When Kong Lanyou saw the figure kneeling in front of the grave, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he burst into tears. He tremblingly said: "Cousin, you are finally back!"

Qiu Yichi and Chi Linyuan were shocked and looked at each other.

Zhang Ruochen ignored anyone and was completely immersed in grief. He slumped down among the fallen leaves of the blood maple and didn't even have the strength to stand up. He whispered something in his mouth.

I don't know how much time passed, but after Zhang Ruochen's mood stabilized, Kong Lanyou walked up to him and whispered: "My cousin, my condolences, Aunt Lin is only a mortal after all, and she cannot escape birth, old age, illness and death."

"She stayed in the endless abyss as a mortal. She must have been lonely those years, right?" Zhang Ruochen said.

Kong Lanyou said: "I asked Kong Xuan to send Aunt Lin to King Mountain in the Eastern Region. There were people from the Lin family, as well as the fourth prince and the ninth princess of Yunwu County. They were accompanied by their relatives, and Aunt Lin was also there.

Not so lonely.”

"In her later years, Aunt Lin insisted on returning to the Endless Abyss, saying that she would wait for you here and wanted to see you for the last time. Your cousin from the Lin family also came to the Endless Abyss and spent her last days with her.

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"I once extended Aunt Lin's life and wanted to fulfill her wish. However, I could not wait for you until she was two hundred and thirty years old. At that time, she had run out of oil and the fire of life was extinguished.

Even the Great Sage cannot save her life."

"In those years, she would wield a wooden stick every day, accompanied by Kong Xuan and Lin Lingshan, on the edge of this cliff, under this blood maple tree, looking into the distance, often murmuring, how can I return my Chen'er?

He's not back! My Chen'er, why hasn't he come back yet? I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for him..."

"Before Aunt Lin died, Lin Lingshan wanted to take her body back to King Mountain and bury it with the prince. However, she insisted on staying here and waiting for you to come back. She said that she would always stay on this cliff.

Wait, I will see you as soon as you return."

Zhang Ruochen burst into tears again, and the guilt and self-blame in his heart reached an unbearable level.

In my mind, I recalled all the past events.

Recalling that eight hundred years after he first arrived, he had nightmares every night, dreaming of being killed by Chi Yao, and it was Concubine Lin who held him in her arms and comforted him.

Recalling that Concubine Lin knelt down to her brother in the Lin Mansion in order to ask him to practice the exercises.

Recalling that when he first started practicing, Concubine Lin secretly sold her gold hairpin to buy blood pills for him.

…

For Concubine Lin, Zhang Ruochen is everything to her.

However, the time Zhang Ruochen spent with her was too little. Instead, he disappeared for a long time, which always made her worried.

When he was captured by the First Central Empire and faked his death with the help of Sword Master Xuanji, he had no choice but to change his name and become homeless. Huang Yanchen was always by her side to take care of him.

Later, when I went to Heaven, the fourth prince Zhang Shaochu, Jiujun Zhang Yuxi, Lin Lingshan and others were taking care of Concubine Lin.

Going to the hell world with the Queen of Blood, Zhang Ruochen thought he would be able to rescue Kong Le and Kunlun soon, but who knew that when he came back again, it was already a thousand years later, and his mother could not wait for him after all, and she could not see him for the last time.

Zhang Ruochen couldn't help but reflect, even if he hadn't fallen in Xumi Temple for a thousand years, how much would he have been able to accompany Concubine Lin?

The time spent accompanying her is probably not as good as that of Huang Yanchen.

There is always too much helplessness, always on the road of cultivation, always wandering on the edge of life and death.

However, if you don’t practice hard, don’t fight hard, and you can’t even protect the ones you love, how can you talk about companionship?

Is companionship or protection more important?

Zhang Ruochen no longer wanted to think about this problem, but what he was thinking about was how his mother stood here waiting for him every day in her old age. In the end, she couldn't see him. How desperate was that?

"spiritualism."

Zhang Ruochen stared with anger, pressed his palms to the ground, and powerful mental power burst out.

A series of mental thoughts condensed into a translucent figure, and the spiritual summoning circle was quickly carved on the ground, and dense lines appeared.

Kong Lanyou knew that Zhang Ruochen was a very emotional person and could not accept this fact, so he quickly advised: "It's useless, cousin, Aunt Lin is just a mortal, her soul is extremely fragile, and she has long since dissipated in the world."

Kong Lanyou once thought about preserving Concubine Lin's soul, but it was useless. Once a mortal dies, the consciousness in the soul will soon disappear and turn into an unconscious ghost.

What’s the point of preserving it like this?

It is better to let Concubine Lin pass away peacefully.

Moreover, when Concubine Lin died, her soul was already exhausted.

Qiu Yichi said: "Your Highness, Mrs. Lin has passed away for hundreds of years, and all her souls have disappeared. Even if she is summoned back, it is just a shadow of a soul, which has long lost consciousness. Summoning souls will not do anything except make you suffer the backlash.

significance."

Zhang Ruochen didn't listen to anyone's words and insisted on going his own way.

Soon, the engraving of the soul-summoning array was completed. Under the urging of Zhang Ruochen's spiritual power, the sky changed, thunder and lightning flashed, heavy rain fell, and a deep soul-summoning passage was slowly opened.

"Mother, where are you? Come back!"

Zhang Ruochen tried his best to control the soul-calling channel and collect Concubine Lin's soul fragments between heaven and earth.

An unknown amount of time passed, but Zhang Ruochen's powerful mental power began to fail. Tears of blood welled up in his eyes, the soul summoning channel collapsed, and the vision between heaven and earth disappeared.

Only the rain was still falling, soaking his hair and clothes.

"Come again."

Zhang Ruochen pressed his palm on his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Use blood to activate the spiritual magic circle.

Kong Lanyou, Qiu Yichi, Chi Linyuan, and Kong Xuan couldn't stand it any longer, so they all took action. No matter how big or small their abilities were, whether they were useful or not, they poured all their spiritual power into the soul-calling magic circle.

This time, Zhang Ruochen finally saw an old figure disappearing and gathering in the endless and distant depths through the soul-calling magic circle.

"Mother!"

Zhang Ruochen mobilized all his strength and roared.

The old figure was walking forward, but his voice could not be heard.

The soul-calling array could no longer hold up again. Kong Lanyou, Qiu Yichi, Chi Linyuan, and Kong Xuan all fell to the ground due to heavy consumption.

Zhang Ruochen ignored them, looked wildly in his eyes, slit his own wrists, and used the already weak blood connection between himself and Concubine Lin as a guide to use the soul-calling spell again.

This time, Zhang Ruochen spent a long time and once again saw the old figure slowly walking away in the depths of the world.

"Mom, come back, I am your Chen'er!"

"Mother!"

"Mother!"

…

Zhang Ruochen didn't care, he just made a series of calls, which seemed to be heartbreaking.

Just when he was about to lose his hold, far away in the depths of the world, at the end of the soul-calling passage, the old figure didn't know if he heard his voice. He looked back and seemed to have a smile on his face.

, then, the shadow completely dissipated.

Zhang Ruochen's vision went dark, his mental energy was exhausted, and he knelt down in the rain.

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Chapter completed!