Chapter 8: The Balance of Life and Death

You can still breathe the air of the world, you can feel the beating of your heart, the pleasure of regaining your body, and the mark of the earth on your forehead, and even, you can see the light of the other world, why? Shouldn't I have disappeared? Shouldn't I have nothing to do with it?

Why, I'm still alive!

Li Qi woke up from his dream, and everything around him was bright and white.

"You!"

A snow-white face came into his eyes, almost as godlike as the night, but so unnaturally white, so transparent, he held himself in his arms, looked at it with compassion, and there was always a trace of distress and love in his eyes.

I still remember every night, after sleeping, I am always watched by the night, every time I wake up from a dream, I will always see the night like this, probably only after I am asleep, the father who has never been good at expressing his feelings, will really release her love for herself.

It's like the eyes of the night, and it feels like a nostalgic feeling, but Li Qi knows that the person in front of him is not night at all, and at that moment, Li Qi is distressed.

"You are?" He is like a person covered in white, with snow-white hair, snow-white skin, and snow-white clothes, he obviously looks so young, but Li Qi feels that he is extremely old, he is not like the night, but he has the feeling of the night, his breath, because they have the same blood flowing on their bodies.

"You're the Emperor, aren't you?" Li Qi asked almost with certainty.

The other man nodded and said no more.

Li Qi's thoughts were confused again, people said, if he disappears, there is nothing, there is no thought, there is no consciousness, and there is no physical soul, why, he still has five senses, and he can really feel his existence in the world.

Li Qi looked around, but saw that in the depths of the white house, the overwhelming, densely packed cobwebs filled the room, snow-white, bright, like thousands of souls, like the melody of life, beating, active, surviving-

This is, by the way, this is the cobwebbed depths—

Li Qi remembered that he had obviously been here himself, and this place was still a ghost domain!

Why, I am still alive!

There was a kind of joy in my heart that I had escaped from death, but everything I thought of then almost made this joy disappear, I was still alive, why, why was everything different?

"What about Kong Fang? What about the night? What about the souls of the dead who are not allowed to live beyond life? ”

Li Qi jumped up nervously, she cared more about the things she had exchanged for her life than her own life.

"Don't worry, Kong Fang is next door, okay? Those dead souls also flew to the Futu Tower to wait for reincarnation, because of your sacrifice, there is no place in this world that the ghost official cannot touch, and there will never be a dead soul that cannot be reborn. You've successfully become the Lord, the Lord of the Middle Palace, and since you're in the Kun Palace, you don't have to control the gossip ghost gate-" The emperor talked about everyone, but in the end he didn't talk about the night-

"And what about the old ghost? Where's my dad? Li Qi almost cried, he and Kong Fang should have died, but they came back to life, so-

Li Qi didn't dare to think about it anymore, or even listen to it anymore.

Emperor Xuan shook his head and said nothing.

"Don't tell me my dad is dead!" Tears poured out of my eyes, but I couldn't help it.

"To be exact, he has disappeared," the emperor sighed, his eyes contained deep unbearability, "This is his own choice, for you and Kong Fang, he chose to disappear in exchange for your survival, he asked me to tell you, your parents will always be the passers-by in your life, Kong Fang is the one who can really accompany you, he hopes that you can be happy-"

Li Qi cried, she had already thought of such an answer, in fact, she should have thought of it from the moment she chose to die.

"Li Qi, there is no father who doesn't want his child to live, if life can only choose one from you and him, he himself will not hesitate to choose you!"

"But you are the emperor, you are the god who controls birth, old age, sickness and death, isn't all life under your control? Then why don't you resurrect Him, you can resurrect Him, don't you? Li Qi thought about it and almost screamed hysterically.

Emperor Zhou looked at this irrational child, stepped forward and hugged her into his arms, wiped away the tears on his face, and said, "Li Qi, look ahead-"

"That's—" A jet-black iron scale appeared in the snow-white world, and the weighing pan contained the life of the world, and the stone always used translation to maintain the balance in the weighing pan.

"Scales - all life is like a scale, life will not come out of thin air, out of thin air, all life is equivalent exchange, this is the condition for me to create this world, only equivalent exchange, there is a balance in this world.

"It's like the yellow sun became me, Kong Fang and I filled the earth fire and hell ditch with our lives, and finally exchanged our lives for me and Kong Fang in the end?" Li Qi said in despair.

Emperor Xuan nodded, "This is the equivalent reincarnation of life, respect for life, this is the law of my world." ”

"In other words, my father is gone forever and will never come back?!" For many years, looking forward to the day when father and daughter are reunited, all I hope for is just to call him father in front of him, why such a simple dream can never be realized, "Why does fate always let us cross over, why do I never cherish everything I once had, why do I know how to respect until I lose it?" ”

"I can't come back, I can't come back, I don't have a father in my life anymore, I don't have a father anymore, I-" Li Qi squatted on the ground tremblingly, and suddenly, she found that she couldn't cry anymore-

"You-" Emperor Xuan walked over and groped Li Qi's head, just like the night once was.

"Why, you are so like the night, why, my father no longer exists, but why do I really feel that he is still alive, why, I see my father's shadow in your figure." Li Qi stood up leisurely, intoxicated with the emperor's night-like face, like a fish without water, ** wanting to pour into the sea.

"Why, you are so similar to him - grandfather, you are a snake, become a snake, you are my father once, can you hug me well?" Li Qi looked up at the emperor, like a baby, and tried to open his arms-

Emperor Xuan couldn't bear to look at Li Qi, hesitated for a moment, and for a while, the snow-white room was filled with silver-white giant shadows, which were cold and smooth, and they were the same body shape as the night, the same breath, and the same expression of compassion. With the passage of time, even the once black giant snake has faded into a snow-white appearance, like an old man with white hair, who has seen too much intolerance and sorrow in the world.

"Why, you're so alike?! Why, my dad is like you! Li Qi looked at this night that seemed to be dyed white, his heart suddenly sour, and he rushed forward tightly and hugged the giant head of the emperor, the clammy and cold feeling was like returning to his childhood, lying in the arms of the night, that kind of cold and cold feeling was so familiar, so kind, but the feeling of recovering made Li Qi even more cordial but sad.

"Grandfather—"

"Huh?"

"You say, there is no father who doesn't want his child to live."

"Yes, even I do."

"Then you are God, why can't you be selfish once, why can't you choose your children once?"

Under Li Qi's helpless questioning, Emperor Zhou was finally confused, this question, he never thought about it, nor did he do it, he always looked at the joys, sorrows, sorrows and sorrows of all living beings in the world with compassion, birth, old age, sickness and death, he never brought himself in, detached from the world, but today Li Qi's words are like a slap in the face, which can't help but make Emperor Zhou fall into deep thought-

"Yes, the demon god is still like this, I am the father of the night, and I also love my children equally, why, I can't do it!"