I tried to kill the heroines of destiny, but they ended up chasing after me.

But he showed no signs of despondency; as he welcomed his later years, a smile played on his lips.

Because he understood something, he was waiting for someone...

One year, two years, three years...

Five years later, on a sunny day, Zheng Mo sat in the courtyard, looking at the gate, with another seat to his left.

He already sensed that his days were numbered...

At the same time, he sensed that the person he was waiting for had arrived.

Click...

The door was pushed open, and a girl looked at Zheng Mo with a confused and complicated expression.

"You've arrived," Zheng Mo said with a smile.

After a moment of silence, the girl said, "Mm."

"Don't overthink it. It's good that you're back. Everything is fine."

"Is that so? You, or me? Can you see all of this clearly? I've been through so much, I no longer know who I am. Can you give me the answer to this?"

"Some things you can't find, not because you don't know where they are, but because they don't want to appear, therefore, you can't find them."

"Do you know?"

Zheng Mo shook his head and remained silent.

"Okay, I won't leave." The girl hesitated for a moment, then said firmly.

She is Zheng Xin.

After Zheng Xin returned, just as he had said, she began to settle down and spend quality time with Zheng Mo, her father in this life.

I didn't think about anything, nor did I need to think about anything.

Just like myself, just like life is but a dream.

Just like the truth and falsehood of a lifetime, just like a period of life.

Zheng Xin didn't know who she was, nor could she find that thing. Perhaps it really was that thing, but its time hadn't come yet.

It's also possible that such a thing doesn't exist at all.

In the blink of an eye, spring, summer, autumn, and winter have passed, and three years have gone by.

That year, in winter.

The snow was falling heavily, and the plum blossoms were in full bloom.

Zheng Mo fell ill, on his own bed, in the place where Zhou Zhou had passed away.

A thick aura of death surrounded him; he knew that today was his last day.

Holding Zheng Mo's hand, Zheng Xin suddenly felt a pang of sadness. This sadness did not stem from the bond between father and daughter, but from a feeling, an unknown feeling.

Looking at Zheng Xin, Zheng Mo forced a smile and said, "Don't be sad."

"You can't die yet." Zheng Xin's voice was hoarse, filled with sorrow.

"In this life, I am destined to die, but I believe that in another life, I will walk with you to the end."

"You...can't die yet." Zheng Xin's voice suddenly faltered, a sign of her sorrow.

“I told you before that you would know the answer when I die. I suppose you already know. Actually, I’m also looking for something, just like you, except I discovered it earlier… This thing has always been by my side.”

"Stop talking... I understand. What I'm looking for has always been by my side, so you can't die." Zheng Xin's eyes were a little red. Unconsciously, she slowly channeled the spiritual power in her body into Zheng Mo's body, but that still couldn't stop the death aura on Zheng Mo's body from spreading more and more.

That was an end.

"Oh... thank you."

At this moment, Zheng Mo closed his eyes.

When a person closes their eyes, the entire world ceases to exist in their consciousness.

If a person opens their eyes, is the world still the same world?

This is an unanswerable question.

Who is Zheng Xin?

Who is Zheng Mo?

Is what they're looking for the same thing?

All these questions became meaningless the moment Zheng Mo closed his eyes.

Sometimes, a question doesn't actually need a meaning; it just depends on how people think about it.

Zheng Mo didn't go looking for it, but that doesn't mean he couldn't find it.

Just because Zheng Xin is looking for him doesn't mean he can find him.

But when you look back suddenly, what you need may have been right beside you.

Zheng Xin understood, and that's why he felt sadness in the end.

Zheng Mo understood, so he chose to wait, and he chose death.

Some say that life is like a dream, and that life is actually just a dream.

You appear in someone else's dream, and then someone else appears in your dream, thus creating an intersection.

Close your eyes, open your eyes...

In an instant, Zheng Xin also closed her eyes along with Zheng Mo.

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Chapter 160 The Truth About Reincarnation?

A chaotic world where blue and red coexist. This world has only these two colors, and these two colors are distributed very evenly. The left side is blue and the right side is red. But apart from the colors, the only eye-catching thing is probably the black Rubik's Cube hanging above.

The Rubik's Cube has six sides, and each side has nine squares. Each square on each side is engraved with a character. However, if you count the entire black Rubik's Cube, there are a total of sixty characters. This is because if you look at the nine characters on each square from a distance, you can clearly see that they can all form a character. In other words, the nine characters can be combined into one.

However, only five of the six characters on each face are clearly visible. The characters on the top face are somewhat blurry. The reason is simple: only three of the nine characters on that face are visible, while the remaining six are completely hidden and cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Upon closer inspection, one can discover that the three characters that have appeared are none other than Gu Qici, which is truly unbelievable.

Furthermore, beneath this Rubik's Cube, two figures stood slowly. One of them was short, dressed in gray, and looked like a child. But she was none other than Zheng Xin from the previous dream, or perhaps "Little Gu Qici".

The other person wasn't a stranger either; she was none other than Gu Qici, who had appeared there for some unknown reason.

She stared blankly at Gu Qici in front of her, her mind a jumble of confusion and a strange sense of panic.

"Calm down first. Otherwise, you won't be able to handle the memories of the second and third lives, and you won't be able to distinguish whether your dreams are real or fake," Xiao Gu Qi Ci said softly.

Hearing Gu Qici's words, Gu Qici's mind became even more chaotic. She held her head in her hands, looking somewhat pained. It took a long time for her to calm down. But as soon as she stabilized her emotions, a deep doubt appeared in her eyes.

"What...do you mean by what you said?" Gu Qici asked, panting heavily, as she lowered her hand, seemingly feeling weak.

"It means exactly what it says. Your comprehension shouldn't be that bad, right?" Xiao Gu Qi Ci said calmly.

However, Gu Qici still didn't understand, or rather, she was confused and didn't know the true meaning of what Xiao Gu Qici was saying.

This made Gu Qici shake her head and sigh. Finally, she replied, "Sigh? Among the eight reincarnations I led, your comprehension is the worst. I've explained it so clearly, yet you still don't understand. You're really stupid."

Upon hearing this, Gu Qici raised an eyebrow, somewhat displeased, but out of respect for her senior, she chose to remain politely silent.

"Alright, alright." Xiao Gu Qici said with a look of disappointment, "Since that's the case, then I'll explain it to you properly. However, I must warn you that you might find it hard to accept what I have to say, so before I begin, I want to know if you really want me to tell you?"

At this point, Xiao Gu Qici's tone became noticeably more serious, which put Gu Qici in a bit of a predicament. She had inexplicably come to this place, then inexplicably encountered this Xiao Gu Qici, and now inexplicably had to answer Xiao Gu Qici's questions. She was completely baffled.

But as inexplicable as it may seem, she had no reason not to know what was happening in front of her, so after a moment's thought, she said, "Go ahead and tell me. I might not be unable to accept it anyway."

"Hehe." As if she had guessed that Gu Qici would say this, Xiao Gu Qici smiled slightly and replied, "Very well, then I will tell you. The memories that just surfaced in your mind, and..." As she spoke, Xiao Gu Qici's eyes flickered and she suddenly looked at the Rubik's Cube above: "The origin of this Rubik's Cube."

"Hmm?" Gu Qici frowned again, and then, like little Gu Qici, looked up at the Rubik's Cube in the sky.

"But before that, I still want to ask you a question. Don't worry, it's not the kind of stupid question I asked earlier, but rather a question to help you understand better," Xiao Gu Qi Ci said.

“Okay. Go ahead and ask.” Gu Qici nodded.

Xiao Gu Qici paused, looked at Gu Qici seriously, and then asked, "Do you know... what reincarnation is?"

"Reincarnation?" Gu Qici was a little confused, but still replied, "I've heard people say before that in ancient times, a supreme being created the laws of life. If someone dies, that person's soul will be reincarnated and regain life. So my understanding is that this process should be reincarnation, right?"

"One person dies and is resurrected, another lives and dies, and so on in an endless cycle..."

"Oh? Hehehe." After listening, Xiao Gu Qi Ci smiled slightly, then suddenly asked, "You understand fairly well, but have you ever considered whether that supreme expert might die? Could she also have her own reincarnation?"

"Hmm?" Gu Qici was slightly speechless, and seriously considered the question in her mind.

At the same time, Xiao Gu Qici seemed to know something about Gu Qici. She continued, "Don't overthink it. That so-called supreme expert is not as powerful as you think. In the end, she is just a life. Although her lifespan is infinite, she is lonely for all time. It is better to be dead than to live."

"Huh? So that's what I mean..." Gu Qici asked in surprise.

"She erased some of her consciousness, leaving only basic common sense in her mind, wanting to start a new life, and then suffered the backlash of reincarnation," Xiao Gu Qi Ci said softly.

Gu Qici was increasingly confused as she listened, and she couldn't help but ask, "Huh? That's a bit strange. Could this power of reincarnation have self-awareness? No way?"

"Superficial," Xiao Gu Qici said disdainfully. "Listen carefully, in this world, no, in any world, as long as something exists, it has the potential to become life, even if it's just a piece of land or a drop of rain..."

"Although mortals and cultivators have different definitions of life, if we understand it from a higher perspective, life is actually just a form of existence. So, existence itself is life, understand?"

"Existence is life?" Gu Qici understood somewhat, but was also a little confused.

"What an idiot." Shaking her head helplessly again, Xiao Gu Qi Ci said simply and clearly: "Take rainwater for example. If a powerful person uses a secret technique to seal some rainwater, and then uses it as a medium to create a virtual life, do you think that rainwater becomes an independent life?"

"Hmm? Yes." Gu Qici replied quickly, knowing full well that cultivators with cultivation levels above the Great Emperor level could even create their own space, let alone create a life using rainwater.

"That's right, that's exactly it. Although rainwater cannot transform into life on its own, it can become life through other means. That's its possibility. But the prerequisite is that it must exist and have this opportunity. So if we remove these factors, then we can naturally arrive at the ultimate theory that existence itself is life..."

"So, the power of reincarnation, although it is illusory, does not lack such opportunities, thus becoming a conscious life. After all, in this vast world, no one knows what will happen."

"But what does all this have to do with what you're about to say?" Gu Qici suddenly asked, turning the subject back on track.

“Of course there is a connection…” Xiao Gu Qici said seriously, “Because everything you just experienced is your past reincarnation.”

"What?!" Gu Qici was surprised again, completely bewildered.

"Don't say anything like that. You should know your current situation," Xiao Gu Qici said seriously.

"My current situation?" Gu Qici frowned, thinking to herself.