Chapter 714: Extra Chapter 2: Kind Lies

I felt at the time that this force was like a drill, boring into my head nonstop, bit by bit excavating my past and present lives, breaking them apart, and examining them closely.

The process lasted only a dozen seconds; I only felt my Soul Body jolt, and then that force rebounded back.

A Cheng's finger instantly slipped from my wrist, yet he still suffered backlash, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Everyone fell into panic.

A Cheng waved his hands repeatedly: "It's fine, it's fine; good thing I withdrew quickly, the injury isn't serious."

Li Qingying brought him clean water to rinse his mouth.

Xiao Jiu transferred a bit of true qi to A Cheng.

When A Cheng recovered and everyone's attention turned back to me, they realized something was off with me.

At the moment that force backlashed against A Cheng, my memory was indeed opened a crack by A Cheng using ancient witchcraft, and I heard a hysterical voice shouting at me: "Wanwan, run! Hurry and escape!"

The churning seawater, the cliff bottom flashing like molten lava and sparks, Zhao Zixun's familiar voice… in an instant flooded my mind.

My entire Soul Body momentarily crashed, immersed in it.

Until Xiao Jiu pressed his sword finger to my brow, striking my Soul Body with true qi, did I suddenly wake up.

By then, I was already streaked with blood and tears.

Xiao Jiu worriedly asked: "Wanwan, what's wrong? Did you remember something?"

Yes.

A Cheng indeed used ancient witchcraft to glimpse my past life, but his current ability was insufficient to sustain that step, so he was bounced back by the backlash.

But it did open a part of my past-life memory.

Although the scene lasted only a few seconds, I could still feel that it was likely the scene of my past self finally parting with Zhao Zixun.

And that scene, I know it all too well.

I seem to have truly glimpsed something.

But I did not show it.

Xiao Jiu asked me, and I lied: "No, I was just shaken by the backlash; my Soul Body is a little unstable."

I used that as an excuse, saying I would return to the spirit tablet to meditate and stabilize my Soul Body.

After returning to the spirit tablet, I simply could not calm down.

The fragment that just appeared made me deeply realize that the situation A Cheng divined was "worse than imagined."

That sea area is where Yu Nian ferried me across with her ferry boat.

That abyss is where I have more than once been drawn by a voice resembling Zhao Zixun's to see.

And there likely remains the largest fragment of Zhao Zixun's shattered battle soul.

From this we can infer that Zhao Zixun probably died in battle at the junction of water and sky in the Wangchuan River, which is an abyss.

That abyss also borders the Feng Clan.

Zhao Zixun came down from above to undergo tribulation; even he couldn't handle it, so how could I repeatedly drag Xiao Jiu and the others into this?

They have helped me enough already.

A Cheng said that now not only this force is causing trouble, but another force from the Feng Clan is also fanning the flames.

If Xiao Jiu keeps helping me like this, it's likely that the Feng Clan will also be dragged down.

The Dang Pu itself is already in dire straits.

So I chose not to speak.

I will find a suitable opportunity to quietly leave the Dang Pu.

As for my fate thereafter… let destiny decide.

I don't think my measly wisp of a soul is worth everyone repeatedly risking life and limb for me.

I, Fu Wan… cannot repay…

But plans can't keep up with changes.

Before I could find a suitable opportunity to slip away secretly, Yu Nian arrived.

That was already the evening of the next day, the weather still poor.

Li Qingying came to call me; when we arrived together in the living room, I heard Xiao Jiu arguing with Yu Nian.

Xiao Jiu kept asking Yu Nian what she had found, but Yu Nian refused to say.

Yu Nian's demeanor made me realize that my decision yesterday not to confess to Xiao Jiu and the others was correct.

Upon seeing me, Yu Nian immediately said: "Wanwan, you don't need to ask anything; just come with me. Tonight I will ferry you across the Wangchuan River—be obedient, go line up and wait for reincarnation."

This is a notice, not a consultation.

Xiao Jiu is so smart; hearing Yu Nian say that, she knew Yu Nian had discovered a problem we cannot solve.

Ferrying me is to protect my life.

Xiao Jiu looked at me, probably thinking how to persuade me to accept Yu Nian's arrangement.

But I didn't expect to directly say: "Okay, Sister Yu Nian, thank you for the trouble—I'll go with you."

No one breathed a sigh of relief because of my cooperation.

I even saw guilt in Xiao Jiu's eyes.

She felt guilty for not being able to fully help me solve the problem.

What a kind and wonderful person.

I reached out and hugged her: "Xiao Jiu, don't be sad; with Yu Nian's ferry, I will return bearing my Memory Reincarnation, and when the time comes I will surely come to recognize you all at once."

Having said that, I let go of her and then hugged Li Qingying.

Li Qingying also had tears in her eyes: "Wanwan, the Dang Pu will always be here; we await your return."

As the sky had just darkened, I left together with Yu Nian.

Soon, we were already on the Ferry boat.

Just as Yu Nian was preparing to row the boat, I said, "Yu Nian sister, directly send me to that body of water where we last encountered the Azure Hawk."

Yu Nian froze, she couldn't react in time: "Wanwan, you didn't promise..."

"That's a makeshift plan." I said, "I don't want Xiao Jiu and them to continue risking themselves for me, Yu Nian sister. I've glimpsed a bit of my past-life memory; I think you should have also found out, so you know this is destined to be a one-way road, and I choose to walk this road alone."

"No way!" Yu Nian shook her head straight, "Wanwan, this is a major matter, it will affect many many people, you should still listen to my arrangement and go through Reincarnation."

"Can Reincarnation solve the problem?" I gave a wry smile, "If it were really that easy, we wouldn't be in this situation today."

Yu Nian urged: "Each Reincarnation can weaken the connection between you and that thing; perhaps if the number of reincarnations is enough..."

"What is that thing?" I interrupted Yu Nian, speculating, "Is it my past life? My earlier past life? Or my ancestors?"

Yu Nian froze.

Obviously, I guessed the key point.

I continued to deduce: "When I was alive, I was ordinary, I've reached this point, and I haven't awakened much ability, so I think the likelihood of that thing being my past life or earlier past life is small; thus, it's my ancient ancestors causing trouble?"

Yu Nian:...

"Then let me guess again, the names that Qingying sister asked you to help look up, those couples who seem to have 'no origin, no descendants', they are my control group; I... essentially am no different from them, right?"

Yu Nian put down the oar she had gripped tightly, sighed, and said: "Wanwan, if today I insist on ferrying you?"

I firmly said: "I will leave the Ferry boat and cross the Wangchuan River on my own."