"So that's how it works..." Du Yu had only just understood. "That means your skill has some pretty serious drawbacks..."
"Of course." Jin Jianglang nodded. "When something went wrong with Liu Ling's legend earlier, I had to apply twelve 'Cutting Longing' talismans before I could sever his 'longing.'"
Liu Ling froze at that, then turned to Du Yu. "Brother Yu, you even went back into my 'past'?"
"Uh..." Only then did Du Yu remember that no one had told Liu Ling about this. Thinking about it, he felt he had really wronged him. "Liu Ling... that's my fault. I'll explain everything to you afterward."
Liu Ling silently nodded.
Jin Jianglang continued, "At the time, I thought Liu Ling must be someone of vital importance to the Immortal Realm, because I'd never encountered such powerful 'longing.' What surprised me even more was that his 'suffering' seemed to have developed intelligence too. It actually slipped away while I was fighting his 'longing.' Thinking about it now, perhaps China's history stretches back too far, and Liu Ling has remained alive to this day without fading away, so the 'influence' he generated exceeded anything I imagined..."
After hearing that, Du Yu blinked and turned to Weaver Girl. "Weaver Girl, which dynasty was Liu Ling from again?"
"The Wei-Jin Period," Weaver Girl answered. "Around 220 AD."
Du Yu's heart sank into cold ashes.
"It's only eighteen hundred years, and you already can't cut it?" Du Yu scratched his head. After all, he had been calculating all along how to sever Lady Houtu's "thread."
"What do you mean, 'only' eighteen hundred years?" Jin Jianglang was a little annoyed. "The oldest 'thread' I'd ever cut in Japan was only seven hundred years old. You casually cause an unexpected turn eighteen hundred years in the past, and then