Jing Yan...
With the brush, paint colors; with ink, speak of scenery.
Su Jingyan's eyes snapped open. The Woman who seemed to have appeared before him vanished, but left those words in his heart.
"With ink, speak of scenery. I am Su Jingyan..." Su Jingyan murmured, as though different colors had appeared before his eyes.
Su Jingyan abruptly looked at the white-robed Scholar, as though something in his heart had come unbound!
"With ink, speak of scenery... what I excel at is laying plans!"
The white-robed Scholar watched Su Jingyan without speaking. Only a faint smile appeared on his face...
Su Jingyan looked at his hands and continued, "With ink, speak of scenery. I will paint the scenery of Reincarnation myself!"
"I have always been me. Even the me at the beginning of Reincarnation was still Su Jingyan!"
"After experiencing 'Heart Tree Reincarnation,' knowing full well that being trapped in Reincarnation meant endless despair, why would I keep repeating this same Reincarnation?"
"Unless... there was a glimmer of hope within the endlessly repeating Reincarnation!"
"The repeating Reincarnation was 'my' plan!"
The white-robed Scholar shook his head. "But even if it was a plan, in every past Reincarnation, you left your lingering thoughts on the Other Shore of that corresponding Reincarnation."
"How would the present you know what you once planned?"
With ink, speak of scenery; the scenery was within the ink...
"The answer must lie within Reincarnation..."
Su Jingyan gently raised a hand and pointed into the void. In an instant, the scenery throughout the world changed in a sweeping tide.
Illusory scenes like time flowing backward appeared before Su Mo's eyes...
Within that scenery...
A gray-haired Du Pingsheng slowly walked out of the little bamboo grove toward Su Jingyan, seemingly speaking to him with tireless patience.
"To linger is