Heavenly Dao?
Chen Xiao was full of suspicion.
"Xiao, Xiao'er..."
Just then, an extremely weak voice came from the ground.
Chen Xiao looked down and was instantly shocked!
"Mom!"
Chen Xiao shouted and ran over.
Because he found that the person lying on the ground was actually his mother, Liu Zhen!
Even though he knew subconsciously that these were not real, just illusions, seeing the lifelike scene before him, Chen Xiao's heart couldn't help but ache.
"Mom, Mom, what's wrong with you?"
Chen Xiao helped Liu Zhen up, his heart twisting like a knife.
At this time, Liu Zhen was covered in scars, her lips were pale and bloodless, and she was clearly on the verge of death.
Chen Xiao wanted to transfer spiritual energy to his mother, but then he realized that the spiritual energy in his body was already gone.
Facing his dying mother, he was helpless, just like he was when he couldn't afford the surgery fee back then.
"Xiao'er, if only you had tried a little harder, it would have been so good..."
Liu Zhen said this with her last breath, her head tilted, and she died.
"Mom, Mom..."
Chen Xiao shouted, tears streaming down his face.
Just then, noisy sounds echoed in his mind.
"It's all your fault. If it weren't for you, they wouldn't have come, and we wouldn't have died!"
"You disrupted the laws of the world but couldn't clean up this mess."
"Chen Xiao, I am truly disappointed in you, bah!"
"Alas, I misjudged. You are not that peerless genius..."
As accusatory or disappointed voices sounded, transparent soul bodies floated in the air.
Song Anran, Wu Feier, Gu Zhendong, Gu Yutong, Lu Datou, Xiao Zhan, Gongsun Yi, the people of Medicine King Valley, the father and daughter of the Chu family...
Familiar figures appeared and disappeared.
They flashed before Chen Xiao like a slideshow.
"Did you all die because of me? And those corpses... Is all of this my fault?"
Chen Xiao's mind became chaotic.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that his heart was not as strong as he had imagined.
The reason he felt strong was because his strength supported him.
And after losing those abilities, he was just that weak, helpless, and pathetic person who couldn't even afford his mother's medical expenses.
"Husband!"
Another familiar voice sounded.
Chen Xiao knew it was Li Ziqing's voice without looking.
"You're dead too? What do you want to say to me now? Blame me? Or regret being with me?"
Chen Xiao's expression was numb, his heart filled with despair.
However, Li Ziqing did not blame Chen Xiao. She shouted, "Husband, save me quickly!"
Chen Xiao was slightly stunned, looked up, and found that Li Ziqing was not dead.
She was tied up, covered in wounds, and being held by someone.
The person was wearing a white robe, and his face was hidden in the deep brim of his hat, making it impossible to see his appearance or expression.
He held Li Ziqing and floated quietly in the air, as if walking on level ground.
"Who are you? Let her go!"
Chen Xiao shouted instinctively.
The person did not react at all.
Li Ziqing cried and shouted, "Husband, save me, save me!"
Chen Xiao was anxious, but facing the two people floating in the air, he was helpless.
The Yitian Sword was gone, and the Phoenix Feather had also disappeared. He had lost the ability to fly.
He leaped up, but only jumped less than a meter.
Li Ziqing and the other person were tens of meters above him.
"Wife, I'm sorry..."
Chen Xiao said guiltily, wiping the tears from his face, not wanting Li Ziqing to see his vulnerable side.
"Husband, save me..."
Li Ziqing's calls grew weaker.
Despair, as if accepting fate, appeared in her eyes. She seemed to realize that Chen Xiao couldn't save her.
At this moment, the white-robed figure suddenly let go, and Li Ziqing fell from tens of meters above the ground.
"Wife!"
Chen Xiao shouted and rushed over.
But his speed was ultimately no match for Li Ziqing's falling speed.
And even if he caught up, it would be useless, as he was just a mortal now.
Bang—
In front of Chen Xiao, Li Ziqing was smashed into a pulp of flesh.
He widened his eyes, watching.
The immense impact left his expression blank, his mind a void.
It wasn't until the white-robed figure landed in front of Chen Xiao that he snapped back to reality.
"Bastard, come at me if you dare!"
Chen Xiao roared, his anger almost spewing from his eyes.
"Hehehe—"
The white-robed figure let out a sinister laugh, raised his hand, and a white light shot towards Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao thought that the white-robed figure would not kill him easily.
Even if he killed him, he would tell him what had happened.
This was in line with the typical behavior of villains.
However, the white-robed figure did not. With a mere raise of his hand, he instantly killed Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao felt his soul leave his body, the white light blinding him.
After a moment, there was another reversal.
Before his eyes, it turned into pure, extreme darkness.
Chen Xiao's nightmare was not over; the choice had begun again...
"If you were given a chance to choose again, would you still choose to walk this path?"
That ethereal voice echoed in Chen Xiao's mind again.
Then, with a flash of white light and another reversal, Chen Xiao found himself back on the bustling street.
The neon lights of Yaoyang Bar flickered dazzlingly across the road.
Chen Xiao had once again arrived at a crossroads of choice.
And this time, he was no longer so sure if he wanted to choose the same path.
Witnessing his mother and Li Ziqing die, along with the accusatory and disappointed voices, had made him doubt himself.
Everything he had was given by the Yin Yang Jade.
Without the Yin Yang Jade, he was nothing... but was that really the case?
Chen Xiao was immersed in this game, or rather, he was struggling with himself.
However, he himself did not realize it.
This time, he made a different choice.
He turned his head, did not enter Yaoyang Bar, and simply sent a text message to Sun Li: "Let's break up."
Then, he pulled off the Yin Yang Jade from his neck, threw it into the nearby sewer, and resolutely left the intersection.
He tried other methods, but ultimately could not raise enough money to treat his mother.
His mother left this world, and Chen Xiao became an ordinary office worker among the masses.
He married an ordinary girl and had a child.
He worked hard to earn money, with almost no time for himself.
But even so, his earning speed could not keep up with the rising prices due to inflation.
For the rest of his life, he was just an ordinary poor person.
Life was like plain water, so bland that it made him feel bored, and it wore away all the sharp edges of his personality, making him selfish and indifferent.
Looking in the mirror, he could no longer recognize the person reflected there.
As for the vibrant, thrilling life, it had completely left him.
Everything was like a dream, and Chen Xiao could no longer distinguish what was real and what was fake.
Until he grew old and died alone on his sickbed.
After the white light flashed before his eyes and the reversal occurred, it turned into pure darkness again.
"If you were given a chance to choose again, would you still choose to walk this path?"
The voice that made him choose appeared in his mind again.
...
Chen Xiao had lived through two lives, but in reality, all of this had happened in an instant.
He had remained motionless by the lake in the dragon cave after asking, "Where is the dragon脉?"
It was as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.
After Chen Xiao maintained this posture for a few minutes, Araki Mikoto finally realized that something was not quite right.
She tentatively called out, "Master?"
Chen Xiao naturally ignored her. Araki Mikoto's delicate eyebrows furrowed, and she leaned closer.
"Master, what's wrong with you?"
Seeing Chen Xiao as if he were frozen, Araki Mikoto immediately cried out in a panic.
Just as she was about to touch Chen Xiao, a figure suddenly flashed behind her, and a soft, jade-like body pressed against her back.
At the same time, a short blade, like a poisonous snake's fang, was placed at her neck.
With a slight prick, it could pierce her tender skin and stab into her throat.
"Miss Mikoto, I advise you not to move, otherwise, my poisonous fangs will make you lose your life within three seconds."
Mizukawa Ineko looked at her with a smile that was not a smile.
"You've betrayed Master!"
Araki Mikoto said angrily, her teeth gritting.
"Hehehe..."
Mizukawa Ineko giggled, "Betrayal? I haven't been as lowly as you, calling him Master. How can there be betrayal?"
"And from beginning to end, I've only told him the truth. I haven't lied to him even a single word!"
Araki Mikoto was furious: "Stop quibbling. I don't know what kind of bewitching soup you've fed Master. If I were Master, I would have skinned you long ago!"
"Hehehe... It's his own fault for not killing me. Who can he blame? He can only blame himself for being stupid~~"
Mizukawa Ineko let out another seductive giggle.
Then, her tone shifted, and she said coldly, "I've already told him that the dragon脉 was seized by some lords of the divine race. He's courting death himself, so he can't blame anyone else!"
"Moreover, if I have to choose between the divine race and him, anyone with a brain will choose to be loyal to the divine race."
"Only a foolish girl like you, who has lost her mind, would choose him!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, it seems even Amaterasu Omikami can misjudge sometimes, actually choosing a foolish girl like you as a maid!"
After the initial panic, Araki Mikoto had calmed down.
"You stinky snake spirit, don't get cocky. When Master wakes up, you'll regret your choice. You don't understand what kind of existence Master is!"
"Wake up? Heh, I advise you not to daydream!"
Mizukawa Ineko said disdainfully, "With Lord Qinghu's personal intervention, that kid surnamed Chen will never wake up!"