My enemies became my companions

Chapter 96: To Become an Immortal, You Need to Forget Yourself (First Order)

The time has come.

Zhou Yitang's eyes were sharp, and he put his fingers together to form a sword gesture, then slashed down from top to bottom with an invisible sword.

Go to worship at the Temple of Heaven!

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Worship in the Temple of Heaven.

The nun's figure slowly fell to the ground.

She stared blankly at a place, which was the avenue of inheritance of the goddess that had long since collapsed.

Chen Yi held her head and looked at her silently.

The three-legged bronze tripod with two dragons engraved with the word "Tao" has been broken, the bronze dragon chariot on the mural is dim, and the Temple of Heaven is silent.

Lin Wanheng was still unconscious in the original place, while Queen An, who was half-possessed by Tushan, walked step by step to the three-legged bronze tripod with two dragons, and was in a daze.

The nun in white held her head high, her pupils dilated. She raised her hand in a trance and tried to reach out, but she could not catch anything.

Chen Yi looked down at her.

There was a strange light in the nun's eyes, that was fear. She struggled to get up, but Chen Yi pressed her forehead to the ground.

"Let go, let go of me..."

The nun let out a hoarse tremor.

Chen Yi looked at her with a smile, and it seemed that with just a flick of his finger, the true energy would pour in from the top of his head, flow into her acupoints, and interrupt her bridge to immortality.

He held her like this, neither letting go nor using force, feeling her panic in his hands, letting her feel her hope slip away bit by bit.

"If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place?"

Chen Yi said slowly,
"I warned you."

The nun trembled slightly and tears flowed from her eyes. As time passed, she gradually... became disheartened.

In her eyes, Chen Yi occupied all her sight, that was her ignorance.

She had clearly eradicated the ignorance in her heart before, but he caught up with her and forcibly pulled her off the path of the goddess' inheritance. How many times did she have to eradicate the ignorance? How else could she eradicate this ignorance?

Even... does she still have a chance to eliminate this ignorance? !

The nun's breathing became more and more panicked and trembling.

Suddenly, a breeze was blown up from nowhere.

A slight breeze passed in front of the nun, as if it penetrated into her acupoints and reached her soul.

The nun looked at Chen Yi, she trembled slightly, but when the breeze reached the three souls and seven spirits, for a moment, the scene in front of her seemed to slow down and become quiet. Chen Yi's face became somewhat unreal and vague in her eyes.

It’s like the moment death comes, everything slows down.

The nun was breathing rapidly, and then her breathing gradually slowed down. She didn't know why, but suddenly she felt as if a certain time had come.

That feeling of... summoning spirits surged up again.

She wondered vaguely, why was she so afraid of him?
What is there for him to be afraid of? He is just an ordinary person. Besides, hasn’t she already... eliminated this ignorance before?
The eyes of the Goddess Taihua suddenly lit up.
Yes, I destroyed him.

If I'm still afraid of him, then why not... forget about him?
Forget it, forget it all, forget everything.

The moment the thought came to my mind, it was like finding a way out of a desperate situation and turning bad times into good times.

Her mood became increasingly detached.

If he wants to break my bridge to immortality, let him break it. I have my own affinity with the Tao and my own heart for the Tao, so I can repair it as before!
The heart of Tao becomes strong again.

The eyes of the Goddess Taihua passed over Chen Yi, as if she saw the path to immortality inherited by the goddess being rebuilt bit by bit.

She stretched out her hand, listening to some kind of call, gently wanting to touch.

In a trance, she felt her three souls and seven spirits leaving her body.

A mysterious aura surrounded her.

The Goddess Taihua was concentrating her mind, as if she was comprehending something.

She saw her figure gradually becoming ethereal and unreal.

Her consciousness seemed to be pulled to a very far place along with the goddess' inheritance.

She walked step by step along the road under her feet.

The road is very long and the destination is far away. It is unknown how long it will take to complete it. Many people who have walked up the mountain have tried their best in their entire lives but have never been able to complete it.

On this road, she saw memories of her entire life.

In the wealthy and prosperous Prince Jing's Mansion, a little girl was born. The weak Princess Jing held her in her arms and smiled gently. The anxious Prince Jing paced back and forth in the lobby, but he still hadn't waited for the news that mother and daughter were safe.

Looking at this heartwarming scene, Goddess Taihua did not show the slightest emotion.

It’s like... forgetting about love.

The Goddess Taihua turned around and continued walking forward.

The scene changed again. When she was twelve years old, a group of Taoists suddenly came to the gate of Prince Jing's Mansion. Yu Zhen Yuanjun, who was half a step away from becoming an immortal, came to the palace riding a crane. The master pressed her head and told her that she was the Goddess of Taihua.

The Goddess Taihua just smiled faintly and continued walking on the road.

Countless memories, some good, some bad, flashed through her mind, and when she was in her twenties, she saw a scene that had happened not long ago.

That was the panicked self when he was summoning spirits. He kept running and was frightened to the point of being disoriented by the Chen Yi who appeared one after another.

Thinking of Chen Yi, the Goddess Taihua no longer felt that face was disgusting and hateful. Suddenly, she remembered something and laughed.

"So I actually regarded him as an evil obstacle in the past?"

The Goddess Taihua sighed softly,
"If you want to become an immortal, you must forget yourself. As long as my heart is not dead, there is no way."

The verse that was used to eliminate ignorance reappeared in my mind.

She continued to walk forward, step by step, and saw Min Ning slap her, and then saw herself falling into the underground palace and being threatened by Chen Yi. She kept walking.

Finally, she saw herself being pulled back from the Avenue of Immortality by Chen Yi, and the Avenue of Immortality was shattered into pieces.

She just smiled at the desperate scene.

The further you go, the more you explore the road.

The more you explore the great road, the smaller you feel.

Even oneself is insignificant, so one must follow the great path.

Not long after, the Goddess Taihua came to the end.

At the end, her master Yu Zhen Yuan Jun stood, gazing into the distance, surrounded by cranes.

The sound of the Tao continued to echo around the woman, like the sound of a Huang Zhong (a bell), making people completely enlightened and become one with the Tao.

Goddess Taihua walked up to the woman, only to see Yu Zhen Yuanjun turned around and asked softly:
"who are you?"

Goddess Taihua tried hard to think, but couldn't remember it for a moment.

She pressed her head and tried hard to think, but still couldn't remember.

The road embraced her.

Yu Zhen Yuan Jun slowly extended his hand towards her and said softly:

"You are a stone."

The Goddess Taihua was in a trance and answered softly:
"I, I am... a stone..."

Suddenly, her eyes widened.

Stone?!

"I am not a stone, I am not!"

Goddess Taihua shouted in panic.

Forgetting who I was before... just to become a stone?!

Yu Zhen Yuan Jun laughed, and laughed sarcastically.
"If you are not a stone, then who are you?"

The goddess Taihua tried her best to recall the past.

"me…"

"Why am I here... Am I not in the underground palace? Wait... Whose underground palace? Don't miss the underground palace, miss home, miss home... Prince Jing's Mansion, but... What is Prince Jing's Mansion?"

She tried hard to recall, but as soon as she remembered something, it disappeared from her memory.

The Goddess Taihua was stunned. She stood there blankly. She turned around and wanted to escape, but saw that her legs were gradually petrifying and turning into stone!

She saw Yu Zhen Yuanjun looking at her with a sneer.

"I am not a stone, I am not a stone!"

Goddess Taihua shouted hoarsely.

She struggled hard, but was powerless.

"I am... who am I..."

The Goddess Taihua saw that her body was gradually turning into stone, as if she was turning herself into stone bit by bit. She finally realized that she was not in a period of good fortune after bad times, but had gone astray!
She took that moment of obsession and
Treat it as a ray of hope for survival!
"If you are not a stone, then who are you?"

Yu Zhen Yuan Jun asked for the last time.

Hearing this, the almost exhausted Goddess Taihua looked down at herself, then turned around and looked at the empty road.

This avenue was what she pursued most in her life.

But the Supreme Forgets Love, even the Great Dao of Immortality is forgotten, even the pursuit of the Great Dao of Immortality is forgotten...

As if she had realized something belatedly, she suddenly understood and screamed in despair:
"Who am I?"

"I...I've been forgotten!"

(End of this chapter)