Chapter 3079 (Three Thousand and Seventy-Nine)
Li Pingrun said: “Some things are indeed like this, but in my case, I think… at least until this moment, I still don’t think this will be the case.”

Tie Jinjue pondered for a moment and decided to hand the thing to Li Pingrun at this moment, but he hoped that Li Pingrun would first promise him that he would not commit suicide.

“I want to show you something.” Tie Jinjue said, “But I hope you can promise me something before you show it.”

“What’s the matter?” Li Pingrun said.

“No matter whether you can end what you want to end after reading that thing, you must not commit suicide.” Tie Jinjue said.

“Ah?!” Li Pingrun was stunned.

“Whether or not you can end the things you want to end after you have seen that thing” really surprised Li Pingrun. This meant that after he had seen that thing, it was possible for him to end the things he wanted to end.

Li Pingrun felt that it was too painful to continue living in the world. He thought that if he had agreed to Tie Jinjue’s words, he would never commit suicide. Over the years, as a Taoist priest, it has always been his habit to keep his promises to others.

However, he thought that if he promised Tie Jinjue that he would definitely not commit suicide, even if he felt deeply miserable, it would be difficult for him to seek relief by escaping from the world.

Seeing his reaction like this, Tie Jinjue was very worried and asked, “Are you willing to agree to me?”

Li Pingrun asked, “What does Elder Tie want to show me?”

Tie Jinjue said: “I can’t tell you now. If you don’t agree to me, I can’t let you know what it is.”

Li Pingrun didn’t want to satisfy his curiosity with a promise, so he said, “Actually… I won’t have any regrets even if I don’t watch it, right?”

Tie Jinjue asked: “What if it has something to do with your sister?”

“Ah?!” Li Pingrun was stunned again. “Do you remember taking out a box with a red translucent stone in it last time?” Tie Jinjue asked Li Pingrun.

“Remember.” Li Pingrun said, “That’s what I wanted to give to Elder Tie. If Elder Tie wants it, I’ll go back and get it!”

“I don’t want that thing. I didn’t accept it last time, so I won’t accept it again.” Tie Jinjue said, “I want to ask you, do you remember what you said to me last time you wanted to give me that thing?”

Li Pingrun recalled and said, “I remember.”

“What did you say?” Tie Jinjue asked.

Li Pingrun said to Tie Jinjue: “I think what I said was… I didn’t know how to thank Elder Tie, so I took this. I said that this thing has not been cast yet, Elder Tie, please tell me what function you want it to have. As long as I can do it, I will definitely do it.” After saying this, Li Pingrun added: “I… am I not mistaken?”

“I remember correctly.” Tie Jinjue said, “Fortunately, you still remember that you once said you didn’t know how to thank me.”

Li Pingrun thought: Elder Tie was so nice to me before, did he have a special purpose? Did he say it now just to make me thank him and do something for him? But Elder Tie doesn’t seem like that kind of person. He didn’t do those nice things to me before just to take advantage of me. I felt that he was protecting me sincerely at that time.

Li Pingrun said: “Of course I remember. In fact, I should thank Elder Tie.”

Tie Jinjue said: “Now, you can thank me by doing what I say.”

Li Pingrun looked at Tie Jinjue and said, “How should we do it?”

(End of this chapter)