In this vast world, where is home?
Jiang Hua couldn't find the answer.
Qin Moyu opened his mouth, wanting to comfort Jiang Hua, but couldn't utter a single word.
Unlike Qin Moyu, who had no ties to the world, for Jiang Hua, this time travel was a complete disaster.
The room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
After a long while, when Jiang Hua calmed down and opened his eyes again, his dark gray eyes were as calm as when they first met: "I'm sorry, did I scare you?"
Qin Moyu shook his head, and said with mixed feelings, "Is there really no way to go back?"
"I searched for a long time and found that there is only one way back." Jiang Hua looked up, as if he could see the blue sky through the stone wall, and slowly uttered two words: "Ascension."
Qin Moyu was startled: "But you're not..."
Did they seal the path to heaven with an array?
Without the path to heaven, one cannot ascend to immortality; how could Jiang Hua possibly cut off his own escape route?
Speaking of this matter, Jiang Hua felt only endless regret.
Jiang Hua did not answer Qin Moyu's question immediately, but said quietly, "Let him in. He wouldn't have come to me if it weren't for breaking the seal."
Qin Moyu then called Shen Mo back.
As soon as Shen Mo entered, Jiang Hua waved his hand and conjured a pile of wooden slips out of thin air.
"These are all formations I've studied. If you're interested, you can take them all back. The formation for the Path to Heaven is recorded on that red wooden slip." Jiang Hua raised his chin and casually gave away formations that others considered extremely precious.
Shen Mo picked up a wooden slip with some skepticism and scanned it with his divine sense. It contained various insights into formations and methods of setting them up, and it was obvious that it was written by Jiang Hua.
Even Shen Mo didn't expect to find the formation so easily this time. He even felt a strange emptiness when he put all the wooden slips into his storage bag.
It wasn't that he had masochistic tendencies, but it was a real pity that he couldn't show off his array formation abilities in front of Qin Moyu.
After giving the items away, Jiang Hua's body became noticeably weaker, and Qin Moyu couldn't help but look at him with concern.
"Don't worry about it. I was just a fragment of my soul that split off to protect the legacy. Now that the mission is complete, I can say that I have fulfilled my duty," Jiang Hua comforted him.
Jiang Hua's split is very different from Shen Mo's. Shen Mo completely separated his soul and spirit to become a new person, while Jiang Hua simply stored a wisp of his soul in a fixed place. This wisp of soul has all the memories and emotions of the original body, and it will automatically disappear and return to the original body once the previously set goal is achieved, with negligible impact on the original body.
Such divisions were actually quite common in the past. Many powerful beings at the Tribulation Transcending stage would begin to arrange their succession when they felt their death was approaching, so as not to let their mantle be completely lost.
Shen Mo explained the intricacies of the situation to the bewildered Qin Moyu, who then had a bad feeling: "Senior Jiang, are you really saying that..."
Jiang Hua nodded: "Yes, my original body is already dead."
Qin Moyu felt very uncomfortable.
Although I was prepared, after hearing Jiang Hua's story and thinking that he ultimately died far from home, I still couldn't control my emotions.
—I'm not happy.
Qin Moyu pursed her lips and rested her forehead on Shen Mo's arm for comfort.
Although Shen Mo didn't understand why Qin Moyu cared so much about Jiang Hua's death, he still patted Qin Moyu's hair.
Jiang Hua looked at Qin Moyu, whose face was almost entirely filled with sadness, and his expression softened a little. Whether in his past life or this life, Qin Moyu was not very old. With the increase in physical and mental age over the years, it was hard for him not to see Qin Moyu as a child.
If my child were born, would he be as tall as Qin Moyu by now?
A sentence flashed through Jiang Hua's mind, and a dim light appeared in his eyes.
Qin Moyu was sad for a short while, but gradually calmed down with Shen Mo's comforting words.
Jiang Hua slowly recounted the truth behind the formation in the extremely cold land.
It turned out that after Jiang Hua searched everywhere for a way home but couldn't find it, he finally decided to try to ascend to heaven. However, reality cruelly threw him down from the clouds. No matter how many times he tried, he could never take a single step on the path to heaven, as if an invisible force was preventing him from leaving this world.
When Jiang Hua was almost in despair, he encountered the Heavenly Dao, which had not yet taken human form and was still a wisp of spiritual energy.
He told Jiang Hua that He could help him ascend to heaven and leave this world, and even help him return home.
Before Jiang Hua could rejoice, He said again:
"Just do me a favor."
At that time, Jiang Hua was unaware that the appearance of the Heavenly Dao was not an opportunity for a brighter future, but rather a complete exploitation.
77. Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Whole Picture No matter how many secrets you have…
Jiang Hua's extraordinary talent in formations not only made him famous throughout the four continents, but also attracted the attention of the Heavenly Dao.
At that time, the Heavenly Dao was always troubled by the fact that the ascending beings took away spiritual energy, causing the world to collapse. He hated these beings, but could only watch helplessly as they continued to break through and ascend.
Even as the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, He is bound by the set of rules that have governed the world since its inception. He can only increase the difficulty for beings to break through to the heavens within these rules, but He cannot directly close the path to heaven, and He cannot even directly eliminate any being due to the rules.
He lived and died with this world, while the beings born in this place pushed this world toward destruction.
The depletion of spiritual energy led to barrenness, causing the creatures of the four continents to constantly fight for survival. War and evil filled the land, and the resentment of the dead gradually distorted His mind, turning His disgust for this chaotic world into pleasure.
He fell in love with the spiritual energy that living beings give back to the world when they die, and He also fell in love with seeing the despair on their faces before they die.
They shouldn't have existed in the first place.