The ancients watched me play the Starry Sky Railway

"Seeing Yukong lost in memories of the past, not even noticing the tears trickling down her cheeks, no one bothered her."

"After a moment, she wiped away her tears and continued."

"The brain is a strange organ. After living for over two hundred years, I've long forgotten most small talk...but I remember every word of that boring chat clearly."

"Because that was the last time Cai Yi and I had a small talk."

The sky changed again, and the background changed from Luofu to a battlefield covered in flames.

Everywhere around were downed star ships or beast ships, and corpses were everywhere...

Yukong was holding a fox woman.

"Cai Yi...Hold on...Cai Yi, Cai Yi! Open your eyes, Cai Yi!"

"Ahem..." Cai Yi spat out a mouthful of blood, then opened his eyes with difficulty, as if a last breath had come. "Thank you, Yukong... I've had a good life. But... don't let Qingni go down this path, don't let her... become a battleship pilot..."

"That's your daughter! Go and tell her what you want to say! Help is coming soon, hold on a little longer, Qingni is waiting for you! Guangyuan is dead, Qingni can't lose you again, wake up! Caiyi! Caiyi! Caiyi..."

"Yukong cried out Caiyi's name, but received no response."

"...How miserable." A villager murmured.

"As the saying goes, it is better to be a dog in peacetime than a man in troubled times." A scholar who had read several books sighed.

The wars recorded in history books are just a few sentences, but when it comes to specific people...

Just like this Yukong Siduo and Caiyi, it really felt like the sky was falling.

Hearing what the scholar said, the others felt sad.

"Luckily we didn't get into a fight here."

"Never fight in the end!"

"Yeah, it's best to never fight... Why fight for no reason? Isn't it good to farm your own land, have food to eat, and live a warm life with a wife and children?"

The villagers didn’t understand why they had to fight.

War is so bad.

The scholar just shook his head and sighed... It's just this village, with only about a hundred people.

A few months ago during the planting season, we fought with the neighboring village for nearly half a month over water resources, and a total of seven or eight people died in the two villages.

If this is the case even between villages, what about between countries?

There is never peace or kindness in this world.

In order to make your own survival better, you can only let others die!

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"That day, when I looked up, I saw the sky of that bloodless and tearless planet, unadorned by its atmosphere."

“It was the most beautiful sky I had ever seen, but I felt nothing but unbearable sadness. I could only crawl on the ground like a damned ant, staring at it.”

“In my dream, I died on that day.”

"Yukong raised his head, as if he saw that scene again, and saw the sky of that year."

"This is the first time I've heard you talk about these things." Qingni looked at Yukong, whose face was filled with sorrow. She took a deep breath, and her eyes became incomparably resolute.

"But, Mom, I'm not a naive child anymore. Becoming a battleship pilot is a brutal journey, and I've been prepared for it..."

"But I won't back down. I'm not afraid of following the same path as her... If sacrifice can bring happiness to the people of the Immortal Ship, then I'm willing to die!"

"What a good child," Xin Qiji sighed. "What a good child... Even better, she was born in Xianzhou. How wonderful."

Doesn't he also want to burn everything he has for the sake of the people of the world?

However, he was so cowardly that even if he wanted to burn, he couldn't find a place to burn...

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"You really look like Cai Yi." Yukong stared at her in amazement, as if he had returned to the time when he and Cai Yi were chatting decades ago."

“So over the years, the better you became, the more afraid I became. I knew you were ready… but I still wasn’t ready.”

"You know what? Those cruel things have never defeated me. Cai Yi, your biological father Guang Yuan, and I...were already prepared from the moment we joined the army."

"Qingni, do you know how we ultimately won that battle that took away Caiyi... and hundreds of thousands of our comrades?"

"Qingni is very talented. Not only is she gifted at piloting the Star Raft, but she also excels in history. So, when Yukong asked, she immediately remembered."

"It's the divine arrow of Emperor Bow Siming."

"Yes." Yukong's eyes were filled with indescribable loneliness.

"Thanks to the divine grace of Emperor Gong Siming, we annihilated those evil creatures with a single arrow! But simply to stop their advance, we paid the price of hundreds of thousands of lives..."

"If crushing those enemies is as easy as breathing for Emperor Gong Siming... then what does our sacrifice mean?"

""Under the might of the Star God, the sacrifices of mortals are like a joke... nothing...""

"She wasn't resentful of Emperor Bow Siming for not launching that strike sooner."

"She knows better than anyone that people must first save themselves before God can save them."

"If someone helps you, but you resent them for not helping you sooner, then I can only say that such a person is born not to be helped. They are a real ungrateful person!"

"What she truly felt was a sense of powerlessness and emptiness... She was questioning her own life, Cai Yi's life, and even the entire Immortal Boat... Was there really any value in their existence?"

(I seriously suspect that Yukong is about to enter a fate of nothingness.)

"Her mentality is so strange!" Xiang Yu scratched his head, puzzled. "She clearly received help from the gods and won the war, so why isn't she happy? She's even doubting her own worth?"

"It's probably because his mentality is broken." Fan Zeng thought about it for a moment and felt that he understood Yukong's mentality a little.

Many times, he had made plans, but Xiang Yu just didn't listen to him.

It would have been fine if he hadn't listened, but Xiang Yu actually went to the battlefield and won the battle with his guns fired!

Whenever this happened, Fan Zeng would actually think...what is the meaning of his existence?

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"But..." Yukong changed the subject, finally smiling. "I shouldn't make decisions for others just because of my own fear...even if that person is my daughter. I rudely interfered with your life choices. I'm sorry. This is my dereliction of duty as a mother."

"Tears welled up in Qingni's eyes. She realized that Yukong had finally come to his senses and was willing to let her become a pilot."

"Mom...you don't have to apologize. Really, you don't have to apologize."