C335 microcosm

"Investigate with Seventh Princess' wet nurse. No matter what method you use, I want to hear the truth." After a moment of thought, he said, "Capture him in front of me."

He had always been unscrupulous when he was in the palace. It was not difficult to find an excuse to bring someone here.

Only after the spy acknowledged did Helian Yu breathe a sigh of relief, his mood somewhat better.

After all the spies had left, Helian Yu took out the soul pearl and stared at the moonlight for a long time. Suddenly, he discovered that when the lamp turned, there were strands of white shadow inside.

This was the first time he had seen anything other than runes in the soul orb.

It was obvious that these things could only be seen vaguely at night under the moonlight. However, daylight could not be seen. Could it be that this was the existence of the soul? If it was true, then there were too many souls. Look at those thin white shadows, it wouldn't be too much to say that there were hundreds of them.

Helian Yu would never be able to understand the microcosm of the world inside the soul orb, but even Gu Qingli, who was inside, couldn't completely understand it.

Ever since she had entered the Soul Orb, she felt as if she was floating in a vast, white world. Many figures that she could only see and couldn't reach flashed past her, all of them had blank expressions, as though they didn't know where she was or where she was going.

She felt as if she had been floating for a long time, sometimes trying to find someone to talk to, but the souls around her seemed to be unable to hear her voice, or as if they were incapable of thinking at all, just floating along like duckweed without answering.

As time passed, she began to feel depressed. She suspected that if this went on, she would eventually lose her memory just like these wandering souls.

Gu Qing Li could not tell how much time had passed, and after an unknown amount of time, she suddenly saw a girl who had the exact same appearance as herself floating past. Without hesitation, she reached out her hand to grab it, and just like countless times before, the woman's body was penetrated.

"Stop, stop!" No matter how she shouted, the woman ignored her and floated past like the other wandering souls.

Gu Qing Li turned and chased after her, continuously calling out to her, but the girl seemed not to have heard.

She suddenly thought of something and tried calling out from behind, "Gu Qing Li!"

The figure paused and seemed to have reacted.

"I know you're Gu Qingli herself, you're me, I'm you!"

The girl slowly turned her head. There was no expression on her cold face, but a trace of emotion was etched into her eyes. After a long time, she asked in an ethereal voice, "Why is it me? Why am I you? "

"You're Gu Zhaoran's second daughter, Gu Qingli, right?"

The woman's gaze fluctuated. Although she didn't answer, Gu Qingli knew she had asked the right question. This was the first time she had found a wandering soul that could speak in such a long time, so she definitely wouldn't let go of this opportunity.

"How long have you been here? Where is this place?"

"I don't know." The woman pointed into the distance and said, "Perhaps I will drift for a while longer, and just like him, I will disappear here."

Gu Qingli turned around and saw a man's soul slowly fading away. She knew it wouldn't be long before it dissipated.

Although she hadn't stayed here for long, she wasn't unfamiliar with this scene. Every once in a while, a soul would disappear, so it could be seen that this place wasn't a place that could contain souls forever.

"How long will it take to stay here?"

"I don't know." The girl indifferently replied before she wanted to leave again.

"Don't go." Gu Qingli knew she couldn't hold her back, so she could only use words to stop her from leaving. "Do you know how you died?"

She shook her head but didn't say anything. This was the first time Gu Qing Li had seen a normal expression on a wandering soul's face. It was evident that they weren't unconscious. They had been wandering around for too long and were already numb.

"Why is it that you're the only one who talks to me and no one else can hear me?"

"In this place, you can only stop and talk to other people when you call their names. As for the other souls, they have no connection with you, so of course you can't talk to them."

Gu Qing Li chatted with her for a while longer and only found out that the souls were sucked in by a strange force. It seemed like it was a strange world where all the nearby ownerless souls would enter before going through wandering and dissipating.

In the end, the newly entered soul would feel fear, helplessness, collapse, or attempt to leave, but it would slowly become numb, because in reality, there was nothing they could do. They could not talk with other people, they could not get close to each other, they could not hurt or attack each other, and over time, their thoughts would become more and more sluggish, their emotions more and more indifferent.

Gu Qing Li told her about how he had entered her body and helped her get married. Although there was shock in her eyes, it wasn't too shocking. When she heard everything about Xiao Yi Mo, she was filled with grief, anger, despair, and many other emotions.

Gu Qingli asked if she had any regrets, but she only shook her head sadly. After all, that body was already destroyed, so she couldn't go back.

"Perhaps it was my appearance that took away your life."

However, she calmly replied, "If not for your appearance, I would have died even earlier than you. Perhaps the moment I saw Xiao Yimo's face, I wouldn't have had the courage to continue living."

Gu Qing Li understood.

She was born into the Prime Minister's Estate and had been the daughter of a feudal, ceremonial, and elegant person. Her personality was soft and weak, and from her childhood to the dark days of her youth, Xiao Yi Mo was her only light. This light was to be ruthlessly cut off, to the point that it was equivalent to cutting off the only hope in her life, and at the same time cutting off her courage to live.

"But I want to live. I must go back."

"Too bad I can't help you." The girl indifferently decided to leave.

The moment she turned around, Gu Qingli suddenly saw her silhouette side by side with her through the rippling water. She was so shocked that she forgot to keep her. When she regained her senses, she had already disappeared among the wandering souls.

For some reason, it appeared very sparsely and coincidentally. Rather than calling it water light, it was more like the reflection of moonlight on a mirror. It seemed hazy and chilly, moving on its own until it disappeared.

In that instant, Gu Qingli saw herself as she had in her previous life.

No wonder when the original soul saw her, he wasn't surprised at all. Instead, when he heard her say, "You are me, I am you", he asked her a question in a very strange tone.

No one can bring up the idea of "I am you" in the presence of an unfamiliar face.

It turned out that in this void world, the soul would reveal its true form.