ebookland Chapter 466 Finale
Chapter 466 Finale
Upon hearing the shouts, Li Chonglin and his two companions immediately rushed in.
"what happened?"
Li Chonglin quickly went to help him up.
Lu Yuguan turned his head and glanced at Li Chonglin's face, then looked at Zhong Ziwei's face, and finally understood why he felt familiar with it.
Zhong Ziwei couldn't bear to see him in pain and was about to step forward when Zhao Ziming and Qi Wei stopped him.
"Outsiders?"
Zhao Ziming said warily, "Step back, don't force me to take action!"
Left with no other option, Zhong Ziwei could only retreat ten meters away.
Lu Yuguan gripped Li Chonglin's sleeve tightly, but his eyes were fixed on Zhong Ziwei's face like nails.
"Is what you're saying... true?"
Li Chonglin was stunned.
Zhao Ziming and Qi Wei also stopped what they were doing and looked at Zhong Ziwei together.
The hall was dead silent.
Zhong Ziwei stood at a distance, his robes swaying gently in the breeze that passed through the palace gate, his gaze as deep as a stone at the bottom of a pool.
"it is true."
“Back then, when you were caught in the rift and your soul disappeared, it was Senior Luhua’s divine sense that found me.”
She said she only had a wisp of consciousness left, separated by the two realms, and that she had almost dissipated after traversing countless worlds.
Zhong Ziwei tugged at the corners of his mouth, his smile looking more like a grimace.
"She gave me three strands of her divine consciousness, instructing me to find you, stay with you, and protect you... until you return home safely, or until I am exhausted and my life is over."
"Three strands of divine consciousness... that's them."
Lu Yuguan stopped breathing.
He slowly turned his stiff neck and looked at the person next to him.
That face.
That brow bone.
That look.
So that inexplicable sense of familiarity... came from here.
"So..." Lu Yuguan's voice drifted like smoke, "...all these years, accompanying me in my cultivation, protecting me, loving me, shielding me from injury, and with me..."
His voice choked, and he couldn't continue.
Li Chonglin grasped his trembling hand; his palm was warm, yet felt like a branding iron.
“Yu Guan,” Li Chonglin called his name softly, just as he had done a thousand times before, “I don’t know.”
"We don't know either."
Zhao Zimo stepped forward, his voice cold and hard: "I am just Zhao Zimo, your Daoist partner. I never knew that I was someone else's soul."
Qi Wei didn't speak.
He just looked at Lu Yuguan, and for the first time, those peach blossom eyes that always smiled were empty, devoid of anything.
"fraud."
Lu Yuguan shook off Li Chonglin's hand and staggered backward.
He looked at Zhong Ziwei, then at the three people beside him, and suddenly burst out laughing.
"They're all liars."
"My mother lied to me. She didn't say anything and just left..."
"You lied to me, using this method to give me three shadows..."
Even they were lying to me!
"I am real!"
Zhong Ziwei suddenly raised his voice and walked forward, and Zhao Ziming and Qi Wei forgot to stop him.
"Divine consciousness is merely a seed. When it falls into the world of cultivation, it absorbs spiritual energy, experiences worldly affairs, grows flesh and blood, and develops emotions and a soul—that is, a living, breathing person!"
"But they were born because of you!"
Lu Yuguan roared back, his eyes red, "Born because of your obsession, what does that mean? What does this mean?!"
Zhong Ziwei stopped three steps away.
Very close.
So close that you can see the teardrops on Yu Guan's eyelashes.
“I’m selfish,” he said hoarsely, “I’m despicable… I can’t bear to leave you alone.”
"I can't find you."
"The barrier between the two worlds is too thick; the Zhong family's technology can't break through it. I've tried everything, and this is the only one left."
"Send my consciousness over here, and let them stay with you in my place."
Even if you never know.
Zhong Ziwei's voice lowered, his face filled with bitterness:
Even if you fall in love with one of them.
"That's good too."
Lu Yuguan looks frozen.
jingle……
The wind chimes outside the hall rang again, each sound striking the emptiness in my heart.
Jin Xiaoxiao covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face.
Li Ziming turned his face away.
Jiang Cong let out a heavy sigh.
“Yu Guan…” Jin Xiaoxiao whispered, “Actually, he…”
"go out."
Lu Yu closed her eyes: "Get out, all of you."
"Yuguan..."
"go out!"
Li Chonglin gave him a deep look, then turned around, and Zhao Ziming and Qi Wei followed in silence.
Jin Xiaoxiao was pulled out by Li Ziming.
The hall was bathed in a soft, dim light, which cast long shadows on the cold ground.
“Now you know,” Zhong Ziwei said softly, “what will you choose? Stay here, or come back with me.”
Lu Yuguan opened his eyes.
The tears have dried.
All that remained was a deep, red, exhausted look.
"Do I have a choice?"
"My mother is gone, there's no one waiting for me in the real world, and here..."
He looked at the tightly closed palace doors, where three familiar people stood.
"Everything here is related to you."
"Zhong Ziwei."
"You turned everything I had into your shadow."
Zhong Ziwei's face turned deathly pale.
He wanted to say no.
I think Li Chonglin and the others can cry and laugh; they have their own tempers and choices.
I want to say that all the paths they've walked, the battles they've fought, and the moments they've shared while protecting Luyuguan over the years are genuine.
But he couldn't bring himself to say it.
Because he was the one who planted that initial seed himself.
"sorry."
In the end, he could only utter these three words.
Pale and powerless.
Lu Yuguan looked at him, at the face that both moved and broke his heart in the real world, at those eyes filled with pleading.
Suddenly I feel very tired.
I'm so tired that even my bones ache.
"You go."
"The breach needs to be closed. Take Xiaoxiao and the others back."
"As for me……"
Lu Yuguan paused for a long time, so long that Zhong Ziwei thought he wouldn't say anything more.
"I want to stay here."
"Whether it's true or not, I've gotten used to the environment and the people here."
Zhong Ziwei stared blankly at Lu Yuguan's retreating figure.
I wanted to go up and hug him.
But he couldn't reach out his hand.
"Okay... I'm leaving."
Zhong Ziwei laboriously crossed Luyu Pass, pushed open the palace door, and in the instant light flooded in, he heard a very soft voice behind him:
"promise me."
"Zhong Ziwei, don't come again."
-
Jinhua's fifth year.
October.
Outside Kyoto, reeds bloom everywhere.
White House.
The little baby was playing barefoot in the yard, with a red bib hanging in front of him.
"Nianyu!"
Chang Yun chased after the child, holding a bowl and chopsticks, saying, "If you don't eat properly, I won't buy you candied hawthorns tomorrow!"
Upon hearing this, Bai Nianyu quickly walked towards her mother.
"mother!"
"Can I skip school tomorrow?"
Bai Nianyu chewed her food, reluctantly complaining.
Chang Yun poked his nose, "If you don't go to school, how will you get into the Xuanyu Sect and go to Zhongdu in the future?"
"Hmph, when I grow up, I'll go do business with Aunt Red Butterfly, I'm not going to cultivate!"
"Nonsense!"
Chang Yun was about to scold him when she saw Bai Ming return with his wife and children.
Li Ying, holding the child's hand, smiled and walked towards Chang Yun: "Sister-in-law, how have you been lately?"
"oops!"
Chang Yun quickly put down the bowl and touched her niece's face.
"Look how thin the child has become!"
"Does your mother not give you good food?"
Bai Ming laughed and said, "Sister-in-law, please stop teasing me. Where's my brother?"
“They’re still in the palace,” Chang Yun said. “The Emperor said he wants to rebuild the imperial mausoleum, and he’s entrusted the whole matter to your eldest brother.”
"They're incredibly busy."
Bai Ming couldn't help but sigh.
"If you want to come back, have your elder brother talk to the Emperor and get you an official position."
"No, Xixuan is fine."
Bai Ming replied with a smile, "With the help of friends in Zhongdu, the reconstruction has been almost completed in the past few years."
"friend?"
"People from the Dan Sect, the Wei family, and the Xuanyu Sect also come here often."
"Hmm...are you two very close?"
"It seems... I don't know either..."
"is it?"
Chang Yun muttered a couple of times, then pointed to the ancestral hall behind her and said, "Let's go in. Daiyu just cleaned up her parents' memorial tablets."
"it is good."
Bai Ming walked into Bai Yutang and looked at an empty memorial tablet on the table, feeling a sense of unease.
here……
Was there ever a memorial tablet?
(End of the article)