Chapter 1142: Chapter 768: Reversing Time
Cangyuan, Moon Tower.
At this moment, the bright moon hangs high.
All around is silent.
Lin Xiaosu stands beneath the Moon Tower, six words echoing in his heart: Fear the bright moon, do not ascend the tower.
This was the sigh of Mei Jiu that day.
The bright moon is the sweet witness of him and his beloved.
This tower is where his beloved resided for a thousand years.
With the bright moon in the sky, it should be a time for husband and wife to harmonize like a zither and perform the entangled beauty of the world, yet he dares not ascend the tower.
Because...
If he ascends the tower, it will disrupt the timeline of that domain.
His beloved wife, whose life had already reached its end, the time he forcibly held for her would restart, and her life would vanish in an instant.
Time is the most merciless Tao, one inch of brilliance flying away piece by piece!
"Does His Highness know why Mei Jiu is so sincere towards you?" the voice of He Yuan Fairy wafts gently.
"There are always some people in the world, who meet by chance, and become lifelong confidants," Lin Xiaosu says.
"Yes, he indeed shares common interests with you, but that’s not the whole reason. There is another reason that Cangyuan is very wary of, which he has never told you."
"What?"
"Do you know who resides in the Bright Moon Tower?" He Yuan Fairy says mysteriously.
"Who?"
"She comes from Qingqiu, her name is Hu Xian, and she has a younger sister named Hu Ji."
Lin Xiaosu’s heart skips wildly...
Hu Ji had an older sister, who separated from her at the North Tower. She searched everywhere for her but to no avail, only finding a piece of news that her sister fell in love with a disciple of Cangyuan and then disappeared without a trace.
For three thousand years, Hu Ji never let go of her obsession with her sister.
The news she found was correct; her sister did meet and fall in love with the disciple of Cangyuan. But who could have thought that her sister was struck down by the man she loved, losing three thousand years of lifespan, sealed within the Moon Tower, time and space frozen, unable to step into the world even half a step.
"It’s actually her!" Lin Xiaosu breathes out softly.
"That day, she suffered a calamity while cutting the Tao, lost in the Spirit Realm, and was taken in by a pair of elders. Hu Xian, being loyal and righteous, recognized them as godparents. This elderly couple, for intervening in the Heavenly Tao Punishment without permission, were sentenced to death by the Cangyuan Elder Group. Mei Jiu went to the Spirit Realm to enforce the law. Hu Xian, unwilling to let her parents suffer because of her, stepped forward to bear a strike of the Time Sword Tao for them, losing three thousand years of lifespan. Mei Jiu, having accidentally harmed his lover, harbors a desire to make amends to Qingqiu. Knowing you are the sister’s brother-in-law from the start, he regarded you as family," sighed He Yuan Fairy lightly, "So, Prince Ding, now that he is at a life-and-death juncture, I hope you can change this outcome!"
Lin Xiaosu slowly lifted his gaze, "He Yuan Fairy, having you in this world is truly a blessing!"
"Because I gave you a wife?" He Yuan Fairy smiles lightly.
Lin Xiaosu also smiles, "Let’s not talk about the wife, she might even swallow my thoughts... But, I must say, it’s not a bad ending!"
He managed, after the Demon Lord was slain, without alerting Cangyuan, to arrive at this day smoothly.
It wasn’t because Cangyuan lacked vigilance, nor because Cangyuan didn’t possess the skills to trace back the chain and restore the truth.
It was because of He Yuan Fairy and Mei Jiu.
The two of them set up a delayed strategy and secured the most precious time window for him.
He successfully achieved the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top and Five Qi Return to origin.
Yet he also walked towards the other extreme of contradiction: a relentless battle with Cangyuan.
Mei Jiu had just sighed, "We have become the sinners of Cangyuan."
Yes, the affairs of the world are precisely thus, gaining here and losing there.
They bestowed their affection upon Lin Xiaosu, yet had to bear the label of Cangyuan’s sinners, a hopeless deadlock, but He Yuan Fairy unraveled it.
She stepped forward, with a nonexistent "father-in-law and son-in-law" relationship, giving an unforeseen twist to a fierce all-or-nothing battle — he and Cangyuan reached a consensus, turning foes into in-laws.
All of this stemmed from He Yuan Fairy’s ingenious hand.
Without her, every link was a deadlock.
With her, all links transformed at the most critical moments...
So, Lin Xiaosu sincerely told He Yuan Fairy: Having you in this world is truly a blessing!
It’s his luck, as well as Cangyuan’s luck...
Within the Moon Tower, two people tightly embrace.
"Brother Jiu, it’s the first time you’ve come to see me in a thousand years." Hu Xian sobs.
"I dare not see you!" Mei Jiu murmurs.
"Because as soon as you step onto the Moon Tower, I will forever part from you." Hu Xian says, "But Brother Jiu, being able to see you once before I die, I am very happy, no regrets in this life!"
She smiles. Although there are still tears in her eyes, her smile breaks through the thousand-year sorrow, revealing brilliance and amazement.
Mei Jiu quietly looks at this face, as if trying to remember every inch and fraction of it.
Hu Xian gently pushes, "Alright, my wishes are fulfilled this life, Brother Jiu, you go!"
Mei Jiu does not move.
"Brother Jiu, go!" Hu Xian urges.
Mei Jiu slowly shakes his head, "I’m not leaving!"
"No! I... I have already felt the end of time, I will soon be old and grey, I don’t want you to remember my old age, I wish to remain as the Hu Xian who first descended Qingqiu in your heart!"
"Time like yesterday is just a beautiful hope of ours, but Xian’er, I don’t want to live in yesterday, I want to face the future with you! On the Reincarnation Road, let us walk together!" As the voice falls, Mei Jiu raises his hand, and three fingers fall on his own forehead, in an instant, three white hairs appear atop his head.
"Brother Jiu, you... you severing your lifespan?" Hu Xian is startled to the core.
"My beloved wife reached the end of her lifespan because of my sword, now I sever three swords myself, my lifespan also ends, let us not push each other away anymore, let us shoulder to shoulder, walk the road to the end of time..."
