Unusual Fate Records

Chapter 338.030. Looking Back (Part Two)

Fu Xun and Chen Ruolan couldn't see it, but they saw Jin Ziyue leap high into the air, slash at the sky, and then land with something in his hands.

Qi Tongshan saw it clearly and looked surprised.

Jin Ziyue glanced at her, his azure eyes carrying an invisible intimidating power. In his vision, Qi Tongshan's appearance had changed drastically, transforming her into a woman he had never seen before.

"How is she?!"

Chen Ruolan ran up and, seeing that Jin Ziyue's arms were empty, clearly realized something.

Jin Ziyue gazed at Hu's soul, its body cracked all over. As a vessel, it could no longer contain the life essence. The life essence's energy spilled out from the countless cracks and dissipated into the air.

Amber's soul was on its last breath and could not even return to her body.

"The situation isn't good," Jin Ziyue said.

"Her soul was crushed. The organization knew her weakness: her body was immune to any harm, but her soul was not."

Chen Ruolan was silent for a while, then suddenly spoke to the transparent space that Jin Ziyue was holding:

"Don't you still want to go back to your hometown? Don't you still want to prove yourself to your mother? If you fall here, you'll have nothing left."

Speechless.

Fu Xunzhao looked at Hu's body, pressed his wrist against it, and saw that her pulse was gradually weakening.

Chen Ruolan scratched her head in frustration, closed her eyes, and stopped talking.

Xinhu lay quietly at Jin Ziyue's feet. It seemed to be able to see Hu's soul, and with slow movements, it gently licked Hu's soul-shaped cheek.

Amber's soul seemed to sense the wet tiger tongue, opened its eyes, and tried to open its mouth but found it difficult to make a sound. This simple action only exacerbated the collapse of its soul, like a broken porcelain doll with more and more cracks.

"Thank you for everything you've done..." She reached out to touch Xinhu's forehead.

"Thank you," Hu said, turning her gaze to Jin Ziyue.

"After I die... take my death message with you, Heart Tiger... You should have a stronger master so you don't have to suffer with me all this time."

"It seems... this time... there really is no one who can help me."

Amber's eyelids drooped, and her eyes slowly closed.

"My hometown... I'll dream about it again this time, won't I?"

“In different worlds, even if I die, I will never see my mother again.” Her voice grew softer and softer, with a suppressed nasal tone.

"Ya Mo".

A voice gently called her name.

Hu was stunned, his soul's expression full of astonishment.

Jin Ziyue looked down at the giant beast beside him.

Xinhu's eyes softened as he pressed his beast face against Hu's cheek.

“I’ve always been here,” Xin Hu said in a deep, resonant female voice.

Hu's eyes instantly filled with tears. She couldn't help but take another look at Xin Hu, with whom she had spent every day. The feeling in her heart was completely different.

The tiger's eyes gradually overlapped with his mother's solemn image. The fighting spirit burning in the tiger's eyes as it tried to save him was exactly the same as the look in his mother's eyes that night.

That night, the energy of the inscription "Raising a tiger will only bring trouble" surged; we should have paid attention to that.

That was the result of devouring the [Tiger-Breaking Realm].

There were many opportunities for him to discover that he and the tiger shared a deep connection, and that the tiger's care was as meticulous as a mother's.

On countless nights when he missed his mother, Hu Chenmou hugged his knees and sat down beside the sleeping tiger, feeling the tiger's warm fur, and his heart gradually returned to peace.

She opened her mouth, her voice choked with emotion.

Mingming, I should have thought of that a long time ago.

The fierce tiger that was always by her side carried the soul of her mother.

The person you long for day and night has always been by your side.

In that instant, an unprecedented sense of satisfaction filled her heart, and she smiled silently.

The cracks in the soul emitted beams of light, a sign that it was on the verge of collapse and disintegration.

But Hu didn't care.

In the final moments of her life, all her regrets were made up, and she felt utterly content.

"Mother."

Jin Ziyue squatted down and gently pushed her back, allowing the woman in his arms to look more closely at her loved one.

Hu stared at Xinhu's face, scrutinized it closely for a while, and tried her best to show her most beautiful smile.

"You truly are my daughter; you are my pride."

Xinhu closed his eyes and gently pressed his forehead forward.

However, she ended up with nothing.

Hu's soul, like shattered porcelain, disintegrated in Jin Ziyue's arms, breaking into countless points of light that vanished into the air.

Xinhu's movements stopped.

She remained in that position, completely still.

a long time.

"Thank you."

She suddenly opened her mouth and spoke in Chinese.

……

Jin Ziyue's "Soul Eyes" reached its limit, dispelling the effect of the spiritual vision.

"Soon-"

The wind blows.

Jin Ziyue sensed the inscription "Raising a tiger will only bring trouble" beginning to dissipate from Hu's body behind him.

And the tiger in the heart, too, turned into countless tiny stars and gradually disappeared.

Along with it disappeared the phrase "患得患失" (huàn dé huàn shī).

Chen Ruolan watched as Xin Hu disappeared, gritting her teeth and clenching her fists in resentment.

Jin Ziyue used his fingers to draw a life-controlling incantation, collecting the two scattered life-destiny words.

[Raising a Tiger Leaves a Trouble] still has two hundred years of energy, but [Gain and Loss] has completely lost its energy. Jin Ziyue can't even sense any consciousness within it, and it has become a complete empty shell.

Presumably, that mother, along with her daughter's soul, vanished into the vast天地 (heaven and earth).

Jin Ziyue withdrew his outstretched hand and stood up.

The four looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

"In her last moments, she saw her mother," Jin Ziyue's voice broke the silence.

“Is that so…” Chen Ruolan looked at him, a glimmer of light appearing in her eyes.

"Her mother's soul resides in the Heart Tiger's destiny; otherwise, the product of the destiny, without a soul and consciousness, could not possibly generate another destiny."

"I see."

As if comforted, Chen Ruolan breathed a sigh of relief, her brows softening.

"Xinhu's soul, from some unknown time, had been replaced by her mother, who protected her until the last moment of her life."

"That's... not bad either."

"If it weren't for the attack on her soul, she probably would never have known that her mother had always been protecting her."

Jin Ziyue said.

"She must have been very satisfied that her lifelong dream was fulfilled at the end of her life."

Chen Ruolan stretched out her arms and moved them, appearing relaxed.

Jin Ziyue did not reply. He went to Hu's body and used [Carbon Atomium] to turn it into crystalline particles, which disappeared layer by layer in the wind.

The exiled survivors finally integrated into the world.

"That solves the problem," Fu Xun said.

"No." Jin Ziyue stood up and turned to look at Qi Tongshan, who had been silent all along.

The other person also sensed his gaze and met his eyes.

"There are other questions, I'll ask them all at once."

Fu Xun followed Jin Ziyue's gaze and saw Qi Tongshan with a calm expression.

He understood Jin's intention. Although he didn't make any move, his hands, which were in his pockets, were already fully prepared.

Chen Ruolan's expression also turned serious.

Jin Ziyue walked towards Qi Tongshan, looked her straight in the eye, and asked:

"Who are you anyway?"

(End of this chapter)