Novel Full Chapter 219: Shared Past, Freed Hearts
Chapter 219: Shared Past, Freed Hearts
Xiao Shou immediately sat up and retreated to the inner side of the bed while staring at him.
"Who are you? What did you do to me?"
"What is your name?"
Tushan Qiqi did not answer his question.
Instead, he looked at him with a strange expression and a trace of nostalgia in his eyes as he studied his face.
Xiao Shou could not sense any malice, yet he could not understand what he was thinking.
That look of nostalgia... did he have some connection with the original owner?
Out of habit, he tried to search through the original owner’s memories.
But to his shock, his mind was completely blank.
Aside from his own memories, there was nothing else.
Panic and anger surged within him as he demanded, "What did you do to my memories?"
"My memories?" Tushan Qiqi repeated, his expression turning odd.
"I did nothing to you. The reason you fell unconscious for several days is simply the natural reaction after returning something important to me."
He paused, then added, "Now, I asked for your name. Will you tell me?"
My memories? Returning something important to him? My name?
A thought suddenly formed in Xiao Shou’s mind, though it felt too absurd to accept.
In a daze, he replied, "Xiao Shou. My name is Xiao Shou."
"Xiao Shou..." Tushan Qiqi murmured, then said with a puzzled tone, "My memories and soul have all returned to me. You should not remember anything anymore... so why do you still remember your name?"
Hearing this, Xiao Shou widened his eyes in shock.
He pointed at himself, then at Tushan Qiqi.
"You really are the original owner of this body? How is that possible?"
"Why would it be impossible? Not long after I died, I was reborn," Tushan Qiqi replied calmly. "What is strange is that I still remember my past life. Compared to suddenly seeing my former face appear in front of me, that is nothing unusual."
So the original owner of the body I transmigrated into just showed up in front of me. What do I do?
This is so awkward.
Xiao Shou felt secondhand embarrassment creeping in. He said awkwardly, "My name is Xiao Shou too. Nice to meet you."
"You do not need to be so polite. Acting so serious is boring," Tushan Qiqi tilted his head. "At that time, I was completely certain my body was dead beyond doubt. The fact that I have been reborn in a child’s body proves it. I do not know why I am like a great cultivator who reincarnated with memories intact, but there is no need for you to feel guilty. And you even share the same name as my previous self. Perhaps it is fate."
This person was very different from Xiao Ran and Yu Lin.
His personality seemed quite easygoing.
When Xiao Shou heard this, he smiled and lowered his guard. "This is the cultivation world. Strange things happen all the time. Maybe you had some kind of treasure that protected your memories back then."
"Mm, that is possible. So you just picked up a discarded shell that its owner abandoned, carrying a bit of the owner’s memories, and made use of it," Tushan Qiqi said with a carefree smile.
Xiao Shou shake his head and said sincerely, "No. I think it was an unpolished gem. Because it was an unpolished gem, I was able to achieve what I have today."
After he finished speaking, the room fell silent for a moment.
Xiao Shou and Tushan Qiqi looked at each other, then suddenly burst into laughter at the same time.
The unfamiliarity and awkwardness dissolved in that laughter.
Because of the special connection between them, they were instead able to open their hearts and communicate as equals.
Tushan Qiqi did not ask who Xiao Shou had been before using his body and Xiao Shou did not ask about his life after reincarnation.
They simply spoke freely and chatting about everything under the heavens.
They talked about the cultivation world, about the Sunfall Domain, and many other things.
By the time the sky grew dark and lamps were lit in the room, Tushan Qiqi rested his chin on his hand and said, "So you came back to find Thousand Illusion Jade."
"Not just Thousand Illusion Jade. There are also Nullspace Gems, Soulseed Origin Trees, and others. Your hometown had so many treasures in your memories. It is a pity I no longer remember where any of them are," Xiao Shou said honestly.
At this moment, he felt very at ease.
Ever since transmigrating, even though he knew the original owner had already died before he arrived, he still carried a sense of guilt as if he had taken away someone else’s chance at life.
There was also a lingering fear of becoming someone else.
He had always hidden these feelings, pretending they did not exist.
He distanced himself from the Heavenly Void Sect and everything familiar to the original owner.
He did not want to rely on that identity to take over relationships that once belonged to someone else, nor did he want to imitate the original owner’s personality and way of dealing with the world.
Rather than gaining anything through that identity, he wanted to shape his own future with his own character and choices.
That was why he went to Snowy Cave Mountain, took in Fu Young, and founded the Eternal Prosperity Sect.
All of these were expressions of his own will, a future he built with his own hands and completely unrelated to the original owner’s karma.
At times, Xiao Shou would use this reasoning to reassure the darker corner of his heart.
Even so, that shadow of guilt had always remained.
Because of the special effects of his cultivation technique, which prevented inner demons, he had never truly faced this issue and instead kept avoiding it.
Only now when he saw the original owner alive again after being reincarnated and his original memories returned to him, leaving behind only what truly belonged to Xiao Shou himself, did the burden in his heart finally lift.