Honkai Impact, starting by entering Kallen's body

"Miss Karen, it's time to eat!"

After a long while, there was still no response from the room. Just as Arthur was about to go around to knock on the door, he heard a faint, ethereal sound coming from inside.

"Grandpa Arthur, you guys eat, don't worry about me."

“Miss, you haven’t eaten all day. Our family has special health conditions, and your body won’t be able to handle it.”

"It's okay, I'll go out to find something to eat later, don't worry."

Karen's calm tone made Arthur very worried. When had Karen ever been so indifferent to food?

Arthur didn't dwell on it much; now that Karen was grown up, she should understand what to do.

Perhaps the events of the Eastern Expedition caused Karen to change drastically, but Arthur always believed that Karen could overcome them, after all, she had always been Kaslana's pride.

In the quiet room, Karen sat on the edge of the bed, her hand resting on the location of the sword core within her body.

Still Water: The lake water is clear and transparent. A few sorrowful thoughts, like withered leaves, fall onto the lake surface, yet they do not stir up a single ripple. The water is calm and still.

Dustless: The lake of the heart freezes into ice, sweeping away the slightest thoughts without leaving a trace.

The Mirror Realm: The cracks in the solid ice vanished without a trace, and the lake of the heart became nearly infinitely transparent, reflecting all things. This realm is the most difficult to advance in, requiring a significant time investment. Karen spent most of her time trapped in this realm, unable to progress any further.

Taixu: The highest realm of sword heart. One realm is not the end. Kallen can sense that there is great room for expansion, but limited by talent, everyone seems to have a limit in their life. No matter how hard they cultivate, they can only approach that limit and cannot surpass it.

Unless one is reborn after death, like the Crimson Kite Immortal

Su Xin only pretended to be polite to Chi Yuan, but they actually communicated through divine telepathy.

Chi Yuan: "Her existence will only become a shackle that binds you. If necessary, I can set you free."

Su Xin: "There's no need for that, Chi Yuan. We pioneers are not tools, nor should we be too demanding of the optimal solution."

"Over the course of fifty thousand years, I spent every day with some of them, observing their life trajectories and experiencing their joys and sorrows."

"Share their thoughts and feelings, and witness their unique souls."

"Like Alicia, everyone is ordinary yet extraordinary, like Alicia."

“I do want freedom. No one who has been imprisoned for 50,000 years would not want to personally and truly experience life again. I think I want it more than anyone else.”

"I want to walk on a quiet, secluded forest path at night, listening to the noisy cicadas and the croaking of frogs in the pond. I want to walk barefoot on the beach, like a friend, smelling the salty sea breeze. Walking with someone would be a very meaningful thing. I enjoy this kind of life."

Chi Yuan: "I didn't know you were going, but your voice told me you wanted freedom. You know, your voice represents a person's obsession. I feel that from our perspective, we shouldn't have any illusions about ordinary people. Don't try to save others and cause them pain."

Su Xin: "I know, but if someone can save her, she must feel no pain."

Chi Yuan: "You resemble someone in my memory. I can't remember her name, but my intuition tells me that she deeply loved everyone, just like you are now. You seem to be walking on her path."

Su Xin: "I've always been the same, probably."

Chi Yuan: 01, how are you going to handle things between you and her? Are you going to keep it a secret from her for the rest of your life?

Su Xin: "Yes, Karen doesn't know my true identity, and perhaps I can really keep it from her forever."

Chi Yuan: "I respect your choice."

That's right. When Su Xin and Chi Yuan were involved in each other because of the divine sound, Karen was caught up in Chi Yuan's divine sound. She not only heard the two talking, but also saw her and Su Xin go.

Taixu Mountain, Tianqiong Peak.

Snowflakes fluttered down, and a blanket of silver frost covered the mountains and fields, almost painting the entire world in color.

Two sets of footprints were left on the mountain path, but they were soon filled in by newly fallen snowflakes, as if they had never been there.

Zheng Chiyuan's life, her life, and the footprints in the snow existed for a moment before being covered up and vanished without a trace.

Like a phantom, like a bubble, like a fleeting dream, no matter how much regret one feels, it can never be realized.

Life, it seems, is nothing more than a walking shadow, a clumsy actor gesturing wildly on a stage—appearing briefly, then quietly retreating without a sound.

Today, the last one to die, will live like an immortal.

In the past, Chi Yuan wouldn't have been too sentimental; it was her mission, and also her destiny.

But things are different now. She doesn't wait for her memories to gradually fade and then completely forget every little thing she did with him over the past hundred years.

She wanted him to be free.

"Xin, don't you think it's beautiful? This snow seems to be the first snow I've seen in a hundred years." Chi Yuan reached out and carefully cupped the snowflakes in her hands.

When the cold snowflakes melted quickly in her warm palm, just like her life, it seemed to announce the final outcome.

"Beautiful, but Chiyuan, it snows in the summer, doesn't it?"

"Hmm, maybe fate is playing a joke on us?" The usually serious Chi Yuan laughed like a little girl, her voice even becoming soft.

Chi Yuan acted strangely today, but Su Xin didn't press her for details. The two of them tacitly avoided mentioning the topic.

"Xin, if you met someone who looked exactly like me, would you fall in love with her?"

"will not."

"I don't believe it. I think you will."

"Are you expressing your dissatisfaction with me for using your body to visit brothels back then? Please, that was 79 years ago! Can you please stop harping on the same thing? I even went on a hunger strike for so long because of you. I almost called you 'Red Kite Mother' to beg you."

"Pfft, I'm going to hold this grudge for the rest of my life!"

Chi Yuan walked to the highest point of Tianqiong Peak, where all he could see was a dazzling expanse of snow. The sun was burning fiercely, but the heavy snow showed no signs of weakening.

Chi Yuan looked down at the clouds below. The misty fog was dreamlike and ethereal, and the ethereal clouds made people feel relaxed.

"Because I only have a few in my entire life."

"Hmph, I won't believe you. If a man who's a complete liar met someone just like me, he'd definitely be tempted."

"I don't want you to swear an oath, I want you to pay for it."

"That retribution is your freedom."

Chi Yuan smiled innocently. After today, she would forget everything, forget all about him, yesterday, and her dreams.

The Chi Yuan that Su Xin will see tomorrow will no longer be her.

Perhaps it was a selfish motive, but she would rather Su Xin return to the human world as soon as possible than see him with Xin Chiyuan.

"will die."

"But I'm about to die, hmph, anyway, I won't suffer anymore after I die and my sword heart is tempered anew. Do me one last thing, please remember me, okay?"

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Chapter 65 The Path to Redemption Lies Within It (6k)

"Would you believe me if I swear? You never believed me before."

Su Xin hesitated for a moment before choosing to ask the question.

Over the course of a century, he and Chi Yuan had countless playful fights, each ending with him admitting defeat.

At the end of each time, he would swear to the heavens: If I commit this again, may I be struck by lightning and die a horrible death.

Of course, as expected, Chi Yuan taught Su Xin a lesson in a special way, so badly that it was like a thunderbolt striking Su Xin's head. Chi Yuan herself was the one who taught Su Xin a lesson!

After hearing this, Chi Yuan remained silent, quietly opened her arms, closed her eyes, and felt the gentle breeze blowing at the highest point of Sky Peak.

He responded to Su Xin in a cool but firm tone:

"Only once, I will always believe, and I will always believe."

"I would be happy to spend a hundred years with you, and my life would not have been in vain."

"One last thing you need to do for me—"

I like you, remember me.

The intermittent sound of the red kite gradually disappeared into the hazy clouds, and snowflakes fell to the ground, painting the white, silver-clad earth into a vibrant scene.

His disheveled white hair was gradually buried by frost and snow, but the smile on his face never faded.

It is infinitely warmer than the scorching sun high in the sky.

With the time energy bar filled, Su Xin is one step closer to freedom.

But I always feel like something is missing, as if it can never be filled, and I can never find it.

Su Xin went with Chi Yuan from hundreds of years ago, but Chi Yuan is no longer the cheerful and playful girl Su Xin knew back then.

She lives on forever in our memories, lying in pools of blood and snow, forever smiling.

Since our parting, like floating clouds, a thousand years have passed like flowing water.

Looking up and down at the mortal world, things and people are no longer the same, and there are no more companions.

The next morning, Chi Yuan awoke again, surrounded by green mountains, and returned carrying the moon.

There was no one else in her eyes.

China, Mount Taixu, Tianqiong Peak.

"Master, you really are inside."

Lin Chaoyu came to the top of Tianqiong Peak, the highest point of the entire Taixu Mountain.

On ordinary days, when the Crimson Kite Immortal is not traveling, he likes to sit quietly here and watch the ethereal clouds. He can watch for a whole day, and this habitual behavior lasts for a hundred years.

"Hmm, Chaoyu, what do you want with me?" Chiyuan said calmly, but her eyes never left the clouds, as if they held what she longed for.

"Master, I don't understand why you wanted to let those Western invaders go. With that white-haired girl around, you didn't even use one percent of your strength!"

Lin Chaoyu asked, puzzled, her voice tinged with urgency.

Chi Yuan remained calm, her face showing no emotion whatsoever.

"No, you should know the truth."

"Even if you, Master, could easily defeat them, or make an example of them, why choose to let them go? Master, that girl's sword intent is probably not what you taught her. She has high talent; if we don't eliminate them completely, they will harbor resentment, which could lead to future trouble."

"Chaoyu, no, you shouldn't worry about things. Besides, my relationship with her is not like the grudges and entanglements you have in the martial arts world. You can't understand, and I don't blame you."

Chi Yuan stood up, turned around, and looked calmly at Lin Chaoyu in front of her.

Among the seven disciples of Taixu, she noticed their talent during her spare time and took them in to alleviate the pressure of protecting Shenzhou.

Even she had forgotten; she only remembered what she should do, unaware of the reasons behind it. Therefore, Chi Yuan was unable to explain it to Lin Chaoyu and the others.

Lin Chaoyu murmured, unable to let go of the matter.

"Ling Shuang lingered by the mountain waterfall for half a day, unable to accept the fact that she had been defeated. Master, how could that girl's Mirror Sword Heart have shattered Ling Shuang's Void Sword Heart?"

Chi Yuan hesitated for a moment, then realized that the girl possessed the Sword Heart of the Mirror Sword.

However, the sword heart on 01's body is exactly the same as the sword heart inside her body, as if it originally belonged to her.

What happened?

"Because of the sword heart within her, which I personally bestowed upon her. Of course, I'm not sure, I don't remember the details clearly."

"?! Master, you...?" Lin Chaoyu stared wide-eyed at Chi Yuan in disbelief.

This is not surprising.

"No wonder, no wonder she was able to crush Ling Shuang even though her cultivation level was lower than Ling Shuang's. If Master had known how to travel the world and slay demons back then, after all, the mark you left on the Divine Land was so magnificent and amazing."

Faced with Lin Chaoyu's praise, Chi Yuan shook her head: "You're wrong, Chaoyu."

"Human beings are as insignificant as a drop in the ocean in the long river of history. Every stroke of the pen, whether light or heavy, represents a person's magnificent life, but in the long run, it is insignificant."

"People who have been away for too long will not even remember what they used to look like. Those traces of glorious history are not just a facade used by our predecessors to comfort themselves. As for the most objective truth, it has long been buried, and no one cares or asks about it."

"In history, Chi Yuan has always been me, yet no one has ever been me. I am the Chi Yuan Immortal, not them."

Chi Yuan's language was difficult to understand, leaving Lin Chaoyu momentarily confused.