Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Chapter 371 The Pain of Immortality

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Guo Shiyi and Lin Shiwei chatted for so long that by the time they came out of the shop, it was already dusk. Knowing that time was precious, Qin Xiaochuan immediately rushed to the vicinity of Li Laojia's house in the north of the city and found Qiu Jie there.

"This isn't that..." Guo Shiyi looked surprised when she saw Qiu Jie. She had learned from Qin Xiaochuan that Qiu Jie was not really dead, but she didn't expect that he had been sent to Crescent City. After all, at that time, Qin Xiaochuan could not tell her about Crescent City.

Qin Xiaochuan smiled slightly and said, "Qiu Jie, an old acquaintance. You didn't expect to see him here, did you?"

"Hmph, you still have the nerve to say that? You've kept it from me for so long," Guo Shiyi said reproachfully, pinching his arm as she spoke.

"Hey, why are you pinching me?" Qin Xiaochuan asked, puzzled.

"Who told you to lie to me? I'm teaching you a lesson. No matter what happens in the future, you're not allowed to lie to me again," Guo Shiyi said angrily.

"Didn't I tell you he wasn't dead? So it's not like I kept it from you," Qin Xiaochuan said, both amused and exasperated.

"Telling only part of the truth is also a form of deception." Guo Shiyi tilted her head, puffed out her cheeks, and looked at Qin Xiaochuan with a sullen expression. Her anger was adorable, and Qin Xiaochuan couldn't resist, so he had no choice but to admit his mistake.

"That's more like it." Seeing Qin Xiaochuan's sincere attitude in admitting his mistake, Guo Shiyi immediately put on a smiling face again.

Qin Xiaochuan, seeing this, subconsciously patted her head affectionately. When he turned around, he found Qiu Jie standing there awkwardly. Realizing there were other people around, he coughed and asked, "How is it? Any news from Old Li?"

Qiu Jie looked somewhat dejected and said, "Not long before you came, he told me that he had made up his mind and no longer wanted to seal that memory, so... so he didn't plan to accept your request, and he even returned the memory crystal that he had given him before." As he spoke, he opened his palm and presented the memory crystal to Qin Xiaochuan.

"Okay, I understand." Qin Xiaochuan said calmly, taking the crystal from Qiu Jie's hand. He didn't seem to care. In fact, he was prepared to be rejected. After all, that guy was really strange and couldn't be understood with ordinary thinking. Now that he knew Lin Shiwei's story, he was even calmer because he felt that he had found the key breakthrough.

"Let's go back first. This matter needs to be discussed further." Qin Xiaochuan said, leading Qiu Jie back to the inner court.

Dinner time, in the inner court's dining room.

"This old man Li is even more stubborn than we imagined. We don't have much time left. What are your thoughts?" Qin Xiaochuan asked, then put a piece of meat in his mouth.

"The only way is to try and persuade him by using Lin Shiwei's situation," Han Kexin said.

"I think Mr. Li and Sister Wei really care about each other, so maybe we could try to bring them together," Guo Shiyi said earnestly.

"Relationships depend on fate; you can't force them. If they were meant to be together, they would have been together long ago, and it wouldn't have dragged on until now," Han Kexin said calmly.

"What do you think is trapping them? Is it a curse? Fate? Or is it their own cowardice?" Qin Xiaochuan asked.

"Do you remember what Sister Keyun said?" Guo Shiyi asked.

Upon hearing Guo Shiyi's words, Qin Xiaochuan subconsciously looked at Xiaoying and found that Xiaoying was taking big bites of a piece of green-eyed porcupine leg meat, with oil stains all over her face, completely unaware that Guo Shiyi had mentioned her mother.

After seeing Qin Xiaochuan's expression, Guo Shiyi glanced at Xiaoying before saying, "She once said that everyone's soul is born incomplete, which is why we are attracted to the people and things we truly love. This process is destined to be full of pain, but that is our mission in life. Escaping will not solve the problem. Only by facing this pain can we achieve true liberation. I think that's how Old Li and Sister Wei are. They need to face their own problems."

Han Kexin didn't hear what her sister said. After Guo Shiyi repeated it, she also fell into deep thought, staring at the dishes on the table for a long time without saying a word.

"You're right." Qin Xiaochuan nodded. "I suddenly feel that the so-called curse of the Blood Witch Clan is also due to this reason."

"What do you mean? What are you thinking about?" Guo Shiyi asked.

Qin Xiaochuan said, "I remembered the annotation the previous Blood Witch King made in 'The Original Way Notes'. There was a sentence in it that said, 'Only love can change destiny.' At the time, I felt that the previous Blood Witch King must have already known how to break the curse of the Blood Witch Clan, which is why he left this sentence. Now, after learning about Elder Li and Lin Shiwei, I suddenly have a completely new understanding of the Blood Witch Clan."

"What do you mean by knowing each other?" Guo Shiyi asked curiously.

Instead of answering, Qin Xiaochuan asked, "What kind of person would be willing to become a blood witch? Although they have eternal life, they suffer endless loneliness and torment. This is actually a kind of punishment."

Guo Shiyi thought for a moment and asked, "Do you mean that people who willingly come to Crescent City are people who have lost hope in interpersonal relationships in the real world and are willing to choose a life of solitude? Just like Sister Wei back then, betrayed by true love and misunderstood by her family."

Qin Xiaochuan sighed and said, "Yes, they are all people who escape from the real world. They have long since become lonely individuals in the real world. Although they seem to be living earnestly, they have actually long been isolated from the warmth and coldness of the human world. So in the end, they exiled themselves to this Buzhou Realm. Otherwise, how could a normal person bear the endless loneliness in Crescent Moon City? Don't forget that Buzhou Realm was originally a place of exile for the demon race."

"What you're saying makes some sense. Our understanding of the Blood Witch Clan has been too stereotypical and one-sided. To break the curse of this race, we must first gain a deeper understanding of them," Guo Shiyi said. Then she asked Qiu Jie, "Qiu Jie, why did you become a Blood Witch in the first place?"

Qiu Jie appeared very uneasy as he entered the inner court for the first time. He put down his chopsticks and swallowed the food in his mouth before slowly saying, "I have been an orphan since I was a child. My grandmother raised me. I was very thin due to malnutrition when I was young, and I was also very withdrawn. I was often bullied by other children, so I didn't have many friends. However, my grandmother passed away when I was sixteen, so I dropped out of school and worked odd jobs to support myself. Later, I met a blood witch. After learning that he had superpowers, he helped me become a blood witch at my request."

Qiu Jie's words confirmed Qin Xiaochuan's statement, but since it was an isolated case, Qiu Jie added, "Actually, many people in Crescent City are in the same situation as me, at least those I know. They all came here because they lost hope in the real world, but..."

"Just what?" Qin Xiaochuan asked.

Qiu Jie hesitated for a moment before saying, "But after they arrived in Crescent City, they found that it was the same there."

"Is there really no hope?" Qin Xiaochuan asked, knowing the answer already.

"Yes, that's what everyone thinks. In fact, they are all trapped in a city, not Crescent City, but the city deep in their hearts," Qiu Jie said.