Chapter 397 Retention
The path at the foot of the mountain was still overgrown with weeds, just like all the ordinary paths in the world, without any sense of existence.

When Zhao Guanshan walked here, he couldn’t help but feel emotional. After all, he had stayed on this hill for nearly two hundred years. Humans are not plants or trees, so who can be heartless? After parting today, they will never meet again.

After a brief pause, he was about to cross the path, but at this moment, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him.

“Master Chengfeng, could you please stay here and not leave?”

Without looking back, Zhao Guanshan knew that the person who was speaking was not Yu Yue, but her in her first life, the stupid and innocent woman who crawled out of her grave. It was not a ghost, but the consciousness of the Lihuo Immortal that sensed the crisis.

“Chengfeng, what shall we do if you leave?”

Another crying voice was heard. It was her from her second life.

Then comes the third life.

But even if he crawled out to beg him for three lifetimes, he would not turn back. The first sword he struck upon landing had to be so ruthless and cruel.

“Zhao Guanshan!”

Suddenly someone shouted miserably. Hearing the voice, his body shook slightly. He looked back in disbelief, only to see a familiar figure standing on the top of the hill.

It’s Liu Yuwei!

And it’s a real person.

But she was definitely not on the hill before. She must have been teleported here at a certain moment. Was this the last preventive measure taken by the Lihuo Immortal?
At this moment, Liu Yuwei was looking at him with great surprise, but tears were already welling up in her eyes.

“Where have you been all these years? It feels like I was dreaming, and now you’re leaving again? You didn’t even say goodbye. I don’t know how worried I am.”

“Zhao Guanshan, don’t you recognize me?”

Zhao Guanshan looked at Liu Yuwei quietly. He admitted that even if Xiao Chengyun was standing in front of him at this moment, he would not hesitate, but the only person he felt sorry for was this woman.

Taking a deep breath, he forced himself to calm down, then closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he seemed to have made some decision.

“Let’s have a real conversation. Although you arranged my fate, I do owe you a favor. Even if the karma of heaven and earth cannot account for this, I still admit that I climbed to the top by stepping on your shoulders. So, I will express my gratitude simply because I still have my principles as a human being.”

Hearing this, Liu Yuwei, who was originally in tears on the top of the mountain, walked down. With every step, her face and body adjusted slightly.

When she finally walked in front of Zhao Guanshan, at first glance, she still had three-tenths of Liu Yuwei’s appearance and charm, but the remaining seven-tenths were more similar to the statue of Lihuo Immortal.

Then she spoke.

“A surprise? This is my true self. I made many arrangements for this plan. When I was sure that you were the one I was looking for, I transformed myself into Liu Yuwei and approached you. Unfortunately, you are indeed a gentleman and your methods are indeed amazing. I tried so hard, but I couldn’t let you sow seeds in me.”

“Although, there is a little bit of my obsession with cleanliness in this. Now that I think about it, I really regret it. If I had gotten pregnant with your child earlier, I wouldn’t be in this embarrassing situation today.”

“I know that nothing I say can stop you from going down the mountain. You have accumulated enough in all aspects, but the key is that you are too cautious. However, as you said, you will thank me for this because this is your moral principle as a human being. Then, let’s make a deal. I will tell you everything I know, and you only need to kill Yu Yue and give me a child.” “This will not make you bear karmic debt, and you don’t have to worry about me settling accounts later, because if I want to completely complete the plan, I need to reincarnate nine times and kill nine kinds of obsessions before I am qualified to step out of this ring of destiny and become a true immortal of creation. And this time will take at least another thousand years.”

“I was born in this world, but you are different, especially since you don’t have any karmic debts. If you can’t ascend in a thousand years, then you really don’t have the qualifications to ascend.”

“As an extra reward, after you kill Yu Yue, you can take the Eight Desolate Spiritual Fire from her body. Believe me, you won’t be able to obtain any resources that don’t contain karmic debt after you go down the mountain. With your current strength, you can’t ascend at all. Karmic debt is just a part of overcoming the tribulation and ascending.”

“Everything I said is true. I think you should be able to tell that we are not in competition with each other, because you are a different soul outside the ring. You were already a dead person in your ring of destiny. I salvaged you when your soul was about to fly away. It can be said that there is no one with a more innocent background than you.”

“Unless you are so useless that you won’t be able to ascend for a thousand years.”

“Now, please think about it carefully.”

After hearing this, Zhao Guanshan was silent for a moment. Without thinking, he knew that this was the most appropriate option, because in a sense, at the moment, he and Lihuo Immortal no longer constituted a major contradiction.

But there will inevitably be unlucky people, this is the law of taking over.

That is the general who, among an army of billions of men, can take anything he wants, kill his way through the three armies, is invincible and can kill the generals and seize the flag.

“Yu Yue has been tainted by karma…” He mentioned this point, which actually meant he had already agreed to it. He had no reason to disagree.

“I know.”

A flash of surprise flashed across the face of the Lihuo Immortal, and then she entangled Zhao Guanshan like a water snake, her eyes full of spring water, her pretty face slightly red, and her breath as sweet as orchid, “Those are all minor problems. I am here, please have mercy on me, Master… Well, no need to have mercy…”

……

Three days later, Zhao Guanshan was still standing in front of the deserted path. Li Yue in front of him had been dressed as a woman. Whether it was intentional or not, she still had a shy face. She gently straightened his collar and smoothed out the non-existent wrinkles on his clothes. There was both confusion and sadness in her eyes.

Zhao Guanshan looked at her, but his heart was as hard as a rock, as if the sun, moon, stars, lovemaking, and endless beauty of the past three days were all just floating clouds.

“The fourth life is dead, your reincarnation is no longer hindered, and we are even. Of course, if I can’t ascend within a thousand years and I am caught by you again, then I will admit defeat. Take care.”

After that, he turned and left.

“Husband!”

Li Yue suddenly grabbed the corner of his clothes, but her eyes were no longer misty with tears. Instead, she smiled gently and charmingly, “Take care of yourself too. You must run far away and don’t let me catch you. Otherwise, I will not care about our relationship as husband and wife.”

Zhao Guanshan said no more words and took a step across the deserted path. He did not feel any movement of time, but when he looked back, there was no hill there, and no Liyue there.
He returned to the world of immortal cultivation.

It all seemed like a dream, but he was truly free.

It can be regarded as a complete farewell to the past and entering a new chapter.

(End of this chapter)