Chapter 314
Seventh Master and the others feared I was walking down a path of no return.
Ghosts had once been human, but those whose wronged souls remained in the world all carried resentment. Their minds were unstable, and they could lose control at any moment.
I was holding what amounted to two bombs that could explode at any time.
Even so, I had never felt as serene as I did now.
The words I spoke to Xiuzhu and the resentful spirit had moved them, but they had also allowed me to release many things.
If reaching the end of life merely returned us to the state before birth, and from that state we would be born again, then every day we lived was a step toward death. After death, we returned once more to the state before birth.
It was a cycle, a smaller cycle within the greater one.
Life and death held little meaning at this moment. Since neither mattered greatly, why cling to the fact that I might die now?
Across the endless years of the greater cycle, I would experience death countless times.