novelraw Chapter 307 : Closed Loop
Chapter 307 : Closed Loop
On the eve of the collapse of time and space, she returned to the sect and called Xiao Chun over privately,
"The Past Pearl in your hand, may I borrow it for use?"
Family heirlooms should not be rashly lent to outsiders. Xiao Chun's family was exterminated because of this pearl, and she had been pursued and hunted for carrying this treasure. Even so, she had not handed over this pearl, which showed how important the Past Pearl was in the hearts of her family members. It absolutely could not be lent to outsiders rashly.
After years of interaction, no one would trust another person without reason. Chu Sang actually didn't want to ask this, but she wouldn't have asked if it wasn't absolutely necessary.
"If you need it, please take it."
Xiao Chun thought for a moment and then gave it to her.
"Aren't you worried I won't return it?" She smiled and said.
Xiao Chun shook her head, "If you really intended to obtain the Past Pearl from me, you would have taken it long ago. There's no need to scheme for so many years... Moreover, the connection between me and this pearl is somewhat complex. When the Past Pearl's energy is exhausted, it will return to me. After years of nourishment by my flesh and blood, it has already become symbiotic with me."
This made Chu Sang feel relieved. She no longer needed to have any misgivings about what she was about to do.
Before leaving, she also gave Xiao Chun a verbal instruction, "After I leave, if... if I don't return for a long time, open this."
Xiao Chun solemnly accepted this paper letter. Seeming to sense something, she looked up and suddenly asked,
"...Are you leaving?"
"Mm, it's time to go."
Chu Sang replied calmly. Her expression and tone were very calm, as if she was just going out for a night stroll and would return soon. But Xiao Chun felt she heard some unusual meaning in this calm statement, as if the other party was going on a journey from which there would be no return. She stepped forward twice, stopping when she was only half a meter away from Chu Sang.
To be honest, she didn't understand this mysterious Master, Sect Leader, and benefactor at all. Not at all. Even after interacting for so many years, the other party was like a wisp of clear smoke, unable to be grasped or touched, seemingly not belonging to this world. No one knew her past or origins, and she might completely disappear from this world in the next moment.
At this moment, she felt that the person before her had a sense of resolute determination to face death. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but found she couldn't say anything. Chu Sang said she needed to rest, so she left first.
In the hall, Chu Sang gripped this pair of Tracing Pearls tightly in her hand. Based on her experience of staying in this world for so many years, she could almost certainly confirm that the Tracing Pearls were the key to saving the continent.
As for why she had not acted for so long, she had been thinking all these years about how to provide enough energy for the Tracing Pearls, enough power to overturn a world, to exert their ultimate ability. Now... she had finally found the answer.
She had a vague guess in her heart.
She had no direct evidence to prove this guess was correct, but her subconscious told her that this was how things should be.
She knew how to inject new energy into this pearl.
Using herself as a sword to break through the void.
[She] was the ultimate energy source.
Over these dozen or so years, she had watched with her own eyes as this continent went from prosperity to decline and then to collapse, torn apart like a piece of paper pierced by a giant force. On the eve of the continent's complete collapse, she sacrificed herself to provide energy for the Tracing Pearls. Her consciousness returned to a void, seeming to be within space, yet also drifting outside of time and space.
Then.
She saw with her own eyes as she transformed into a streak of light.
The flying light passed through the reconstructed continent, flying for a very long time, almost circling the entire continent. Finally, this streak of light fell into an abyss in the battlefield, lost in the river of time and space, sleeping for ten thousand years, waiting for the chance to awaken again.
In the last thought of her lingering consciousness, she intuitively felt that the place where she finally fell was somewhat familiar. Suddenly she remembered, this was the forbidden area behind Tianyan Sect's mountain, one of the main battlefields of the great war between humans and gods ten thousand years ago, the burial ground with the most devastating casualties. The large amount of death resentment qi was difficult to remove, and it had always been designated as a forbidden area by later generations of Tianyan Sect, prohibiting disciples from entering.
It was her accidental visit to the forbidden area back then that restored her memories, which led to this whole story.
It turns out everything was a predestined closed loop.
She finally understood her own enigmatic origins.
In a sense, she was neither the Chu Sang from the original story nor the modern Chu Sang.
She was Chu Sang, yet she was not Chu Sang.
—The original soul, the modern soul, the fire of creation.
She was a new [Existence] formed by the fusion of these three.