# 939
Chapter 940: This Is What a Real Man Should Do
The sky outside the window darkened bit by bit, dark clouds covering the heavens. The snow-white curtains danced with the howling wind, the pendants at the curtain's edge striking against the wall, making clicking sounds that irritated莫名.
Lin Qiye sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes fixed on the sleeping Jialan, his right hand gently holding her palm. Whether from grief or something else, a faint red hue tinged his eyes.
Sadness, pain, resentment, and anger churned within him. Unconsciously, he had been sitting there for two hours.
Click—!
The door swung open, and Jinian walked in from outside. Her gaze swept across Lin Qiye's reddened eyes, her pupils contracting slightly.
Her brow furrowed immediately.
After a moment of silence, she spoke slowly, "What are you doing here?"
"Watching over her." Lin Qiye's gaze never left Jialan, his voice calm.
"She has 【Immortality】 protecting her. She doesn't need you standing guard."
"【Immortality】 isn't absolute."
"But there are no enemies here, and no one can break her 【Immortality】. She's safe."
Lin Qiye didn't answer, just sat there quietly.
Seeing this, Jinian laughed coldly, "You're not here to protect her. You're wallowing in guilt. You're punishing yourself this way."
"So what if I am?" Lin Qiye retorted, then continued, "I let her down..."
"You let her down, so what? Are you going to just sit here doing nothing, guarding her until the end of time? Do you think you're some tragic romance protagonist?"
Jinian narrowed her eyes and strode over to Lin Qiye, grabbing his collar and yanking him up from the bed!
Those reddened eyes of Lin Qiye, carrying a hint of fury, looked at the Jinian before him.
"Lin Qiye! Get a grip!" A powerful aura exploded from Jinian, the wind instantly sweeping through the room. She gripped his collar and roared, "Do you really think sitting here like an idiot, constantly condemning yourself, will make her wake up?
Are you waiting for a miracle to fall from the sky? Or begging for fate's forgiveness? Don't tell me you're praying to some god, hoping she'll open her eyes the next second, then burst into tears and embrace you?
You've been in this world for so long—don't you understand that humans can overcome heaven?"
Hearing this, Lin Qiye froze in place. That reddened gaze flickered with confusion.
"I..."
"She's only sleeping, not dead!" Jinian's voice rose again. "You're the chosen one bearing the fate of the Asylum of the Gods, destined to stand at the pinnacle of this world! Don't tell me you can't even ascend to godhood.
Once you become a god, won't you live for a very long time? You'll meet again eventually!
Besides, are you really going to wait here like a beggar for her to wake up? Can't you proactively search for a way to wake her earlier? There are so many gods associated with time laws in this world—maybe one of them has a method to quickly reconstruct those laws?"
Hearing these words, a spark of hope appeared in Lin Qiye's eyes.
That's right... If Jialan's 【Immortality】 originated from time laws, maybe there really was a god that could accelerate the reconstruction of 【Immortality】 and wake her up sooner?
The redness in his eyes began to fade rapidly, as reason and clarity reclaimed his mind!
"Grief can make people sad, but if you only know how to be sad, if you only wallow in self-blame, then you're just a coward escaping reality!" Jinian pointed at Jialan lying on the bed, staring into Lin Qiye's eyes and saying earnestly:
"Lin Qiye, don't you like her?
If you like her, you should do something for her. Go cut off the head of that beast that killed her, find a way to wake her up, then笑着把那个畜生的头颅放在她的面前，告诉她：'亲爱的，你看，这是当年那个傻X的头，我帮你把他砍下来，你说是把它当夜壶还是当狗盆？'
这才是男人啊喂！"
Lin Qiye stood there stunned, as if struck by lightning.
After a long while, he snapped back from her words, his complex gaze resting on the flushed, indignant Jinian before him. For a moment, he couldn't find words.
"I understand..." Lin Qiye closed his eyes, gently rubbing his temples, his expression somewhat pained. "I'm sorry. I fell too deep just now, accidentally letting the Red Moon's corruption corrode my mind... My thoughts became extreme."
Seeing Lin Qiye return to normal, Jinian relaxed slightly, patting his shoulder casually:
"It's fine. As long as you're back, it's fine. A lovesick young man like you, it's normal to make some mistakes."
Lin Qiye: ...
"President, we need to go."
A knight strode in from outside the door, his expression grave as he said to Jinian, "The Red Moon's erosion of the Yata Mirror is becoming increasingly severe. We're running out of time."
Jinian's expression gradually grew solemn, the playful aura about her vanishing. She nodded slightly, saying to Lin Qiye, "The 【Evil Sword】 is almost ready. We're about to completely destroy this 'Human Enclosure.' At that time, everything here will cease to exist...
Take your wife with you and come with us. Once we leave here, I'll send you both back to Great Xia."
"Actually, I'm not quite sure why you're so determined to destroy this 'Human Enclosure.'" Lin Qiye asked. "Amemiya Haruki is already preparing to rescue everyone here. If they succeed, this 'Human Enclosure' will become an empty shell, incapable of generating faith.
Even if they fail, the Red Moon and corpse beasts will completely slaughter all life here, equally eliminating any possibility of faith generation.
Your relentless efforts to destroy the Yata Mirror seems rather pointless?"
"Pointless?" Jinian smiled mysteriously, reaching out to point at the sky above. "Don't forget, what fuels this 'Human Enclosure's' existence..."
Hearing this, Lin Qiye seemed to remember something. "The souls of the dead? Your true objective is to save those souls bound by the Yata Mirror?"
There had been so many things to deal with in the "Human Enclosure" that Lin Qiye had almost forgotten—this "Human Enclosure" could sustain such a massive population only by using billions of human souls as fuel.
Although Lin Qiye had previously slashed 【Pure Land】 with his sword, greatly reducing the power supply within this "Human Enclosure," those souls hadn't been freed. Like untouched barrels of gasoline, they remained bound within the Yata Mirror, unable to enter the cycle of reincarnation.