After receiving a response, Su Hua was greatly surprised. She had always wanted to meet the Elder Sister Dream who resided in Jin'er's dreams, but she had been refused several times. She never expected that this time, the mysterious Elder Sister Dream would finally agree to show herself.
"Who are you?"
"I don't know."
"You don't know?"
Su Hua asked in confusion, "In all the heavens and earth, is there anyone who doesn't know who they are?"
"Miss Su Hua, there are many, many people in the heavens and earth who do not know who they are, including you."
The voice of that Elder Sister Dream came through, causing Su Hua to fall into deep contemplation. If she thought about this question carefully, it was far too profound—so profound that she couldn't even refute it.
"You just said that my going to Canyang Mountain is a path of no return. Is it because of Karma?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"This is your Karma. You shouldn't ask me."
"You also said that Gu Qingfeng will be in mortal danger this time?"
"Yes."
"Who wants to kill him?"
"You shouldn't ask who wants to kill him. You should ask who doesn't want to kill him."
"Why?"
"You shouldn't ask me this question either. You should ask him himself."
"You clearly know that Little Jin'er is worried about Gu Qingfeng's safety. Why did you tell her?"
"And you clearly know that your own Karma is a path of no return. Why are you still so fixated on it?"
The words of the one Jin'er called Elder Sister Dream once again left Su Hua unable to refute. Immediately after, Elder Sister Dream's voice came again.
"Let her go. You should be able to sense that no one can harm Little Jin'er, not even herself."
Yes.
Su Hua could sense it. She also knew that Little Jin'er was special. But why she was special, and what kind of existence she was, Su Hua did not know.
After a moment of contemplation, Su Hua looked at Little Jin'er, who was crying with desperate urgency, and her heart also ached with pity. She decided to take her along. Just as she was about to instruct Qian Shan to look after Ouyang Ye, she suddenly noticed that Ouyang Ye here seemed very strange.
She stood in the mountain manor, gazing up at the sky with its strange celestial phenomena. Her expression was full of hesitation, her eyes even more vacant, as if she had lost her spirit.
For some reason, Su Hua suddenly felt that this Ouyang Ye was unfamiliar—indescribably unfamiliar.
"Ye Ye?"
Su Hua tried calling out.
There was no response.
She called out a few more times, but Ouyang Ye still did not respond.
"Ye Ye..." Su Hua continued calling, but no matter how she called, Ouyang Ye acted as if she couldn't hear.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, for no apparent reason, Ouyang Ye turned around and looked at Su Hua with confusion, asking, "Sister Su Hua, did you... just call me?"
"You didn't know?"
"I... I didn't know just now either. I suddenly remembered some strange things."
"What things?"
"Very... very unfamiliar, yet also very familiar... Many memories, fleeting as passing clouds..." Su Hua didn't quite understand, but she understood Ouyang Ye's next sentence.
"Sister Su Hua, I also want to go to Canyang Mountain."
"You want to go too?"
Su Hua was very troubled. Little Jin'er wanted to go because she was worried about Gu Qingfeng's safety. Could it be that Ouyang Ye also...
"No, I just feel that I should go. As for why... I'm not clear either."
"This..." Just as Su Hua was puzzled, the voice of that Elder Sister Dream sounded in her ear again, saying, "Let her go too."
"Why? Do you know what has happened to Ye Ye?"
"I don't know, but I know her purpose in going to Canyang Mountain should be the same as yours."
"Also for Karma?"
"Perhaps. Everyone has their own Karma, and she is no exception. Moreover, Ye Ye's existence is extraordinary to begin with. You should understand this better than anyone."
Indeed.
Su Hua not only knew that Ouyang Ye's existence was extraordinary, but she also knew that Ouyang Ye's existence and Yun Nichang's were a kind of not-quite-past-life past life. She further knew that Yun Nichang's Bloodline Burial Soul was within Ouyang Ye's body. Not only that, after the Bloodline Burial Soul, a mysterious totem had appeared on Ouyang Ye's body, and that mysterious totem had some connection to the Great Nature.
Boom! Crash!
The thunder grew louder, the gale sweeping the dark clouds became even more ferocious, and the strange, colorful lightning filling the sky grew increasingly frenzied.
The heavenly might of the Great Void grew stronger and stronger.
The Yin and Yang of the Great Nature grew more and more chaotic.
Yaoyue Palace.
Inside a secret chamber.
Feiyan, along with Fenghua, Fenglüe, and several other ancestors of Yaoyue Palace, were staring wide-eyed with looks of utter disbelief at the scene unfolding before them.
Before their eyes, a woman stood with her arms outstretched, floating upright in mid-air. A faint, elusive radiance emanated from her entire body. The woman's face was cold and beautiful, her eyes slightly closed. It was none other than the designated heir of Yaoyue Palace, Han Dong.
Ever since Han Dong had mysteriously disappeared after the accident during her fusion with the Yaoyue Heart, and after Gu Qingfeng had sent her back, Han Dong had remained unconscious. Feiyan had been carefully tending to her all along. But just now, for some unknown reason, Han Dong's body had begun floating without any warning, and an unknown radiance flickered around her, making them all feel very afraid.
That's right.
Afraid.
It was a fear that shook their very souls and rattled their spirits.
Moreover, this fear felt both familiar and unfamiliar to them.
It was familiar because the feeling Han Dong gave them now was extremely similar to that of Feng Zhuyue from back in the day. It was unfamiliar because it also felt different. As for why this situation was occurring, Feiyan didn't know, and Fenghua, Fenglüe, and the others were also unclear.
Suddenly.
The radiance enveloping Han Dong's body ignited, a cold, moonlit radiance, dazzlingly bright, as if daring to contend with the true moon in the sky. She tilted her head back slightly, eyes closed, arms and limbs outstretched, simply floating there in mid-air.
The moonlit radiance grew increasingly intense, and Han Dong also grew more and more sinister. After an unknown length of time, the moonlit radiance began to coalesce, gradually forming into a sphere of light. The sphere of light slowly rotated above Han Dong's head, containing within it a powerful force that would even astonish Gu Qingfeng, and also harboring a sinister, cold, and eerie aura.
As the sphere of light rotated faster and faster, the power contained within it grew stronger, and the sinister, cold, eerie aura grew more terrifying.
Gradually, the sphere of light stopped rotating. At this moment, the sphere was no longer a sphere—it was a sinister, full moon.
Seeing this sinister full moon, Feiyan and the others couldn't believe their eyes, because they all recognized that this demon moon was the Nether Demon Moon of their Yaoyue Palace. And in the history of Yaoyue Palace, only the founding ancestor Yao Yue and Feng Zhuyue had ever achieved the Nether Demon Moon.
When the Nether Demon Moon appeared, Han Dong, who was floating, also opened her eyes at some unknown time. Her eyes were also filled with endless hesitation and confusion. She glanced at Feiyan and the others opposite her. Just that one glance—thump! Before Feiyan and the others knew what was happening, they felt as if their souls had been drained, collapsing to the ground on the spot.
"Han Dong?"
Feiyan called out, both frightened and worried.
"Han Dong?"
Han Dong seemed unfamiliar with this name, murmuring it, then shaking her head. "This name is very familiar... very familiar... Am I Han Dong? No! I am not..." "Feng Zhuyue? Am I Feng Zhuyue..." Han Dong then murmured the name Feng Zhuyue, before shaking her head again and saying, "No, I am not Feng Zhuyue either."
"Yao Yue? No, I am not Yao Yue either..."
"Who am I..."
"Just who am I..." Han Dong murmured with hesitation and confusion, her expression full of pain. "No! I don't want to know who I am! I don't want to awaken! I don't want to!"
"It's all fake! It's all fake! Everything is fake! It's all a curse, the curse of Karma!"
"I've had enough... really had enough, had enough of this cursed Karma..."
"End it. I want to end all of this..."