Zhao Layue raised her eyebrows, thinking that went without saying, but there was still much she did not understand. "But why would she want to come back through the Immortal Register?"
This was also what Liu Ci could not understand. Daoist cultivators sought ascension to immortality. Having already become an immortal, why return to the old world?
"Perhaps out of fear," Jing Jiu said.
"Was she worried True Person Jingyang was still alive and would take revenge on Yunmeng Mountain's disciples and descendants after discovering the truth, so she wanted to send an avatar back to watch you?" Zhao Layue asked.
"That isn't true fear," Jing Jiu said. "Leaving the Immortal Register was like leaving herself a way out, or rather, a way back."
"What exactly was she afraid of?" Zhao Layue asked seriously.
"The sea and sky appear vast, but they have boundaries in the end," Jing Jiu said. "That world, however, is a truly boundless space. There, you can find no foothold, no point of reference, no companions, nowhere you came from and nowhere to go. That is where true fear begins."
Zhao Layue fell silent for a while. "The Dao Heart gradually falls silent, and the barrier of solitude gradually grows?"
"Yes. There, the self's projection within the spiritual world grows countless times larger, gradually devouring the original self."
"What she feared was infinity, and herself within that infinity," Jing Jiu said.
Zhao Layue roughly understood what he meant, then asked, "Why are you telling me all this?"
She believed Jing Jiu had never told anyone but her about True Person Jingyang's ascension, or the secrets of immortals and that world.
Such trust, or expectation, put enormous pressure on her.
"You will have to go to that world someday. There's no harm in knowing something about it