legends of his homeland, crossing the River of Forgetfulness meant reincarnation.
So he had wanted to confine her first, then send her into reincarnation once the fifth volume of the Book of Life and Death opened.
Yet the Reincarnation Scroll had appeared two years ago, and he had never dared to act.
Now, it seemed everything had provisionally settled, and it was time for him to act.
After Hui Kong's resurrection, that myth from his homeland had received preliminary confirmation.
There was a Bodhi Tree on Mount Sumeru, so beyond the River of Forgetfulness very likely lay reincarnation...
Now was the