Female lead: No, it's me again??

Prosperous Flower Village.

Early in the morning, Feng Siyue walked towards the village entrance and once again encountered the old woman.

Grandma Flower treated them as always.

At the dinner table, Feng Siyue asked with a smile, "Grandma Hua, is your daughter named Shi'er?"

The old woman looked at her in surprise, "How do you know the name Shi'er?"

Feng Siyue smiled gently, "On my way here, I overheard someone saying that there is an old woman in Fanhua Village who loves to sunbathe at the entrance of the village, waiting for her daughter Shier to come back."

Grandma Flower was a little embarrassed, "My reputation has spread far and wide!"

"But Shi'er is not my daughter, she is my granddaughter. Her name is Shengshi, Sheng as in blooming and Shi as in the world, but her nickname is Shi'er."

A hint of reluctance flashed in Feng Siyue's eyes.

"What about them?"

Grandma Hua picked up a piece of green vegetable and put it in her bowl, smiling. "She went out for a trip with my daughter and son-in-law when she was two years old, and it's been almost three years now."

"After she left, the persimmon tree in my vegetable garden bore fewer and fewer fruits. I think it's probably thinking of them too!"

Feng Siyue's eyes suddenly reddened. "Grandpa, don't worry, they should be back soon."

She tried to suppress the stinging sensation in her nose, but ultimately couldn't withstand the intense emotional impact.

Feng Siyue pretended that something had gotten into her eyes and rubbed them, letting tears stream down her face. Her voice choked with emotion, "I got sand in my eyes, I'm sorry."

The old man didn't notice anything amiss and maintained his kind smile, saying, "Be careful not to hurt your eyes."

The girl sniffed, and when she removed her hand, there was no trace that she had been crying. Feng Siyue's eyebrows curved slightly.

"What are your daughter and son-in-law's names? If we meet them outside, we might be able to pass on a message for you."

After a long silence, Xuan Li suddenly spoke, his eyes filled with an inexplicable certainty, "Your daughter's name is Hua Ling, and your son-in-law's name is Jian Sheng, right?"

Feng Siyue looked at her in surprise, her eyes seeming to ask, "How did you know?"

"Yes, but not entirely. My son-in-law's surname is San, his given name is Jiansheng, and my daughter's name is Hualing."

This is the end of it all.

At noon, the two arrived at the persimmon tree. Feng Siyue stroked its scorched bark and whispered, "Don't hold on any longer, the person you're waiting for..."

"They're not coming back."

Xuan Li seemed to understand something, but remained silent.

The persimmon tree did not react.

Feng Siyue sighed, "A thousand years ago, a man named Sanjian Sheng accidentally wandered into Chunyuan Village, a place full of flowers yet isolated from the world. He fell in love at first sight with Hua Ling, a young girl who was still a flower maiden."

That year, the only persimmon tree in the village was lush and full of fruit.

"Later, they met and fell in love under the persimmon tree, and finally promised to be husband and wife for life, taking their lovely daughter to see all the beautiful scenery in the world."

"So her name is Shengshi. It's a homonym for Shengshi, which comes from the persimmon that is laden with fruit. She is the daughter of Hua Niang and Sanjian."

"You gained wisdom because of their happiness, and you also learned what love is because of them; watching the prosperous world grow little by little, every year thereafter, this persimmon tree is laden with fruit."

They were very happy during those years.

"However, Sanjian Sheng is a cultivator, and a powerful ice spirit root cultivator at that."

“Shengshi inherited his spiritual root, so he was very close to the Ice Cat from a young age. They played and frolicked, and they were very happy.”

"But the long-term presence of polar cats has made the land unsuitable for cultivation, resulting in a sharp decline in crop yields."

"Having accumulated resentment, they accidentally discovered the unusual nature of the prosperous era, and were ultimately branded as monsters, dying in a fire set by the villagers themselves."

She was three years old that year.

The golden age didn't last three years; it ended when he was three years old.

"Hua Niang went mad. On a dark and stormy night, she fell into demonic possession and killed the entire village in the same way, but her husband, who was returning home, shot her through the heart with an arrow and her soul was scattered."

"Upon learning that he had killed his wife with his own hands, he regretted it and begged his master to save her, but it was too late."

"Heartbroken, Sanjian Sheng returned to Fanhua Village and abandoned his martial arts. He sat under the persimmon tree where they had pledged their lives to each other every day, weeping. In the end, he followed his wife and died there, never to be reborn."

"From beginning to end, he had no idea what kind of suffering his wife and daughters had endured."

"And you, because of Sanjian Sheng's self-destruction, you absorbed his blood, flesh, and spiritual power, and thus inherited his inner pain and resentment."

"He doesn't know the reason, but you do."

"You blame these villagers for being ignorant and foolish, and you blame Sanjian Sheng for leaving those few days?"

"It's also that Arctic cat's fault for not knowing its limits."

"He willingly degenerated and abandoned his spiritual body to become a demonic plant. He used his powerful ice-type spiritual energy to freeze the surrounding twenty miles, making it impossible to grow a single grain of food on this land."

"They then used soul sacrifices to construct this illusion, trapping, starving, and burning them to death, torturing them day after day."

So Granny Flower's house was filled with burn medicine and food, simply because she wanted to live.

The last vestige of the mountain persimmon tree's will rested on Granny Flower, stubbornly sitting at the village entrance waiting for the dead to return.

She paused for a few moments. "The Nine Elements Reincarnation Array isn't meant to resurrect anyone. From beginning to end, you just wanted to torment their souls, preventing them from ever finding peace, right?"