Xie Chen, look at you.

What a failure!

A complete and utter failure from beginning to end!

The person you loved with all your heart and devoted your entire life to will remember you most deeply at the moment of leaving this world, of leaving you.

Before Chan Guang could finish speaking, Xie Chen already understood the meaning behind his words.

"So what?!"

Xie Chen stared fixedly at Chan Guang with red eyes, not turning his head back.

He didn't see Mingmei's eyelashes flutter slightly at that moment. He only stared at Chan Guang, his eyes filled with contempt: "You think you're any better? You're just a heart demon that was almost exorcised! You're just a pitiful heart demon abandoned by the Buddha!"

Xie Chen suddenly revealed Chan Guang's identity. The Chan Guang here had long been devoured by the returning heart demon. The Buddha Chan Guang was long gone, leaving behind only the heart demon.

Bearing all of Chan Guang's greed, anger, and resentment, carrying hatred and animosity towards this world, he cooperated with Xie Chen, planning to inflict a severe revenge on everyone, including Xie Chen, at any time.

In fact, he hated Xie Chen the most.

At this moment, he no longer cared about what others thought or what would happen to him later. He just wanted to watch Xie Chen break down, to see him as a joke from beginning to end.

Just like now, he had worked so hard for so long, but the person he loved only remembered the memory of leaving this place. How ironic and ridiculous was that?

"I said, I love her, it has nothing to do with her..." This time, Xie Chen's voice trembled slightly as he said the same words.

He really wanted to be involved in her future, a future free from the constraints of fate!

"Xie Chen." Chan Guang suddenly smiled, "Do you think you can turn back after doing these things? Do you think you can say anything about being together when you stand in front of her after doing so many outrageous things?

You've walked up to her with so many lives on your hands. Do you think she can face you calmly? How many of the things you've done do you dare tell her?"

Chan Guang's long string of words made Xie Chen's face increasingly ugly.

"You've thought all this through, haven't you?"

After a long silence, Xie Chen looked at Chan Guang. More and more blood flowed from his mouth. This body, which he had possessed before his death, was about to give out. But Xie Chen seemed to understand everything.

"In Chan Guang's heart demon, there is greed, anger, ignorance, love, hate, jealousy... You, you're jealous of me."

"Who's jealous of you?"

Even though he said it so lightly, everyone else's eyes were on Chan Guang. Seeing him subconsciously clenching the Buddhist beads in his hand,

Everyone had another thought.

Perhaps Xie Chen had indeed done heinous things, but this heart demon didn't seem so innocent either.

Thinking this, everyone turned their gaze to Shi Qing, looking at him with a questioning expression that seemed to say, "What's wrong with your kid?"

After all, how could a Buddha have a heart demon for no reason?

How could this heart demon be given to someone else by the Buddha himself?

Is this how carefree your Lotus Temple is?

Shi Qing: =.=

"Now I admit everything I've done, but what about you? Do others know everything you've done?

You took advantage of Chan Guang's soft heart and let you off the hook;

You used his goodwill towards Mingmei and his jealousy towards me, deliberately having him send you to me;

You told him that everything he never dared to do would eventually be done by someone else..."

As he spoke the words the heart demon had used to coax Chan Guang, the heart demon's face looked even worse than Xie Chen's, who was about to reach the end of his life.

"You always thought Chan Guang was jealous of me, hated everything in the world, and hated his lack of freedom. But you were wrong.

All of this is just your own later obsession. Long before you were separated from his body, Chan Guang had already let go of everything..."

"Impossible!" The heart demon glared, his eyes wide and bloodshot. "How could he let go? If he couldn't let go, he wouldn't have shielded you from the things you did!? If he had really let go, he should have gone to save all living beings and rescue those who died at your hands?!"

"How do you know that in the subsequent reincarnations of those you killed, Chan Guang didn't atone for your sins?"

At some point, Mu Chen had regained control of the body.

At this moment, Xie Chen was actually very fragile, both physically and mentally.

Mu Chen even sensed Xie Chen's desire to quietly disappear.

Even if he was stubborn, saying words to attack the heart demon, the things the heart demon said earlier undoubtedly also struck him.

He had been busy for so long, and even if he failed, he had no intention of backing down, but the things the heart demon said at the end also broke Xie Chen.

That was his weakness, just like his own.

Mu Chen couldn't help but smile wryly when he regained control of the body.

They were originally one. His fear was also his own fear.

He even countered the heart demon as soon as he took control of the body. He had lived several decades longer than Xie Chen and had seen all sorts of weird and wonderful things.

He had thought about everything in the past. He had realized long ago that the heart demon's influence on him for so long was not out of kindness.

"You misinterpreted the other party's weakness, doubts and confusion about his own identity as dissatisfaction and resentment, and his goodwill, yearning, and admiration for Meimei as love. No wonder you were personally expelled by Abbot Shi Qing."

"You're talking nonsense?! I'll kill you!"

Compared to Xie Chen's calm acceptance, the heart demon was more like being ashamed into anger. He may have been born from the evil thoughts in Chan Guang's heart, but in the beginning, he was far from as powerful as he was now.

Those negative, twisted emotions and consciousness gradually grew after he left Chan Guang. Compared to Chan Guang's own negative evil thoughts, the heart demon's growth came more from his own resentment and hatred towards Chan Guang.

But he was unwilling to admit it, attributing the source of these jealousies and hatreds to Xie Chen.

Chan Guang's admiration and respect for him and Mei Shi was once again misinterpreted as jealousy here.

With the heart demon's roar, he also started to attack, and the scene became chaotic again.

Seeing that Mu Chen's body could no longer withstand the fight, Mei Shi and the others, who had been listening to this "dog-eat-dog" situation, also stepped forward to stop the heart demon.

The scene instantly spun out of control again, and everyone was fighting in a chaotic mess.

Mu Chen watched as the blood in his mouth gradually dried up. His body in this game was also rapidly losing strength.

The game should be over, right?

Thinking this, his body slowly fell backward. Suddenly, at this moment, a pair of hands held him up.

"I'm not happy about leaving this place."

Mu Chen suddenly looked up and saw a pair of tearful eyes looking at him.

He opened his mouth to say something, but Mingmei stopped him with her hand.

"I remember."

As she spoke, a tear fell from her eyes and landed on his face.

"Before my father and the others ascended, they put the best defensive magic garment on me. I should have left without a hitch, but at the last moment, I regretted it.

I felt like I had lost something. I wanted to turn back... even if turning back meant eternal damnation, I wanted to find the person I lost."

"Meimei..."

Mu Chen was a little dazed. His body seemed to be occupied by Xie Chen, but he also seemed to be able to feel Mingmei's warm tears. He could still control his hand to wipe away Mingmei's tears.

Although, in the end, he only smeared his bloody hand on her face.

"I never thought of abandoning everything here. When I was leaving, I suddenly remembered everything. I still remember you..."