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

In essence, darkness can only be considered a synonym for despair. It cannot interfere with despair, much less control it; it can only make people feel it.

Sometimes, when people are in the dark, the word that comes to mind is mostly despair. And so, after these people have been in the dark for a while, another word will naturally emerge in their emotions: fear.

However, people at this point cannot distinguish whether they are afraid of the darkness or of despair. So, as their thoughts turn, even those who are afraid of the darkness will feel despair.

This is a different kind of erosion...

The Yellow Springs are still unknown.

Looking at the endless darkness before him, his strength and bodily functions continued to drain away, as if being swallowed by the darkness. At this moment, his body was utterly exhausted, and all he wanted was to sleep...

But just as he had this thought, a voice from within his own heart quietly rang in his ears...

He seemed to see another version of himself before his eyes, but strangely, this version of Huang Quan's body was black, completely black, which was both chilling and terrifying.

"Yeah! If I could just sleep like this without thinking about anything, that wouldn't be bad..."

"Without those burdens, without those promises..."

His own voice was very low, lacking any imposing manner or anything else, yet it possessed a peculiar magic, each word stimulating the depths of Huang Quan's soul...

"Don't overthink it. These are things you can't handle... Just remember, some paths are simply not meant to be walked. Don't force yourself..."

"In this darkness! You won't find what you're looking for. Even if you're incredibly strong, you might not find the path..."

He kept hovering around Huang Quan's ear and whispering, as if he understood Huang Quan's thoughts very well. Every word he said was like a pearl in the heart!

"Sleep well! Everything will be alright once you fall asleep..."

"Sleep! Sleep! All the sorrow in your heart, all the resentment in your heart, everything in your heart, will vanish completely. You will live happily in a place... a place where you are free from all the burdens you have carried..."

"No! All that I've taken on?"

"Yes! Without all that you've taken on... you'll definitely like it there, you'll definitely love it there... believe me... believe me..."

"No... I... have borne..." Huang Quan slowly closed his eyes, his expression now one of gentle smiles.

"Yes! He's right, I am indeed very tired... I'm just an ordinary person... I..." A tear slowly welled up in his eyes.

But these seemingly ordinary tears must contain immense sorrow in Huang Quan's heart.

Only then did he realize that he was just an ordinary person, an ordinary person who wanted to be ordinary.

As Huang Quan's eyes gradually closed, a faint smile slowly curved the corners of Huang Quan's lips.

The surrounding darkness seemed to respond to his smile, gradually corroding Huang Quan's body like living things. Upon closer inspection, Huang Quan's body appeared to be assimilated by the darkness, a truly horrifying sight.

Just as Huang Quan was being corrupted by darkness, with only his eyes still visible, a gentle voice suddenly rang in Huang Quan's heart.

"Yellow Springs!!"

Upon hearing this voice, Huang Quan was startled and his eyes snapped open involuntarily. However, his consciousness was quickly drawn into his inner world by an invisible force.

Perhaps influenced by the darkness of this place, Huang Quan's originally gray inner world has now turned into darkness, but this darkness is very different from the darkness on the Road to the End where he is.

The darkness of the final path is cold and devoid of warmth, but the darkness of his inner world carries a trace of warmth.

Huang Quan sensed his inner world and slightly raised his head, but the person who appeared before him was no longer the dark figure he once was, but someone Huang Quan deeply missed...

She is a woman.

She is Jiang Wanyu with a smile on her face.

But seeing Jiang Wanyu's Yellow Springs, a sense of guilt rose in his heart.

"I'm sorry! I'm afraid this time... I can't keep my promise to you." After a brief silence, a strained voice slowly came from Huang Quan's mouth.

"Yes, I won't blame you." Jiang Wanyu nodded gently. This all-encompassing voice deeply moved and touched Huang Quan, even though he knew perfectly well that she was nothing more than an illusion before him...

"I'm so tired! Even now, I feel so tired of living..." Huang Quan's exhaustion was evident in his voice. When Huang Quan said this, the darkness that had assimilated his body left only his left eye.

"It's okay, it's okay... I'll be by your side, I'll be in your heart, I'll always, always, always be with you..."

"Even if we're not in the same place, we can still be in each other's hearts... because I will always believe in you!" Although Jiang Wanyu said these words very calmly, they still conveyed a hint of sadness.

Huang Quan murmured softly, his eyes revealing tenderness.

"It's alright..." Jiang Wanyu saw Huang Quan's guilty look and her heart stirred. She grabbed Huang Quan's hands and instantly felt the soft touch of the woman on Huang Quan's body.

"Don't worry, no matter how difficult your path is... I will always be willing to walk with you!" The moment Jiang Wanyu uttered these words, she suddenly stretched out her hands and hugged Huang Quan's entire body tightly, but her voice became urgent.

"So...please wake up! Wake up! Don't sleep anymore!"

“Xin’er…” Huang Quan looked at Jiang Wanyu, who was holding him tightly, and suddenly felt an unknown power, like a warm light, slowly spreading from his heart to his body. But this warmth did not belong to Huang Quan alone…

Outside of the inner world, just as the darkness was about to completely engulf the Yellow Springs, everything came to a sudden halt.

"Huh? What's going on?" The dark underworld was slightly startled when it saw the writhing darkness suddenly stop. A very bad premonition instantly surged into its heart.

"Wait? What is this...?"

The sun is light, and everyone is the sun, capable of radiating light. However, sometimes, this light is hidden deep within people's hearts, unwilling to reveal it, thus creating darkness in the soul.

This is the relativity of darkness and light.

Humans control their own darkness. No matter how great the external influences are, they are merely guidance. The key lies in whether a person's heart is strong enough.

If one desires to fall into darkness, then even without anything, one will still walk the path of darkness; if one desires to embrace the light, then the light will naturally be everywhere.

This is a very common truth, but it is supreme, and even the darkest person cannot refute it.

Huang Quan is a bit special. He cannot obtain his own light. This is because of his background and his life path. Although he sometimes seems carefree, he does not have much inner light.

Therefore, he needs friends, family, and that timeless love.

Because... he was the light in his heart.

At that moment, this warm light, like the blazing sun, burst forth from Huang Quan's body, illuminating the dark passage and bringing a temperature never before seen or felt to this darkness.

The light in people's hearts is the warmest.

Because sometimes, it surpasses the sun.

"Why? There's such light on him, his heart should be dark... Ah!!!" A shrill voice, filled with disbelief, immediately echoed throughout the passage.

The dark underworld eventually vanished under this light.

As the darkness of the Yellow Springs vanished, the darkness surrounding the Yellow Springs finally began to slowly fade away.

Until the light shone on the path to the end...

……

A place.

"Wake up... junior!"

"If you keep sleeping, you'll die!" A voice, weathered yet slightly provocative, gradually reached Huang Quan's ears and entered his dream.

"Who is it?!" Huang Quan suddenly woke up, his body involuntarily standing up, but he was already soaked in sweat...

"Is it a dream? But that voice... it feels like I've heard it somewhere before... Hmm? Where am I?" Huang Quan took a deep breath and began to observe his surroundings.

He first looked around at his location, which was under a large tree. The tree was gently swaying in the breeze, giving him a very comfortable feeling.

Meanwhile, its sturdy branches and leaves also helped block the sunlight from reaching Huang Quan, like a kind elder...

But this elder, like that voice, also revealed a faint sense of vicissitude.

Then, his gaze shifted to all directions, but there was nothing particularly special about it; it was all grassland, which unconsciously reminded him of the grasslands on the Great Yellow Bee.

However, the two are clearly different. The grassland on Dahuang Peak gives him the feeling that he is still in the True Profound Continent, but he can't feel that at all here.

Previously, in the sky bridge space created by Zhang Xuan, Huang Quan's cultivation level was insufficient, so he did not have a clear understanding of that strange feeling, but now he has a different understanding.

He could sense without even guessing that this place did not belong to the True Profound Continent, but was an independent space.

“This place is very similar to the space Zhang Xuan created, but this space is even more perfect than that one…”

"But that also means that the owner of this space is stronger than Zhang Xuan... So, who is he?"

“I remember that among the records of the Zhang family throughout the generations engraved on those coffins, there doesn’t seem to be anyone stronger than Zhang Xuan. So who is it?! Wait…” At this moment, Huang Quan seemed to have thought of something.

"What if it's not someone from the Zhang family?" But he shook his head again, immediately rejecting the idea.

"No, no, the Tomb of the End was built by the second patriarch of the Zhang family. His strength is almost on par with Zhang Xuan's, so no one should build such a space in the Tomb of the End under his command..."

"Who said that? I can do it!!!" Suddenly, that weathered voice rang out again, but this time it wasn't teasing, but rather defiant.

"Who is it?" Huang Quan was not surprised to hear the voice. He knew that if he could get here, there must be someone who brought him here. So, the next moment, his eyes began to wander around, carefully searching for this person.

"Stop looking, stop looking... I'm right here."

"Hmm? This voice..." Huang Quan hadn't listened carefully before, but now he recognized it as the voice that had appeared in his ears at the beginning.

"Senior, where are you?" Huang Quan looked around again, but still couldn't find him. This made him wonder if the owner of the voice was playing a trick on him, so his tone became a little stiff.

"Alas! Young people these days! They have absolutely no sense of observation. They are nothing like the young people of that era!" The voice, which seemed to come from nowhere, spoke these words with a hint of reminiscence.

But then Huang Quan frowned, as if he had discovered something. His figure instantly reversed, and he took a few steps back, stopping about ten meters away from the tree. However, his eyes were fixed on the tree, full of vigilance.

Yes, he found it.

Humans have an innate wariness of the unknown, which may be related to the life-and-death dangers he has encountered along the way.

"Oh! You noticed it as soon as I finished speaking. Although there's still a gap compared to people of that era, it's not bad..."

Unsurprisingly, the one speaking was none other than the large tree.

"Alright! No need to be so wary. If I were to hurt you, do you think you'd still be alive?" the tree continued, though it seemed somewhat indifferent to Huang Quan's reaction after learning that he was a tree.

Upon hearing the tree's words, Huang Quan thought about it and realized that it made sense. So he relaxed his body and calmly asked the tree, "Senior, why don't you show your true face?"

"Hmm?" The tree paused for a moment when it heard Huang Quan's question, and at that moment, Huang Quan actually sensed a kind of sadness from this strange tree.

"Perhaps this is my path?" the tree finally uttered this inexplicable question to itself.

That's true. It's a strange tree that says seemingly nonsensical things, but upon closer inspection, it actually makes some sense. However, it's also illogical for a tree to have human emotions and thoughts.

But if someone were to say this, how profound must that person's understanding of life be!

Everyone spends their life searching for their own path, and along the way, there are wrong directions, wrong ideas, and wrong choices...

How much thought and practice does it take for a person to find their own path? But now this tree says that this is its path. This gave Huang Quan a new understanding of it in an instant, because Huang Quan was also looking for his own path not long ago.

Sensing that Huang Quan was pondering its words, the tree laughed and said, "Haha! Kid, some things are predetermined by fate, including the path you take. No matter how much you think about it, it's useless. Go with the flow and follow the will of Heaven; that's the right way. Otherwise, the final outcome will be something you can't even imagine."

The tree's words still carried a sense of age and vicissitude, just like the tree itself. But Huang Quan fell silent after hearing them, as if he was still thinking about something.