# Chapter 1308: The Answer
Jiang Ruoxue and Lin Qin placed their arms on Yan Zhichun's shoulders, pouring all of their "Cause and Effect" and "Inspiration" into her body.
The expressions of all three were complicated, but at this moment, nothing was more important than survival.
Just as the Celestial Hound had said, the "Sun" beneath their feet had already begun to emit a faint light. Once the "Moment of Finality" arrived, everyone would die from the Celestial Dragon's "Dissolution."
Yan Zhichun looked at the eyeball on the table with a heavy expression, then asked softly, "Celestial Hound... has there ever been a time in the 'Heavenly-Class Moments' that was dominated by 'Soul-Seizing'?"
The Celestial Hound paused. "No."
"Not ever?" Yan Zhichun asked again.
"Right." The Celestial Hound nodded. "Human rationality is a very peculiar thing. Even if people's rationality is taken away, their outward states are never completely uniform—just like those diverse 'Original Inhabitants.'"
Yan Zhichun had indeed seen all kinds of "Original Inhabitants." Some wandered like mindless zombies, others could barely hold a conversation, and still others repeated certain actions until they died.
The Celestial Hound sighed and continued, "Rationality itself is a difficult variable to control. Moreover, losing rationality doesn't just turn someone into an 'Original Inhabitant'—it might also strengthen the opponent's 'Immortal Arts.' Neither the Azure Dragon nor the Celestial Dragon would ever take that risk."
"Then..." Yan Zhichun felt she could no longer continue asking. The more questions she posed about this bizarre plan, the more flaws seemed to emerge. "A course of action that has never been implemented... yet Qixia calls it the most important plan... Am I really the only one... who thinks this is strange?"
The Celestial Hound gritted his teeth and said, "I told you... I just want to live. The struggles at the highest level are beyond the consideration of a small fry like me. I only know that if he tells me to do it, I get to live."
"Small fry..." Earthly Hound, standing nearby, let out a bitter laugh upon hearing this. "As a 'Heavenly-Class' that every 'Zodiac' here aspires to become... you call yourself a small fry?"
"Isn't that what I am..." The Celestial Hound turned to look at him. "This is 'Peach Blossom Spring'... 'Mortal-Class' are ordinary people wearing masks, 'Earthly-Class' are ordinary people with modified bodies, and 'Heavenly-Class' are ordinary people with eyeballs installed. What difference is there between us?"
The Celestial Hound's expression gradually revealed dejection. He seemed crazier than anyone else, yet also seemed to understand things more thoroughly than anyone else.
The Celestial Hound shook his head. "Even though I'm called 'Heavenly-Class,' even if my body were filled with deadly weapons, I know who to provoke and who not to provoke. After all, they have a hundred ways to make me die."
Yan Zhichun felt that the situation the Celestial Hound described was no different from her own.
Through so many years of trials, she had always felt she had grown, had become stronger. But in this final moment, it all vanished like an illusion.
She seemed to have neither grown nor become stronger. She had merely walked the path set by others to its end.
Now, she just wanted to escape this life that could be manipulated by others. Nothing else was within her scope of consideration.
What "for the sake of the 'Extreme Path'..." What "for the sake of 'friendship'..."
When she couldn't be certain what was real, she just wanted to be for herself.
As long as she could release the "Moment of Madness" that the Celestial Hound spoke of to end this battle, there would only be two remaining outcomes: either she would vanish into thin air, or she would completely escape this false realm.
Either way, it would be enough to put an end to this absurd life.
Thinking this, Yan Zhichun reached out and touched the eyeball in the center of the table. Guided by the Celestial Hound, her thoughts surged, and she poured her "Soul-Seizing" into the "Energy Storage."
The next second, she felt a cold sensation from her fingers, as if she were firmly stuck to the eyeball and couldn't pull back.
The slightly trembling eyeball was like a greedy little mouth, sucking something out of her.
Yan Zhichun had never felt anything like this before. She only knew that what was being drained from her was neither blood nor flesh, but rather something invisible... like "belief."
Lin Qin and Jiang Ruoxue, who had their hands on her shoulders, also didn't look well. A large amount of "belief" mixed with "rationality" began to flow through their arms into Yan Zhichun's body, then disappeared from her.
A strange light began to glow across the entire workbench, and even the sun beneath their feet started to tremble slightly, like a giant pupil contracting.
Everyone struggled to keep their balance. Zheng Yingxiong steadied himself and wanted to pull the others away, but Earthly Hound stopped him.
"Good... excellent..." The Celestial Hound said joyfully. "The 'Moment of Madness' is here... I'll live... I'll live..."
He didn't care at all about the fate of Yan Zhichun and the others. Staggering forward, he began to touch the other eyeballs. "This time, I'll use hair, right? Hair infused with 'Soul-Seizing'... This time, there's no need for 'Piercing'... Just a touch will do... Ah, right... I also need 'Concealment'... so they won't discover the existence of the hair..."
He frantically released all the abilities he could think of from the various eyeballs on the tabletop. The central "Energy Storage" eyeball gradually turned crimson.
Since the "Door" was not closed, the space of the "Sun" was connected to the "Train Car." A massive surge of air began to spread into the carriage, making everyone feel the strange vibrations beneath their feet.
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Qixia carefully sensed the tremor under his feet, then raised his head to look at the old man before him. His expression finally softened slightly.
"Even if a living 'variable' stands before me... it doesn't matter..." Qixia muttered to himself. "What was meant to happen has already happened..."
"Young man, what are you talking about?" A hint of unease flashed across the old man's face, because his subconscious always associated the young man before him with death.
Qixia didn't answer. Instead, he stared at the other and asked, "Why did you come looking for me?"
The old man slowly dropped the strand of hair in his hand to the ground and said, "Ah... I can never change my bad habit... Ever since I learned that I could seek 'Truth'... I've always wanted to get to the bottom of things."
Qixia knew that if he wanted to truly calm his mind, he had to find a way to actively eliminate this variable before him.
This old man could neither die here nor live here.
He could only disappear here.
"Fine." Qixia nodded. "Why don't you just ask me directly? What do you want to know?"
"Young man..." The old man stepped inside, his face filled with hesitation. "I've sought 'Truth' twice, and both times I've encountered you... Yet the two 'Truths' I sought are completely different... How can they both point to the same answer?"
"What did you seek?"
"I once asked where we came from, and I once asked where we are going." The old man said. "Young man... the answer told me that you were once our origin, and you will be our destination."
Qixia paused slightly upon hearing this, then lowered his head in silence.
"Variables" were few, but they were fatal.
A "Resonance" that could seek "Answers" had been obtained by someone with an exceptionally strong curiosity.
Before he could tear the hole any wider, it needed to be stopped immediately.
This kind of "variable" wasn't even worthy of dreaming.