Chapter 187: The Last Night of the Cryo Sovereign

"Just as you said earlier, this matter is not your fault. The power is something I chose to give you. Even if my final fate is disappearance, it is still not your fault."

"Senior, why did you not say this earlier?"

"Even if I had said it, it would not have changed the outcome. Whether I say it or not is not important. In truth, I am very happy. I have been bound for too long, so long that I have forgotten what my life was like before I became the Cryo Sovereign."

Bai He did not really understand, but he did not interrupt his words.

It seemed as if he had many things he wanted to say, but had never found someone to confide in.

"I am not the same as you. I do not have a body as resilient as yours, and I cannot perfectly inherit the power of profound ice. But I still inherited it, because at that time, I took a medicine, a medicine that could make me forget my past."

Bai He immediately thought of the Memory Erasing Water.

"This medicine is even more terrifying than the Memory Erasing Water. No matter what method I use, I cannot return to normal. Unless I give up everything I currently have and leave. I remember that in the first fifty years after I became the Cryo Sovereign, there was one person who came to find me every single day."

Bai He asked carefully, "Then, do you know him?"

The Cryo Sovereign shook his head. "I do not. But he knew me. He said he would not give up. He said he would wait and use every possible method to make me remember him."

It was clear that that person had failed.

Otherwise, the Cryo Sovereign should have already remembered everything by now.

"He persisted for thirty years, thirty years without change, coming to find me every single day. But I never remembered him. Until one day, he came again and told me that he had given up. I thought that was just something he said in anger, that he would still come back to find me. But after that day he left, I never saw him again."

A bitter smile slipped from the Cryo Sovereign’s lips.

That memory was so distant, yet he could still remember it clearly.

After that, the Cryo Sovereign no longer wanted the power he possessed.

He very much wanted to know what he and that man had experienced in the past, what kind of bond they had that made him persist for thirty years, coming every single day without fail.

Even if that man had eventually given up, the Cryo Sovereign still felt that he was the one who carried the deepest guilt.

But how could it be so easy to find someone capable of inheriting his power?

After waiting through so many years, he finally found one at this moment, Bai He, someone fully capable of inheriting all his power.

At last, he would be able to learn what had truly happened in the past.

"Little boy, do you know what is the thing people find hardest to let go of in this world?"

Bai He shook his head. "I do not know."

"When you have invested too much emotion into something, you will no longer be able to bear letting it go."

People, or things, it is probably always like this.

"You are still young. I should not be telling you these things. You should not have to bear such worries so early."

"Senior, if you remember everything and discover that things are not what you thought, will you regret it?"

The Cryo Sovereign smiled faintly. "By then, even if I regret it, it will already be too late."

He stood up and looked into the distance.

His eyes were truly beautiful, a dreamy shade of blue.

After Bai He inherited the power of extreme cold, a faint blue mark could occasionally be seen between his brows, and his eyes would also sometimes turn blue as well.

These were all symbols of the Cryo Sovereign’s power.

"Little boy, this is the first time in all these years that I have spoken so much with someone. Tomorrow will be the last time."

Bai He had always been waiting to complete the task of Sky Cutting Sword.

Now that he knew that because of him, the Cryo Sovereign was about to dissipate, he felt that perhaps it would be better if that moment came a little later.

He stayed with him, or rather, he accompanied the Cryo Sovereign until dawn.

He even did not wake Ye Shiyuan or Xu Feng.

Bai He simply followed the Cryo Sovereign and left.

His heart was filled with emotion and a sense of helplessness at his own lack of ability.

But perhaps, for the Cryo Sovereign, living was not the most important thing.

What mattered most was to understand everything he wanted to know.

He had already waited hundreds of years for a truth.

Ye Shiyuan and Xu Feng quickly arrived at the Frostfall Dominion.

Because they had sensed abnormal fluctuations from inside while waiting outside, they still came in out of concern.

But they only saw Bai He sitting there alone, his eyes somewhat blank and looking very fragile.

"Master."

Ye Shiyuan took a few steps forward and carefully called out to Bai He.

But Bai He could not control himself and directly hugged Ye Shiyuan tightly.

His silent tears made Ye Shiyuan feel somewhat panicked.

"Master!" His hand gently patted Bai He’s back.

Although he had occasionally shown a pitiful and tearful expression before, it was completely different from how he looked now.

He felt heartache, yet he did not know what exactly had happened.

However, seeing Bai He in such a state, he could not bring himself to ask.

Xu Feng stood quietly to the side, watching this scene without saying a single word.

He waited, and kept waiting.

Until Bai He finally calmed down.