Since you asked me not to mind, then... what are your thoughts?
Ye Ming’s counter-question plunged Xia Baiyi into a brief silence. She turned her gaze to the distance once more.
“Ye Ming! Do you know? Some things are not within your or my control!” Xia Baiyi extended her hand, and a trace of mysterious energy emanated from her palm, converging into a thin red thread: “Do you know what this is?”
Upon hearing this, Ye Ming looked at the red thread. Visually, it seemed nothing special. However, when Ye Ming extended his senses to probe it, his eyes suddenly widened, and he instinctively took two steps back.
Ye Ming was actually scared.
What was hidden within that red thread?
“It seems you’ve also sensed it!”
Xia Baiyi smiled faintly: “Ever since I gained the ability to control the power I possess, I discovered this thread of karma.”
As she spoke, a shocking scene unfolded.
The red thread wrapped around Xia Baiyi’s hand seemed to receive some resonance. It strangely began to rise, as if possessing sentience, and broke free from Xia Baiyi’s control.
Xia Baiyi did not seem to have any intention of stopping it.
As the red thread continued to “grow,” its trajectory was directed towards Ye Ming, who stood behind Xia Baiyi.
In less than a moment, the red thread reached Ye Ming, circling around him as if confirming something.
When Ye Ming reached out to investigate further, to his surprise, the other end of the red thread suddenly accelerated and, in the blink of an eye, merged into his palm.
“This…”
After the red thread entered his body, Ye Ming felt no significant change, nor did he sense anything unusual.
He used his senses to check his internal condition but found nothing.
The red thread had vanished so mysteriously.
Even from its origin, Xia Baiyi’s palm, there was no trace of the red thread.
“What is going on?”
Ye Ming quickly looked at Xia Baiyi, his face full of confusion.
“You really don’t understand?”
Xia Baiyi did not answer Ye Ming but instead gave him a deep look.
Do I really not understand?
Hearing this, Ye Ming looked at his palm, his thoughts momentarily freezing as he pondered the meaning of her words.
“Karma! It’s karma! So that’s how it is!”
Ye Ming shook his head and laughed: “It seems you were right, some things are not up to us to decide!”
It was their karmic thread, dictating the relationship between the two of them.
Something no one could easily change.
“Let nature take its course!”
Xia Baiyi no longer dwelled on the matter of the karmic thread. Instead, she seemed to sigh with emotion.
At least now, this karma didn't have to be borne by her alone.
“Alright! Let nature take its course!”
Ye Ming nodded heavily, agreeing with her words.
At this moment, Xia Baiyi seemed to recall something, and her expression, previously hidden in a haze, suddenly turned serious. In a tone that brooked no argument, she asked, “Right! There’s one thing you must answer me!”
Xia Baiyi used the word “must.”
“Alright! Ask away!”
Ye Ming could sense that Xia Baiyi was not joking.
“What is going on with your divine soul?”
As she asked this question, Xia Baiyi’s voice even carried a hint of anger.
She… was a little angry.
“Divine soul?”
Hearing this, Ye Ming was first stunned, but he quickly understood.
Xia Baiyi had seen that his divine soul had merged with Nangong Qianyu’s.
“Ye Ming! Do you have any idea what divine soul merging entails?” Xia Baiyi’s eyes, sharp as ice, bored into Ye Ming: “One life and death! One life and death! Do you even know?”
One life and death!
When two souls merge, if one dies, the other perishes.
“I… I know!”
Ye Ming didn’t know how to explain the matter, but since he had done it, he wouldn’t evade it.
Even though he knew that what he had done was somewhat… unfair to Xia Baiyi, who was linked to his fate.
But… he did not regret it.
“Hahahaha! You know!”
Xia Baiyi repeatedly shook her head, as if instantly disappointed in the young man before her: “It seems I was being overly sentimental!”
With that, Xia Baiyi’s figure slowly faded, and then she merged with the environment, disappearing from sight.
After Xia Baiyi left, Ye Ming stood alone in the spot. The biting mountain wind whipped against his cheek, keeping him somewhat lucid.
Ye Ming knew that the look of disappointment in Xia Baiyi’s eyes at the end was not about the divine soul merging.
It was about… his irresponsibility towards his own life.
Before, Ye Ming hadn’t realized any issues with his divine soul merging with Nangong Qianyu’s, nor did he regret it.
However, after investigating the karmic thread between him and Xia Baiyi, he had to admit that he had indeed been a bit impulsive.
Because that karmic thread not only connected his relationship with Xia Baiyi but also involved a shared destiny for both of them.
If he had to say he regretted his actions, Ye Ming didn't feel that way. However, a sense of… apology towards Xia Baiyi grew in his heart.
So, it wasn’t just him who was bound by destiny.
Xia Baiyi was the same.
“Don’t worry! I will live well!”
Ye Ming clenched his fist, his firm conviction strengthened by Xia Baiyi.
Just then, a wave of heat suddenly struck, arriving beside Ye Ming.
“Brother! Did you make Baiyi angry?”
Su Chirui, seeing Ye Ming looking somewhat lost, asked doubtfully.
It seemed her previous words were clearly intentional.
“You little rascal!”
Ye Ming lightly flicked Su Chirui’s forehead, saying with mock annoyance:
“It’s all your fault!”
Hearing this, Su Chirui rubbed her head aggrievedly, pouting: “Hmph! How can you blame me? I was just trying to get you and Baiyi together! After all, she’s your fiancée!”
“Alright! Let’s not talk about this anymore!”
Ye Ming waved his hand: “Don’t worry! It’s nothing serious!”
Some things were not suitable to tell Su Chirui at this time.
“Really?”
Su Chirui clearly didn’t believe him, her suspicious little eyes fixed on him.
“Hmm?”
Ye Ming raised his hand again, his index finger slightly bent, giving Su Chirui a warning look.
“Alright! Alright! I won’t interfere anymore, is that okay!”
Seeing this, Su Chirui immediately raised her hands in surrender, though she muttered continuously: “Hmph! Good intentions are taken for granted!”
“What did you say?”
Black lines appeared on Ye Ming’s forehead.
“N-nothing! Hehehehe!”
Su Chirui immediately hugged Ye Ming’s arm, preventing herself from being hit again.
“Alright! I should be heading back now. What about you?”
Ye Ming, though somewhat helpless, was quite fond of Su Chirui, his sister.
“Of course, I’m going with you!”
Su Chirui’s answer was without any hesitation.
“Alright!”
Ye Ming didn’t refuse. He then took Su Chirui and flew towards Bull Mountain.