Lin Wan gazed at Ji Wuque. Suddenly she spoke.
"So..." Her voice was soft, but each word was like a needle. "You are that 'Boss', right?"
Ji Wuque's whole body trembled. He suddenly raised his head to look at Lin Wan, his eyes full of disbelief.
His lips trembled. He seemed to have thousands of words to ask, but in the moment they were about to spill out, he remembered the other party's earlier answer.
Finally, he just smiled bitterly and nodded.
"Although I don't know where you heard it from..." His voice carried a hint of nostalgia. "Yes, there were once two fools who always liked to call me Boss."
Under the moonlight, his eyes became gentle.
"But I still prefer... the name 'A-Da'."
Lin Wan's eyes flickered. She continued to ask.
"So, Ji Lingxiu was deliberately sent by you to Chen... Chang'an's hands? Just to deliver that brush?"
Ji Wuque nodded openly, without any guilt in his eyes.
"Although I don't believe the Holy Master will resurrect..."
His voice was firm and pious.
"But since it was the Holy Master's instruction, I will naturally carry it out."
He paused, and his tone suddenly became gentle.
"Plus... that little girl is one of the few descendants I can actually stand to look at. I couldn't bear to let her die with me."
Lin Wan's heart moved.
So you knew your ending from the beginning.
As if seeing through her thoughts, Ji Wuque laughed softly.
"When those people were looking for a protagonist, I volunteered myself."
His eyes flashed with mockery.
"The final outcome... I could naturally imagine."
...
Lin Wan gazed at Ji Wuque, a trace of puzzlement in her eyes.
"Since you could imagine your ending, why still do it?"
Ji Wuque raised his head to look at the starry sky. A carefree smile curved his lips.
"Heaven derives four-nine, one escapes." His voice was low and firm. "There will always be a thread of life."
He turned his head, looking at Lin Wan with burning eyes.
"The Holy Master was originally just a mortal, but eventually ascended to the chessboard..." A final glimmer of hope ignited in his eyes. "Perhaps... I can too?"
Lin Wan nodded slightly.
Setting aside those frivolous words, she had to admit that the person before her was indeed worthy of appreciation. If not for her father's warning before his death still ringing in her ears, she might have tried to tell him her true identity.
But ultimately, it was too late.
She had already exposed herself in the foreground. Then everything afterward would no longer be trustworthy.
He didn't think he had any special outstanding qualities. But he prided himself on being good at taking advice.
"After exposing yourself, no one is trustworthy." Her father's words echoed in her mind.
She couldn't risk her wife, daughter, and those who trusted her to believe the man before her.
"Sorry."
Lin Wan said softly. Her voice was light, but carried unquestionable determination.
Sword light flashed.
Like moonlight, cold and clear. Like flowing water, heartless. This sword carried no flourish, but contained the purest killing intent.
Ji Wuque didn't dodge. He just stood quietly in place, that carefree smile still on his lips.
There was no fear in his eyes, only a trace of faint regret.
...
Lin Wan stood quietly in the night wind. She gazed at the body before her, its soul already destroyed.
Moonlight spilled onto Ji Wuque's face, illuminating a peaceful countenance, as if he were merely sleeping. His lips even carried that carefree smile, as if death for him was nothing more than a long rest.
Lin Wan was silent for a moment. She raised her hand and waved.
A gray stone tablet flew from a distant cliff, landing steadily beside Ji Wuque. Her fingertip lightly tapped, and a line of sharp characters immediately appeared on the stone tablet—
Tomb of Ji Wuque (A-Da)
The night wind brushed past the stone tablet, stirring fine dust. Lin Wan looked at these words and spoke softly.
"Since you like this name..." Her voice was light, as if talking to herself. "Then let it stay with you forever."
This was the only thing she could do for him.
In the distance, a trace of fish-belly white had already appeared on the horizon.
Dawn was approaching. A new day was about to begin.
Lin Wan took one last look at this lonely tombstone. She turned to fly toward the south.
But just as she was about to leave, a wisp of faint spiritual light quietly rose from Ji Wuque's corpse. The light was extremely dim, like a candle in the wind, yet stubbornly refused to extinguish.
After all, he was a powerhouse at the Immortal Venerable realm. Even if he was a pseudo-Immortal Venerable who hadn't truly mastered the rules, the Heavenly Dao would still leave a thread of life for him.
Lin Wan stopped and looked back, her eyes moving slightly.
She gazed at that wisp of flickering spiritual light, as if seeing Ji Wuque's final unwillingness and obsession.
"Quite stubborn."
She sighed softly, raising her slender hand. A glazed bottle flew from her sleeve. The bottle was transparent as crystal, with faint light circulating inside.
The wisp of spiritual light seemed to sense something. After hesitating for a moment, it finally drifted into the bottle.
Lin Wan put the glazed bottle into her sleeve. Her fingertip lightly tapped the bottle, setting three layers of seals.
"When everything is over..." She looked toward the northern sky, where the Spirit Realm lay. "I'll send you into the Spirit Realm."
Whether he could be reborn, whether he could continue his story, would depend on his own fortune.
...
Her figure gradually faded into the morning light. Her clothes fluttered like a wisp of fading cloud.
He still had one last important thing to do. The Southern Wilderness's secret realm was still waiting for her, where the final achievement needed to be completed.
The wind passed without a trace. Only that stone tablet stood quietly in place, witnessing the end of one era, and the beginning of another.
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