Chapter 525: No matter how you choose, you can't find a way to live

Tang An's eyes were gloomy, and killing intent surged.

"If you dare to have ideas about them, I dare to kill you."

She had already lost Nezha and absolutely could not lose Wukong and Yang Jian again; otherwise, no matter how she lived, it would be more painful than death.

Nuwa still said lightly, "Wukong is a spiritual stone nurtured by heaven and earth; from the moment of his birth, he has his own fate."

"You helped him avoid the Wutian Great Tribulation, but his fate of sacrificing for the Three Realms has still not changed."

"Coupled with his previous fate being connected to yours, if I use him to refine and mend the sky, the Heavenly Dao can be repaired."

"Yang Jian is of the Jade Emperor's lineage, coupled with his fate being connected to yours, he can replace Yang Chan to fuse with the new Heavenly Law and support the broken Heavenly Dao order."

"If the two of them replace you to sacrifice themselves to the Dao, the normal operation of the Heavenly Dao can be maintained..."

Before she finished speaking, Tang An had already grabbed her collar.

Tang An stared into Nuwa's eyes for a long time; in her pupils, there was cold, numb, emotionless emptiness.

"Sometimes, I really don't know whether to say you are hateful or pitiful."

She pushed Nuwa away. "If I choose to sacrifice you instead?"

Nuwa heard this and still had no emotional fluctuation.

"If I sacrifice myself to the Dao and can resolve this calamity, I wouldn't be waiting here for you to appear."

Speaking of this, Nuwa was somewhat puzzled. "Why are you unwilling?"

"Heh? You force us to sacrifice ourselves to the Dao, and you ask us why we are unwilling?"

Nuwa shook her head slightly. "No."

"Humans have seven emotions and six desires, born selfish."

"You said you wouldn't enter the Heavenly Dao, so I gave you another solution."

"As long as you follow your heart and be selfish once, this calamity can be easily resolved. But you, why are you unwilling to do either?"

Tang An was truly laughed at by Nuwa. "Do you even know that humans don't just live for selfishness? They also live for some people and some things?" 【525-2

"Yes, if I were a bit more selfish, I could indeed survive."

"But if I lose my closest kin, if I lose them, what the hell is the point of me living?"

Nuwa did not understand Tang An's questioning, "To live, why must there be a point?"

Tang An took a deep breath; there was simply no need for her to waste words on Nuwa.

One could not be reasoned with, and the other could never empathize.

Sun Wukong and Yang Jian exchanged a glance, as if they had already made a decision.

"Master..."

"There is no room for negotiation." Tang An turned around and directly immobilized the two of them; she would never allow them to sacrifice themselves for the Dao.

"I knew it, the word 'fate' has never been up to me."

She looked up, hiding her tears, and let out a sigh.

"It seems I am about to welcome my final ending." Saying this, she felt inexplicably much lighter.

Sun Wukong and Yang Jian already understood that Tang An had made up her mind to sacrifice herself for the Dao.

"Master." Sun Wukong tried to break free, but he still could not move. "Becoming the Heavenly Dao is not your wish."

"Old Sun has always wanted to sit in the Jade Emperor's seat. Even if I can't be the Jade Emperor, being the Heavenly Dao for a while now is also quite good."

Yang Jian immediately added anxiously: "Master, the tribulation of the Heavenly Law is originally my Yang family's affair. Blocking the tribulation for Sanmei is also what Yang Jian ought to do."

"Master, just let us go." The two of them spoke in unison.

Tang An only smiled, "How long have we known each other, and how many hardships have we experienced together? How could I not know your temperaments?"

"But I was originally just a wisp of a lonely soul, and it is you who supported me until now."

"If you all left, and I were left alone to live in this world, what kind of pain would that be?"

"Rather than being depressed all day, missing the past, and gradually becoming a cold living corpse, it is better for me to fulfill myself for once."

"Anyway... I never belonged here in the first place. This kind of ending is quite good for me..."

"Master..."

Tang An signaled that they did not need to say more. "Didn't you hear Nuwa? You are all connected to my fate, which is why you can enter the tribulation in my stead."

"In the end, you are all being dragged down by me."

Sun Wukong's eyes were wet with tears, "Master, Brother Nezha just fell, we truly cannot watch Master leave as well."

Yang Jian lost control of his emotions for the first time, "Master, let's stop worrying about the Three Realms. Let's go, let's be selfish for once, just once."

At this moment, Yang Jian was even thinking, if Nezha hadn't helped Tang An restore her seven emotions and six desires, would this situation have happened at all?

At the very least, Nezha would still be alive, and even if Tang An sacrificed herself for the Dao, she could still live in another way.

But he knew Tang An too well; with her current state of mind, how could she be willing to accept her fate? How could she be willing to be the endlessly lonely Heavenly Dao?

Tang An looked toward the Three Realms, watching the common people struggle to survive, seeing Li Shimin in a disheveled state, his age even more pronounced as his national fortune was affected.

"Yes, as long as I am selfish for once and ignore the life and death of the beings in the Three Realms, we could live."

"But... but if I live, my father must die."

It seemed that no matter how she chose, she could not find a path to survival in her fate.

"Only by becoming the Heavenly Dao can I resurrect Nezha."

"Only by becoming the Heavenly Dao can you two escape the destined great tribulation."

"Only by becoming the Heavenly Dao can the beings of the Three Realms survive."

"Only by becoming the Heavenly Dao can my father enjoy his old age in peace."

"Master..." Sun Wukong and Yang Jian's eyes were red, and they were even crying snot.

Tang An turned away, not daring to look at their eyes anymore.

Li Shimin also seemed to sense something and looked up at the sky.

"An'er!"

Tang An looked over in surprise, and the father and daughter's gazes met in mid-air.

"Father."

"I'm sorry, I broke my promise; I won't be able to provide for your old age."

"Take care of your health from now on, and eat on time."

"An'er, where are you going?"

"Father, it is Tang An's blessing to have received your fatherly love in this life." She knelt in mid-air and performed a deep kowtow to Li Shimin.

"If there is a next life, An'er will surely be a good, filial daughter to you."

"An'er?"

"An'er!"

"Master!"

Tang An smiled reluctantly, waved at them, and turned again, walking resolutely toward the Heavenly Dao.

The seven-colored flowing light on her body bloomed in an instant, the intensity of the light so bright that everyone involuntarily covered their eyes.