Chapter 58: The Tribulation on the Return Journey - Five Palace Gods, Heavenly Destiny Green Ghost (3000 words)
【唳——】

[The red flame hair of the Chi suddenly illuminates the darkness. A pair of white wings flutter, cutting through the deep dark world...]

【you're awake. 】

【Your mind awakens in a dark world. 】

[This place seems like the cycle of life and death, like the endless netherworld, like the last point where a living being will fall into the abyss after death. You stayed here because you were unwilling to give up, because you were unyielding...]

【Even though you are in darkness, your heart is still toward the light. 】

[You look at a white bird of destiny, flying towards you from the darkness, and you know—that is you. It is also a ray of the Five Palaces Divine Lord of the Divine Palace Realm transformed by your destiny and talent.]

[Five rays of light flow, and the body of the destiny white bird keeps changing...]

[The body sometimes turns into a Chi fish, sometimes turns into a green ghost, and sometimes spreads its wings and turns into a white bird... Your Five Palaces God has the appearance of a bird, a fish, and a ghost.]

[There is a hint of enlightenment in your heart. ]

[If you can stabilize the five palaces and choose one of the three, you will be able to break free from the cage of fate, and your fate will have a chance to advance from bright yellow to azure blue. This is an opportunity, an opportunity that ordinary people can hardly achieve in their lifetime.]

[However. You are about to die! As a dead person, you are about to embark on the journey back to life, and everything will be meaningless. ]

【You have made a decision in your heart.】

[Huh—the scarlet flames spread out, turning into a heart fire that enveloped and burned the incarnation. The white bird, the Chiyu, the green ghost…all kinds of images changed rapidly. Finally, it turned into a gray duck that screamed towards the sky.]

[You don't want the White Bird, Chiyu, or Green Ghost! ]

【You just want to... be yourself! 】

[You decide to fight for your own destiny in this life! ]

[The scarlet flames completely cut through the darkness and fell on a broken heart. A wisp of divine power floated down and turned into the Five Palaces God of the Gray Duck, suppressing the heart fire.]

[In an instant, everything seemed to go back in time, and the blood and qi were reversed.]

【Sun Er watched this scene, his dull eyes could not help but stare blankly. In his eyes, the duck's blood and qi reversed and flowed into the broken heart. The wound on the heart slowly grew granulation tissue, gradually healing.】

[Bang~~The Destiny Gray Duck suddenly disintegrated and disappeared into thin air. 】

[You seize the good fortune of heaven, and suppress the fire in your heart with a ray of divine power, and reshape your heart. The image of the Five Palaces God Lord collapses, and you will never have the hope of advancing to the Azure Fate in this life.]

【It is difficult to change fate, life and death are determined by one’s heart. 】

[You made wise choices and turned death into life. You took control of your fate and earned yourself a chance to survive.]

[The darkness fades, your eyelids tremble, and slowly open. "Opportunity..." You ignore the fisherman in front of you, suddenly turn around and rush into the aquatic red Polygonum, opening your mouth to chew.]

[Hungry... Cold...]

[The surging energy and blood in your body seem to be completely depleted in an instant, and endless coldness and hunger surge over you. At this moment, you just want to eat, eat, eat, and eat everything you can see...]

[The Fate Grey Duck burned itself to suppress the fire in your heart, and bought you a chance to survive. But it was only a chance. The price was to burn all your energy and blood.]

[You have become an ordinary duck. A duck with only body but no vitality.]

[In order to survive, you start eating, eating like crazy! ]

[The gluttonous life is activated]

[You are born with a gluttony and a bottomless stomach. Any flesh, plants, spiritual roots, and exotic foods can be transformed into nutrients and quickly transformed into qi and blood. Therefore, you have the appearance of a kappa and the ability of an infant dragon.]

"Finally... alive!"

After eating countless aquatic red Polygonum and pecking several huge bighead carp kings to death with his duck beak, Song Lin finally felt his blood and qi recovering a little. Just a little bit... but it made him feel like a new day, and his body was full of vitality again.

A thin layer of blood and energy flowed through his body, and it seemed to be completely different from the past. He tried to move his mind, and the thin blood and energy actually moved as he wished, like waving his arm, which was completely different from the past.

Song Lin secretly took a breath.

After returning to the Qi and Blood Realm, he actually gained the power of Gangqi? If I had this talent in reality, wouldn't it be easy for me to circulate my Qi and Blood and temper my Gengjin bones?
"It is true that fate cannot be changed, life and death are determined by one's heart!"

When Song Lin thought of this, he couldn't help but feel secretly fortunate.

If Sun Er had not chosen to come to the bighead carp's nest to die, and if this precious land had not been rich in aquatic red polygonum and bighead carp king, he would have been killed this time, ending his life as a duck prematurely.

In the journey home...heading towards the journey home.

Song Lin turned and looked at the fisherman Sun Er.

He had been sitting on the ground silently, his eyes lifeless. It seemed that since Song Lin was alive, nothing could move him anymore.

but.

After experiencing the disaster just now.

He seemed to have lost the urge to commit suicide. He just sat in the water without any intention of leaving, as if he didn't care if he suffocated to death.

The body is not dead, but the heart is broken.

If your heart is dead, why bother?
The saddest moment is when a person doesn’t even have the thought of dying.

"Is he crazy? Or is he stupid? Or was it that Chen Guzhou's sword shattered his heart of Taoism?"

Song Lin couldn't understand.

"No way!"

"With Sun Er's personality, it is impossible for him to lose his will to live after losing just once. Lian Niquan...what did he see in that sword?"

Song Lin really couldn't understand.

Even though he had read the description of the reincarnation destiny chart, he still couldn't understand what kind of mental journey Sun Er had gone through.

Just like the battle on the top floor of Tengkong Building.

Chen Guzhou's peerless sword and Sun Er's desperate knife were both at a level that he could not comprehend.

Even if you have a bird watching destiny.

He was still far, far behind the other two in terms of artistic conception. He had already embarked on another path of cultivation, a path based on Qi and blood, and breaking through the limits of the physical body. "I don't want to think about it anymore."

Song Lin shook his head in frustration.

He walked forward, lifted Sun Er's clothes and shoulders, and brought him out of the water, swimming towards his home on the bank of the Minjiang River.

Sun Er still had no reaction.

It seemed as if it could not feel Song Lin's movements, and as if it had blocked all external perceptions.

That indifferent look is a bit like...

Correct!
Just like when he was trapped in the world of endless darkness just now.

"Oops."

After realizing this, Song Lin felt even more headache.

What is the calamity of the heart silkworm?

In the past, he always thought that a person with a damaged heart has a broken heart!
But now it seems that it is far from being as simple as it seems.

A broken heart does not mean a silkworm.

He was unable to fully understand the reason behind this at the moment.

【March 4th.】

[Sun Er has not eaten for a day and a night, and all the desires of living beings seem to have been stripped away from him. You are worried in your heart, if this continues for a long time...]

【Day 3.】

[Sun Er is still alive like a zombie. Yes, he is alive and well, has a baby-headed dragon heart, and his blood is even more vigorous than yours. But... he is no more alive than a dead person.]

【Day 7.】

[Sun Er's appearance gradually withered, and his whole body became visibly haggard. You tried to feed him, but you couldn't pry open the mouth of this living dead man. Finally, you were so angry that you cursed and cut open your heart, and put the blood in front of him.]

[Sun Er stared at you blankly, and finally took a bite. And you fell to the ground with a pale face...]

【From now on.】

[You feed him, and he eats. You always yell and curse, hating Sun Er's incompetence and being angry at his stupidity... But in your heart, you don't really blame him.]

[You understand. His mind has long been trapped in another world, and his body has lost even its instincts. So... Niquan ignored him and treated him as a dead object.]

[It's a miracle that he has any reaction to your self-harm.]

[It's ridiculous to argue with a dead thing. But you have to do it. If you want him to live, you must pull him back from that closed world... You still have to challenge Chen Guzhou again...]

[A broken heart, a silkworm heart...]

[You finally gradually understand what the calamity of the heart silkworm is. ]

[The moment Sun Er realized the gap between himself and Chen Guzhou, his firm belief and the sword intent supported by hatred all collapsed.]

[His heart, his world, is already dark...]

[The fisherman Sun Er lost the courage to pick up the knife. He became a real... fool.]

The heart silkworm is the silkworm in the heart.

Song Lin finally understood.

It was like the heart within the heart, the heart of the baby-headed dragon trapped within the heart. Failure, despair, powerlessness… became layers of silkworm clothing surrounding Sun Er that could never be untied.

"Kill the body...heart silkworm..."

Song Lin looked up at the sky and saw a lone goose flying by with its wings spread.

Sun Er.

How can I get through this heart-wrenching disaster?

Could it be.

Was it not enough for him to kill his own body once, but he also had to kill his own heart?
Is this... too cruel!
"Do not."

"Will not."

"Even if you can no longer lift a knife, even if I am the only one left, even if... I am just a duck. On March 3rd of next year, the governor of Minjiang River, Chen Guzhou..." His eyes suddenly became firmer than ever before.

this moment.

The invincible figure that once stood on the willow embankment seemed to have turned into a knot, entangled in Song Lin's heart.

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Heart silkworm disaster.

Heart, tangled.

Heart entanglement, disaster!

This story tells us a truth: there are some things that you will never understand if you have never experienced them.

Only by experiencing it yourself and understanding the meaning of persistence can you truly understand what others are thinking.

So when you understand this truth, you should put away the complaints in your heart, just like Song Lin in the story, and be more tolerant towards your parents, family and friends.

Of course, this is just a small story, a small moral in the story.

If you have been listening to this story.

It’s better to keep listening, because... this is just the beginning of the story.

(End of this chapter)