An old man and a young man were walking in the Daxia Cemetery, towards the edge of the island, their eyes passing by the tombstones. Wild flowers were blooming on the roadside, the breeze was blowing, and the shadows of the trees were swaying.

Ren Jie opened his mouth, as if he wanted to ask something, but Yun Tianyao seemed to see what he was thinking.

He couldn't help but laugh and said: "Are you asking if you can use my spirit summoning ability to summon back the heroic souls of the people buried on that hillside?"

Ren Jie was startled, nodded heavily, and said yes. She was not the only one he wanted to see again...

And… a lot…

But Yuntianyao shook his head:

"There is nothing we can do about it. Summoning spirits is not omnipotent, let alone resurrecting the dead, especially those who died in the divine contract. If there is no trace left, summoning spirits cannot be brought back..."

"Those who have no obsession and no nostalgia will not be able to summon spirits. A total of 3.02 million soldiers died in this battle, but those who have just returned from summoning spirits are only a little over two million..."

Ren Jie looked suddenly confused and his eyes darkened:

"So...is that so?"

Yun Tianyao patted Ren Jie on the shoulder: "Son...you must have a lot of regrets in your life, right? There must also be many people who are reluctant to let go, right?"

"Um…"

"Then... do you know what these heroic spirits I recalled are essentially?"

Ren Jie looked at Yun Tianyao in astonishment:

"Isn't it like a soul?"

Yun Tianyao smiled and shook his head: "It's not... they come from people's thoughts..."

"Even I can't support the consumption of tens of millions of heroic spirits every moment. This is unrealistic. I'm just inducing..."

"People can't be resurrected after death. When life ends, everything will be settled. You will say goodbye to this world forever. In this world... there will no longer be a person like you..."

"But...child, do you know that a person will die three times in this life?"

Ren Jie nodded heavily: "I know..."

"The first death is when breathing stops and the heart stops beating. It is physical and physiological death..."

"The second death is when you are buried. People attend the funeral and cry for you. This declares that your identity no longer exists in this world. It is death in a social sense."

"The third death is when you gradually disappear into people's memories. Everything you have done and all the traces you left in this world have been crushed by time and forgotten by people and the world. So, you

Real death..."

Yun Tianyao said lightly: "Yes...being forgotten is the real death!"

"The people engraved on the tombstones in Daxia Cemetery have already experienced two deaths. The reason why they are still alive and lingering in the world is because they have not experienced the third death yet..."

"Their friends and relatives still think of them, miss them, remember their voices and smiles, and everything about them, so... they haven't really died yet..."

"And most of the power of heroic spirits also comes from people's thoughts. I... just embodied these countless thoughts."

Ren Jie looked at Yun Tianyao in astonishment, and even felt his scalp numb. In other words...the essence of these heroic souls is not their soul at all? But it comes from people's thoughts? The appearance in people's memories?

Hiss~

"Then what if..."

Yun Tianyao nodded and said: "Yes... Once people forget them, everything about him will be blurred in their memory, and all traces he left will be healed by time..."

"The spirit bodies of the heroic spirits will turn into fly ash, disappear into smoke, and leave this world completely. And this... is what I call the ultimate death..."

"Looking back, in today's era, who still remembers the soldiers who died in the racial war during the cataclysm more than a hundred years ago? Most...have forgotten..."

"When people see the names on the stone tablets, they are just names. No one remembers their appearance, personality, everything in their lives, no one remembers..."

"Time is a ruthless blade that can crush everything in people's memories, and they... really shouldn't be forgotten..."

Ren Jie couldn't help but think of the martyrs' cemetery that the school had visited when he was in elementary school and junior high school. Really... he only remembered some names. Even after so long, those names had become blurry.

Thinking of this, Ren Jie silently clenched his fists.

Yun Tianyao gently rubbed Ren Jie's head:

"Child...Only those who understand death can live better..."

"Farewell is a process that everyone cannot avoid. Everyone has regrets in their life..."

"Are you reluctant to leave? Do you miss me? Then please keep thinking about them and remember everything about the people who have passed away, so that they will not be blurred in your memory and will not be crushed by time!"

"In that case, they have only experienced two deaths. As long as they still exist in your memory, they will never experience the ultimate death or truly die..."

Ren Jie looked at Yun Tianyao blankly. Everyone had a different understanding of death, some were free and easy, some were afraid, or some were unwilling to mention it.

But what Yun Tianyao told him today made Ren Jie feel that death didn't seem so scary anymore.

With more than two hundred years of life experience and accumulation, he can see some things very clearly, which is exactly what Ren Jie lacks.

As a teacher, you not only teach skills, but also teach people...

Unknowingly, the two of them had arrived at the edge of Moon Island, where a cliff stretched out from the edge of the island.

Outside the cliff is a sunny day and an endless sea of ​​clouds. Below the cliff is the vast land with thousands of lights.

The two of them just stood on the edge of the cliff, with the strong wind blowing past them, ruffling Ren Jie's hair and blowing away the haze and anxiety in his heart...

Yun Tianyao smiled and looked at the horizon: "Is the scenery here...beautiful?"

“Beautiful!”

"This place... is called Tianya. I stood here back then, summoned thousands of heroic spirits, and raised the Moon Island. The city in the sky has never fallen since then..."

"Once... I thought I could see the future of the human race clearly from a high place, but the city in the sky is floating in the sky, and I still can't see clearly the future of the human race..."

"Sometimes... I really feel that I am quite selfish. I summon the souls of the deceased and return them to this cruel world without being able to live in peace. Isn't this a kind of imprisonment..."

"But... even if Yuyan is determined not to fall in her life, it will eventually come to an end... At that time, maybe... the heroic spirits can rest in peace, right?"

However, Ren Jie shook his head and said: "Dean Yun, I don't think so..."

"You said... the heroic spirits who can be recalled all have obsessions and nostalgia. Let them return in this way. Isn't this a kind of wish fulfillment? In this way... it also gives those thousands of longings a place to rest...

"

"In my eyes, the city in the sky is not the swift, but like the name of this island, it is the bright moon of the human race. The bright moon has never fallen since ancient times and hangs high in the sky!"

"Even if you really want to return to the earth, how about waiting until the human race regains the true bright moon?"

Yuntianyao looked at Ren Jie blankly, then smiled and said:

"You kid...you really dare to say that!"

While speaking, Yun Tianyao looked at the horizon with his hands behind his hands, his eyes full of emotion...

"Yeah...even if it's for the human race, I can't end here, so I'll just hold on...just for a while longer..."

"I'm getting old... Maybe you can only climb this mountain here. Whether you can fly to a higher sky depends on you young people..."

Ren Jie stood on the edge of the cliff, spread out his arms, felt the strong wind blowing, and slowly closed his eyes.

The wind from the sky fluttered his robes, causing his black hair to fly. The morning sun fell on Ren Jie's face, dyeing his whole body golden.

There are rolling clouds under your feet, and there is also an abyss.

I saw Ren Jie slowly opening his eyes, his dark eyes looking towards the vast land...

"I am high in the sky, overlooking the world..."

"On the chessboard, hold your piece and defeat the sky!"

"Whether you win or lose!"
Chapter completed!