Chapter 321 Respect Your Wishes
Chapter 321 Respect Your Wishes
"There was a loophole in the illusion from the beginning. My failure is invalid!"
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As Qin Baiqing finished speaking, the immortals around her retreated, and the world froze again. The woman as graceful as a willow branch appeared again, and asked Qin Baiqing in disapproval and confusion:
"This is the world I want to show you. How can it not be true?"
"You want to be with your lover forever, but your ending has already happened. Any choice I make will not help you in any way. Why do you want to trap yourself in memories and torture yourself by trying different choices again and again?"
She shook her head sternly at the woman and said, "I won't do it again. Everything I do now is meaningless. If I want to get through the illusion, you are the problem I need to solve."
Until this point, after three failures, Qin Baiqing finally realized that the goal she had set for herself from the beginning was wrong.
The core of the illusion is the goddess. The goddess here already knows clearly the ending of her and the woodcutter. It is meaningless to try to change the result. What is important is that "you and the woodcutter have been together with each other, and this is the most important thing."
"I don't understand."
"We can't be together forever."
"That's because you didn't get it, so you became obsessed with it."
The goddess turned into a stone peak out of unwillingness, and now she fell into the illusion, experiencing the same unwillingness as the goddess, but the goddess was so sad and angry that she forgot that everything in the world is impermanent.
"You two weren't together forever, but that doesn't change the excitement you felt when you first met, the sweetness you felt after you got to know each other, fell in love, and even got married. I can see it clearly in your body. When you were together, your hearts and eyes were filled with each other, and no one of you ever backed down because of the future."
"When he first met you, he suspected you were a spirit, but he was still afraid you would catch a cold. Later, after you were together, he knew you were a goddess, so he went down the mountain many times to find the best fabrics for you, to protect you and respect you. Isn't that enough?"
The woman looked dazed without realizing it, and fell into obsessive memories along with Qin Baiqing.
Qin Baiqing stopped trying to restart and corrected:
"Most cultivators yearn for immortality, but we knew from the moment we entered the Dao that there are only a few people in the world who can become immortals. However, no one has ever given up pursuing the Dao, and I have never seen anyone give up because of this."
"Because the result of success or failure is not important, what is important is that from the moment we set foot on this road, what we are looking at is never a road that is out of reach. It is enough to do our best along the way with a clear conscience."
"You are the same as the woodcutter. The process has already been completed. Why force a satisfactory result?"
"He and I..." The woman murmured to herself, "We have never let each other down. Why can't we be together forever?"
"So you dragged people into the illusion? You were possessed by a demon. Now you are torturing yourself and betraying the memories you had back then."
Qin Baiqing motioned to the woman to look back, and the scene of the woodcutter and the goddess together appeared behind them again, every bit of it was full of love and affection.
She was stunned, and the tears that had been rolling in her eyes for a long time finally fell, but it was not the endless sorrow from before. When they fell heavily at her feet, Qin Baiqing seemed to hear a muffled thunder in her ears.
It is the illusion that is changing.
The woman transformed from the goddess's remnant looked at the past memories intoxicatedly. The moment her obsession and tears fell, she smiled bitterly yet relievedly, turned half of her face and said, "You're right, he wouldn't want me to suffer."
The resentment in her heart and the hatred towards the Queen Mother also dissipated. The figure of the goddess gradually faded, and Qin Baiqing's vision became blurred. The illusion faded away, and her thoughts returned. She appeared in the original ice cave again.
Feeling a tug on her wrist, Qin Baiqing looked down and saw the red line was intact around her wrist, and next to her was Feng Budu who had also escaped from the illusion. The two looked at each other in silence, and Qin Baiqing rushed forward without warning, and the red line tightened spontaneously. Feng Budu felt a soft touch on the corner of his lips, not the domineering and forceful seizure in the past, but a light touch like a dragonfly touching the water, but with a dull, heavy and solemn meaning.
It's like a heavy stone that has been tossing around for a long time finally sinking into the water, stirring up thousands of waves, and then sinking into the deep water without stopping. The endless gaps are filled, and an indescribable sense of satisfaction of landing on something solid also appears.
"Did you hear what I said?" Qin Baiqing said firmly.
The two topics were completely unrelated, but Feng Budu understood what she meant almost immediately. This time, he took the initiative to tie up the red string, wrapped it around his fingertips, and then gave his answer:
"You don't care about the result or the process, I will respect your wishes."
Instead of stopping in his tracks because of worries about things that haven't happened yet, perhaps he should be more like the woodcutter and leave Qin Baiqing with more memories that she won't regret.
After the goddess's lesson, Feng Budu no longer hesitated. Qin Baiqing was secretly happy after getting a satisfactory answer. As she turned her back to calm down, Feng Budu heard her muttering excitedly in a low voice: "The red thread is real, Situ Fusheng did not lie to me, woo woo..."
"..."
Situ Fusheng sneezed again in a corner where no one was paying attention to him. Suddenly, he felt a chill on his back and had a bad premonition.
He scratched his head in confusion: "No fake goods have been sold recently..."
Inside the ice cave, ever since the illusion was broken, the python has been restless and wants to show up.
The moment it was released from the Sanqing Small World, its body seemed to have regained strength and grew larger again. Its huge body was squeezed in the ice cave, and soon the ice cave became shaky, the top was crushed, and frozen stones and broken ice fell down with a crash.
The python was still expanding, and more and more caves were directly crushed by its body. The ice cave that had trapped several people for a long time was destroyed by brute force.
Not far away, Duan Yao and his group soon heard the vibration coming from the front.
"What happened?"
"Someone has gotten closer to the core than us, go and get the Goddess's Tears!"
Duan Yao nervously urged the group. They had already missed the opportunity and must not let anyone get the Goddess's Tears first. As for who was in front, he also had some guesses in his mind.
"It's you again!" Duan Yao was so angry that he chased after the source of the vibration.
Qin Baiqing, who was at the source, did not feel as anxious as he had imagined. He calmly watched the python destroy the ice cave. The huge snake body that reached the sky and the earth rolled and swam in the ice cave several times, and finally collapsed.
She had already figured out what the Goddess's Tears were, and was waiting with her hands in her pockets for Basher to finish everything.
Finally, the ice cave turned into a mess. The broken ice on the ground automatically changed and condensed together to form a crystal clear statue of a goddess, which was exactly the same as the woman Qin Baiqing saw in the illusion.
But compared to the sad and resentful look in the illusion, the goddess now has a graceful figure, a compassionate and indifferent expression, and her icy skin and natural beauty cannot be concealed.
After the ice cave was broken, an ice lake suddenly appeared above everyone's head. With the birth of the goddess statue, the ice lake condensed into an equally clear water droplet, which kept falling and slowly landed on the goddess' cheek.
(End of this chapter)