To be honest.
Gu Qingfeng didn't know whether he should believe Jun Xuanji.
This woman had always been mysterious and bizarre, her actions even more unfathomable.
However.
This wasn't very important to Gu Qingfeng.
Because he didn't mind in the slightest how he had come to this world.
Setting aside for now whether it was because of that Wu Dao Daozun's Blood Spirit, even if it was, so what?
The deed was already done, why bother caring about such trivial nonsense.
"Don't...
Don't go, alright?"
Jun Xuanji's voice came through. Gu Qingfeng replied, "Is there a difference?
Whether I go or not today, these people probably won't let me off."
"No...
There is a difference."
Jun Xuanji said, "If...
If you go, if...
you fuse with Wu Dao Daozun's Blood Spirit, you will...
you will embark on a very, very terrifying path of no return...
A path of no return with no end...
No end..."
"Why would I fuse with Wu Dao Daozun's Blood Spirit?"
"Don't...
Don't lie to me, alright?"
Jun Xuanji still floated in the void, her eyes gazing at Gu Qingfeng with immense complexity. "I know...
You must be able to feel the call of his Blood Spirit...
You definitely can...
Because...
Because your very existence belongs to the Blood Spirit, you simply...
you simply cannot refuse..."
Jun Xuanji's words struck a chord within Gu Qingfeng. He could indeed feel the call of that thing, and it was growing stronger, like a relative calling out to him, affecting even his Great Freedom state of mind, making him want to rush over and fuse with the Blood Spirit right now.
"Jun Xuanji, the purpose of your coming here today is also to kill me, right?"
"I...
I don't know..." Jun Xuanji shook her head, a flicker of conflict flashing in her complex gaze. "I don't know...
I truly don't know."
"You don't know?"
Gu Qingfeng looked at her expressionlessly. "How could you not know?"
"If the Life Vein guarded by Canyang Mountain is truly that Wu Dao Daozun's Blood Spirit, when that thing appears, who knows how many people between Heaven and Earth will want to erase it. That fellow's existence poses a far greater threat to Heaven and Earth than mine does."
Gu Qingfeng pointed at the sky. "The reason this sky full of mysterious Killing Intent hasn't acted against me yet is because they know that as long as they erase Wu Dao Daozun's Blood Spirit, I naturally won't survive. As you said, the Blood Spirit is the cause, I am the effect. After all, I originate from Wu Dao Daozun's Blood Spirit. If even his Blood Spirit is erased, if the cause disappears, how could this effect, me, survive alone!"
"I don't know...
I really don't know..." Jun Xuanji's sorrowfully beautiful face twisted with extreme pain. She kept shaking her head. "I don't know whether you should go or not, I don't know whether you should fuse with his Blood Spirit or not...
I really don't know...
I don't know..."
"The cause and effect are wrong...
It's been wrong from the very beginning...
Everything...
is wrong..."
"I don't know."
Jun Xuanji shook her head again, her expression growing more bewildered, more lost, and more pained. "I truly don't know, I know nothing. I want you to fuse, and I want you to give up. I don't know why it's like this...
I want to end it, to end all of this...
But I don't know how to end it..."
"I don't even know who I am..." Jun Xuanji seemed to go mad, clutching her hair, her expression especially agonized as she cried out, "Why! Why is it like this!"
"Why have I lost myself..."
"Lost...
Lost...
It's me...
It's me...
It's me who wants to be lost..."
"Yes!
It's not cause and effect that made me lose myself, it's me...
It's me who wants to be lost...
It's me who wants to forget."
"Why do I want to be lost, why do I want to forget..."
"Why!"
"No!
This isn't me!
This is absolutely not me!"
"I am not Jun Xuanji!
No!
I am Jun Xuanji!"
Jun Xuanji kept asking why, kept murmuring about who she was. Her expression grew more and more lost, more and more confused, more and more tormented.
"Who am I!"
Boom!
A sea of blood filled the sky, boiling like fire, burning the heavens.
"Who in the world am I!"
"Who am I?
Who am I, really—"
"End, how to end..."
Whoosh!
Jun Xuanji's eyes turned a deep crimson. With a swoosh, she shot straight up into the sky.
She left.
Vanished.
Without a trace. The sky full of blood sea also disappeared, that blood-red sun and moon grew increasingly faint until they flickered and vanished.
She had appeared suddenly, and disappeared just as suddenly.
Gu Qingfeng had never known what Jun Xuanji truly wanted to do.
He didn't know before, and he still didn't know now.
He was used to it.
He also wouldn't take Jun Xuanji's words to heart.
After a long moment.
Gu Qingfeng looked up at the sky full of Killing Intent again and shouted, "Gentlemen, you are here for the Blood Spirit, and also for me, correct?"
"The Blood Spirit is the cause, I am the effect."
"Since that's the case, why haven't you gentlemen made your move yet?"
A playful smile suddenly curved at the corner of Gu Qingfeng's mouth. "If I guess correctly, existences like yours should be intolerable to Heaven and Earth. In other words, unless absolutely necessary, you won't act. Once you do, the consequences and price triggered are something even you yourselves cannot bear. So..." He paused, then continued, "So, you are all waiting...
Waiting for the Heavens, also waiting for the Three Thousand Great Daos to make a move. But you're only waiting. You yourselves aren't sure whether the Heavens and the Three Thousand Great Daos can erase me. After all, even the masters of the Great Daos cannot openly defy the laws of the Dao. Most importantly, after the great calamity, Heaven and Earth were reborn, and so were the Three Thousand Great Daos. They themselves are not yet perfected, so how would they dare to wage a full-scale war to erase me?"
"Of course, it's hard to say. After all, you consider my existence a great threat already, let alone that there is an even more terrifying threat beneath Canyang Mountain. You should be very afraid of this threat—me—fusing with that even more horrifying threat, becoming an uncontrollable menace. So...
This time, you should be willing to pay any price to erase me...
Right."
Gu Qingfeng's words were directed both at those mysterious Killing Intents and at the Three Thousand Great Daos, because he had already detected the Killing Intent of the Three Thousand Great Daos—the Dao of Immortals, the Dao of Demons, the Dao of Buddha...
The Killing Intent from the Three Thousand Great Daos appeared one after another.
For this battle, Gu Qingfeng had little confidence. One could say life and death were unknown.
If possible, Gu Qingfeng really didn't want to fight this battle.
He also had absolutely no intention of fusing with Wu Dao Daozun's Blood Spirit. Even though that thing kept calling to him, calling so strongly he could hardly refuse, he believed in his own willpower and thought he could hold on.
But.
He couldn't stop the Three Thousand Great Daos from acting against the Wu Dao Blood Spirit.
Gu Qingfeng could not only feel the Wu Dao Blood Spirit calling to him, he could even feel that the existence of that thing was tied to his own survival. This feeling was strange, like the relationship between soul and flesh—inseparable, and neither could exist without the other.
Should he...
Take a gamble?
See if he could still live after the Wu Dao Blood Spirit was destroyed?
No.
When it came to matters of life and death, Gu Qingfeng couldn't afford to gamble, and he couldn't afford to lose.
It seemed.
There really was no other choice.
He could only go all out and fight a battle against the Three Thousand Great Daos and a bunch of mysterious and terrifying fellows.