As for why the Blood of Original Sin had mutated, and why she had given birth to Those with Original Sin in the Great Northwest, Canyang Wuyou herself did not know.
She only told Gu Qingfeng that perhaps fate had chosen him, or perhaps karma had chosen her, or perhaps the Blood of Original Sin had chosen him. Everything was unknown. Canyang Wuyou also said that to find the answer to this question, between heaven and earth, aside from Gu Qingfeng himself, there was no one else.
What made Gu Qingfeng even more helpless was that Canyang Wuyou said she had left behind a wisp of residual consciousness waiting for him, only wanting him to do her a favor.
To help her end all of this.
How to end all of this, Canyang Wuyou did not know, and Gu Qingfeng knew even less.
However, the last sentence Canyang Wuyou spoke had remained fresh in Gu Qingfeng's memory.
She said.
Because he had already fused with the Blood of Original Sin, whether fate had chosen him, or karma had chosen him, or the Blood of Original Sin had chosen him...
it didn't matter. What mattered was that he had already fused with the Blood of Original Sin.
What exactly did this sentence mean?
Gu Qingfeng still hadn't figured it out to this day.
He neither believed Jun Xuanji's words.
Nor did he choose to believe Canyang Wuyou's words.
Originally, Gu Qingfeng had been thinking of confronting Jun Xuanji about it later, but after awakening, he had been busy with matters in the Yanluo Kingdom and hadn't run into Jun Xuanji. Now that he had encountered her today, Gu Qingfeng thought it was the perfect opportunity to get to the bottom of this matter.
"You told me back then that it was Canyang Wuyou who used the Blood of Original Sin to give birth to me, but she doesn't seem to have said that."
"I know..." Jun Xuanji gazed at Gu Qingfeng, murmuring softly, "She must have told you...
that the Blood of Original Sin mutated and gave birth to you..."
"And the truth?"
"What she said is correct."
Hearing Jun Xuanji say this, Gu Qingfeng felt even more puzzled in his heart and continued asking, "Then why did you say she used the Blood of Original Sin to give birth to me?"
"I warned...
warned her...
that the drop of Blood of Original Sin in her hand was extraordinary and might mutate, but she wouldn't listen. She thought...
as long as she sealed that drop of Blood of Original Sin...
let it wither...
she could end...
all of this..." "Heh...
That was just what she thought."
"And the result...
that drop of Blood of Original Sin in her hand really...
really mutated. Using some...
some unknown method, it affected the lifeblood of the Great Northwest...
thus...
causing many, many Blood of Original Sin like yours to emerge in response to destiny..." "Canyang Wuyou...
became afraid...
also realized...
she was wrong...
but it was already too late...
She tried to kill all Those with Original Sin born in response to the Blood of Original Sin, but unfortunately...
unfortunately...
she killed too many of the Blood of Original Sin, killed until she was completely lost..." "Because with each Those with Original Sin she killed, her karma...
became more chaotic...
She fell into it...
couldn't get out...
became lost...
completely lost..." "She could only seal herself away...
struggling bitterly in the sea of suffering..." "If she had listened to my persuasion back then, none of this would have happened..." Jun Xuanji spoke haltingly, as if each word was a struggle. Her complex eyes looked at Gu Qingfeng as she said, "Your existence was caused entirely by Canyang Wuyou. Did I...
say something wrong?"
"Is that really the case?"
Gu Qingfeng was somewhat skeptical.
"I have never deceived you...
not in the past, and not in the future..." When he heard these words, Gu Qingfeng inexplicably smiled.
A very helpless smile.
However, he didn't say anything further.
Looking at the tragically beautiful and confused Jun Xuanji, Gu Qingfeng truly couldn't bear to argue with her anymore.
After a moment of silence.
He spoke again, "You said that drop of Blood of Original Sin in Canyang Wuyou's hand mutated...
using some unknown method to affect the lifeblood of the Great Northwest, causing many Those with Original Sin to emerge in response. What was the purpose of the Blood of Original Sin doing this?"
Jun Xuanji shook her head slightly, "I don't know. I think Canyang Wuyou doesn't know either. Between heaven and earth, if there is anyone who can answer this question, that person is you, and only you..." When Gu Qingfeng had asked this question before, Canyang Wuyou had said the same thing.
"Why?"
Gu Qingfeng asked again.
"Because you fused with that drop of Blood of Original Sin. I don't know if fate chose you, or karma chose you, or that drop of Blood of Original Sin chose you. None of that matters anymore. What matters is that you have already fused with that drop of Blood of Original Sin."
Gu Qingfeng was astonished because Canyang Wuyou had given him the same answer back then.
He pondered for a moment before speaking again, "As far as I know, the Blood of Original Sin isn't limited to just this one drop, right? There must be many Those with Original Sin, and probably quite a few of them have fused with the Blood of Original Sin. Why is it specifically me? That fellow wrapped entirely in white cloth just now should have also fused with the Blood of Original Sin, and haven't you fused with it as well?"
"No...
it's not the same."
"Why isn't it the same?"
"How the Blood of Original Sin that person fused with is, I don't know. I only know that the Blood of Original Sin I fused with is dead...
while yours...
the Blood of Original Sin you fused with is alive."
When Jun Xuanji said these words, her expression became extremely serious and earnest, "There may be many dead Blood of Original Sin, but living, embodied Blood of Original Sin are very few...
very few...
very few..." Perhaps because Jun Xuanji's expression was too serious, combined with her tragically beautiful face, her bewildered blood-colored eyes staring at him, and this endlessly changing chaotic nightmare world, Gu Qingfeng suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of creeping horror. A shudder ran through the depths of his heart.
"What dead and alive?
Does the Blood of Original Sin even have dead and alive distinctions?"
Gu Qingfeng felt somewhat uneasy and asked, "What is dead, and what is alive?"
"Dead Blood of Original Sin, while still being Blood of Original Sin, is merely Blood of Original Sin. But living Blood of Original Sin is not just Blood of Original Sin that simple..."
"How is it not simple?"
"Living Blood of Original Sin is simultaneously that person's blood."
"That person?
Which person?"
Gu Qingfeng suddenly thought of something and asked, "You mean Venerable Wu Dao? That can't be right, can it? Whether the Blood of Original Sin is alive or dead, isn't it said to be the blood of that Venerable Wu Dao? Is there a difference?"
"I said, dead Blood of Original Sin is just Blood of Original Sin. But living Blood of Original Sin is not only Blood of Original Sin, it is also that person's blood."
Gu Qingfeng lowered his head, muttering this sentence. The more he muttered it, the more his scalp tingled. The more he muttered it, the stronger the creeping horror became. He swore that in his five hundred years of life, this was the first time he had felt such deep-seated dread. The feeling was truly unnerving.
"You mean to say...
dead Blood of Original Sin is purely Blood of Original Sin and has no connection to that Venerable Wu Dao, while living Blood of Original Sin is not only Blood of Original Sin, but might also contain the spiritual will of that Venerable Wu Dao?"