At this moment, he is at the foot of the Path to Heaven.
Looking up from the lowest level of the net, the steps stretch upwards, each one as white as jade and carved with lotus flowers. The wind and snow cannot touch them in the slightest. Once you walk up, even the once distant, starry night sky becomes within reach.
“MoMo…”
Yu's call brought Qin Moyu back to his senses from the path to heaven. He turned his head and saw Yu's body gradually becoming transparent.
Behind Yu, their bodies gradually became transparent.
Qin Moyu's lips trembled, knowing that it was time to part ways.
The Extreme Cold Clan were originally souls forcibly retained by the Heavenly Dao through an array. Now that the array has been destroyed, these souls, which have been lingering for thousands of years, naturally have no reason to continue existing in the world. They will each be cast into reincarnation with great merit, and perhaps after hundreds of reincarnations, they will be fortunate enough to recall the memories of this life.
But Qin Moyu knew that once they entered the cycle of reincarnation, they would be different people, and his beloved mother would disappear completely.
Qin Moyu was reluctant, but she could never bring herself to say such a thing as asking Yu to stay.
"I'm so happy to be your mother."
Yu said softly.
"I'm so happy too, you're my mother." Qin Moyu hugged Yu tightly. Although they had only met a few times, the call of blood and love were clearly conveyed to each other.
Yu looked at Shen Mo and instructed him, "Treat him well."
"I will." Shen Mo nodded earnestly.
Yu was very fortunate. Although she missed Qin Moyu's entire childhood and would be absent from his entire life in the future, Qin Moyu had found a new family and a lover with whom he could spend his life.
He will no longer be lonely, will not easily fall into danger, and can live a peaceful and joyful life.
That's enough.
She lowered her eyes, a smile blooming on her lips, which vanished completely as she embraced Qin Moyu.
Because, compared to the fragmented feathers, most of the other members of the Extreme Cold Clan possessed complete souls, they disappeared more slowly than the feathers.
They embraced Qin Moyu one by one, offering blessings, teasing, and words of advice, their interactions lively and playful.
Qin Moyu memorized their names and bid them farewell one by one.
Only after the last member of the Extreme Cold Clan disappeared from Qin Moyu's sight did he turn around and face Chu, who had been standing there for a long time, together with Shen Mo.
Chu also had a listless and depressed Tiandao by her side.
"How does it feel to save the world?" Chu asked Qin Moyu with a smile.
Qin Moyu recalled the journey so far, filled with both sadness and joy, and couldn't help but smile, saying, "It's not bad, just a little tiring."
I really want to go back to see my master as soon as possible, have a pastry, and stroll around the imperial city with Shen Yu.
"I don't understand!" The resentful voice of the Heavenly Dao suddenly interrupted. It looked at Chu, who was speaking gently with Qin Moyu, and roared in resentment, "Why? Why do you favor them so much?! It's all because of them! This world almost collapsed!"
“It’s not that I favor them.” Chu patted Tiandao’s head, like a father looking at a rebellious child, “It’s that you’ve been blinded by desire from beginning to end.”
From the very beginning, he did not interfere much with the direction of the world. If he truly favored all living beings, he would have intervened to stop the Heavenly Dao from the moment it began to plan, instead of letting it develop or even take human form.
He will only offer the world different options when it is heading towards destruction.
The Heavenly Dao had many opportunities to find a balance between the ascension of living beings and the spiritual energy of the world, and to make improvements little by little. However, it never tried to understand or experiment with these approaches. Instead, it simply blamed the living beings for its mistakes and ultimately even went so far as to destroy the world for its own selfish desires.
The opportunity initially given to all living beings was Qin Moyu.
He did have selfish motives and didn't want the world to be destroyed, but he never showed favoritism. If Heaven hadn't been so ruthless in using the world as a stepping stone, or hadn't gone so far, he probably would have turned a blind eye.
The Heavenly Dao longed to cultivate into human form, but it only ever managed to create a shell. It possessed human selfishness and arrogance, accumulating all negative energy but lacking any positive qualities. Even if Shen Mo did not defeat it in the end, it would become a monster that was neither human nor ghost after the world was destroyed.
Unfortunately, even at this point, Heaven still couldn't understand.
He continued to question the injustice of the beginning, seemingly resentful and indignant, but in reality, he was looking for an opportunity to escape the beginning's control. Unfortunately, no matter how much he struggled, he could not escape the beginning's control.
To perceive the world from nothingness, and to make the beginning clear.
"In the end, I was wrong," he said.
"You! What are you doing! Let me go! Let me go!" Heavenly Dao screamed in terror as it discovered something was becoming blurry, forgetting even the honorifics it used.
Chu sighed as he looked at the struggling Heavenly Dao.
If he hadn't been inexperienced in planting flowers for the first time and hadn't set up the spiritual energy circulation in advance, the Heavenly Dao wouldn't have developed sentience from the accumulation of resentment, and things wouldn't have turned out this way.
The Way of Heaven is the Way of Heaven after all. It has taken over this name, and Qin Moyu and Shen Mo cannot deal with it. It will come back again many years later.
He won't interfere too much in the world's development, but every cause has its effect, and he naturally has to make amends for his mistakes.
so--
Since it's already ruined, let's start over.
I thought about it casually at first.
Qin Moyu watched as the Heavenly Dao went from fear to anger, then from anger to despair, and finally to calm. As he watched the violent Heavenly Dao have its consciousness easily erased by Chu, returning it to its state of ignorance and unconsciousness, he felt a chill run down his spine for no reason.
The Heavenly Dao, which they had painstakingly defeated but were powerless against, was like a toy in Chu's hands, which he could easily eliminate with a flick of his finger.
With such immense power, we are probably nothing more than ants in his eyes.
Shen Mo witnessed everything, but a longing welled up inside him.