Chapter 168: Chapter 167 Give Me a Reason (Third Release, Please Subscribe)
"When countless years have passed, recalling all kinds of things from before, once deep memories will dissipate; once intense love and desire become dim."
Ye Wanyi sighed: "When love reaches its peak, it turns thin, better to forget each other in the martial world."
Mortals have a seven-year itch, and love after seven years enters a dangerous period, turning from that passionate love into blandness, then boredom, reaching a fatigue period, undergoing a love crisis.
"You can perform ’Phoenix Seeking Phoenix’, ’Guan Guan Ju Ju’, and ’Forget Each Other in the Martial World’. You have good comprehension, but your vision is still lacking!" Lu Xuanji said, "The third transformation should be ’Butterfly Transformation’; the highest realm of love is ’never forgetting each other through lifetimes, transforming into butterflies following forever’."
"Many love reaches ’Love Stronger Than Gold’, but it doesn’t advance; instead, it regresses to ’Nodding Acquaintance’, ’Strangers’, or even some regress to ’Resentful Qi Towards Heaven’."
"But there is a kind of love that will transform from ’Love Stronger Than Gold’ to ’Love Deeper than the Sea’, to ’Life and Death Together’, to ’never forgetting each other through lifetimes, transforming into butterflies following forever’."
"This piece is called ’Butterfly Transformation’."
Taking out the guqin, Lu Xuanji began to play, and images emerged in the void, telling the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.
When the sound of the guqin faded away, Ye Wanyi’s face was full of tears.
"Husband, is there really such love in the world? Never forgetting each other through lifetimes, transforming into butterflies following forever?" Ye Wanyi tearfully asked.
"There is!"
Lu Xuanji said: "Once there was a cultivator named Bai Yue, most pitiable, feeling love just before death. He didn’t feel love not because there wasn’t love in the world. Love was around him, but bias obscured the love in his heart!"
"There is a story called ’The Return of the Condor Heroes’..."
"There is a story called ’Heavenly Dragon Eight Books’"
"There is a story called ’Divine King Pursues Wife’..."
Lu Xuanji narrated heart-wrenching stories.
Only Jin the Great can make Xiao Long Nu lose her purity and the protagonist wear a green hat;
As for the platinum gods of later generations, anyone who dares to do so would be chopped to pieces by readers in no time.
Later, in the serialized version, Jin the Great even wrote that Xiao Long Nu died. The readers wouldn’t agree, so he changed it back.
Comedy makes people happy, but also forgetful;
Tragedy, however, is impactful, leaving a profound impression.
The four great classical novels are all great tragedies.
That’s why, many authors often write, only to end up creating great tragedies.
If Qiao Feng doesn’t die, ’Heavenly Dragon Eight Books’ is just a second-rate novel;
If Qiao Feng dies, it becomes an eternal classic.
’Divine King Pursues Wife’ is also a classic. This Tang Divine King, with a double standard personality and a severe collapse of character setting, but in treating his wife, there is nothing amiss.
For love and death together, even Qiao Feng couldn’t achieve it.
The first to do so was Huang Yaoshi, making a flower boat, wanting to die for his wife; the second was Yang Guo, who jumped off a cliff directly for Xiao Long Nu; third was Guo Xiang, who directly jumped off a cliff for Yang Guo.
In the ending, Guo Xiang’s search for Yang Guo is itself a tragedy.
Some say, in ancient times with three wives and four concubines, if Yang Guo married both Xiao Long Nu and Guo Xiang, giving readers a great perfection, wouldn’t it be good?
But Jin the Certain wanted tragedy, wanted to torment readers.
If there were a great perfection, ’The Return of the Condor Heroes’ is just a third-rate harem novel; the end of tragedy, an eternal classic.
Just like a certain god, specializing in writing tragedies, ’Immortal World’ directly wrote the female lead’s death, ’Covering the Sky’ wrote the death of two female protagonists, ’Perfect’ even made the protagonist die twice continuously, constantly torturing readers, just as they say, I torment the readers a thousand times, the readers love me like first love.
Thinking writing tragedies is being an arty youth, that’s not the case at all.
That great god, his literary talent is only-so-so, but because he is skilled at depicting tragedies, he attracted countless fans instead.
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At the end of the story, Ye Wanyi’s eyes were awash with tears.
Lu Xuanji gently patted and comforted her.
In terms of age, Ye Wanyi was already over one hundred and eighty years old, but in terms of psychological age, she was just eighteen.
In this world where great power returns to oneself, unless those cultivators whose potential is exhausted and see no future, they spend time managing their forces and engaging in intrigues; those prodigies focus on closed-door cultivation and enhancing cultivation, rarely wasting time on human relationships or networking.
This leads them to appear somewhat simple in terms of psychological age.
"Husband, I was wrong!"
Ye Wanyi nodded, with anomalies changing overhead.
First was the burning passion of ’Phoenix Seeking Phoenix’, then ’Guan Guan Ju Ju’, and finally the life and death companionship of ’Butterfly Transformation’.
The three transformations fused together into a perfect anomaly.
If a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, by coincidence, condenses an anomaly, the probability of entering the Purple Mansion Realm will significantly increase.
"What should this anomaly be named?"
Ye Wanyi asked.
"This anomaly should be named ’Golden Jade Fate’." Lu Xuanji named it directly.
After saying that, a touch of envy flashed in his eyes.
Why don’t I have an anomaly!
An anomaly is the prototype of one’s Dao, enhancing one’s combat power and suppressing the opponent’s combat power.
Activating the anomaly provides significant advantage in battle.
Most Purple Mansion Cultivators do not have the fortune to condense an anomaly; only a few Purple Mansion prodigies, by coincidence, condense an anomaly; as for entering the Golden Core Realm, most cultivators condense an anomaly.
Upon reaching Nascent Soul True Monarch, anomalies also possess certain combat power.
As for how to condense an anomaly, those who know don’t need to be told, and those who don’t won’t understand even if told.
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After a year of joy, Lu Xuanji took Ye Wanyi to Purple Sun Mountain.
Upon reaching Purple Sun Mountain, everything was the same as before.
Arriving at the manor, they met Ye Xuan and stated their intentions.
Ye Xuan nodded and went to report.
As a result, Old Ancestor Jin was in closed-door cultivation, unable to be approached, and it wasn’t until three months later that Old Ancestor Jin emerged.
This meeting took place in the main hall.
Old Ancestor Jin sat on the throne, wearing a blue dress with gold edges and silver stars inside; sitting there, there was both majesty and a touch of aloofness.
Lu Xuanji respectfully said: "Greetings, Old Ancestor! This is my Dao Companion, Ye Wanyi."
"Wanyi, present the gift quickly!"
Ye Wanyi nodded: "Greetings, Old Ancestor, this is the gift my husband offers!"
Old Ancestor Jin nodded slightly, with a wave, the gift landed beside, not even bothering to look at it closely.
"Speak, what do you want?" Old Ancestor Jin asked, his tone much colder.
Lu Xuanji muttered to himself but still spoke: "Old Ancestor, my Dao Companion Ye Wanyi needs to use the Nirvana Pool?"
"Alright."
Old Ancestor Jin nodded: "But can you give me a reason? Why should I lend her the Nirvana Pool?"
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