The Three-Life Stone

Qin Yunhuai's lips turned slightly pale and his face looked a little pale, but his figure was still standing straight like a pine tree. His will was as solid as a rock, revealing an indomitable spiritual strength.

The old man took his hand back and shook his head: "How deep is love? Sunset in the mountains and rain in late autumn."

"Boatman, after all these years, don't you have anyone you care about?"

"A rootless person drifts freely, disturbing the secular world and adding to his troubles?" The old man's eyes remained as cold as ice, without any fluctuations, as if nothing in this world could arouse his interest in the slightest. "Today, the grudge between you and me has been settled, and we will not bother each other in the future."

After saying this, the old man rowed like an ordinary boatman. His figure gradually disappeared into the distant horizon, leaving only Qin Yunhuai standing there. He looked at Sui Rou and Yu Le for a long time, and only after making sure that everything was normal did he feel relieved and prepared to leave.

"Is everything resolved?" Lu Xi's clear and beautiful voice came from behind Qin Yunhuai.

"It's on the right track. With that old man taking care of it this time, there won't be any more problems."

"Who is that old man?"

Qin Yunhuai's eyes were deep, and it was hard to tell what he was thinking. He spoke in a deep and magnetic voice, "A boatman for tens of thousands of years..."

"Hiss." Lu Xi pouted, "I can't tell that he is a boatman?"

Qin Yunhuai immediately forced a smile on his face: "Hehehe, my dear wife, I really don't know anything else~ But this old man is not a bad person, I just helped him to quell a little devil who was disturbing the order, and the old man just wanted to help himself and made an excuse for himself."

Lu Xi resisted the urge to laugh and scolded: "If you don't know, just say you don't know!"

"My image - wise and brave, handsome and unrestrained, suave and charming, elegant and graceful, and highly talented..."

"Okay, okay, don't try to act like an ordinary person."

Thousands of years ago, a boatman was ferrying people across the Wangchuan River. A little ghost, relying on his higher level of Taoism than other ghosts, naturally cut in line. The boatman was ready to deal with him with a wave of his hand. At that time, Qin Yunhuai happened to pass by and pulled him back to the team. The two of them no longer had any contact.

Over the past thousands of years, souls have come and gone, and many people and animals have been reincarnated several times. However, there are still a few infatuated people who are deeply in love and cannot make up their minds. People like Qin Yunhuai are even rarer.

Two thousand years ago, perhaps influenced by another soul, he came to the underworld again and saw the soul sleeping on the Three Lives Stone, and the old man who was talking to Bei Ming Mo.

Qin Yunhuai counted with his fingers and wanted to find the old man to ask for clarification, when suddenly, a hand was placed on his shoulder.

"Young man, I advise you not to do this." The boatman's sunken eyes flashed with a faint light, as if hiding endless secrets. Although his voice was hoarse and old, Qin Yunhuai could sense a hint of warning from it.

The boatman narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Qin Yunhuai. His weather-beaten face revealed an elusive expression.

Qin Yunhuai couldn't help but feel a chill running down his spine. His originally firm determination began to waver. He stared at the boatman, trying to find some clues from his eyes: "Who are you? Do you know anything?"

The boatman sighed, with a bit of helplessness in his tone: "Young man, sometimes being too persistent is not a good thing. You should let go when it's time to let go."

Qin Yunhuai gritted his teeth. He knew what the boatman said was true, but how easy was it to let go? He couldn't see through the boatman's background, and he also didn't believe that the boatman could know his affairs in this underworld: "I don't know what you said I should let go of?"

The boatman seemed to sense Qin Yunhuai's thoughts and smiled contemptuously: "The word love."

"What does this matter? All emotions are related to love."

"He was originally an ancient god in heaven. His three souls and seven spirits fell to the human world. His two souls and five spirits returned after practicing Taoism. Only one soul and two spirits can determine the fate of the world."

"Oh, that's amazing, you improvised really well." Although Qin Yunhuai still looked cynical, he felt a little respectful in his heart, "What do you think?"

"I don't want to get involved in karma, but I owe you a favor, so I have to pay it back..."

Qin Yunhuai searched his memory in surprise for the moments he had spent with the boatman, but found nothing relevant. As the boatman pointed, the scene of that day came into his mind.

Qin Yunhuai remained silent. He knew that the other party was just looking for a reason for him to get involved in this matter, and he just happened to be the one to make it happen.

After Bei Ming Mo left, Qin Yunhuai came to the Three Lives Stone. He waved his hand and the image of the old man over there appeared. The boatman sighed, shook his head and turned away.

Qin Yunhuai waved his hand again, and the old man turned into a young man, his eyes sometimes blurred and sometimes clear - it was Nangong Chenan.

"Why are you doing this?" Qin Yunhuai sighed.

When Bei Mingchen brought Shangguan Wan'er back to the palace, Murong Yi and Nangong Chen'an conspired to rescue her, but they were outnumbered. Murong Yi's behavior could just be used as a crime of insubordination, which gave Bei Mingchen a reasonable reason to attack the Southern Kingdom.

As a hostage of low status, Murong Yi did not return to his country after he reached adulthood. Instead, he lived in the Northern Country as an ordinary citizen. He thought he would live an ordinary life.

When he was following Wan'er silently, he met Nangong Chen'an who was out doing some work. Chen'an thought he had some ulterior motive, and the two of them got to know each other through a fight.

Before leaving, Chen An handed Murong Yi a flare: "She is a stubborn girl. You have worked hard. If one day you encounter something that you cannot solve, this special flare will be fired and someone will immediately notify me of your location."

"Okay, you..." Murong Yi wanted to ask the other party what he wanted, but he swallowed the second half of the sentence. Even he himself didn't know what he wanted. He guessed that even Shangguan Wan'er didn't know what he wanted. She was so distracted over a dead person.

All of Murong Yi's words turned into one sentence: "Be careful on the road."

Nangong Chenan smiled and said, "That person only exists in her memory. A drop of ink is always a drop of ink, but what if she encounters a glass of water? Or a basin of water? I'm optimistic about you."

Murong Yi smiled. He believed that his persistence would dilute Bei Ming Mo's position in Shangguan Wan'er's heart. He just watched her from a distance as she ran around for Bei Ming Mo's affairs.

He thought that when she was tired, he would tell her, "Wan'er, I'm always behind you."

He thought that when she gave up, he would tell her, "Wan'er, I'm always here."

He thought that she wouldn't come out so easily, and neither would he. They had enough time to wait.

Waited until Bei Mingchen captured her, waited until the signal flare was sent out not long before Nangong Chenan came to find her, waited until he was captured, and waited until Nangong Chenan was seriously injured.

After the fierce battle, Nangong Chen'an was seriously injured and in critical condition. Qin Yunhuai took him back to Nanxing Country and used various precious medicinal herbs and magic to treat him. Nangong Chen'an's injuries finally improved.

Just when everyone thought that Nangong Chenan was about to recover, something unexpected happened - Nangong Chenan lay quietly on the bed, no longer breathing.

Qin Yunhuai couldn't believe his eyes. He couldn't understand why Nangong Chenan, who had been getting better, suddenly died without any warning.

It was not until he saw Nangong Chenan next to the Three Lives Stone that he realized that the man also had his own obsession. After being injured, he was still thinking about someone, causing his soul to leave his body and unknowingly come to the underworld.

The living soul mistakenly entered the underworld and should have left early, but was attracted by a mysterious force and walked involuntarily towards the depths of the underworld. Along the way, the eerie and terrifying scenes made people shudder, and the mysterious force seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.

As he walked, Nangong Chenan came to an ancient stone statue. A strange aura filled the air around the statue. The statue seemed to come alive and uttered an ethereal voice: "Come here, here is what you want..."

As if possessed by a ghost, Nangong Chenan just stared at the statue, and a red light flashed in the statue's eyes.

The devil saw through Nangong Chenan's worries and desires, and said in a tempting tone: "As long as you sign a contract with me, I can fulfill all your wishes!"

Nangong Chen'an was tempted. At this moment, the boatman was returning from the ferry and saw this scene. He knew the devil's sinister intentions and could not let Nangong Chen'an fall into the trap. So the boatman waved the oar in his hand without hesitation, and a flash of light flashed, preventing the conclusion of the contract.

Seeing this, the devil glared at the boatman angrily. It knew that it could not compete with the boatman, so it left angrily and waited for the next lost person.

The boatman walked up to Nangong Chenan and said earnestly, "Don't easily believe in the devil's temptation. Everything in the world has its own destiny. Making a deal with the devil is nothing more than trying to get the skin of a tiger. Go back, go back to where you should go."

"What is my place to be? Who are you to interrupt me from becoming stronger? So I can go save her."

"Even if I have to be a slave to the devil for my entire lives until my soul is torn apart?"

"I……"

"Don't even think about it. Making a deal with the devil is not that easy..."

Nangong Chenan's eyes gradually became clear, and he suddenly realized that his previous thoughts were too naive. Yes, there is nothing in the world that can be easily obtained? Just now, he was deceived by the appearance of the devil, and only thought about the benefits, but ignored the risks and disadvantages hidden behind it. However, what can he do at this moment?

Over the years, he has been working hard and hoping that everyone around him would be well, but the result is contrary to his wishes. As time goes by, he can't even protect the person closest to him... At this moment, Nangong Chenan feels extremely frustrated and blames himself.

The boatman counted with his fingers and said, "I have a method. It uses the soul as a guide and draws a line on the ground as a prison. Although it is not a contract with anyone, it will still trap you for generations until the thoughts disappear and you can enter reincarnation."

"Can you save her?"

"No, but also."

The soul that escaped for a thousand years became a human again and escaped from the range of the Three Lives Stone. It was soon sensed by the gods, and a parallel world dedicated to the ferrying of souls began. However, no one would have thought that the boy and girl exchanged souls, and this is how they barely escaped.

Yang Yu and Xia Jin are the same soul. When their souls meet in the same time and space, they will automatically merge with the memories of so many years. Shangguan Wan'er's second half of life is full of misery and pain, which deeply touches her bottom line. Faced with such a heavy blow, her brain self-protection starts selective amnesia.

This kind of amnesia does not completely erase all memories, but hides those parts that are too painful and unbearable, allowing her to temporarily forget the tragic experience. It is like a forest shrouded in thick fog, where you can't see the details, but you can still see a little bit.

As time went by, Xia Jin gradually adapted to her new life. She began to re-recognize the world and tried to recover her lost memory fragments. Before the level of Bei Ming Mo arrived, her body and soul no longer escaped and entered the truth of the matter that she had always been unwilling to face.

Qin Yunhuai thought that her return this time would change the lives of both of them, but he didn't expect that Nangong Chenan was still bound by the previous constraints. When Xia Jin's soul returned to its place, Nangong Chenan's soul was pulled by the underworld and continued to return to the side of the San Sheng Stone.

The thousand years that the red spider lily bloomed, the thousand years that Bei Mingmo spent in the Wangchuan River, and the thousand years that Qin Yunhuai spent waiting were also the thousand years that the silly boy spent like a puppet...

When Hua Xiaoyao's life came to an end and she came to the underworld, she was originally a teardrop of an ancient god. After thousands of years of tempering and nourishment by the essence of the sun and the moon, she was still a broken soul. If she wanted to cultivate herself into a normal person, she would have to go through another thousand years of life as a ghost.

When Qin Yunhuai arrived at the underworld, Hua Xiaoyao had already entered the six realms of reincarnation. He asked Nangong Chenan in confusion: "Why don't you let her be a ghost messenger? Doing good deeds and practicing can change her current situation!"

Nangong Chenan smiled stupidly: "No, no need, being too smart is not a good thing, I would rather she stay confused."

Qin Yunhuai could only sigh, and with a wave of his hand, Nangong Chenan immediately changed from an old man to a young man: "Since you have entered the reincarnation and started a new life, you should reincarnate as soon as possible."

Nangong Chenan still looked dazed, as if thinking about the feasibility of this matter. Qin Yunhuai waved his hand, and an image flashed out of thin air. There was a woman in a nightgown and a man in pajamas. The man was lying on his side, and his face could not be seen clearly.

Qin Yunhuai put away the image and said to Nangong Chenan: "Go, you will meet her."

Nangong Chenan's expression did not change, he just nodded woodenly. His mind had been blocked for a long time, and many of his behaviors now could be said to be like that of a one-year-old child. Qin Yunhuai witnessed Nangong Chenan walking across the Naihe Bridge and continued to open the video.

If Nangong Chenan had not been unconscious, he would have been able to tell that the man in the video was playing with his mobile phone with relish, while the woman was crying silently. The second half of the video showed a little boy crawling out from the ground. The boy looked at the woman, and the woman just looked at the boy with a smile that she thought was comfortable.

Qin Yunhuai put away the image, his eyes flickering: "This is what she owes you... The relationship between you two is of course more than just this."

Suirou and Yule were walking out by the pond. Suirou muttered, "Ah, it's so late. Why do we have to come to the countryside to explore? There's nothing to do. Let's go back quickly."

"Okay." Yu Le smiled indulgently.

On the way back, villagers in groups of three or four looked over and talked privately about the sudden visitor.

They walked out of the village leisurely, as if they were just passing tourists, and took a bus to the hotel in the town.