Qin Tiexin turned around and saw the inspector standing respectfully by the battlements waiting for him. He walked over, patted the young man on the shoulder, and said "Do a good job". The inspector nodded flattered and watched him walk down the city wall.
He did not ride a horse and walked back to the General's Mansion. He had walked that road for decades and could walk back with his eyes closed. But for the first time, he felt that the road was too long. It was so long that every step he took, the soles of his feet were being pulled back.
Is this what he wants?
A life of stability, a virtuous wife, a promising son, a well-behaved daughter, entertaining grandchildren, success and fame, glory and wealth, and a family full of children and grandchildren.
He taught his son how to fight, and his son became a school captain. The way he stood on the school field and received the silver seal was exactly the same as when he was young.
Qin An is very good. Shen Wan is also very good. Yue'er is also very good. Life is good.
But that's not right. His life shouldn't be like this.
He walked into the study and took off the dusty knife on the wall. The dust on the knife was very thick, and he wiped it twice with his sleeve before wiping out the iron-black color underneath. There was a very thin layer of rust on the blade, which had not been used for a long time.
He held the knife in his arms and slowly sat down against the wall of the study.
He closed his eyes.
He was thinking that if he did it again, he would not sell the shop, take the silver seal, or hang Edgeless on the wall of the study. He would do what he should do, and the things he promised have not yet been completed.
He opened his eyes.
The study is gone, the general's mansion is gone. Shen Wan, Qin An, Yue'er, the inspectors, and the city walls of Xinyang Pass are no longer there. He stood in a boundless white light, with no calluses on his right hand, only an empty sleeve.
He already knew that this was Mirror the Heart and Seek the Dao's fantasy. He knew that he had just walked through an entire life from beginning to end, and every detail was so real that it still made him feel sour in his heart. But he also knew that that was not what he wanted.
He shook his head.
"This is not my path."
The illusion was shattered again. The sound of the second shattering was lighter than the first, like someone flicking the edge of a crystal cup with their finger. There was a "ding" sound, and the world collapsed.
When the white light turns on for the third time, Qin Tiexin is ready.
Opening his eyes, this time he stood in an endless expanse of blood-red, with thick liquid covering his waist, hot and fishy. There were stone walls all around, and the stone walls were carved with dark red Spirit Rune, flowing around and around.
Blood pool, True Person Xueying's blood pool.
He heard people shouting and struggling around him. More than three hundred Body Refining monks were soaked in the same blood pool. Their spiritual power was blocked and their bodies were so weak that they were like fish thrown into boiling water. They desperately climbed up the wall of the pool and then slid down.
Ge Qing was organizing people around him to resist, and Duan Xuan just came to him.
[I can only take you away], the mysterious sound of a broken arm sounded, mapped on Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts.
"Hold on, I'll find someone to save you." Qin Tiexin turned and said to Duan Xuan next to him. Although Duan Xuan couldn't see his expression, he could hear the seriousness in his voice and nodded heavily.
"Senior, let's go."
The golden runes on the broken arm suddenly lit up, and a bright golden light enveloped his whole body. In the next moment, the blood pool, the three hundred monks, True Person Xueying, and the underground grotto all disappeared. He stood in the snow three miles outside the east gate of Wind and Snow Pass. The snow under his feet was up to his ankles, and the cold wind blew on his face like a knife.
Qin Tiexin stood in the snow for a moment. Then he turned around and ran towards Wind and Snow Pass.
A quarter of an hour later, an old man wearing a gray robe and carrying an unsheathed iron sword appeared on the Wind and Snow Pass city wall. His figure flickered for a moment, and the next moment he appeared above the grotto where the blood pool was located.
Nascent Soul True Lord!
True Person Xueying was making the final Spirit Rune adjustments by the blood pool. Half of the three hundred monks were dead, and the ball of holy blood in the center of the blood pool was slowly expanding, like a chrysalis about to break out of its cocoon. At this moment, he felt an indescribable pressure coming down from the top of his head. He raised his head and saw the sword light in the sky.
Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator's sword.
Xueying didn't even have time to scream, before he was chopped into pieces by the sword light. The expanding holy blood was also strangled by the sword light, and a full three feet of the mountain on the top of the grotto was cut away.
When Qin Tiexin arrived, the grotto had turned into a huge open-air pit. Of the three hundred monks who survived, more than two hundred were being fished out of the blood pool by Wind and Snow Pass's monks. He stood at the edge of the pit, looking at the surviving monks shivering with cold at the bottom of the pit, and at Duan Xuan who was crawling out from the bottom of the blood pool. He breathed a long sigh of relief. This catastrophe was strangled in its cradle.
Later, Qin Tiexin participated in the siege battle of Devil Race. Under the command of Nascent Soul Cultivator and True Person Zhou Heng, Wind and Snow Pass easily defeated Devil Race.
After finishing the matter, he received many rewards. Luo Ling and Chen Xi looked at him with a little more joy. True Person Ling Shuang personally asked for credit for him, and the sect gave him a large amount of Cultivation Resources, which was enough for him to practice all the way to Foundation Establishment Peak Stage.
He didn't go to Heavenly South Domain for the time being. He hid the sword in the deepest part of the storage ring. It wouldn't be too late to find it after Foundation Establishment Peak Stage.
He settled down in Wind and Snow Pass. He practiced, hunted demons, and forged Law Artifact every day. He lived a very solid life, and his cultivation level steadily improved. Luo Ling said that he had laid a solid foundation, and Core Formation was a matter of time.
Nangong Yao occasionally comes to see him, bringing some cassocks and boots she made herself. Li Yun also comes every few days. She says she is ready to Core Formation. Qin Tiexin congratulates her. Li Yun smiles Laughing, she said that after she formed the elixir, we would form a team to hunt Devil Marshal in the north. Duan Xuan was also becoming more and more brilliant in Wind and Snow Pass. I don't know why sometimes I couldn't deal with Li Yun. Maybe it was the competition between the best.
Everything is fine and everything is going in the best direction.
Later, he entered Meridian Opening Realm and Golden Body Realm one after another and became the great monk of the Flowing Cloud Sect.
Until one day, he stood on the Flowing Cloud Sect's Luo Ling Peak and looked down at his right hand. All five fingers were intact. He clenched his hand into a fist, released it, and clenched it into a fist again.
No.
This hand should have been gone a long time ago. It was cut off by something. It seemed to be an extremely thin and blood-colored scimitar. The blade had something Power of Principle that he didn't understand.
He raised his hand to his eyes and turned it over and over to look at it. All five fingers were intact.
But he knew this was wrong. It was right to have no right hand. He was the one who broke his arm, held the sword Lin Feng, and crossed a realm to find someone who didn't know whether he was alive or not. That person was him.
He put his right hand down.
"Is this... an illusion? This is not the path I chose."
Even though the ending of the fantasy this time is perfect enough, so perfect that Qin Tiexin almost thinks, how wonderful it would be if it were really like this, Duan Xuan would not "die", and he would not be left with only one arm, but the fantasy is a fantasy, Qin Tiexin absolutely Duan Xuan will not be left alone, and Nascent Soul Cultivator will not leave Wind and Snow Pass so easily. The next moment he has enough Spirit Stone, he should go to Heavenly South Domain.
I don't know whether it was because the illusion was too weak or because there was too much unreality in it, but Qin Tiexin woke up faster this time than before.
The next moment, cracks began to appear in the distant sky.
Qin Tiexin stood in the center of the illusion, with the shattered fragments of heaven and earth beneath his feet. Wind and Snow Pass's city wall, the snowfield in the north, and the callus on his right hand were all frozen in mid-air, like a shattering mirror.