webnovelfull Chapter 1220 Returning to the Door of Reality and Reincarnation
Chapter 1220 Returning to the Door of Reality and Reincarnation
This sudden contact made Xia Xingzhi a little stunned. After he came back to his senses, his cheeks were a little red. He didn't know if it was because of Feng Ying's pinching or what. He said in a muffled voice: "Kuai Songkai..." Let go!
Feng Ying glared at him: "Then you are not allowed to talk nonsense."
Xia Xingzhi had no choice but to nod, and Feng Ying finally let go.
Fortunately, Xia Xingzhi is now a puppet and not a physical body, otherwise he would have two big slap marks on his face...
"continue."
"...Just keep going!" Xia Xingzhi gritted his teeth. "Later...I sensed the power of time, and I began to see the 'future' over and over again, a future that was constantly evolving... The universe's survival, its destruction, all depended on the turning point of fate...I couldn't just sit there and watch the universe fall and be destroyed, so..."
Feng Ying said coldly, "So you chose to leave without saying goodbye?"
Xia Xingzhi knew that he was wrong, and even a little selfish, because... he didn't want to face Feng Ying's sadness and tears.
Well, given Feng Ying's personality, she might not cry for him.
But he was really afraid of separation and being forgotten.
Death is an end.
If Feng Ying accepted his death and gradually forgot about him and put him out of her mind... then he would be sad.
Similarly, if Feng Ying was devastated by his death, he would also be at a loss.
The best way is for him to leave her.
You could call it leaving without saying goodbye, or calling it a cowardly retreat, but he hadn't expected that Feng Ying actually had Xiao Wushuang...
He made her endure too much.
"I'm sorry..." Xia Xingzhi slowly lowered his eyes. He wanted to get closer to Feng Ying, but was afraid that she would be angry, so he could only stand there and stare at her.
Feng Ying looked at his face quietly. She had helped to complete the "reshaping" of this puppet.
She originally thought that she and Xiao Wushuang's "cheap dad" had been separated for so long that she might have already forgotten what he looked like.
But when Xia Xingzhi's super-controlled "puppet" appeared in front of her, even though the puppet's appearance was "distorted" because it was "attacked" by Xiao Wushuang, she could still see his shadow from the "distorted" facial features.
So when she was reshaping the puppet later, she deliberately modified its appearance so that it would no longer look like him back then.
This also means...she has never actually forgotten him.
No.
Is it nostalgia?
Have.
Are you unwilling?
There are also.
There are other deeper and more nostalgic emotions...
But Feng Ying has been suppressing her emotions over the years. In her opinion, since Xia Xingzhi could leave her without saying a word, she could be just as free and easy.
She is a mother and also the Qianyun Phoenix Emperor.
She has a daughter to protect and people to lead.
Her dignity does not allow her to bow her head, nor does it allow anyone to look down on her.
Feng Ying took a deep breath and whispered, "What happened next? What did you do for what you saw?"
Xia Xingzhi lowered his eyes and remained silent for a moment, then rolled up his sleeves and stretched his wrist in front of Feng Ying, lightly stroking it with his fingertips. His movements were calm and unhurried, as if he was not the one who had been cut open, drained of blood, and burned to ashes.
"I used my flesh and blood, my body, to open the 'door'..."
Feng Ying's heartbeat almost stopped, and she whispered, "What door?"
"The hope I 'saw' was swept away by the endless void and torrent, constantly shuttling through every corner of the void. She seemed to want to find a way back, but due to various limitations and difficulties, she was ultimately unable to return... Because she had already strayed from the scope of the law, I used the remaining flesh and blood of the Xia family, sacrificing the power of time, to open a door for her to return to reality and reincarnation..."
Feng Ying's mind went blank, and the strength in her body gradually dissipated.
She held her breath, lowered her eyes, and her eyelashes trembled slightly due to her emotional fluctuations.
Seeing Feng Ying feeling distressed, Xia Xingzhi frowned and said, "Don't be too sad..."
Feng Ying interrupted Xia Xingzhi's words of comfort and raised her eyes, "When did you start to sense it?"
"what?"
"I mean, the entangled future seen through the power of time."
"It was around the time I left."
"After we get married?"
"!!!"
Xia Xingzhi's face flushed red at Feng Ying's blunt words, but Feng Ying's expression was very serious. He didn't dare to have any other romantic thoughts and could only nod dryly.
Feng Ying exhaled heavily and said, "Have you ever thought about why both 'destiny' and 'fate' are now placed on Xiao Wushuang?"
After Xia Xingzhi "woke up", he also wondered why the "hope" he welcomed back then finally manifested in his daughter.
"This... I don't know how much the universe's fortune has changed compared to before, but I think it should be gradually getting better... Xiao Wushuang is very hardworking and very powerful. Isn't this a good thing?"
Feng Ying was silent for a long time, then raised her eyes and said, "The 'hope' you saw drifting in the infinite void should be Xiao Wushuang."
Xia Xingzhi was stunned: "What?!"
"Don't you know about Xiao Wushuang's origins?"
Xia Xingzhi knew part of it, but not everything: "Tell me about it quickly."
Feng Ying glanced at Xia Xingzhi and saw how anxious he was. She sighed softly and told him about Ji Wushuang's "past and present life".
The latter was stunned for a long moment before muttering, "So... my flesh and blood can guide 'Hope' back. It's not a coincidence, nor is it simply because of the power of time. But we are already connected by blood?"
Feng Ying closed her eyes lightly, her heart tumbling as if in boiling water, painful yet clear-headed.
"Correct."
Xia Xingzhi was stunned for a long time, and suddenly remembered something. He quickly raised his eyes and looked around, then said to the sky: "You...you are not allowed to tell Xiao Wushuang about this matter. And you, don't tell her either."
Xia Xingzhi can be the one who sacrifices himself to bring dawn and hope to the world, or he can be the one who breaks the deadlock of fate, but he cannot be the one who sacrifices himself to save Ji Wushuang.
Although he had not spent much time with Ji Wushuang, he knew Ji Wushuang's stubbornness too well.
He didn't want her to bear any shackles or pain.
As a father...
He was willing to sacrifice everything for her, just hoping that her soul would always be free.
Let us cut off all these heavy, painful and oppressive causes and effects right here.
She doesn't need to know anything!
No need to know anything!
"Calm down." Feng Ying saw that Xia Xingzhi was a little flustered, so she simply stretched out two fingers to pinch his lips and said coldly, "Why are you so flustered? You're losing your composure. Xiao Wushuang is already the master of the Four Realms. What can you hide from her? She will find out sooner or later."
"But..." Xia Xingzhi blinked and looked at Feng Ying pitifully, "I just don't want her to be sad..."
"She's much stronger than you think."
"..."
Feng Ying comforted him again: "Besides, your soul is fine, isn't it? Xiao Wushuang said that you just regained consciousness not long ago, that is, in these years after the sacrifice, you just slept for a while, it's okay."
Xia Xingzhi: “???”
What Feng Ying said seemed to be fine, but why did he have the feeling that "he was not valued at all by Feng Ying"?
You said... you like him?
Xia Xingzhi's eyes were filled with resentment: "So are you willing to forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye?"
"Stop." Feng Ying curled her lips coldly. "Let's return the favor. As the Great Emperor of the Human Race, I remember your sacrifices, but as a fellow Taoist, your behavior is absolutely unacceptable."
Xia Xingzhi lowered his head and didn't dare to say anything more.
Feng Ying just stared at his lost expression. After a long while, she sighed softly, walked forward, opened her arms and hugged him tightly.
Compared to his previous warm, gentle body...with a faint scent of sunshine, Xia Xingzhi's current "body" only has a faint smell of gunpowder, which is not pleasant to smell, but because the soul inside is his, Feng Ying still can't help but miss it.
She put her arm around his waist and whispered, "Xiao Wushuang is right about cherishing the one in front of you... The war is imminent, and being able to reunite with you before this is already my greatest luck. Xingzhi, I've actually... always been... waiting for you to come back."