Published: March 8, 2025
Hearing Bu Liqing's words, especially the name 'Dongfang Bad Dao', the Law Sovereign's face suddenly changed dramatically!
At that moment, his complexion turned pale, resembling a ghost.
His long hair, parted in the middle, began to move without wind, undulating like waves, resembling black long snakes flying above his head. A dark light shot from his eyes as he fixed his gaze on Bu Liqing, saying word by word, “Bu Liqing, what do you mean by this?”
Bu Liqing slowly raised his head, his eyes filled with complex emotions, and sighed, “This body of yours belongs to Dongfang Bad Dao, but you are not him.”
He lifted his gaze, shooting a sharp look into the Law Sovereign's eyes, “You are the one from twenty thousand years ago, during the nine calamity?”
The Law Sovereign fell silent, his eyes transforming into two bottomless deep pools, and he said lightly, “Brother Bu, what you said today is quite strange.”
“No need to dig further.” Bu Liqing replied calmly, “Back then, Dongfang Bad Dao pursued Xiao Yi and failed. On the day I married Xiao Yi, he got completely drunk and forcibly sealed his own memories!”
“Three thousand years later, Dongfang Bad Dao came to find me for a drink, saying that he had finally deleted a certain memory from his heart after three thousand years.”
“Dongfang Bad Dao is the best brother I have ever had! He is also the person Xiao Yi trusted the most in her life, aside from me!”
“Xiao Yi had a weak constitution, naturally frail; although I exhausted all my strength to extend her life, I could only accompany her for nine hundred years before time could no longer be held back. The fragrance faded, and the jade perished!”
“If only I had my current cultivation level back then, how could Xiao Yi have died… sigh.” At this point, Bu Liqing looked up to the sky and sighed deeply.
Bu Liqing’s eyes shot out profound emotions: “Two thousand one hundred years after Xiao Yi's death, Dongfang Bad Dao found me. At that time, he said that in order not to let me down, and not to let Xiao Yi down, he deleted his memories so that he wouldn’t think of her. But he lost a part of his spirit in the process.”
As Bu Liqing spoke, Chu Yang, who had been hidden under the aura of Zixie Qing, shook violently.
Zixie Qing turned her head in surprise and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Chu Yang had a complex expression and said, “I see… this Dongfang Bad Dao, his friendship with Bu Liqing and his persistence for his beloved are truly both terrifying and enviable.”
“Friendship? Persistent love?” Zixie Qing clearly could not comprehend the complex emotions involved.
This man was the rival of his best friend, yet on the night his best friend married the woman he loved the most, he sealed his own memories; why was that?
Moreover, three thousand years later, that woman had already been dead for two thousand one hundred years, yet he managed to cultivate successfully. Even at that moment, he preferred to destroy a part of his spirit to completely erase those memories!
Why?
Wu Qianqian sighed and said, “Perhaps I can explain.”
Zixie Qing tilted her head and asked, “Oh?”
“This Dongfang Bad Dao and Bu Liqing are good friends, both pursuing the same woman. And that woman is also their mutual best friend and a fellow villager. This woman married Bu Liqing, without choosing Dongfang Bad Dao.”
“Since they got married, there was no longer any thought of it, but Dongfang Bad Dao loved too deeply, unable to let go. Yet this inability to let go, the one he yearned for, was his best friend’s wife! Even if he didn’t speak it out loud, he felt guilty toward his friend and felt that such longing seemed to defile the purity of the woman he loved the most.”
“So he sealed away his memories. He sealed away his love, but at the same time fulfilled his friendship and his love. This is the most profound love a man can have for the woman he loves who is married to another!”
“But three thousand years later, when he went to find Bu Liqing, he said he deleted a certain memory because his beloved had died, and keeping it would only further wrong others, thus he would rather destroy his own spirit than retain those memories! This is a righteous person, a true friend worth befriending.”