For a long time after that, Guhan fell into silence. He needed some time to sort out the thoughts in his mind.
"What happens if this black crystal can't hold it anymore and explodes?" Guhan finally asked after a long silence.
"I don't know!!"
Mingyuan Jiandi spread his hands. "I only know that this black crystal can absorb filth. However, once it reaches its limit and explodes, I don't know what will happen. The person who handed this black crystal to me did not tell me what the immediate consequences would be. However, he left behind this sentence. Once this black crystal explodes, the world will never be at peace. Yuan Kou and humans will never be free!
"Just because of this sentence, I've traveled all over the world for hundreds of years. While bearing the infamy, I've tried my best to find Emperor Zergs to extend the life of this black crystal. My life has been tough!" Mingyuan Jiandi sighed, his face revealing a sorrowful expression.
"In that case, Mingyuan Jiandi, not only did you not betray humanity, but you've also made a huge sacrifice for humanity!"
Guhan looked at the sorrowful Mingyuan Jiandi and shook his head in disbelief. "Mingyuan Jiandi, you could have told everyone about this. At the same time, you could have handed over the task of protecting this black crystal to all of humanity. Why did you have to bear all of this alone?!"
"You believe what I say, but will other humans believe what I say?"
Mingyuan Jiandi shook his head. "This kind of thing is not something that can be trusted with just a sentence from me. This black crystal consumes one to two Emperor Zergs almost every 100 years. Humans are greedy and distrustful. How can they keep sending precious Emperor Zergs into this bottomless pit?
"Moreover, no one, including me, knows what the real outcome of this black crystal will be after it explodes.
What if I was deceived back then?
What if the black crystal explodes and humans are freed? "
Mingyuan Jiandi sneered. "Forget it. If I let all the humans guard it, it might have exploded a long time ago. It's better for me, a guy who can't die, to keep looking after it. I've lived for a long time anyway, and I have nothing better to do. Without the urging of this black crystal, I'm afraid I'd be bored to death."
"…" Guhan didn't reply. Out of consideration for human nature, Guhan had to admit that Ming Yuan Jiandi's words would most likely come true. Humans had no interest in protecting a black crystal for hundreds of years without knowing what the outcome would be.
"If Your Majesty Ming Yuan Jiandi is unwilling to continue protecting it, you can give this black crystal to me. I promise that I will protect it forever!" Ming Yuan said as he looked at the black crystal.
Gu Han really wanted this black crystal, because if this black crystal could really absorb filth, then could the filth in his body also be absorbed by this black crystal?
"Don't even think about it. This black crystal can only absorb the filth in a dead guy's body. For a living Yuan Kou like you, the filth in your body can't be absorbed!" Mingyuan Jiandi said bluntly, seeing through Guhan's thoughts again.
The next moment, Guhan and Song Yifei's expressions changed at the same time.
"How do you know that there's filth in my body?" It was Guhan's voice.
"Guhan, what's wrong with you?
Are you really filth … "It was Song Yifei's voice.
"Of course I know!"
Mingyuan Jiandi curled his lips slightly. Then, under the gaze of Guhan and Song Yifei, he slowly opened his white dress and revealed his snow-white bunnies in front of everyone. Then, he lifted the bunnies up, and a small black hole appeared in front of Guhan's eyes.
"You are also filth …" Seeing the small black hole below Mingyuan Jiandi's bunnies, Guhan understood everything. It turned out that Mingyuan Jiandi was the same as him. They were both filth infected!
"Humans always said that I betrayed them and became a Yuan Kou.
Actually, they weren't wrong. Back then, I really couldn't enter the Super Dimensional Wall System. I was blocked outside by the city that gave birth to me and raised me. I am indeed a Yuan Kou. I have never denied this. I am indeed a Yuan Kou! "
Mingyuan Jiandi put his clothes back on and said calmly. Clearly, after hundreds of years of tempering, Mingyuan Jiandi was able to accept everything very calmly.
"After obtaining this black crystal, I tried countless methods. I even dug out my own heart and used this black crystal to replace it, but the filth was still firmly rooted in my body. So, in the end, I gave up. There was no hope for me!" Mingyuan Jiandi still calmly said what could be described as hysterical behavior in the past.
"…" Guhan was silent. "Then how did you know that my body was filth infected?"
"You entered the Seamless Corridor and escaped, didn't you?"
Mingyuan Jiandi gave Guhan a meaningful look, then shrugged. "Coincidentally, I also escaped from the Seamless Corridor!"
"What?!" Guhan's eyes widened as he stared at Mingyuan Jiandi.
"Is that strange?
I remember there were records in history that I stayed in the palace alone for ten years, right?! "
Mingyuan Jiandi revealed a disdainful sneer. "Do you think a normal human can stay in one place for ten years without moving, not even leaving the door?
Do you think this is a torture that a normal human can endure? "
"So, you actually stayed in the Seamless Corridor for the past ten years!" Guhan quickly regained his composure after recovering from his shock.
"You also stayed in the Seamless Corridor. You know as well as I do what kind of place it is.
On the surface, it looks like it was ten years, but in reality, I only stayed in there for three days … don't look at me like that. Although I don't know how many years you were tortured in there, I really only stayed for three days! "Mingyuan Jiandi laughed.
"Then it's not strange … no wonder the Yuan Kou I met in the Seamless Corridor said that I was the only human they had seen. So you only stayed there for three days. Could it be that the other Yuan Kou don't have any impression of you? Sometimes, you don't even see a single living person in there for three years!" Guhan sighed in a low voice.
"In these three days, I only met one person!"
Mingyuan Jiandi revealed a reminiscing expression. "It was a pitiful person who wanted to search for her memories. She said that this was her second time entering the Seamless Corridor. She wanted to find the memories that had been erased the last time she entered the Seamless Corridor.
Unfortunately, even though she returned to the Seamless Corridor, she still couldn't find the memories she was looking for. "
"Creak … creak …" After Mingyuan Jiandi finished speaking, Song Yifei was surprised to find that Guhan's hand was gripping the armrest of the rattan chair so tightly that the entire rattan chair was creaking.
"The person you mentioned, what was her name?" Guhan asked with his head lowered.
"Artoria, the former King Arthur, is now a pitiful person who has lost her soul. She said that she had a daughter for no reason, but she didn't know who the father of this daughter was, so she just wanted to find this daughter's father and ask him what happened in the Seamless Corridor all those years ago!" Mingyuan Jiandi said lightly.
"Then what happened to you guys?" Guhan continued to ask with his head lowered.
"She asked me to put her in a dimensional pocket. She said that this way, the two of us could be together and wouldn't be separated by the changes in space and time in the Seamless Corridor.
Just like that, I spent an entire day with her. Afterwards, the entire Seamless Corridor began to tremble violently. Spacetime, which was supposed to change every hour, suddenly began to change every minute. The two of us didn't expect things to turn out like this, and so we were still separated by the changing spacetime. "
"After that, I heard the loud laughter of an old man, who called himself Old Lord Taishang. He said that he was finally free, and then the entire Seamless Corridor completely fell apart. I was knocked out by the violent changes in space and time, and when I woke up, I found myself in another dimension!"
"That dimension looked very strange. The entire world was actually made up of a few small villages. A group of people called themselves ninjas, and relied on something called chakra to fight, fighting endlessly for the position of shadow.
However, their strength was very weak, and the strongest was only at the level of the Meteor Yuan Kou. A mere Nine-Tailed Demon Fox actually became a top-notch demon beast there! "
"I was vexed, so I just slashed a few times and destroyed all the ninja villages. I gathered all the ninjas together as my subordinates and played for a few years. Then, I discovered that a dimensional rift had opened in that world, and I prepared something called a vortex to bring over."
"I had an idea and followed that vortex into the dimensional rift. I finally returned to this world, but the result was that my body was infected by filth when I transmigrated through the dimension. When I returned to Yuzhang City, I couldn't hold back my desire to kill and killed hundreds of humans near the gate."
"It was only then that I realized that I was no longer the original me. I was no longer the dignified Mingyuan Jiandi. I was already Yuan Kou Mingyuan!"
When Mingyuan Jiandi finished speaking, her expressionless face suddenly became filled with tears. Although these tears were quickly blown away by Mingyuan Jiandi's sword qi, the melancholy flame in her heart could not be extinguished no matter what.
"Do you have wine?
I want a sip. I haven't had wine in a long time! "Mingyuan Jiandi said to Guhan.
"Yes!"
Guhan thought for a moment and took out a bottle of Yi Tian's favorite Red Star Erguotou, which he couldn't bear to drink for more than a hundred years, and gave it to Mingyuan Jiandi.
"Sigh, it's still too young!"
Mingyuan Jiandi took a big gulp and smacked her lips in dissatisfaction, but she still quickly finished the whole bottle in one go!