The moment his body was burned to ashes by the raging flames and he and the fake Heavenly Dao perished together, Mingnan briefly lost consciousness due to the severe pain.

When she woke up again, she had returned to the system space.

Before she could recover, a glowing ball flew straight into her arms, sobbing.

[I am so scared, host. Wuwuwuwu——]

[I almost thought I would never see you again...]

[Such a big fire, it must be painful for you! ]

Mingnan held the ball helplessly and said, "Alright, alright, I'm fine now. Don't cry, it really doesn't hurt. It's just a replay of the past."

205: [I don’t believe it…]

Mingnan had no way to deal with it. The shock just now was too great. She was still a little dazed and had no mind to comfort it. She could only hold it and let it vent, and let it go when it was tired of crying.

Fortunately, 205 still had some rationality, and after a while of howling, curiosity got the better of him.

It withdrew from Mingnan's arms, and hung in the air, flickering. [Host, what's the matter with that fake Heavenly Dao? What do you mean by saying that if it weren't for it, your master wouldn't have died? Why don't I understand a word you said? ]

Mingnan sat cross-legged on the ground and did not answer immediately, but touched his sleeve.

But she is a soul now, without sleeves, and the mirror of reincarnation is naturally gone.

She sighed silently and smiled casually, "Let's continue from the last time."

205 immediately fell in front of her obediently, [Okay, I'm all ears. ]

Mingnan sorted out his memories and spoke slowly:

"In my previous life, after I saw the tragic situation in the mortal world at Guanyuntai, I wanted to ask the Emperor of Heaven for help, but when I remembered his so-called theory of the supremacy of heaven, I gave up the idea. I turned back and wanted to solve the problem from the source, so I flew to the sky to investigate and found the hole."

Just like in this life, she discovered the faint light after entering the black hole.

At first she didn't know that it was the way of heaven, she just felt confused, why was there such a strange thing behind the sky?

But when she got closer, she found the clue——

Several pure powers floated in from outside the cave and merged into the light.

She smelled the scent of human beings from those powers.

She reached out to touch it, and saw a small memory of that person's life before his death.

At that moment she suddenly realized that this was a power refined from human souls.

After a person dies, his soul is supposed to enter reincarnation, but it is abruptly cut off and sent here.

She had a hunch that something was wrong, so she tried to intercept these forces.

Then the ball of light spoke, saying that it was the Way of Heaven and that harming it would backfire on her, and asked her not to forget her identity.

It was in that split second that Mingnan understood everything.

She pretended to believe it and asked a few more questions to thoroughly verify her guess.

Why has the Heavenly Dao, as the origin of all things, become so indifferent and even try to destroy all things?

Why are gods not allowed to interfere in mortal disasters?

Why has no one achieved enlightenment through cultivation in all these years?

All the clues put together point to one possibility - the way of heaven has been controlled.

After guessing the truth, she observed for a while and found that the fake Tiandao could not move, so she immediately took action against it.

During the fight, she keenly noticed that the fake Tiandao was in a weak period. It was probably because he had just fought with the real Tiandao, so he exposed a flaw. The hole was left during the fight.

However weak she was, with her current level of cultivation, she was unable to completely destroy the Fake Heavenly Dao.

Just as she was hesitating, the fake Heavenly Dao, like this world, transformed into the phantoms of Yuan Ying and the other two, which completely angered Mingnan.

What happened next was the same as today. Mingnan extracted his bones to forge an axe, split the sky and shattered the delusion, and perished together with the fake Tiandao.

That is, at the moment she pounced on the fake Tiandao, she saw Tiandao's memory and knew the whole truth.

……

When heaven and earth were first separated, Qiankun, good and evil, existed side by side, each distinct and following its own path, maintaining a delicate balance.

However, at some unknown time, the evil side of the Heavenly Dao developed a spiritual consciousness, which wanted to swallow up the entire Heavenly Dao and completely control the world.

But the power of good and evil is equal, and even if it has spiritual consciousness, it is difficult to completely overwhelm the good side, so for a long time, both sides have been fighting for control.

Whenever a natural disaster occurs on earth, the evil side will take the opportunity to absorb people's souls and resentment to nourish itself. Gradually, it has the upper hand more often, and the good side is at a disadvantage. The entire heavenly palace is subtly influenced by it and becomes more and more indifferent.

But this alone is not enough to stabilize the status of the false heaven.

It first severed the connection between heaven and earth, so that people could only ascend but not go back, and all new gods and immortals would be controlled and bewitched by it.

As time went by, their feelings and memories of the human world became increasingly blurred. They only remembered their identities as immortals and only believed in the false way of heaven.

In this way, the power of the false Heavenly Dao continued to grow, suppressing the true Heavenly Dao and making it unable to turn over.

But it is not satisfied and reaches out to the human world.

It brought heavy rains in March, causing floods and drowning countless people and animals.

According to the original plan, if half of the people were drowned, the power of those souls would be enough to completely devour the True Heavenly Dao.

But a God King showed up halfway and ruined its plan, causing it to absorb less than one tenth of the power.

In a rage, it sent down divine punishment to kill the man, but it was still not satisfied and did not stop until he was struck to pieces with his soul.

The people were grateful for the kindness of the God and built many temples on earth to offer incense to him. The power of kindness and faith helped the declining True Heavenly Dao to revive.

Since Heaven was unable to take care of itself, the world was at peace for a long time.

But soon it returned and opened up the source of the Heavenly River and the Earthly Water, which was the lake that Mingnan and his friends saw in the secret realm in the Far East.

It was truly an unprecedented catastrophe.

The water from the sky and the underground mixed together and continuously flowed into the human world, leaving no one alive wherever they passed.

The fake Tiandao learned from the last lesson and brought a magic dragon to stir up trouble.

But despite all its calculations, it had overlooked the human heart.

It didn't expect that mortals were much braver and more united than it imagined.

At that time, all the sects of immortal cultivation stood up and collectively rushed to the Far East. Using the essence and blood of several powerful men as a guide, they drew a sealing formation. Then they captured the magic dragon, used it as the center of the formation, and drew its and the powerful men's cultivation to supply the formation to operate. Only then did they manage to stop the water.

The True Heavenly Dao wanted to take the opportunity to select a few people with perfect merits to ascend, but was stopped by the False Heavenly Dao.

The two sides were tug-of-war, and the fake Heavenly Dao was unable to cope with the situation. The world once again welcomed a thousand years of peace.

Later, Jia Tiandao came up with many vicious schemes one after another, but they were half successful and half failed.

It was never able to completely devour the True Heavenly Dao.

In a rage, the fake Heavenly Dao completely cut off the path for mortals to ascend to heaven, and even drew away half of the spiritual energy, intending to weaken the power of the human world.

This dragged on until the power of the formation was exhausted and the evil dragon gradually revived. It secretly gave the evil dragon an order to let it release the water and destroy the world, and then it would give the dragon freedom.

But it didn't expect that another group of brave and fearless people would sacrifice themselves for the greater good.

If the dragon got in the way, they would die together with it. Without an eye in the formation, Mingnan cut open his heart to fill the gap and sucked the flood back.

The death of the evil dragon had a significant impact on the false heaven.

The True Heavenly Dao once again gained the upper hand. It took the opportunity to open the passage and seized the moment to make Mingnan an immortal when she was only taking her last breath.

So Mingnan became the only variable in these ten thousand years.

The real Tiandao deliberately broke the sky curtain to lure her over, and then entangled the fake Tiandao, making it unable to escape, which gave Mingnan the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

At this point, the false Heavenly Dao was completely destroyed, and the true Heavenly Dao regained control.

……

After saying that, Mingnan let out a long sigh, feeling mixed emotions.

The whole story became completely clear, and 205 suddenly realized it and was shocked.

[This game lasted for tens of thousands of years, and several generations were sacrificed before the final victory was finally achieved. It was not easy, too difficult. If even one generation had given up during this period, the result would not be what it is today.]

Mingnan shook his head, "No."

205 was stunned: [Ah? Why? ]

Mingnan looked at his hands and smiled softly, "Because there will always be someone who will stand up."

Even if someone retreats, there will be new people to take over.

At the moment of life and death, people are always the most united and fearless.

205Thinking, [Yes. ]

Mingnan paused for a moment, then stood up and walked towards the screen in the space.

"Actually, I'm more curious about what happens after I die. How do I leave this world and go to a completely strange place?"

205: [Ah? Host, don’t you know it yourself? ]

Mingnan shook his head. "I don't know. I didn't remember anything when I first met you, or—"

She paused, turned her head to look at it, and said awkwardly, "You know everything."

205 Youyou said: [Yes, you really deceived me so badly. ]

Mingnan smiled awkwardly, "I didn't mean to do that. My soul was just being put together at that time, and I didn't remember anything. It was only after I bound myself to you that I slowly remembered."

[Hmph.] 205 snorted coldly, [For the sake of our many times of life and death together, I will reluctantly forgive you. No——]

It suddenly fell silent.

Mingnan raised his hand and waved it in front of it. "Nothing? Short circuit?"

205 jumped, rushed to the screen and said: [Host, look! There's someone here!]

Mingnan thought to himself what was so good about it, but when he took a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye, he was stunned for a moment.

A huge red lotus appeared on the screen. The lotus blossomed, and a barefoot person in a red robe, so beautiful that it was difficult to tell whether he was male or female, stood on the lotus seat with his eyes closed.

Mingnan's breath was caught in her throat, and a familiar feeling coming from the depths of her soul made her tremble.

He is... Yanshan?

At the same time, Yanshan slowly opened his eyes and spread out his palm, in which lay a glittering fragment.

205: [Isn’t that your residual soul? ]

Mingnan stared at it intently and said with difficulty, "Yes."

At this moment, she vaguely knew what was going on.

Sure enough, the next moment, Yan Shan took out a drop of blood from his forehead and dripped it into her soul.

After the two were combined, Yanshan closed his eyes and whispered an ancient and obscure spell. After that, thunder was heard from the sky, which meant that the oath had been fulfilled.

Then a red mark appeared between his eyebrows, exactly the same as the one they had seen in the mermaid world before.

Mingnan suddenly realized that they had made a soul contract so long ago.

Yan Shan opened his eyes again, tore through the void, and flew out of this world.

The scene suddenly changed and turned into the vast and boundless universe of time and space.

205: [Isn’t this the three thousand small worlds we traveled through?! ]

Mingnan's eyes trembled as he watched Yanshan use the Samsara Mirror to travel through the three thousand worlds, collecting her soul piece by piece.

I repeated this countless times before I finally collected them all.

He held the broken pieces in his hands and patiently sewed them together bit by bit using the thread made from his own blood.

The flow of time in the space-time universe is different from that in the outside world. Mingnan cannot estimate how long it took him to repair her soul.

All I saw was his solid body becoming increasingly transparent, and then turning into a shadow that would disperse with the wind.

Finally, the last bit was fixed.

Her dark and mottled soul was covered with traces of red marks.

Looks gorgeous and weird.

Yan Shan pulled his lips bitterly, hugged her soul and leaned over to kiss her, murmuring: "I'm sorry, I'm late."

When Mingnan ascended to heaven, he was also illuminated by the rosy glow. His cultivation level increased greatly, and he spontaneously went into seclusion to digest the energy.

He had no idea what was happening in the outside world.

By the time he had completely refined those powers and cultivated a physical body, Mingnan had already died.

In a hurry, he only captured a remnant soul.

Thinking of this, he said with lingering fear: "Fortunately, I didn't lose you."

After saying that, he counted with his fingers and found a glimmer of hope, so he held her up and walked towards one of the worlds with determination.

But his body had already been stretched to its limit by repeated time and space travel.

Halfway through the journey, he couldn't hold on any longer and fell down. Before he disappeared, he used the last bit of his divine power to send Mingnan to his destination.

At this point, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, smiled with relief, and murmured, "Wait for me..."

Afterwards, he shattered into countless red lotus petals and disappeared into the vast void, and the Mirror of Samsara was also lost.

……

Mingnan was stunned for a long time, and his nose suddenly felt sore.

"I see."

She murmured, "I should have thought of it sooner."

Her meeting with 205 was never a coincidence, but a chance of life that he had spent all his efforts to secure for her.

205 was also shocked and speechless for a long time.

When the flying flowers had all dispersed, it suddenly came back to its senses, and its first reaction was: [So, he is the big liar?! ]

Mingnan burst into laughter, and as he laughed he felt relieved.

She let out a long sigh and sighed:

"I never got to see him until I died in my previous life."

"So this is what he looks like."

She touched her forehead, and the mark felt slightly hot. "Sure enough, everything in this world cannot escape the word cause and effect."

When they first met, she helped him overcome the disaster because of...

Later, he replenished her soul, which was a result.

Whether human or god, life and death are predetermined. If you go against the will of heaven, you will definitely have to pay a price. Yan Shan saved her by exchanging his life for hers. When her soul is gathered together, his soul will be scattered.

But they have a soul contract. As long as one of them is alive, the other will not be completely dead, and the bond between them will always be there.

Therefore, Mingnan’s vitality is also his vitality.

Mingnan bound to system 205 and began his journey through time and space.

The most matching routes calculated by the system are the result of the mutual attraction between the two people's souls.

So no matter where Mingnan goes, he is destined to meet Yanshan.

The same red mole on their fingertips was the knot left by Yan Shan using blood to refine the thread. It was engraved on their souls, forever indelible, and later became the clue for them to recognize each other.

The so-called mind-reading was not something Yanshan did intentionally. It was just a wonderful accident caused by the magnetic field and data disorder during the journey.

Later, following the guidance of some mysterious force, they came to the mermaid world, found the lost reincarnation mirror, and repeated old events. Mingnan successfully recovered his previous memories and solved years of confusion.

Fate is like a circle. They go from the beginning to the end and return to the starting point.

But what about the person who has always been by her side?

As soon as the thought came to his mind, Mingnan felt a strong push from behind.

She was pushed without any preparation and staggered, and vaguely she passed through something.

When she came back to her senses, she was standing in the space-time universe.

205 wondered in her mind: [Hey? What's going on? ]

Mingnan thought for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Do you still remember the ending of the mermaid world?"

205: [Ah?]

"After the mermaid world ended, Yan Shan and I entered the Samsara Mirror together."

205 Suddenly, it became clear, [Oh! So everything before was just a world in the mirror, and you just walked out of the mirror! ]

Since they went in together, then her coming out doesn't mean that -

"Mingnan."

In an instant, a familiar yet unfamiliar voice with a faint smile sounded behind Mingnan.

This belated call, across countless mountains and seas and time, struck her heart again.

Mingnan suddenly turned around and saw the red figure standing quietly behind her, as if it had never left.

When their eyes met, he slowly opened his arms and smiled: "I'm back."

The real person was right in front of him, but Mingnan was afraid that the meeting was just a dream, so he didn't dare to go forward.

She asked softly, "Yanshan?"

"I'm here."

Yanshan's smile became even more intense, his eyes filled with love.

Mingnan immediately threw away all his worries and strode towards him.

Yanshan quickly stepped forward and caught the person steadily.

Feeling the familiar temperature and the real heartbeat, Mingnan held his face and kissed him without saying anything.

Yanshan laughed and responded enthusiastically.

They had waited for this kiss for too long.

It was so long that it spanned the first meeting and the reunion, the past and the present.

But fortunately, they still have countless bright and glorious futures to embrace.

Until the seas run dry and the rocks crumble, and the earth ends.

——End of text——

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