Chapter 1331: Chapter 1325: Immortal Eater
Chapter 1331: Chapter 1325: Immortal Eater
Li Tianming stood up in a daze, stumbling sleepily toward the sea.
On his way, he ran into Tianqi, who had come to stand guard.
Li Tianqi had been overjoyed, but seeing Li Tianming so absent-minded, his smile gradually faded. “Did you… did you just send me a voice transmission asking me to stand guard?”
“I didn’t.”
Hearing Li Tianming’s reply, Li Tianqi frowned. He was just about to say something when Li Tianming suddenly turned his head, leaving Li Tianqi stunned in place.
Li Tianming, who had always been so obedient, was now facing him with tears streaming down his face.
Gripping his shoulders tightly, Li Tianming choked out a question, “Tianqi, am… am I even myself?”
This was Li Tianqi’s first time seeing Tianming like this.
He looked at Li Tianming’s bloodshot eyes. The joy of Tianming’s breakthrough instantly evaporated entirely. “If you aren’t yourself, who else could you be?”
“But… there are so many people inside my body.”
In the cloudy sky, tears blurred Li Tianming’s face.
“I am afraid of them, I have always been afraid. I don’t even know when I was born.
It’s as if I suddenly appeared right beside you all. I know who you all are, but I just can’t remember what we ever did together.”
Li Tianqi’s expression changed.
Li Tianming gripped Li Tianqi’s hand tighter and tighter.
“Many people are very afraid of me, but I don’t know what I have done. I have never cultivated a day in my life, yet power and knowledge just appear in my mind.
Every single ‘me’ inside my body knows more than I do, and I am different from every single one of them!”
“Tianqi, tell me, am I truly me?”
“What is real, and what is fake?”
“Am I real, Tianqi? Did I ever truly exist?”
Li Tianming tightly embraced Li Tianqi, weeping helplessly. He didn’t understand. He had never understood, not until the fear finally took over.
He could even clearly feel the people in his mind absorbing this very fear. He might even forget today’s crying and confusion altogether.
Just like he did so many times before.
“Tianming…”
Li Tianqi’s eyes lost their focus. His shoulder was a bit wet; he couldn’t tell if it was Tianming’s tears or snot.
He could feel Tianming’s fear, but he was unable to answer…
He had almost forgotten what kind of existence the former Li Tianming was.
Tianming loved to kill; it was the kind of inexplicable, indiscriminate slaughter that only their eldest brother could suppress.
Li Tianqi had never even liked the former Li Tianming; mostly, he only felt vigilant around him.
But later, the well-behaved Li Tianming appeared, having forgotten everything and becoming a good child with a Childlike Heart.
He never caused him any trouble. Whenever Li Tianqi was injured, this Li Tianming would pace around anxiously.
Although this Li Tianming was very timid, whenever Li Tianqi was in danger, he would still muster up his courage and follow him into a fight.
He never knew that Tianming cared so much about this matter, or perhaps it was because he, as a brother, was too selfish, believing that having such a brother by his side was better.
Li Tianqi also fell into bewilderment and dejection. He could only grit his teeth, then put on a smile and said to Li Tianming, “You are my brother; how could you be fake?”
“Brother… brother…”
Li Tianming muttered helplessly a couple of times.
Suddenly, his eyes turned clear. He tilted his head and smiled at Li Tianqi,
“Tianqi, are you here to stand guard for me? Where are we going to prepare for the breakthrough? I feel like my breakthrough is going to take a long time.”
Li Tianqi stared blankly as Tianming headed toward the South Sea. Tianming seemed to have completely forgotten his bewilderment and helplessness from just a moment ago…
With trembling hands, Li Tianqi took out the ancestral spirit tablet.
“Old Ancestor, is Tianming… truly real, or is he fake?”
The Old Ancestor did not respond.
At Ancestor Lan’s location.
Li Wei, who was exploring the Dao of rules, looked at the interface before him and sensed everything that had just transpired between the two brothers.
His face was also filled with bewilderment.
There were too many things within the passage of time—gains, losses, efforts… all that remained was to accept the destiny they had already desperately fought against.
He let out a sigh and looked at the interface before him.
[Your descendant Li Tianming has obtained the shared Spiritual power of the White Jade Immortal.]
[Acquired Immortal Art: Nothingness. Immortal traces are hard to find.]
[Acquired Immortal Art: Hand of Annihilation. Objects touched instantly vanish.]
[The numerous ‘personalities’ inside your descendant Li Tianming’s body are currently digesting the Spiritual power of Linghu Xian shared by the White Jade Immortal.
They have glimpsed their own Dao Gate, gathering the most extreme evil thoughts between heaven and earth to form pollution and plague.]
[The year and a half of pursuing and fleeing with the White Jade Immortal was merely a smokescreen put up by the ‘Calm’ personality.
The ‘Born Bad Seed’ possesses formidable observation skills and extremely high commanding abilities.
Through fear, they have been parsing everything about the White Jade Immortal bit by bit. Acquired Trait: Immortal Eater]
[Even the desires and bewitchment of an immortal cannot erode the consciousness of the ‘Born Bad Seed’.
The unique characteristics of immortals being ‘hard to kill’ and ‘powerful’ filled Li Tianming’s personalities with the desire to hunt and toy with them, granting a high probability of acquiring the immortal’s immortal arts.]
Li Tianming sat cross-legged on the surface of the South Sea.
Li Tianqi sat on the lotus platform where the trio once known as the ‘Three Thieves’ used to stay, lost in thought for a long time, so much so that his eyes became bloodshot.
He was intimately familiar with numerous grand arrays.
When He Hao passed down his array inheritance to him, he told him that grand arrays concealed all the secrets of heaven and earth.
However, he searched through all the grand arrays but still couldn’t find the answer for Tianming.
Nor did he find the answer he sought; the Li Tianming before his eyes seemed as if he could disappear at any moment.
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