Chapter 837 - 325: Returning Dragon, Seeking Truth (Part 3)
"A journey worth remembering indeed."
Guan Xin couldn’t help but smile.
The voice of Ye Wuyue echoed in her ears,
"So you really can smile. Qingyao just said you smiled, I thought he was joking."
Guan Xin looked sideways at Ye Wuyue,
"Maybe."
Ye Wuyue brushed back a strand of hair and asked with a smile, "Where do you plan to go next?"
Guan Xin said, "Back to Wenxin Heaven."
Ye Wuyue said, "That’s nice. Once you return, you can erect the Saints’ Monument in Wenxin Heaven, right?"
"Mm."
"And after that?"
"After that... I want to see other parts of the world," Guan Xin said, "I don’t really know if I’m worthy of being a Saint, so... it’s hard to say."
"Can I... come with you?"
"What?" Guan Xin was taken aback.
Ye Wuyue smiled and said, "If you are going to travel the world, can you take me with you?"
For some reason, Guan Xin felt a bit happy inside. She looked at Ye Wuyue’s smiling face, her thoughts wandering,
"Sure... sure. As long as you don’t mind me."
"How could I!" Ye Wuyue said with wide eyes, "You are much better than me. How could I have the right to mind you?"
Guan Xin said,
"I actually think you’re more capable. You can easily do things I can’t."
"Like what?"
"Like..." Guan Xin thought for a moment, "command and coordination?"
Ye Wuyue was surprised, "What! When did I ever do such things!"
"You’ve never done it?"
"It’s always been Young Master Fan doing the commanding, I only follow his lead."’li>
"Young Master Fan? Don’t you call him... Brother Wubing?"
Ye Wuyue exclaimed loudly, "Why would I call him that! Just because he and my brother Guan Xin are close? No way!"
Guan Xin was stunned,
"Sorry."
"Are you really okay?" Ye Wuyue asked.
Guan Xin frowned.
She didn’t know why... but she felt Ye Wuyue was someone skilled at command and coordination, someone who would adorably call Fan Wubing ’Brother’, someone she admired and respected.
But in her mind, there were no memories to match this.
Is she really just sleepy?
"Guan Xin?" Ye Wuyue asked worriedly, "Are you alright?"
Guan Xin shook her head, "I’m fine."
Ye Wuyue held her hand, "If anything feels uncomfortable, just let me know."
Suddenly having her hand held, Guan Xin was startled and quickly drew back.
Ye Wuyue asked with disappointment, "You don’t like it?"
"No... it’s not that I dislike it, it’s just..." Guan Xin held her forehead, "It’s strange... so strange... all of a sudden, I don’t know what I’m supposed to do."
Ye Wuyue sat down, patted her thigh, and asked with a smile,
"Want to try lying down for a bit? Maybe it’ll make you feel better."
Guan Xin looked at Ye Wuyue’s thigh with some embarrassment,
"I’d rather not trouble you."
Ye Wuyue’s eyes were bright, her smile charming,
"What if I say I’m actually looking forward to it?"
Guan Xin lowered her head, feeling warm inside. She had a strong urge to lie down, but also felt that it might not be right... might not match the Ye Wuyue she knew?
Looking at the Ye Wuyue in front of her, she suddenly felt very unfamiliar.
She couldn’t help but wonder... would the Ye Wuyue she knows do something like this? Or... do I actually expect this to happen?
Guan Xin stared blankly at Ye Wuyue, deeply wanting to know what she was thinking at this moment, so she asked,
"Wuyue, do you... like me?"
"I like you," Ye Wuyue’s smile was like a whirlpool, stirring Guan Xin’s heart.
Yet she seemed to have grasped something, never plunging into it.
She took a deep breath, her demeanor changed abruptly, staring seriously and calmly at Ye Wuyue, she said,
"No, Ye Wuyue likes the sister she often talks about, not me."
Ye Wuyue asked, "What?"
Guan Xin said firmly,
"Also, I truly wish that Xianchan hadn’t left, that Young Master Fan hadn’t suffered... I truly wish to reach a world where everyone is happy... but I believe that a real world, to me, is always above an ideal world. I will never fill my desires by fantasizing about Ye Wuyue."
She paused and then added,
"Moreover, the journey to the Sea of Eternal Life, had no Ye Wuyue."
After saying this, she bravely stepped forward.
This step bridged the vast gulf between her and Du Changge.
Blood rain drenched the wailing city.
Guan Xin condensed literary spirit into a sword, pointed at Du Changge’s forehead,
"The Demon Dao that controls desire... The more you want something, the harder it is to get it? Turn desire into hope. Because hope is an extension of reality, a part of the truth we seek. That’s my answer."
Du Changge smiled and said,
"Congratulations, you’ve graduated."
Guan Xin’s brow furrowed.
She now understood that Du Changge was never her enemy. Just like he said before, it was truly a lesson for her, to help her thoroughly understand the true meaning of the "Seeking Truth Book."
And now, she understood.
Du Changge explored the meaning of seeking truth through the concept of "desire and hope."
Guan Xin asked,
"Was doing all this for me really worth it?"
He looked at Guan Xin, his gaze incredibly gentle,
"You are an exceptional child and a lucky one, able to meet Fan Wubing when you first stepped on the path of seeking truth. I often think, if I had met someone like Fan Wubing at your age, would I have become the way I am now? But thinking about this now is meaningless."
"..."
"Guan Xin, are you ready to tell the world... the truth you’ve seen?"
Guan Xin asked,
"Do I really have the qualifications?"
Du Changge said,
"In terms of literary dao’s realm, those who’ve gone farther than I are only the Teacher and Jade Ancestor. And you are the third to surpass me."
"I..."
Du Changge looked up, gazing at the night sky interwoven with blood rain,
"I spent my life seeking that truth, though unwilling, I must admit, reaching this point has exhausted everything. I can hardly advance further. Guan Xin, this is my last lesson for you, the path ahead is yours to explore."
After saying this, his body began to disintegrate inch by inch into beams of light.
Guan Xin immediately recognized it as a voluntary disassembly.
"What are you doing?"
Du Changge smiled,
"The innocent ones, must not die in disgrace. I will bring them back now."
Guan Xin’s eyes widened, unable to utter a word.
She saw the energy from Du Changge’s disassembly writing an article in the night sky over Changning City—
"Return of the Dragon"
This great article, containing the true meaning of literary dao, surged skyward.
In Changning City, all Demon Cultivators regained their sanity under the aura of this literary dao truth. The innocents who had died because of this were also revived.
In the end, not one person died tonight.
Guan Xin, in a daze, nearly forgot to breathe.
She looked at the last shadow of Du Changge and said,
"You said this is your last lesson for me. Then... before? Have you taught me before?"
Du Changge smiled slightly, "Guan Xin, Wenxin Heaven will be entrusted to you in the future."
After saying this, his last shadow vanished. The night sky suddenly became extremely bright, with all the stars bursting forth even more brilliantly, a brightness that even the blood fog over Changning City couldn’t obscure.
Du Changge never directly answered Guan Xin’s question, yet he did answer it.
And Guan Xin completely understood,
Du Changge had another hidden identity—
Primordial Ancestor.
...
Wenxin Heaven,
Yu Xuan Great Saint Wang Ding stood before the Wenxin Stele, looking up at the ancestral star at the top of the stele.
The ancestral star representing the Primordial Ancestor dimmed its light, while another new star,
was slowly rising.
"...So this is your choice, Primordial Ancestor."