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Chapter 779 10. Snow Without End

In the quiet wilderness, there is a simple wooden house. The warm yellow bonfire illuminates the eaves, and the nightmare hangs upside down on the eaves and sleeps.

"The snow has no boundaries." The beautiful fox whispered beside the campfire.

Li Xian nodded and looked at the frozen river in the distance. "Do you have any other names?"

The Frost River, they want to walk out of the snowfield from this river.

Li Xian used the captured human-faced eagle as firewood. This creature was common under the ice in the snowfield, and its bones and meat were excellent fuel. Li Xian cut the crystal bones and meat into pieces bit by bit and threw them into the campfire. The sparks lit up half of his face, but his eyes were brighter than the campfire.

Being stared at by such eyes, Xue Wuya had the illusion that he was being seen through.

"What are the other names?"

"Li Xi'an, have you ever had this name?"

Xue Wuya shook his head, "This name has been with me since I started practicing."

"No past life or anything like that? You've been a fox from the beginning?" Li Xi'an asked again.

Xue Wuya shook his head again and said sincerely: "I have been a fox since I was born. Why do you ask this... Could it be that you were not a human when you were born?"

Li Xi'an retracted his gaze and recalled his past. Zhu Jiuyin and Siming Shilu both had the previous name "Li Xi'an", which means they came from the same origin. That is, the young man walking in the steel forest. I thought that was the divergence point of unity, but now it seems that it is not the case. There is a possibility that there is no previous life as "Li Xi'an"... Fortunately, there is no such thing. Li Xi'an glanced at the fox in front of him and couldn't accept it for a while.

After all, the other variants he witnessed were Siming Shilu and Zhu Jiuyin.

Perhaps being weak is the norm on the road back home, and strong individuals like Zhu Jiuyin are the exception.

"This body is that of a human." Li Xian said.

"Does that mean you have another body? Can you tell me what kind of creature your original body is?" The fox was very curious.

"dragon."

"dragon……"

"Have you ever heard of the Ten Categories of the Heavenly World?" Li Xian explained as he cut the meat. "The ten most powerful tribes in the universe. The dragons I'm talking about are the scale-bearing true dragons among the ten categories. Each true dragon can be regarded as a freak with an unmatched physical body. Few creatures can wrestle with it. Are there no dragons in this Nine Provinces?"

Fox shook his head slowly, "I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but I heard that Huang He Cheng Mian is a black dragon. However, there are many true dragons in Jiuzhou, and I don't know if it is the scaly true dragon you are talking about."

Li Xi'an glanced at the moon in the sky and said, "There are still two hours until dawn. You can ask all your questions before dawn and I will answer them one by one."

Xue Wuya pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled, "I wonder what the relationship between you and me is? What do those eyes represent?"

The bonfire licked the bones of the human-faced eagle, making tiny crackling noises, like the firecrackers during the Spring Festival in my childhood. Li Xi'an paused in his cutting of meat, and the blade reflected half of his face immersed in the shadows. "Have you heard of the unity of all things?"

"Everything returns to one?" Xue Wuya's fox ears twitched slightly.

There was a hollow cracking sound coming from under the ice of the Wusong River, like some giant monster turning over. When talking about everything returning to one, it seemed as if the whole world would be silent. Li Xian's voice was very soft, but it told the most profound secrets of the universe.

"At the end of the law, everything returns to one. This is the process of gathering all possibilities within oneself. There are several universes outside this universe, and the number is almost infinite. Chaos is creating new universes every moment. And each universe is equivalent to a mirror, reflecting different angles of the same face. This angle is the different appearance of this creature in their respective universes."

Li Xian's eyes shone in the dim light of the campfire, like tiny pieces of gold. "To become one is to combine all these different angles and different appearances into a complete self. He will no longer have any shortcomings and will be a perfect existence."

"What happens after the merger? What happens after the merger?"

"Silent illumination."

Xue Wuya was silent for a long time. He was a student of Jiuxiao Shenjun. Even if he was incompetent, he would know the meaning behind this name. He realized who the other party was and why he helped him. At the same time, the fox calmly accepted his fate... to become a part of this person's unity. After all, his freedom was exchanged by the other party. "Tens of millions of mirrors reflect the same face at the same time. It seems that at this moment, the two faces in the mirror meet." Xue Wuya smiled.

Li Xi'an flicked the blade with his fingers and hummed softly, "Each mirror is interpreting a different life. Some are Kunlun Jun who embarks on the road of revenge alone, and some are Tianyang Siming who weaves time..." He glanced at Xue Wuya, "And you, are a caged fox curled up in the snow."

"I'm sorry for being so weak, but why have I never heard of the Returners coming to this universe?" Xue Wuya smiled bitterly.

"Because they don't have to go to other universes." Li Xian said, "We are the most special. Remember that lotus petal? Individuals with lotus petals cannot be unified naturally, they must come to this universe and be unified by themselves. So even if Jiu Xiao has begun to reach this realm, he can't think of me as a unified person, because there is no precedent."

"If I die, does this count as a successful reunification? Will you eat me? Just like you eat other people, those powerful creatures you described are all dead, and you have reunified them."

Li Xi'an nodded, "This is the simplest method, but I won't use it. Someone told me in the past that this wouldn't work. I will wait for your spirit to fade away."

Xue Wuya was stunned.

"Just like our previous contract." Li Xi'an continued.

"You shouldn't be sitting here. You would still be the caged fox if I hadn't come. So the price of the contract between us comes from the degree to which you rewrite the timeline. You can afford the price of taking you away, but you can't afford the price of killing Jiuxiao. When your spirit disappears, you return to me."

"Then why don't you just exchange my entire spirituality? That would be easy, right?"

"Do I look so cold-blooded?"

Xue Wuya chuckled. The male fox looked somewhat charming under the light of the bonfire. "If I love everyone, what's the difference between that and being ruthless?"

Li Xian sighed.

The icy wind swept across the eaves of the wooden house, causing the campfire to sway and scatter.

Xue Wuya's pupils shrank into a line, and he vaguely saw countless shadows emerging in the campfire. There was a young man in black walking in the steel jungle, a one-eyed monster winding in the darkness, a man in sacrificial robes standing on a high platform, and a snow-maned red dragon bowing its head on a golden tree. All the shadows finally converged into a pair of golden eyes with blooming lotus flowers.

Xue Wuya trembled subconsciously.

Because he even saw himself.

Unknown memories bit his soul like a poisonous snake. In the reflection of the lotus, he saw himself standing on the altar in Beiyuan wearing a white black robe. His nine fox tails turned into jade pillars supporting the sky. The picture finally stopped at a fisherman fishing at the end of the icy sea. A pair of blue eyes as wide as the waves of the ocean were raised from the gap in the brim of the fisherman's hat. The fisherman caught a big fish, and the water droplets splashed by the swaying fish tail hit Xue Wuya's face all at once.

His body suddenly tensed up and he opened his eyes. The only sound in the quiet snowfield was the faint sound of a burning campfire.

"What did you see?" Li Xian said.

Xue Wuya said: "I became a nine-tailed fox..."

He paused, the old man's look made him feel frightened, "There is also a fisherman fishing."

Li Xian showed a satisfied smile and threw the last piece of the human-faced eagle spine into the fire. The firelight illuminated the lotus pattern outlined in Xue Wuya's eyes.

Xue Wuya also realized something. He raised his hand and touched his eyelids, "When..."

"Just now, I put the lotus petal that belongs to you back into your body. It is not meaningless to dig open Jiuxiao's head. He placed the lotus petal in his head. Only by digging open his head can we dig out the lotus petal."

"Don't you want to know the reason? I can't use it in this universe, so I need you to use that lotus petal to activate the universe law and go back to the past to find the fisherman."

"Who is that fisherman?" Xue Wuya asked.

"Clean river fish to catch the superior."

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