Chapter 1681: Their Past (Part 2)
Chapter 1681: Chapter 1681: Their Past (Part 2)
"Brother, I like you, I love you. I am willing to spend all my future time accompanying you, staying by your side. Let me love you, okay? I’m serious." Na’er had a very serious expression, so severe that even Atlas Douluo Yun Ming, who was nearby, was somewhat shocked.
Tang Wulin’s originally desolate and hopeless heart couldn’t help but stir. If there was anyone most important among the women in his heart, then mother, Na’er, and her occupied an unshakeable position.
But never did he expect that at this moment, which drew the eyes of everyone, at this Sea God’s Luck match-making conference, she would say such words to him.
"Na’er, you’re my sister!"
"No, I’m not. I’m just your Na’er; we have no blood relation at all. I’m just your Na’er. I don’t want to be your sister anymore; I just want to be your Na’er." She said stubbornly.
Tang Wulin’s body trembled slightly.
"Time’s up, Na’er. For fairness, I can’t let you continue." Tang Yinmeng said somewhat helplessly.
Tang Wulin had once sworn to never let Na’er cry again, but what he couldn’t have anticipated was that he was the one making Na’er cry right now.
Na’er, why are you so foolish!
However, for some reason, he felt something indescribable deep inside his heart. Just like Na’er said, they weren’t real siblings after all; Na’er was the sister he picked up, the sister he cherished sincerely.
Na’er suddenly lifted her head, looking at Tang Wulin with radiant eyes, "Had I not left back then, you definitely wouldn’t have anyone else in your heart."
"Wulin Junior, please make your choice." Lan Muzi urged in a low voice.
Tang Wulin took a deep breath. It seemed as though his entire strength was summoned at this moment.
He asked himself; the answer was remarkably clear. He didn’t want to hurt Na’er, but he didn’t want to deceive her either. Moreover, everything was so complicated; he didn’t want to pass up this chance, even if the chance seemed very slim.
"I’m sorry, Na’er. I choose the girl number seventeen!" When Tang Wulin said these simple ten-something words, he almost used all his strength.
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And at the moment Tang Wulin uttered those words, Na’er’s pretty face lost all its color, instinctively stepping back, half a foot already in the water, her body swayed a bit before managing to steady herself.
Lan Muzi swallowed hard, looking at the girl number seventeen, "According to the rules, you must remove your veils and bamboo hats now. Then you listen to him confess for one minute."
Girl number seventeen hesitated for a moment, slowly raising her hands to remove the veils and bamboo hats on her head.
It was a pallid pretty face, black hair, black eyes. Compared to Dai Yun’er and Na’er beside her, she wasn’t outstanding, even completely overshadowed by the two girls beside her.
Her face was already filled with tears, uncontrollable tears. She looked at him, her lips trembling lightly.
Tang Wulin laughed, seeing her face full of tears. He laughed; she was not heartless towards him. It was just after seeing those tears, he suddenly felt that everything was worth it.
"You should choose her." Gu Yue turned her head, looking toward Na’er.
Na’er remained silent.
Gu Yue uttered another inexplicable sentence, "I don’t want to win."
Na’er smiled, at this moment, her pale face was filled with a faint smile. She stood tall and proud, looking over at Gu Yue, "Some things are beyond your control."
Gu Yue closed her eyes, tears pouring again, "But do you realize how great a price he will pay for such words? Our future will be so difficult."
Na’er firmly stated, "I don’t care. I just hope to give all of myself to him."
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"Wulin, it’s your turn. You have one minute."
But Tang Wulin shook his head, then looked at Gu Yue, "I don’t need a minute, I just need to ask her one question."
"Gu Yue, in this world, I’ve only loved one girl, and that’s you. Do you love me?"
He once had countless words he wanted to say to her, but when really facing her, only this sentence could be uttered. This sentence alone was enough; he needed an answer, an answer that could drive him to disregard everything, or let him step into another world.
His right hand lifted, palm turned up. Golden scales spread from under his sleeve to his entire hand, shining golden claws appeared, five fingers bent backward, the claws pointing straight above his head.
A surge of indescribable intense blood aura suddenly burst from him, at the moment this strong bloodline aura appeared, all Soul Masters present who owned dragon-class Martial Souls groaned, their faces turned pale, even Long Yue was no exception.
"Brother, don’t!" Na’er screamed, but she dared not move. She could clearly see the golden light flickering on the Golden Dragon Claw; Tang Wulin only needed to lower his hand slightly to pierce through his skull.
"I just need to know the answer, the true answer in your heart. Don’t lie to me, from your gaze, from your bloodline, I can feel whether you’re saying the truth."
Gu Yue stared at him blankly; tears no longer flowed.
Suddenly, her entire being seemed to collapse, she furiously nodded. Just stopped tears flooded down again, she couldn’t help but squat on the lotus leaf, she couldn’t speak but only nodded, forcefully nodded.
Tang Wulin smiled, he proudly smiled, lowered his right hand. With one step, he was already in front of her.
He pulled her up from the lotus leaf, right into his arms.
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The morning Sea God’s Lake had a mysterious beauty; mist spread everywhere, azure waves lapped.
She stood by the lake for a long time, dew had long wet her shoulders, yet she showed no intention of brushing it away.
Her silver hair fluttered in the morning breeze; she gazed into the distant morning mist as if an elf.
Purple eyes reflected the lake water, a constant faint smile lingered at her mouth.
Another her arrived silently, standing still beside her. Her black hair fluttered, making her appear radiant, her pretty face tinged with a faint blush.
But when the other saw her, the smile on her face disappeared.
They stood side by side, gazing intently at the clear water of the lake before them.
"You won!" Na’er said softly yet with ease.
"You seem to really want me to win," Gu Yue frowned.
Na’er chuckled lightly, "Yes! I actually really wanted you to win, and I already guessed you would. Because I know his character too well. Do you believe me? I’m just an interlude in his life; his courtship was just to find a suitable reason to leave."
"If you leave, he will be sad," Gu Yue said.
Na’er shook her head in self-mockery, "I lost, can I not leave? But from the beginning, I knew I would lose, and I had to lose, otherwise, he would truly die. Am I right?"
Gu Yue fell silent.
Na’er sighed softly, "Back then, when we made the bet, I resolutely chose to bet with you because I knew you just wanted to find a pretext to kill him but didn’t want a flaw in your heart. I couldn’t refuse you, because if I did, you, at that time, even with a flaw in your heart, would kill him without hesitation."
"Do you regret it now?" Na’er asked.
Gu Yue seemed a bit dazed, "Regret? I don’t know." She really didn’t know if she regretted it or not.
Na’er said, "If you didn’t want all this to happen, you shouldn’t have set the plan to blend into the human world in the first place. The fact proves that your way is correct; only by understanding humans better can we truly find a way to destroy them. However, we actually discovered that humans are not worthless. At least, the rich emotions of humans are something we completely lack. That’s why I exist. In your childhood, to truly resemble a human, you had to seal yourself. Only then could you truly blend into human society. And thus, the part of the soul belonging to humans was born along with it."
"When you found that human emotions were somewhat uncontrollable, it became impossible to forcefully remove me. Because doing so would greatly harm you. And all of this has to do with my brother. It is my brother’s warmth and love that let me understand human emotions."
"Helplessly, you separated me from your body, forming an independent entity, but no matter what, I am a part of you. In the end, we are one entity. So you bet with me, betting whether my brother would fall for you, whether he would abandon me for you. If you won, it would prove that human emotions are all fake, and I would naturally merge back into you. If you lost, what you said at the time was, you lost, you would let me forever become an independent entity. Right. But unfortunately, after all, I have your wisdom, and also human emotions. After a few years, I already understood that it was fundamentally impossible. I occupy a full thirty percent of your strength. If I were ultimately independent, then you would not be you. So, it is impossible for you to abandon me; the difference is only whether there will be no next fusion, or carrying flaws. Therefore, if you lost, you would definitely kill my brother and forcibly merge me. Am I right?
Gu Yue looked at Na’er, listening to her talk eloquently, her pretty face becoming slightly pale.
"Gu Yue, do you know? The reason I’m willing to bet with you is that you fundamentally do not understand human emotions. You think the feelings between my brother and me are what you believe them to be. In reality, you are wrong. For us, it’s more about familial bonds. Perhaps I am not entirely so toward him, but at least he is towards me. And his feelings for you are not familial, but love."
"Love and familial bonds are completely different. Therefore, he never abandoned me, nor betrayed me, although he chose you. Therefore, I lost, but you still cannot get the result you want. So, who ultimately loses, it’s really hard to say."
Gu Yue looked deeply at her, "Do you think I really don’t know your plans?"
Na’er smiled, "Of course, you know. Clever as you are, how could you not see through it? When you tried to distance yourself from my brother, it was because you already felt your emotions being affected. Unfortunately, love is imperceptible. When you noticed something was wrong, it was already too late. Because he had already taken root in your heart. Therefore, you have been trying hard to break free, trying to suppress it. But the longer you try, the deeper he takes root in your heart."
"Gu Yue, have you noticed, whether it’s soul beasts or divine beasts, our nature is too pure? And once we come into contact with human emotions, no matter how powerful your energy is, or how vast your spiritual power is, you can’t resist the attack of those emotions. They are formless and intangible, yet they truly exist."
Gu Yue said bitterly, "Do you think this will not end up being him? Do you really think that?"
Na’er sighed softly, "At least this way, he can live longer. And as long as enough time passes, when he has sufficient power, as long as you can’t make a move against him, I believe, no one will be able to kill him in the future. Gu Yue, face your own feelings. Hatred will only blind you."
Gu Yue suddenly said angrily, "You really sound like a human now."
Na’er smiled, "I was originally a human! I’ve always thought that. So, I’m not willing to destroy humans; I’d rather see peaceful coexistence. I love my brother, I also love our parents, and I like the human world. Human emotions. You won, but you also lost. But I really hope that in the future, you will have a good result, no, that you both will have a good result."
Gu Yue’s breathing became a bit rapid, "Do you really think I can’t bring myself to kill him?"
Na’er shook her head, "Of course you can’t. You never could. Even without me, you couldn’t. Otherwise, would you have waited until now? When have you, decisive in killing, ever hesitated so much? When you hesitated the first time, you might still have had a chance, but when you hesitate like this for three times, it’s no longer possible for you to harm him. I know that very well, and you surely know it too in your heart. And when you merge me back, you will be me, and I will be you; you will only be more affected, rather than resolute. Love him well, my brother is really excellent, really excellent. Even though we don’t know where his Golden Dragon King’s bloodline comes from, we have to admit that in the human world, the only one worthy of us is him."
Gu Yue’s face was full of desolation, "My biggest mistake was the bet with you back then, or rather, I shouldn’t have separated you out in the first place. At least that way, I could’ve influenced you subtly back."
"You lost, and I lost too. You’re right, I can’t do it, I can’t kill him. So I can only leave him, let time and distance make our love fade away, maybe only then, one day, I might unintentionally kill him. Or he grows fast enough, one day to kill me. You understand, the conflict between us is irreconcilable, this is the conflict between humans and soul beasts, and also between deity and divine beast. Neither he nor I can resolve this conflict."
Na’er was silent, finally showing a bit of panic, "But if I leave, and you leave too, he will be sad."
Gu Yue’s body trembled, "Even so, it’s better than me being by his side, and my people no longer being able to control themselves from killing him. Right now, I’m far from being fully out of the seal, the core has awakened, but you know, among our subordinates, there are some incredibly powerful beings. Some should’ve become divine beasts long ago. Even with my current self, I can’t completely suppress them. So, I’m destined to leave."
Na’er gently bit her lip, "Perhaps you’re right. Gu Yue, you’ve really changed. You think of others now, especially him. I understand, you’re leaving, to give him more space to grow. You hope, in the future, one day he’ll be so strong that you can’t kill him. But you know, that’s impossible, the Divine Realm no longer exists, he can never reach your state."
Gu Yue smiled, "You understand, but you don’t understand. You don’t really know what kind of position he holds in my heart. You also don’t understand how much of me now belongs to humans. You’re right, I regret it, I regret why I gave the order to integrate into the human world in the first place. But, my mission I must carry out, yet I don’t want to harm those I don’t want to hurt. So, let me face this contradiction alone. I don’t know what to do, but I have to move forward. Come back, Na’er. From today on, I am no longer Gu Yue, my name can finally be complete. But he doesn’t know, I am called Gu Yuena!"
Bit by bit, brilliant lights shone, Gu Yue’s body suddenly became transparent, a silver-white transparency, and an invisible barrier rose from the six-pointed star at her feet, enveloping them within.
If anyone were nearby, they would find that in that silver-white world, not a trace of energy fluctuation leaked out.
Na’er’s body also became transparent, a silver-white transparency, she walked step by step towards Gu Yue, tears streaming down her face.
"I am somewhat reluctant to leave all this, reluctant to leave the people beside me, reluctant to leave the teacher, reluctant to leave my brother!"
Gu Yue sighed, "But you should know, no matter how much reluctance, you do not have a source, you are destined to return. Otherwise, you’ll dissipate like smoke. You said, when you return, you will be me, and I will be you. I will let go of everything, since the flaws have already become cracks, then let’s both accept these cracks together. Perhaps, everything will be different."
The silver-white figures overlapped, Na’er and Gu Yue each opened their arms. The two figures began to slowly fuse, Gu Yue’s black hair disappeared, her black eyes turned purple. Na’er’s childishness faded, she slowly grew up.
When the two figures became identical, transforming into the Dragon Spear Goddess three years older, the silver light flashed suddenly and disappeared silently by the Sea God’s Lake.
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By this point, Lan Xuanyu and Bai Xiuxiu were somewhat entranced, even though the scenes before them were fragmented, they saw a glimpse of an era belonging to tens of thousands of years ago, the love between Golden Dragon Moon Song Tang Wulin and Silver Dragon Wulin Gu Yuena from tens of thousands of years ago. Though they had heard of these legends, truly seeing the reappearance of these scenes had a special flavor, especially since this was their own parents’ story!
Especially upon seeing that their mother was both Gu Yue and also Nana, and ultimately merged into Gu Yuena, Lan Xuanyu couldn’t hold back his tears.
Even though he had long heard of how difficult his parents’ past was, he didn’t truly understand everything at that time; the only ones who truly understood were Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena themselves.
He finally understood why when his mother asked his father to pursue her again, his father would embrace it gladly. His mother’s silent sacrifices for his father were really a lot, really a lot. For this love, she even willingly gave up her mission. All that from tens of thousands of years ago, so vivid, sorrowful yet beautiful.
The scene kept changing, and this time, it made Lan Xuanyu’s breathing become rapid. Because he suddenly discovered, as this scene appeared, both parents were wearing battle armor, opposing each other, holding dragonlances pointed at one another!
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