Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 1020: Sand in the Heart, the Dharma Ceremony of Meditative Chan

Qian Rongzhi opened her mouth, but she seemed to have lost her voice, emitting a hollow, meaningless sound that resembled a snake’s hiss slightly. An extremely tiny sense of pain pierced her heart, but it was even more unbearable than when she was entwined in snakes. Almost unable to bear with it, she tried to curl up.

Xiao An sighed gently and draped a piece of clothing over her.

“You’ve changed.”

Qian Rongzhi’s eyes flickered with a hint of surprise. In her memory, she always gazed at everything with a pair of clear, empty eyes. There was no like or dislike, no sorrow or joy, so she would never do something like that. Suddenly, a sense of fury overcame her. The two words seemed to be a query too.

“Then what exactly is our original selves?” Xiao An countered with a question.

“Thank you for visiting me. I’ve already seen you. You can go and return to Li Qingshan’s side.” Qian Rongzhi lowered her head. She felt a sense of disappointment that even she was unable to describe properly.

Wind blew across the lone island, making the grass and trees rustle.

Clang!

Xiao An drew the Affliction Severing blade and raised it high in the air. “You’ve once guided me, so let me guide you too!”

Qian Rongzhi suddenly raised her head. The hell snakes on her let out a hiss of caution together. She suddenly smiled and shut her eyes. “Sure!”

The blade moved like lightning, brilliant and pure, vanishing in a single flash.

A long time later, Qian Rongzhi opened her eyes slowly and discovered that she was still alive. Her body was completely unscathed, but the blade had left a mark in her heart, having severed and ripped away something.

The memories she had abandoned long ago filled her head once more. As a result, she understood just what was still causing her pain.

Even when she had already twisted, crushed, and annihilated these matters of the past, certain things only became more refined and condensed, like glistening grains of sand.

Since she chose to associate with snakes, then she should become a snake. Only then would this hell bec

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