# Chapter 2544: How Can Life Be Without Regrets?
Yet Innocent's eyes lit up!
An opportunity!
His four-dimensional body instantly pressed forward, attacking the moment Jiangnan lost focus!
But Jiangnan's blade naturally blocked it!
He didn't even look at Innocent, still staring at Xue Li's tearful figure, deep guilt in his eyes!
Innocent gritted his teeth. Still unable to break through Jiangnan's mental defenses?
Then let's try again!
Driving the Mind-Reflecting Mirror continuously, the deepest corners of Jiangnan's heart were reflected!
Xue Li cried, her facial features beginning to blur:
"You've already started to forget me, haven't you? Can you even barely remember what I look like anymore..."
In the Void Illusion Mirror, Mountain Cat walked out holding Little Lan's hand, looking at Jiangnan with complex eyes!
"How much of my affairs do you still remember? Even if your memories were restored, you can no longer recall how you felt back then, can you..."
Little Lan sobbed: "That matter was so important to me, and Brother Jiangnan actually forgot all of it, boohoo~"
Jiangnan's expression was bitter. They were clearly on the battlefield below. He knew it was fake, but he couldn't help wanting to look!
Mountain Cat bit her lower lip: "In the end, you're going to forget all of us, aren't you? You keep saying you want to protect the people you care about!"
"But what if one day, you forget everything because you're chasing power, and no longer have anyone you care about... empty-handed..."
"Then what are you walking forward for, after all?"
Jiangnan pressed his lips tight, his eyes bloodshot!
On the battlefield, Mountain Cat noticed this side, her expression full of anxiety!
"Jia..."
Before she could finish, Wu Zang pressed a hand on Mountain Cat's shoulder and shook his head!
"Don't worry about him. Jiangnan could easily shatter the Void Illusion Mirror, but he didn't. That means everything is still under his control!"
"Some things have been buried in his heart for too long. He'll have to face them one day. Digging them out is a good thing! This hurdle with himself, Jiangnan will have to cross it sooner or later. And he can only cross it himself!"
Wu Zang understood clearly that these were all things Jiangnan subconsciously avoided, things he didn't want to face!
Like thorns piercing deep into his heart, like time bombs—the later they were left, the more dangerous they became!
Only by crossing this threshold could he strengthen his will to keep moving forward!
Jiangnan was using this opportunity to hone his blade through Innocent, to grow!
Mountain Cat clenched her teeth. Xiao Nan was always smiling and cheerful on the surface, but some things still couldn't be let go?
Whether it was the amnesia from the Black Hole Devouring Star or Xue Li's matter!
This was Jiangnan's self-interrogation. He wasn't facing those mirror bodies—he had always been facing himself...
Innocent accelerated his attack frequency, eyes bloodshot, Instant Slash and Higher-Dimensional Slash attacking together!
But he still couldn't break through Jiangnan's combat system, always falling just short!
Yet Innocent could feel that Jiangnan's counterattacks had lost some of their spirit!
The Mind-Reflecting Mirror was effective—just a little more!
Give me more!
In the Void Illusion Mirror, Li Mingshan stepped out in his Tang suit, his hair white!
He quietly looked at Jiangnan. Just that gaze alone was enough to break Jiangnan!
Li Mingshan's expression was calm, his voice flat: "Did my death... serve its purpose well? I entrusted you with all my hopes, dreams, the things I dared not do, could not do—everything!"
"Have you carried them out well?"
Jiangnan lowered his eyes, smiling bitterly: "Maybe... I have..."
Li Mingshan's expression gradually turned cold: "Is that so? Then why is the Holy Star still around... The things I told you, you only understand now..."
"As the Era Lord of humanity, are you truly qualified? Have you properly shouldered this banner? Are you truly worthy of your predecessors?"
Jiangnan fell silent, and in that momentary distraction, Innocent seized the opportunity. An extremely fine Higher-Dimensional Slash appeared in the gap of the gravitational armor within the two-dimensional armor!
In an instant, one of Jiangnan's arms was severed. His body retreated sharply, looking somewhat disheveled!
In a battle of this level, even a momentary distraction could be fatal!
But Jiangnan still couldn't help questioning himself!
Am I truly qualified? Have I led humanity well? Could someone have done better than me?
Innocent was filled with excitement. This strike gave him confidence!
He finally wounded him! He could do it!
In the Void Illusion Mirror, Chen Daoyi stepped out in his blue robes!
He looked around at everything in the starry sky, his expression full of regret!
"Ahhh~ I really want to see the scenery in the stars. We've been working so hard for this, but I didn't live to see the day of victory..."
"If you had come back a little earlier, maybe I wouldn't have died. Such a pity... truly such a pity..."
Figures stepped out one by one from the Void Illusion Mirror—Guan Tai, and those who had died in the World Purification Plan, the people of Jiangcheng!
More and more people. They just stood there quietly, looking at Jiangnan, silently voicing their reluctance...
Jiangnan finally closed his eyes and fell silent...
And then, two blurry figures appeared in front of everyone!
They could barely be made out as a man and a woman!
But they were too blurry—so blurry that no discernible features could be recognized at all. The woman was holding a cardboard box, and inside it was a little Xiao Nan, red from the wind and snow!
The woman's figure spoke, her voice's timbre also lacking any distinct features!
"Are you really no longer curious about who we are? Do you really not care why we abandoned you, left you at the orphanage door to die?"
Jiangnan bit his lower lip, his eyes reddening...
The man spoke: "You actually hate us, don't you? Hate us for abandoning you, hate us for not giving you the fatherly and motherly love that every child has, hate us for not giving you a complete family!"
"Making you lonely and isolated since childhood, bullied, crying only under the bed, secretly wiping away tears, with no one to comfort you or soothe you..."
"The reason you don't want to look isn't because you don't care anymore, but because you don't know how to face it. You don't want to know, you don't want to make this hatred more concrete..."
"You've never been able to reconcile with yourself..."
Jiangnan opened his eyes, looking at the two blurry figures. His eyes were misty, his nose stinging!
And then, a little Xiao Nan appeared, about six or seven years old. He wore dirty clothes, with snot running from his nose. His nose and body were covered with band-aids.
Tucked in his waistband was a particularly straight stick, used as a weapon. When you're young, no boy can resist a perfectly straight stick!
Little Xiao Nan wiped his nose, tilted his head, and looked at Jiangnan!
"Hey! Have you become that super awesome adult? The kind that can solve any difficult problem with a snap?"
Jiangnan looked at the snotty little Xiao Nan and suddenly laughed, shaking his head!
"Not yet..."
Little Xiao Nan glared angrily: "Then you're pretty useless, you know? Why not?"
"Because there's always something difficult in front of me. After solving one, there's another... endless..."
"When will you become that kind of awesome adult?"
Jiangnan took a deep breath: "I will... on the day I stand at the peak of the starry sky!"
Little Xiao Nan sniffed: "Don't make me wait too long, okay? Or I'll hit your head with my Divine Dragon Sword and it'll hurt like crazy!"
Jiangnan smiled: "If you can hit me..."
Little Xiao Nan puffed out his cheeks, pulled out his Divine Dragon Sword, and waved it at Jiangnan, looking fierce and adorable!
After making a face, he turned around, laughed, and ran off, then disappeared...
Innocent: ???
What does this mean? These were the inner demons created by the mirror bodies? How could they just run off? Disappear?
And the couple holding the cardboard box also waved goodbye to Jiangnan...
"Come visit us sometime if you get the chance. Don't run away anymore..."
Jiangnan nodded: "I will..."
The dead people, Guan Tai, also waved goodbye to Jiangnan and disappeared...
Chen Daoyi smiled: "I won't get to see it... so see it for me. Remember to come visit me under the tree sometime. The dumplings were pretty good. Next time, bring celery and pork filling..."
Then he disappeared too...
Li Mingshan's face also showed a gentle smile: "Go do what you need to do. Just remember, every choice you made was always the best choice..."
"Whether you're a qualified Era Lord or not isn't for you to judge, but for billions of human compatriots. Win beautifully—they are all watching you..."
"But you really are stupid! It took you this long to learn what I taught you! Useless! I'm off, I'm off..."
Jiangnan smiled bitterly!
Xue Li looked at Jiangnan, a smile spreading across her face: "Remember to never forget me, okay? I did hatch an egg for you..."
Jiangnan smiled and nodded: "I won't forget. Never..."
Xue Li, Mountain Cat, and Lan also disappeared!
Finally! Before the Void Illusion Mirror, not a single figure remained...
No matter how much Innocent drove the Mind-Reflecting Mirror, he couldn't reflect anything from Jiangnan's heart!
Innocent gritted his teeth: "How is this possible? Those inner demon mirror bodies... all gone?"
Disappeared?
Jiangnan raised his head to look at Innocent, his tone calm: "How can life be without regrets? Holding your head high and striding forward—that is the greatest tribute to regret!"
"One day! I will stand at the peak of the starry sky! Become the kind of awesome adult I dreamed of becoming when I was a child!"
"To do that! I must cut down every obstacle in my way, no matter what stands before me! I will shatter it!"
"And what I must do now! Is cut you down!"