Yue Xiuzhi originally wanted to grab him, but even if Pei Ming turned into a soul-like state, he still couldn’t touch him.
Watching him merge with his childhood self, Yue Xiuzhi couldn’t understand why but his heart chilled.
What does this guy Pei Ming want to do?
The door opened again.
A blue-robed young man walked in from behind the door, the “Yue Xiuzhi” from even longer ago.
It was the “Yue Xiuzhi” who imprisoned Pei Ming.
Yue Xiuzhi saw the young man walking in, and his heart trembled slightly.
The young man’s eyes were very cold, but Yue Xiuzhi knew that it was just himself at that time pretending to be cold.
As usual, the youth coldly took out Pei Ming’s heart blood.
When Yue Xiuzhi saw Pei Ming being bled, there was no pain on his face, but rather a hint of satisfaction.
The young man felt something was wrong with Pei Ming’s unusually quiet demeanor today, but he didn’t ask.
After taking out the heart blood, he left without stopping.
Because Yue Xiuzhi at the time dared not linger in this dark room, otherwise his emotions would collapse at any time.
But this time, as he left, the scene did not change again.
Pei Ming pulled the iron chain, rubbing blood marks on his small wrists, and then the wounds deepened due to the rough friction, eventually becoming raw flesh.
Such injuries were what Yue Xiuzhi suffered when he was imprisoned.
Yue Xiuzhi vaguely heard Pei Ming muttering, “Not enough… this is still not enough…”
“Enough! What are you doing?” Yue Xiuzhi shouted at him, “Stop it!”
But Pei Ming couldn’t hear him at all.
He almost obsessively inflicted injuries on himself, and then collapsed on the ground, motionless, staring blankly at the ceiling.
Yue Xiuzhi had no idea what to do, so he could only futilely guard by Pei Ming’s side.
It seemed like another half day passed, and someone brought food.
When he saw the food, Yue Xiuzhi’s heart suddenly felt cold.
When he imprisoned Pei Ming, he didn’t withhold much food, after all, children with weak constitutions, if subjected to long-term bloodletting and starvation, might not be able to hold on. Although constrained by character settings, he could only give some steamed buns and cold dishes, but it was definitely not the food in front of him now.
They couldn’t even be called food, just extremely rough grains, very difficult to digest. Not only that, but these grains were also moldy, and there were some bugs wriggling on them… This was the food Yue Xiuzhi ate when Pei Ming imprisoned him.
In fact, Yue Xiuzhi didn’t eat them, as long as others didn’t find out, the host could engage in limited OOC. So Yue Xiuzhi ate the food from the system store.
But the dark room where Yue Xiuzhi stayed was always under surveillance, so Yue Xiuzhi could only wait for the few seconds when the shift changed each month to quickly swallow a fasting pill. The fasting pill couldn’t last for a month, so Yue Xiuzhi still couldn’t avoid hunger, but… it was much better than the food in front of him now.
Yue Xiuzhi saw Pei Ming crawling to the bowl and then he began to eat the food bite by bite.
Pei Ming’s expression didn’t show any reluctance, but instead had a hint of a smile.
Yue Xiuzhi finally understood.
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“It’s me who owes you.”
“I have never blamed you… can you stop torturing yourself like this?”
Days passed in this illusion, and Yue Xiuzhi stayed with Pei Ming in this dark room for an unknown amount of time.
“Yue Xiuzhi” came once a month. According to this frequency, Yue Xiuzhi had been with Pei Ming here for half a year.
Staying in such a place without seeing the light of day, unable to communicate with anyone, watching Pei Ming’s expression becoming more and more hollow, Yue Xiuzhi became more and more desperate day by day.
In the past few months, he often fell into hallucinations.
Sometimes it was himself torturing Pei Ming, sometimes it was Pei Ming torturing himself.
He couldn’t forget his intense guilt, nor could he forget his despair when he was imprisoned…
That’s how injuries were, once they formed, they could never be healed.
In the hallucinations time and time again, Yue Xiuzhi’s figure became more and more transparent.
His will was being constantly worn down by the illusion. Perhaps not long after, his primordial spirit would completely merge into the illusion.
Yue Xiuzhi was not unaware of the danger, but he couldn’t stop himself.
How could he save Pei Ming?
He said he had never blamed Pei Ming… had he really never blamed him?
In the blink of an eye, he fell into another illusion, going to the last day he took the bone-devouring pill…
There used to be a system accompanying him, but now the system was gone.
Just as Yue Xiuzhi’s figure became more and more transparent, suddenly a strong external force dragged Yue Xiuzhi out directly.
Yue Xiuzhi then passed out.
When he woke up again, he found himself floating in a dark realm.
Just as Yue Xiuzhi’s figure became increasingly transparent, suddenly a powerful external force dragged Yue Xiuzhi out directly.
Yue Xiuzhi then passed out.
When he woke up again, he found himself floating in a realm of darkness.
As far as his eyes could see, it was filled with dazzling stars, and on the horizon, there seemed to be faintly engraved golden symbols…
“Where is this?” he couldn’t help but speak out.
“This is the end of the world,” he heard a vast voice saying.
Very familiar.
As if he had heard it before.
Then, a slightly blurry figure appeared in front of Yue Xiuzhi.
So blurry that even their facial features couldn’t be clearly seen, only his slender figure and long hair hanging down to his ankles.
This was the Heavenly Way of Pei Xiaoming’s world.
Actually, compared to the Heavenly Way in Pei Ming’s world, the Heavenly Way in Pei Xiaoming’s world was much clearer. The Heavenly Way in Pei Ming’s world could be said to have no human body-like curves, it was just an elongated and slightly thickened matchstick figure.
But because the Heavenly Way in Pei Xiaoming’s world managed two worlds, his cultivation had greatly increased, so he could manifest a clearer figure.
However, Yue Xiuzhi had never seen the Heavenly Way in Pei Ming’s world, so naturally he couldn’t make a comparison.
“Who are you…?” Yue Xiuzhi asked.
“I am the Heavenly Way. But I am not the Heavenly Way of this original world, but rather from a derivative world,” the Heavenly Way said.
“Did you rescue me?” Yue Xiuzhi continued to ask.
He remembered that the system had once told him that Pei Ming allied with the Heavenly Way from Pei Xiaoming’s side to eliminate the Heavenly Way from his own side.
So this Heavenly Way appeared here, and there was a reasonable reason for him to rescue Yue Xiuzhi from the illusion.
“Yes,” the Heavenly Way responded.
“Since you could save me, why didn’t you also save Pei Ming?” Yue Xiuzhi asked with a frown.
The Heavenly Way didn’t mean to morally coerce him; he was genuinely puzzled.
“I cannot save him,” the Heavenly Way’s tone carried a hint of pity. “The one trapping him now is no longer the remnant of the Heavenly Way from the original world, but himself.”
“The remnant of the Heavenly Way is no longer an equal match to me and him, but he willingly sinks into that illusion. He is now even stronger than me. I cannot directly pull him out; the only option is to break the illusion… But he’s too immersed. If the illusion is broken at this moment, his spiritual consciousness will collapse along with the illusion.” The Heavenly Way sighed lightly.
“Why did you save me then?” Yue Xiuzhi murmured.
I would rather die together with him.
“If I didn’t save you, in less than half a year, you would have been completely consumed by the illusion,” the Heavenly Way said.
“But is there a way to save him?” Yue Xiuzhi raised his head, looking at the blurry figure in front of him.
“…There is a way,” the Heavenly Way hesitated for a moment before saying, “but the risk is great.”
“You need to fully integrate yourself into the illusion, so that he can perceive you in the illusion, and then you have a chance to save him,” the Heavenly Way said, “but in doing so, the speed at which the illusion consumes you will increase a thousandfold. If you cannot bring back his consciousness quickly, you will be consumed by the illusion.”
“You are very important to my Child of Fate; I cannot let you go…” to die.
“Send me,” Yue Xiuzhi interrupted.
“Rather than living like this, it’s better to die in the illusion and feel more at peace,” Yue Xiuzhi said.
“But…” the Heavenly Way still hesitated.
“Don’t ‘but’ me. Pei Xiaoming would understand me. If I live like this, it’s better to die in the illusion,” Yue Xiuzhi said.
“Alright,” the Heavenly Way sighed.
“I will merge your soul with the illusion. After that, you need to find the ‘you in the illusion’ and take shelter there,” the Heavenly Way said.
Then Yue Xiuzhi’s vision became distorted again.
Faintly, he heard the Heavenly Way saying, “Several years have passed in the illusion. He has sunk deeper. You need to be quick.”
Then, Yue Xiuzhi found himself back in the dark room.
In the room, there was the fifteen-year-old Pei Ming.
Thinking of what the Heavenly Way said about several years passing in the illusion…
Yue Xiuzhi’s hands trembled slightly as he wanted to touch Pei Ming’s cheek.
You’re here, have you stayed here for another six years…?
He couldn’t even last half a year as his spiritual consciousness almost collapsed. But this idiot, Pei Ming, has been here for six years again.
He saw Pei Ming’s soul separate from his fifteen-year-old self, and then the scene flashed again, and the fifteen-year-old Pei Ming on the ground was gone.
Pei Ming’s soul gradually solidified, becoming no different from an ordinary person.
Then, an even more heart-wrenching scene occurred. Pei Ming took out a bottle of white porcelain, then drank the red liquid inside.
The red liquid was something Yue Xiuzhi would never forget.
Bone Eroding poison.
Pei Ming, you lunatic, fool!
After drinking the Bone Eroding poison, Pei Ming’s legs were no longer able to support him, and he fell to the ground.
He felt pain all over his body, but he still trembled as severed his feet and the tendons of his left hand— even including the tendons of his knee bones. Now, he couldn’t even maintain a half-sitting position and curled up completely on the ground.
Pei Ming stretched out his right hand in front of his eyes and murmured, “Too bad, I still have this hand…”
“But… it should be almost done, right?” He spoke with increasing difficulty.
Because the power of the poison had completely erupted.
Blood kept oozing out of his body, and he could even hear some slight sounds— that was the sound of bones being constantly shattered and reshaped under the influence of the drug.
He was clearly in such pain, but Pei Ming was still smiling. As he smiled, tears welled up in his eyes.
“You must have felt this kind of pain back then, right…?”
Yue Xiuzhi half knelt in front of Pei Ming, tears blurring his vision again.
He didn’t know how he managed to accompany Pei Ming through those nine days.
He just felt like Pei Ming had stabbed his heart into pieces.
After nine days, when Pei Ming’s body completely gave out, another semi-transparent Pei Ming emerged from his skeletal remains and walked towards the door of the dark room.
Yue Xiuzhi followed him, and there was a familiar distortion in front of him again. Then Yue Xiuzhi found himself back in the place where thousands of people knelt.
Pei Ming, draped in a dark golden robe, passed by him.
Yue Xiuzhi remembered what the Heavenly Way had just told him: “You need to find the ‘you in the illusion’ and take shelter there.” Finally, a glimmer of light appeared in his eyes.
He rushed ahead of Pei Ming and hurried to the dark room.
Looking at his thin white clothes in the dark room, Yue Xiuzhi slowly approached him.
When he opened his eyes again, he had completely become “himself.”
With a casual movement, there was the clinking sound of iron chains, and there was pain in his wrists.
But Yue Xiuzhi smiled.
Thank you for the chapter.
I’m heartbroken too😢😭
Thank you for the chapter!
Also, its showing 2 chapter 111’s for me and i think maybe one is in the wrong place?