Jiang Qinian looked at Zhang Fin and said word by word:
"The battle between us has nothing to do with interests or grudges, it's just that the paths we have chosen are different.
I will not criticize you from the moral high ground. After all, you are not wrong and neither am I.
If you die, I will carry this despair and continue to move forward. If I die, then let all this stay in the past.
Of course, if you die, you can tell me the names and looks of your wife and children, and I will help you find them."
Hearing this, Zhang Fin nodded, and after thinking for a while, he turned to Jiang Qinian and asked:
"Well, thank you.
Then you...you can tell me if you have any unfinished business. Although you and I are destined to have only one life, since it is about a battle for the great road, I will naturally not break my promise."
After saying that, Jiang Qinian raised his head and thought about something.
After waiting for a while, he continued to say to Zhang Fin:
"Well, if I die, then you can practice hard and help me kill the big nightmare."
"You are smart. Although it is dangerous to find my family, in the end you are just looking for two people.
But you actually want me to help you kill the Great Nightmare, which is a monster in the divine realm and is only one step away from the Emperor. Am I going to die?"
"oh?"
Hearing this, Jiang Qinian raised his eyebrows with a smile.
"So... you don't agree?"
Seeing this, Zhang Fin also laughed.
"Promise, of course I will, even if you don't tell me I will kill that beast.
It killed people in an entire city, not only your relatives were buried in that disaster, but my family members were naturally the same."
"That's good."
As he spoke, Jiang Qinian couldn't help but sigh. Perhaps seeing him looking a little regretful, Zhang Fin also asked curiously:
"What's wrong with you? Why do you look so depressed?
I advise you to cheer up. I know you are very strong, but I don’t think I am that weak. Therefore, if you remain in this negative state... you will probably be killed by me.
"
"Um...it's nothing, I just feel a little sad."
"What are you regretting?"
Zhang Fin was a little confused. In the final analysis, he and Jiang Qinian had no grudges. Because they had different philosophies and chose different paths, a battle between them was inevitable.
Unless Jiang Qinian is willing to stay here and stop in the past with him, or he is willing to give up his long-term plans and calculations and entrust everything to Jiang Qinian.
But these two situations are unlikely no matter how you think about it.
People like Jiang Qinian are destined to move forward. Even if he is alone, even if he is carrying the despair and hope of a city, no one can stop him.
The same was true for him. Jiang Qinian had no kindness towards him. Although they were both fellow villagers before this, they had never actually met.
At least Zhang Fin feels that his head is fine. This is not a hot-blooded anime. Even a passerby who cannot be beaten will willingly sacrifice himself, and before dying, he will give a thumbs up to the protagonist and say that everything will be left to you.
.
Instead of entrusting your own affairs to others, why not take it upon yourself and do it yourself?
Maybe, Zhang Fin felt that Jiang Qinian was stronger than him. He had survived and had constant opportunities after embarking on the journey of cultivation. He had reached such a state in less than a year.
Although his cultivation speed is also amazing, he was born with unwillingness and hatred. He is a wild ghost forgotten by the world. He lives alone in this world. People may remember his name, but they don't.
Know where he came from and where he is going.
Most of the time when people who are still alive in the state of revenant mention him, they only say
I remember a name like Zhang Fin, but I can't remember his appearance or anything related to him.
Because his status is too special, his lower limit is very low, but his upper limit is also not high.
Some negative emotions such as anger can indeed allow people to gain great power in a short period of time, but these negative emotions are like a piece of armor, which makes you invulnerable, but from a certain perspective, it limits you.
But Zhang Fin obviously doesn't care about this.
Be it armor or a prison.
As long as it can give him strength, he doesn't mind putting the shackles on himself personally. He is not a very good thinker, so the only thought in his heart is to complete his own affairs, and then go towards it with all this hatred and despair.
perish.
He shook his head to bring his thoughts back, then raised his head and looked at Jiang Qinian, as if waiting for his answer.
Jiang Qinian also looked at him with a complex expression and murmured:
"I was just thinking... this damn God really knows how to play tricks on people. If we work together, I won't be the only one in Chun City by now.
If...I mean if, if our paths are the same, maybe we can become very good friends, right?"
Zhang Fin froze in place, he did not expect Jiang Qinian to say such words.
"Are you saying that because you want me to start fighting later and be gentler?"
Hearing this, Jiang Qinian couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"Zhang Fin, it's true that we didn't know each other before, but you can't deny that in Chun City now... we are really the only two left.
You must also know the situation of the others, your wife, your children, they..."
"I know."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Zhang Fin.
"I know what kind of state they are in now, so I'm not looking for them just to reunite. I'm afraid they have forgotten my existence, right?
But what's the point?
I am just a wild ghost and have nothing to do with this world. In fact, I can’t tell whether I am alive or dead now.
Logically speaking, I shouldn't have any interaction with this world.
I know what you are thinking. My family will not forget me, or they will forget me, but only part of it.
However, in order to one day be able to leave this hellish place, and in order to be able to kill the beast that took away the lives of my wife and children, I personally severed my ties with them and left my name in the shrine.
Because of this, I can stand here talking to you, and I can interact with this absurd world as a wild ghost.
I don’t regret it, I want to find them and help them get rid of this pain with my own hands.”
"Well, it is not easy to deal with your own family members by yourself. Even if you know that they are dead long ago, even if you know that they exist in the deep world, they will still suffer.
But facing that extremely familiar face, can you really take action?"
After that, Zhang Fin was silent for a long time. Jiang Qinian was not in a hurry, but slowly waited for him and his reply.
"I have no idea."
In the end, only these four words can be said out of a thousand words.
"Yes, so you are really a very contradictory person. You try to stay in the past and complete the unfinished things, but when facing other people, you want to send them away with your own hands."
"You're right, but I'm just a wild ghost.
I am a relatively homebody, and I am not that willing to get exposed to new things, so staying in a place I am familiar with is the best choice. Unknown things will make me feel very confused.
So...just let me finish what I have to do and then die alone in the past."
"Oh, I really don't want to kill you, Zhang Fin.
It's not about pity, I just don't want to kill the only person who is truly
You are just a fellow countryman who survived. Killing you means that I have no connection with the past.
Normally I wouldn't be so indecisive, but it's different now. I think about a lot of things, so I often look sentimental...
Of course, in the final analysis, it's just hypocrisy. I encountered many things that I didn't want to face, and I killed many people that I didn't want to kill.
But I have no choice, just like now."
"Well, people, as we grow older, we will always face many things that we don't want to face.
You don’t look very old, you must be under twenty, right?”
"Yes, I just turned eighteen."
"Well, that's right."
Zhang Fin crossed his arms over his chest and nodded at the same time.
"I'm older than you after all. Although I don't have as much experience as you in my cultivation journey, I should be able to talk to you about my life experience.
If we start fighting soon, we won’t have a chance, and I haven’t communicated much with anyone since the destruction of Chun City, so today is just a chat between friends.”
"Okay, then I'll trouble you to give me some advice."
Hearing this, Zhang Fin waved his hand.
"Guidance is not a big deal. You are smarter than me, so in fact you should understand many truths.
But sometimes understanding it is clear, but actually doing it is another matter.
We will always face many things that we don't want to face, but God is like this. The more you fear something, the more you will encounter.
It's like you don't want to kill me, but you can't avoid it.
You won't change your mind just because you don't want to kill me, and I won't give up my beliefs just because you are my fellow countryman.
So don't think about this anymore. If you choose to move forward, then take big steps towards the future, don't look back, and don't stop.
Stick to what you think is right and continue. Don't worry about whether those who kill out of desperation will blame you, and don't think about what you are carrying.
There is no absolute right or wrong in this world. Regarding your own ideas, I am wrong, because people have to look forward.
But for me, you are the wrong one, because no one stipulates that people must look forward. I just want to stay in the past.
When we have to make a certain choice against a certain emotion, we only need to determine whether it is in line with your original intention, your philosophy and original intention.
If so, then you don’t have to worry about other things, you just need to keep going unswervingly.”