Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 204 Love Token
What will happen to those who face the wall? Only God knows.

While the Earth-Trisolarans went to carry out the last 'mission' given to them by the Lord, the Thawors from Antarctica were not idle either.

Luo Qing returned to his Wallfacer compound and announced the news. Now he would wait for acquaintances to come to his door one after another.

Sure enough, many acquaintances found him.

One of them was Keiko Yamasugi, the wife of the Wallfacer Hines.

In the courtyard, Luo Qing poured tea for Shanshan Huizi and invited her to sit opposite him.

"Why are you the only one who woke up? Where is your husband?"

Keiko Yamasugi covered her mouth and took a sip of the tea brewed by the cultivator. She didn't find any so-called immortal energy or the rumored enlightenment effect. On the contrary, the taste was extremely bad, far inferior to the traditional tea ceremony that Japan had learned from the Tang Dynasty. As if seeing Keiko Yamasugi's doubts, Luo Qing explained, "Industrial instant tea, five yuan for a big bag. How about I get you a ten-yuan bag?"

Keiko Yamasugi silently swallowed her tea and quickly said, "No, no, my husband is still in hibernation. He will probably remain in hibernation until the year 205 of the Crisis Era. I woke up early, thinking that I could adapt to this new world five years in advance and make arrangements so that he would have less strength after he woke up, just like before."

"Ah, how wonderful! What more could a husband ask for than a wife like that? Hines is so lucky to have a wife who loves you like you do." Luo Qing's words were full of envy.

Keiko Yamasugi asked in confusion, "Professor Luo, haven't you developed any emotional experiences during your two hundred years on Earth?"

Luo Qing thought about it carefully, and then said, "Does it count if I talk to an alien through my clone? Her name is Bojiang Girl."

Keiko Yamasugi sighed, “But I’ve heard that the Eridanus crystal is lifeless; it’s essentially a lifeless organic crystal doll.”

"If my clone likes it, I can't control him. Besides the Pojiang girl, let me think..."

In Luo Qing's memory, countless men and women flashed by. The white-haired, cat-eared president disappeared in a flash, but it seemed that this president had no romantic entanglements with her. She was simply the one being coveted.

Moreover, more than a hundred years have passed, and she probably died of old age during her seclusion.

“That’s it. My romantic experiences in this life are indeed lacking.” Luo Qing sighed. “I still envy you and Dr. Hines as a couple. There are only two couples that I envy: you and Luo Ji and Zhuang Yan.”

"This life... then, what about your past life?" Keiko Yamasugi asked curiously, women are always fascinated by this kind of information.

"Previous life..."

Without hesitation, Luo Qing said, "In my previous life, I cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness. When I was cultivating in another world, I met a female cultivator from a different sect on the same continent. Unfortunately, she beat me to it and stole the evil demon I had been pursuing. I died and my path was destroyed... It's better that she died. I really hate it when she steals monsters."

Keiko Yamasugi glanced at Luo Qing furtively and whispered, "I don't know much about the world of cultivators, but I'm wondering... is it possible that she wants to avert your calamity in advance, just like she did with Hines? Instead of trying to 'steal the monster'?"

Luo Qing was taken aback.

"That's impossible!"

Luo Qing decisively said, "I am invincible among my peers, why would I need her to go through the trouble?"

Keiko Yamasugi pressed further, "What level of attainment does she reach?"

"A mere Nascent Soul cultivator."

"and you?"

"A full Nascent Soul stage!"

"Nascent Soul or Deity Transformation, which realm is higher?"

"Of course it's the Nascent Soul stage... Hmph, her Nascent Soul stage is unstable, while my Nascent Soul stage is fully formed. Let alone when she's injured, even when she's at her peak, she might not be my match!"

"She was injured before??"

"Isn't it common for cultivators to get injured?"

"How did you get hurt?"

"The first time I was injured was when we met. She was being chased by three cultivators of the same cultivation level. I saved her because we were from the same hometown."

"There's a second time?"

"The second time was to cover for me... Huh? I didn't need his cover for me?"
My plan to single-handedly kill two Nascent Soul cultivators was flawless. If she hadn't tried to steal the monster and unfortunately suffered a full-force attack from one of the peak Nascent Soul cultivators, she wouldn't have been injured at all.

This was purely due to her lack of skill, but I'm not an ungrateful person. I compensated her with healing pills, but from then on, we were even. I couldn't stand this constantly injured burden, so we parted ways.

Keiko Yamasugi remained silent for a long time after hearing this.

After a while, she tentatively asked, "Professor Luo Qing, does the cultivation method you practiced in your previous life affect a person's way of thinking and personality?"

"This will have some impact, but not much, and it won't affect me. Because I only found out later that I had made a mistake in fixing it."

"You made a mistake? What did you cultivate in your past life?"

"The Ruthless Sword Path... but it is actually the Azure Cloud Sword Path. When my master gave me the sword manual, the cover was severely damaged and someone had smeared it with something like 'Ruthless'. I was too young to tell the difference at the time, and that's how I reached the Nascent Soul stage."

Keiko Yamasugi looked at him, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.

Luo Qing frowned and asked, "What do you want to say?" Seeing Luo Qing's frown, Yamasugi Keiko dared not speak rashly. She said cautiously, "I guess she must have given you something when we parted."

"clever!"

Luo Qing grasped at the void of the quantum world, and a cloud-patterned slender sword exuding immortal energy appeared in his hand. This was the gift he had given to his disciple Lin Yun—the [Cloud Sword], which had now reached the realm of a semi-immortal artifact by absorbing zero-point vacuum energy!

"When we parted, she thanked me for the pills and other things, and insisted on giving me her sword. At that time, this sword was a top-grade spiritual weapon, a top-level spiritual sword. How could I possibly accept such a valuable gift? So I politely declined her gift."

"But later, for some reason, this person dropped the sword on the ground. I saw the sword as soon as I opened the door. I picked it up and wanted to return it to her, but I couldn't find her, so I had to keep it."

Yamasugi Keiko: "..."

Yun Jian, placed on the table: "..."

Keiko Yamasugi then asked, "You haven't used it before?"

"What would it be like for me to use a woman's sword? When I was at my poorest, I would carve a piece of willow wood to make a wooden sword myself, and I never used it. Later, I gathered all the swords from the Ten Lands, and when I no longer lacked swords, I used it even less."

Keiko Yamasugi sighed and rubbed her forehead.

"Professor Luo Qing... Is it possible, I mean possible, that your hometown is in an ancient setting, and this sword appeared as a token of love?"

Luo Qing was shocked: "Don't talk nonsense! It's just an ordinary sword, okay? It's just a bit expensive... I'll just give it back to her."

"Repay? How do you repay?"

Luo Qing was speechless for a moment.

Keiko Yamasugi looked at the beautiful cloud-patterned rapier again. This longsword was indeed too beautiful, slender and light. It was obviously a sword that women would love to use. This was definitely not an ordinary sword. Even she, who knew nothing about swords, liked it very much. Moreover, she also felt inexplicable emotions from this sword. Then, the sword's cry of [Cloud Sword] entered Keiko Yamasugi's mind.

[Yun Jian] transmitted his voice: "Don't pay attention to this idiot. He's lost his brain from practicing swordsmanship. I was his token of love, and now he's given me to his disciple... How can there be such a stupid person in the world? I really feel sorry for my former master."

Keiko Yamasugi remained silent for a long time after hearing this.

"Is she pretty?"

"She's not pretty, has freckles on her face, wears ordinary braids, doesn't wear fairy dresses, just plain clothes, her Dao heart is unstable, and when she encounters a problem, she gets anxious and pulls her hair, shouting: 'What should I do? What should I do?' If you know her, you'd think she's a saintess of a sect, but if you don't, you'd think she's some little rogue cultivator who popped out of some clod of dirt."

"You remember it so clearly."

"Really? I've always had a very good memory."

"What does your master look like?"

"It's been over two hundred years, I've long forgotten."

"Your master would be heartbroken if he heard this."

"Why is he sad? The Dao Sect has disciples everywhere. He can just pick one and teach it."

"But you said she later died in an accident..."

"Yes, she clearly left. It's not her fault. If it were me, I wouldn't have left either."

"Did you get revenge for her later?" Keiko Yamasugi forced a smile.

"It exploded."

"How did you report it?"

"With the blessing of all living beings, I directly obtained a limited-time trial card for the Human Emperor, and that world exploded." Luo Qing sighed regretfully. "Actually, the world I went to was originally planned to follow the path of being blessed by the blessing of all living beings. Otherwise, how could a Nascent Soul cultivator like me fight against those who were undergoing tribulations or even fallen immortals? As for that female cultivator, she was simply not clear-headed. She didn't have the same firm heart for seeking the Dao as me. Her mind was full of confusing actions, which wasted a good opportunity and ultimately put herself in a desperate situation... Anyway, it was all her fault."

A sword's cry suddenly rang out.

It's the cloud sword on the table.

"You're spouting nonsense! If you hadn't been so stubborn and self-willed, risking your life to fight demonic cultivators every day, would my lord have ended up like this? The willpower of all beings in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is shattered, unlike the Nine Provinces and Eight Desolations, which are all one piece! Without my lord uniting the Ten Earths and connecting the Nine Heavens behind the scenes, do you think you would have won so easily?! Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! Not a single sword cultivator is any good!"

The cloud sword roared in anger, breaking free from Luo Qing's attempt to grab its opponent. After uttering those words, it instantly collapsed back into the quantum world and disappeared.

Keiko Yamasugi stood to the side, not daring to speak.

Luo Qing remained silent for a while.

After a long silence, he finally spoke in a hoarse voice: "I don't need her to unite the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths; I can still merge my body with the Dao and utilize the power of vows. It's just that my soul and spirit will be destroyed afterward. Am I stubborn and self-willed? Am I willing to fight to the death? How can I not fight to the death? If I don't fight demonic cultivators to the death, am I still a cultivator of the Nine Provinces? The sooner I eliminate demonic cultivators, the fewer tens of thousands of mortals will die who will be used as cultivation resources. Where would I find the time to slowly develop and cultivate? Even if the Human Emperor can reverse the river of time and start over later, the pain and despair experienced by those mortals are real! They are real! They cannot be erased even if time is reversed! Should I just watch all of this happen? It's just a sword, a sword of a Hehuan Sect cultivator. What does it know!"

This was the first time Keiko Yamasugi had ever seen the Wallfacer Luo Qing display such anger, which made her very uneasy.

"Don't worry, I'll erase your memory in a bit."

"Eh?"

(End of this chapter)