The cold wind wantonly played its chill, like a woman singing a sorrowful song to her own accompaniment.
Between that bleak heaven and earth, it sounded like singing, like weeping.
Su Mo slowly turned his head and looked toward the Heart Tree...
The gentle eyes within the Heart Tree met Su Mo's gaze. Across that unseverable Reincarnation, they looked at each other from afar.
The reeds grew lush and gray; white dew turned to frost.
The one he longed for stood on the far side of the water...
The gaze within the Heart Tree suddenly held a smile.
That smile was like a hundred flowers blooming, like spring awakening...
Rouyun stood within Reincarnation, watching Su Mo beyond it. Her red lips parted slightly, as though she had said something.
Outside Reincarnation, Su Mo could neither hear nor see those words... yet he knew.
"It was worth it..."
Rouyun was happy that she could still help him.
The Reincarnation within this Heart Tree was truly rather tedious: the same unchanging ending, again and again, followed by yet another beginning.
Everything she had experienced had to be experienced over and over...
For Su Mo to unravel this Reincarnation was difficult, but severing it was simple.
Sever this Reincarnation, end everything, then take the essence sealed beneath Reincarnation to save the Mortal Realm-would that not be a release for her as well?
That was also what she had always hoped Su Mo would do.
Until Su Mo gave her hope, a hope of living on.
Yet that hope came and went, as though it had never appeared.
Only, this meant that all Su Mo's efforts over this time would have been wasted.
It seemed nothing had changed...
In the end, he would still have to kill her with his own hands.
And this