In the past, Gu Qingfeng had always been troubled by one question he couldn't figure out.
That was, since many people had laid Karma Games upon him, this meant they had not only divined the Original Sin Calamity of the Present Era but also divined that he was the greatest variable of Original Sin. By the same logic, they absolutely must have divined his ability of Nirvana Rebirth.
Da Xing's words held some truth—those existences must have divined that Gu Qingfeng could not be erased, which was why they had no choice but to lay Karma Games upon him.
Otherwise, they could have simply taken action to erase Gu Qingfeng, or at the very least, directly cast him into the Guixu Abyss. Why go through all the trouble of laying Karma Games?
What Gu Qingfeng couldn't understand was, since they knew he couldn't be erased and didn't cast him into the Guixu Abyss, why did they spare no cost to erase him at the end of the Ancient Era?
In the past, he thought their goal was truly just to erase him.
Now he understood—their true goal was never to erase him, but to take everything from him.
They took away his heaven-defying, earth-shaking cultivation, his omnipotent supernatural abilities, his mysterious and bizarre fortunes.
They took away his aloof and proud nature.
They took away his unyielding fighting spirit.
They took away his stubborn beliefs.
They also took away his madly burning heart's fire.
After losing his aloof nature, unyielding fighting spirit, stubborn beliefs, and even having his burning heart's fire extinguished, Gu Qingfeng's essence, energy, and spirit gradually dissipated.
Without essence, energy, and spirit, he became indifferent to life and death, indifferent to everything, like a walking corpse, resigning himself to fate.
Gu Qingfeng thought carefully.
After he lost his fighting spirit and his essence, energy, and spirit, who would benefit the most?
His mind involuntarily thought of Genggu Wuming.
In his thinking, if he was Genggu Wuming's Karma Incarnation, then Genggu Wuming would inevitably wait for him to ascend as the True Lord of Original Sin before coming to devour him. If his fighting spirit remained and his heart's fire burned as high as before, he would definitely fight Genggu Wuming to the death.
But if he had no fighting spirit, no heart's fire, and chose to go with the flow and resign himself to fate as he had before, then in the end, no matter how unwilling or reluctant he was, he would probably only be devoured by Genggu Wuming.
If a person loses their heart's fire, they lose their beliefs. Without beliefs, their self-consciousness becomes easily submissive. Once submissive, they accept their fate.
It's like when a person, already at the end of their rope, falls into a desperate situation. Whether they can hold on until the end doesn't depend on how high their cultivation is, nor how strong their power is, nor even on luck—it depends on whether the beliefs deep in their heart are stubborn and resolute enough!
Although Gu Qingfeng had long realized that his entire life's journey might be filled with Karma Games laid by others...
Still, realization is one thing; when that so-called realization turns into understanding, the feelings in one's heart are another matter entirely.
As the old saying goes, out of sight, out of mind.
Knowing is one thing; seeing is another.
If you only know, it's not enough to be troubled. But if you witness it with your own eyes, it's more than just troubling.
This was exactly how Gu Qingfeng felt now.
Knowing that his entire journey was filled with Karma Games didn't bother him much, but when he figured out exactly what those Karma Games were, the anger in his heart couldn't help but surge outward.
This was also the reason for the change in Gu Qingfeng's mental state.
His life was already fake enough, fake to the point of being filled with Karma Games laid by others.
Even so, Gu Qingfeng wasn't completely unable to accept it; he could still muddle through. After all, no matter how fake a life, it was at least his own life.
If...
If even this fake life ended with him carrying someone else's blame for a lifetime, that would be a bit too tragic.
Even more tragic was that this fake life was actually lived for someone else.
This damn thing couldn't even be described by the word 'tragic' anymore.
It was just fucking bullshit!
"Genggu Wuming, oh Genggu Wuming, you little wench better hide yourself tight for me. Don't you dare let me see you, or else I'll personally chop you to pieces!"
In the past,
he didn't particularly like Genggu Wuming, but he didn't particularly despise her either. Even when he suspected he might be one of Genggu Wuming's chess pieces, or even suspected he might be Genggu Wuming's Karma Incarnation, Gu Qingfeng still only felt disgust toward Genggu Wuming.
But now it was different. With the change in his mental state, the current Gu Qingfeng wished he could skin Genggu Wuming alive.
The more he thought about it, the more displeased Gu Qingfeng became.
The more displeased he was, the angrier he grew. The angrier he grew, the stronger his fighting spirit became.
The stronger his fighting spirit, the more his blood and qi boiled. The more his blood and qi boiled, the more his Physical Body felt as if it were burning wildly.
Yes!
Burning.
Gu Qingfeng could clearly feel the blood of Original Sin within his body surging wildly like raging lava. His originally lifeless Physical Body was also reviving at an incredible speed.
His previously sealed acupoints began to tremble, like abysses sealed for ten thousand years about to be unsealed.
His bones and tendons, which had been like rusted steel, also began to change, the rust gradually falling away.
His previously blocked and disordered meridians also began to twist and loosen.
This sensation caused Gu Qingfeng to halt in the void, close his eyes, and carefully sense.
There was excitement, and there was exhilaration.
How many years had it been?
Since the end of the Ancient Era and his Nirvana Rebirth, his Physical Body had been lifeless. Even though he later cultivated anew, integrated the True Blood of Original Sin, and slept for ten thousand years, the situation hadn't improved. Not only had it not improved, it had grown increasingly severe.
It wasn't that Gu Qingfeng hadn't tried to change it. He also hoped his Physical Body could revive. After all, dragging around a lifeless Physical Body was mentally exhausting, feeling like he carried an immense pressure every day. Unfortunately, he tried many methods but failed to revive his lifeless Physical Body, and in the end, he could only give up.
If not for the return of his fighting spirit this time, which stimulated the revival of his Physical Body, Gu Qingfeng might have even forgotten he still had a body that was dead yet undispersed.
"No wonder all the methods I tried failed to revive my Physical Body. The reason wasn't in the Physical Body at all, but in the heart!"
"When the heart dies, the Physical Body naturally becomes lifeless."
"Now that my fighting spirit has returned, my mental state reborn, my Physical Body naturally revives along with it!"
"Good!
Good!
Good!"
Gu Qingfeng said 'good' three times in a row, opened his eyes, raised his hands, clenched them into fists, took a deep breath, and felt his entire body filled with power.
At the same time, as Gu Qingfeng's Physical Body revived, the Avici Asura, the Descent to the Yellow Springs, and the Heaven-Devouring Earth-Swallowing Blood Glutton on his body seemed to begin stirring restlessly again, including that damned thing beyond the Great Dao, the Maha, which also seemed to be stirring.