"...Thank you." Jing Xing was silent for a long time, and finally responded with a sigh.

Jingde didn't say anything, he just looked at Jingxing quietly.

After a long time, so long that Jingxing thought he would not speak again, Jingde finally spoke again.

"Do you know why I hate you? Because you took my things."

"I took...your things?"

"My mother once told me that my father was a great hero and a very remarkable man. However, such a person...is not a good father."

Jingde finally found an outlet to vent the words that had been held in his heart for a long time.

He didn't care what Jingxing's expression was and just started talking about the past.

"My mother is a female doctor. She found my father in a mountain stream. At that time, he had just escaped from a secret place with a narrow escape from death. He was covered in wounds. It was my mother who healed him bit by bit."

"While recovering from her injuries, my mother fell in love with my father, who was righteous, strong, yet caring for the weak. In order to cure my mother's heart disease, my father once again ventured into the secret realm that had put him at risk of death."

"They were in tune with each other, and in front of the whole village, they worshipped heaven and earth, and then I was born. At that time, the thing my father did most often was to touch my mother's belly and talk to me. My mother said that was really the happiest time of her life."

When Jingde said this, there was a smile on the corner of his lips, but soon that smile disappeared in an instant, turning into a bitterness that was hard to see.

Jing Xing looked at his friend, finally sighed, and said:

"And then? What happened?"

Jingde really wanted to tell others the words buried deep in his heart, so when Jingxing asked, he started talking again.

"The good times didn't last long. After failing to contact the demon tribe several times, my father finally decided to go back to the tribe to take a look. At that time, my mother's belly was already very big, so she couldn't go with him. She could only wait for him in the village."

"She waited and waited for a long, long time, so long that wrinkles appeared at the corners of her eyes and white hair appeared in her hair, but she still didn't wait for the man who said he wanted to reunite the family."

"At that time, I hated my father very much, but my mother always told me to remember his kindness, saying that he just forgot the way home and was a little confused on the road of life. One day, when he finally remembered the way home, he would come back."

"Unfortunately, my mother didn't wait until that person came home, because the life span of mortals is ultimately limited. She waited until her hair turned gray, her teeth fell out, and even the village was submerged in a flood, but that person still didn't come back."

"so--"

When Jingde said this, he looked at Jingxing again, with undisguised sadness in his eyes.

"So, I wanted to see where the heartless man who abandoned us got lost, but I saw you following him and calling him father."

Jingxing: “!”

Although I had guessed long ago that Jingde was Wuya's child, I also guessed that Wuya could not return to that small mountain village because of the disaster that happened to the demon clan.

But Jingxing really didn't know that there was once a young man who secretly envied him.

Jingde smiled self-deprecatingly: "How ironic, my father had another child outside, and he wasn't even a hero, just a useless drunkard. I really wanted to kill you all at that time."

"But that person is still waiting for him to go home. I want to take him home. If he gets lost on the road of life, then I will help him find his way home."

"I was still thinking about how to approach him, but I ended up falling into a monster's trap. He finally came down from the sky like a hero in a story and saved me. But he...didn't recognize me."

"You know everything that happened afterwards. She was obviously his biological child, but he took her in as his apprentice and adopted son. How ironic! It's ridiculous, isn't it?"

Jingxing sighed slowly: "Why not tell him the truth?"

Jingde's gaze passed through Jingxing, as if he was looking into the distant past.

He did not speak immediately, but after a long while, he seemed to have finally found his voice and said:

"I once asked him if he had a loved one. Do you know how he answered?"

"How did he answer?"

"He said, 'No, no, hahaha.' Then who is my mother? Who am I? What difference does it make whether the truth is told or not?"

Jingxing looked at Jingde in front of him. He was clearly smiling, but his laughter sounded so bitter.

Although the corners of his mouth were trying hard to rise, tears were flowing from the corners of his eyes.

At this moment, Jingxing even felt that Jingde had been holding it in for too long and was almost crazy.

"So, you joined Yousu and wanted to take revenge on him, right?"

Jingde's smile froze on his face in an instant. He suddenly looked up at Jingxing, with unprecedented surprise in his eyes.

And Jingxing just looked at him quietly across the ice.

"Sure enough, I can't hide it from you?"

"What do you want to do?"

"As smart as you are, haven't you already guessed it?" Jingde looked up at the sky while speaking.

Even in the Xuanling Realm, there is no sky at all.

"God descends." Jing Xing really uttered those two words slowly.

"Yes, we need to ask the gods to come. For this, everything can be sacrificed."

"Then you should also know that over the past thousand years, more than one person has performed a ceremony to summon the gods, but the gods have never even cast a glance at us."

All the divine descents failed without exception. Even Ku Ji, the most famous Buddhist disciple of Lingshui Temple in those days, turned into a mortal with all his cultivation lost after the divine descent ceremony.

As for the others, most of them died suddenly, and even if one or two survived, they became fools or lunatics.

It was as if the gods had abandoned this world, so that over the past thousands of years, only a handful of people have been able to ascend from the lower world.

And those who ascended to the upper realms, without exception, have lost contact.

Only the ancestor of Poyun Sect was the only one who had been to the upper realm and suppressed his realm before returning.

Unfortunately, the laws of nature prevented him from revealing the details of the upper realm, so up to this day no one knows what the gods and immortals in the upper realm look like.

Only Jing Xing heard from the headmaster about the past, and heard that the old ancestor's soul had left a message to Poyun Sect before falling into a deep sleep -

"Don't ascend."

No one in the sect understood the meaning, but they still passed on the ancestor's words to each sect.

However, they were slandered by other sects, who said that they were afraid that their ancestor would fall into a deep sleep and that they were far behind the other sects in strength, so they made up lies to fool people.

The Poyun Sect was so angry that it cut off ties with many sects and no longer cared about the affairs of these immortal sects.

However, due to the battle between Heaven and Demon, the spiritual energy in the world was thin and had not been fully recovered. As a result, everyone's realm had reached the Void Refinement Stage, and it was not enough to advance one step further.

So, over the years, no one has been able to ascend.

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