Holding hands, tears filled their eyes, yet they choked up and could not speak.
"Uh, fellow Daoists, should I leave first?" Ming He asked awkwardly from the side.
Only then did the two come back to their senses.
"Please forgive me, Fellow Daoist Ming He. I thought I would never see Brother Hong Yun again in this lifetime, so I lost control of my emotions. My apologies."
"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Ming He~" Hong Yun hurriedly thanked him as well.
Seeing Zhen Yuanzi's confusion, Hong Yun continued explaining.
"When I arrived at the Blood Sea, my consciousness was already blurred, and I could barely preserve a shred of awareness. Fortunately, Fellow Daoist Ming He helped me, allowing me to avoid becoming a vengeful spirit within the Blood Sea."
"Moreover, Karma covered my entire body then. Fellow Daoist Ming He summoned the Twelve-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus to absorb the Calamity Qi from me."
To Ming He, these matters might have merely been a casual gesture. To Hong Yun, they were a life-saving grace.
Ten thousand years—an entire ten thousand years. Only then had the Twelve-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus completely absorbed the Karma on him.
"You flatter me, Fellow Daoist Hong Yun." It was the first time Ming He had heard someone praise him like this, and he said it somewhat shyly.
"I merely acted on a passing thought at the time. Looking back now, perhaps the Earthly Dao had guided me in the dark."
Watching Hong Yun's True Spirit grow increasingly faint, Ming He knew Hong Yun did not have much time left and asked,
"Which of the Six Paths does Fellow Daoist Hong Yun wish to enter for reincarnation?"
He and Zhen Yuanzi were respectively a guardian of reincarnation and the master of the Asura Path. Opening a