Chapter 1343: The End of Reincarnation

"Bumian... you will die amidst the sound of gongs and drums."

A familiar voice came from his ear.

This voice sounded like a call from very far away. The moment it rang out, Sun Bumian, who had been in a daze, felt his eyelids tremble, and then he slowly opened them...

Ancient city walls, barren land, messy dead trees.

He had returned to this dream he had had countless times.

After a brief moment of confusion, his gaze returned to the old man he missed so much... He silently called out "Master" in his heart.

Sun Bumian didn't dare to speak out loud; he was afraid that if he spoke, the dream would end. He had finally managed to see his Master once, and it was good enough to hear him nag a few more words.

He just watched the old man quietly, waiting for what would come next...

To be honest, he could almost recite this last message his Master had left him.

But this time, his Master didn't continue. Instead, he just looked at Sun Bumian. Was it Sun Bumian's imagination, or did a hint of... a smile appear in his Master's eyes, which had never changed in countless dreams?

Sun Bumian was stunned.

"……Master?" he asked tentatively.

"You've grown up, Bumian."

These words rang in Sun Bumian's ears like a thunderclap, and he widened his eyes in disbelief!

The Master in his dream actually had his own consciousness? And could talk to him voluntarily??

You know, Sun Bumian had had this dream countless times before, but each time it was a replay of that memory, and what his Master said was always the same... But now, his Master was actually communicating with him!

Sun Bumian was instantly incredibly excited!

"Master, I'm not dreaming, am I?"

"It's not a dream; it's that you're about to be dragged into the Ancient Ghost Path Treasury."

"?" The smile on Sun Bumian's face froze. "Master, do you mean... I'm about to die???"

No wonder his Master could talk to him; it turned out he was dying... Rumor had it that when people were near death, their past relatives would come to guide them. So it was true?

"Yes, that's what I mean." The old man nodded.

"……It's all Red Heart's fault, his minions are too ruthless!" Sun Bumian cursed. "If I really die, I won't let him go even as a ghost!"

Sun Bumian could have originally unleashed the power of reincarnation to return to the state of his previous reincarnations and use absolute power to clear the toxins from his body, but after seeing Chen Ling appear, he didn't...

In the end, he was still a miser. The power of reincarnation was something that diminished with every use, and he thought he would save it where he could. He didn't expect that this saving would almost cost him his life.

"Don't worry, you won't die. He is trying his best to save you." The old man chuckled.

"However... don't be so stingy in the future. You have accumulated thousands of years of power; you should use it when you need to. Being poisoned by a few bugs and having it spread around would make it seem like I failed to teach my disciple well."

Sun Bumian shrugged. "I was afraid that if I used too much, I wouldn't be able to continue reincarnating... or that I would sleep for hundreds of years."

The old man's gaze became somewhat complicated. "Bumian..."

"What is it, Master?"

"You won't have another reincarnation."

Sun Bumian was stunned.

A bleak, cold wind blew across the barren land, and the last withered leaf fell from the dead tree, shattering gently in the air and dissipating into the wind.

"What do you mean..."

"This world is coming to an end. Whether the ending is good or bad, it is going to end... and so are you."

Sun Bumian stared blankly at his Master, and it took a long time for him to recover... If the world was coming to an end, what was the point of reincarnation?

What did it matter if he could live for ten or a hundred more lifetimes?

At this moment, Sun Bumian didn't know what he was feeling... confusion, fear, worry, or perhaps... joy?

He had lived for too long, been lonely for too long. In that long, endless lifespan, he had long since become numb. The end of life, for him, might not be a bad thing.

"Doesn't that mean... I don't have to save the power of reincarnation anymore?" A glimmer of light appeared in Sun Bumian's eyes.

In the past, in order to reincarnate smoothly, Sun Bumian would avoid bad luck and hide far away whenever he encountered trouble. Although he sat on an incredibly powerful treasury of reincarnation, he was like a miser who couldn't bear to use it.

He was like a mouse guarding a treasury at the edge of the world, reincarnating again and again, eating and drinking, trying to make himself feel the meaning of being alive... He was already tired and numb.

The end of the world, the end of reincarnation, brought him a possibility he had never experienced before...

A life that only happens once.

"That's right." The old man nodded slightly. "In this life, you can live recklessly and follow your heart."

Sun Bumian's breathing became heavy, and his heart began to beat like fire.

The corners of his mouth turned up slightly:

"I understand."

"……Remember what I told you, that your reincarnation is both a dormancy and a weapon?"

"I remember, Master."

"The time to decide the ending of this world is coming." The old man turned and looked at the figure at the foot of the city wall in the distance. "You must do everything in your power to help him... he will be the final hope."

Sun Bumian followed his Master's gaze and realized that there was someone standing under the city wall in the distance...

The moment he saw the person clearly, Sun Bumian's heart trembled slightly.

"……Even if you didn't say it, Master, I would help him." Sun Bumian smiled. "A long time ago, I made a promise to him."

"That is for the best."

His Master was about to say something else when his gaze suddenly looked toward the void above. "Bumian, it's time for you to go back."

Sun Bumian felt that this "dream" was dissipating, and a force was dragging him back from the edge of death. His Master's figure also gradually blurred...

"Master, after I die, will I be able to see you again in the Ancient Ghost Path Treasury?" Sun Bumian asked immediately.

"When the world ends, the Ghost Path will also dissipate. We will not meet there again." His Master paused for a moment. "But in other places... who can say for sure?"

The old man's voice gradually faded in Sun Bumian's mind, and his consciousness began to rise rapidly, like a drowning man frantically surfacing from the bottom of the sea. An unprecedented sense of suffocation surged into his heart!

The next second,

Sun Bumian opened his eyes wide!

But even so, the suffocation remained. He grabbed something on his face with both hands in terror and pulled hard!

A basketball-sized shadow toad was pulled off his face, and at the same time, a tongue that had almost reached his esophagus, mixed with mucus, broke free from Sun Bumian's mouth!

Sun Bumian stared blankly at the ugly toad in his hand, frozen like a statue...

The little toad tilted its head:

"——Croak?"

……

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Tomorrow, Sanjiu will be attending an event in Shanghai, so there's a high probability there won't be an update. Taking a day off~

Everyone, have a peaceful Dragon Boat Festival~~~