Spare Me, Great Lord!

While the empty dream continued, someone was watching everything that happened in the dream.

“Do you have the dark map with you?” The mysterious young man, Miao Miao, asked Lu Xiaoyu in the void.

“Why should I tell you?” Lu Xiaoyu calmly asked. She was surrounded by clouds. Cheng Qiuqiao had disappeared, but she was stuck in the void, unable to move.

“If you tell me a secret, I will tell you a secret,” said Miao Miao.

“You go first. Who are you?” Lu Xiaoyu stared at Miao Miao.

“My nickname is Miao Miao, the ‘miao’ in ‘huomiao’[1]. I was once the flame in his heart. I am also the creature in the sixth level of nebula. My real name is Filth Removal!” Miao Miao exclaimed. No, more accurately, he was Filth Removal.

Lu Xiaoyu was dumbfounded. She knew that there was a white flame in Lu Shu’s heart that was typically silent. She did not expect this mysterious young man to be the real form of that white flame.

Filth Removal laughed. “A long time ago, I received orders to come here and wait for today. I control the punishment. I can inflict the punishment or stop it. He is now going through the punishment. I am helping him to eliminate the filth in his heart.”

Lu Xiaoyu could not understand. “Is this a punishment that he has prepared for himself?”

“Yes,” said Filth Removal. “He has never experienced a normal life. He has always been a resolute person. But he is now in a difficult position because of one decision. He is indignant.”

Filth Removal did not mention what this decision was.

Lu Xiaoyu remained silent for a very long time. “I have the dark map.”

“Do you remember your previous life?” Filth Removal asked.

“Even if I can, so what? This is my current life.” Lu Xiaoyu said in a resolute tone, “Lu Xiaoyu is Lu Xiaoyu. I am not anyone else!”

“Then what if he remembers,” said Filth Removal.

“Then that is up to him,” said Lu Xiaoyu.

“Then do you know the karma of the dark map?” Filth Removal asked calmly.

“Karma?” Lu Xiaoyu was puzzled.

Filth Removal sighed. “You sacrificed everything to accompany him, but you don’t know about the seven levels. The seventh level of nebula can only be opened by the owner of the dark map. Then, the dark map will eventually die out.”

Lu Xiaoyu was dumbfounded. This seemed like her first time hearing about this.

Filth Removal quietly stood in the void and waited. He wanted to know how Lu Xiaoyu would reply.

But at that moment, Lu Xiaoyu said in a low voice, “I just want to accompany him. I have never thought about what all of you have predicted. But even then, I simply want to accompany him and not think about these things. This way, I’ll be able to accompany him forever, right? I’ll exist in his celestial map.”

“What did you say?” Filth Removal looked at Xiaoyu in shock. He had never expected to receive this kind of reply.

Filth Removal was silent for a very long time. Then, he walked into Lu Shu’s punishment.

“Who are you?” The old Lu Shu asked on his sickbed.

“Is that important?” Filth Removal asked.

“That’s right.” Lu Shu was rejected. “It’s not important. I am going to die. What else is important?”

At this moment, Lu Shu felt that the sunlight shining on his palm no longer felt warm.

The 90 years of his life started to flash in front of his eyes, just like what his good friend had said. They helped him remember his life.

But a sentence remained in his mind. Do you understand your intentions now?

Lu Shu recalled the summer day when he was 18 years old. A girl shyly asked him out.

Lu Shu recalled when he stood helplessly in the rain at 21 years old.

Lu Shu recalled how his best friend told him that in the end, most people did not end up with the person they loved the most. “It must be you” turned into “you will do”.

Lu Shu recalled how he was only waiting for one person, but was diagnosed with paranoia.

In the end, he had reached this point, but the person he was waiting for had not appeared.

He recalled how his good friend asked him, “What if the person never comes?”

No matter what Lu Shu did, he could not remember his answer. He grabbed his head and tried to recall. What in the world was his answer?!

Right. Back then, he said that he would wait for another lifetime.

But he had waited for one lifetime!

Lu Shu stood at a traffic junction. He saw the people around him walking. Their bodies were dark. The entire world was dark.

Life was painful, so painful that people forgot how painful it was.

Thus, many people compromised with life and the world… but Lu Shu did not.

It was precisely because this world was very painful, that he wanted to find his last ray of hope. If no one else would date him, he would be the only ray of light.

Many people compromised with the world. When they turned old, they assumed that it was a sad story. But it was not a sad story. It was cowardice.

Lu Shu wanted a different story. There was still light in his story. No matter whether he was 15 years old, 18 years old, or 90 years old, the person in his story told himself resolutely that he would not complain or regret!

Filth Removal sighed. “Your life is about to end. Are you not willing to let go?”

Lu Shu’s voice sounded. “If one lifetime is not enough, I will wait another lifetime. If the next lifetime is not enough, I will wait for generations!”

At this moment, Lu Shu seemed to have seen the a sword hidden in the celestial map. Something is written on the sword. “I don’t want anything else. I only want you.”

Filth Removal thought about it for a very long time. “Have you thought about your eventual fate? What if you eventually become enemies?”

“Why would we become enemies?”

“The dark map exists to complete the celestial map. If she is able to open the seventh level of nebula, it will allow you to free yourself from the realm and fight against eternity.”

“Bullshit! Then I will never open the seventh level!” Lu Shu was upset. The clouds outside Bulao City started to surge wildly!

Filth Removal looked at Lu Shu, dumbfounded. One was willing to give herself up, while the other was willing to never open the seventh level of nebula?

Lu Shu slowly got up and sat on his bed. His white hair slowly turned black. His appearance grew younger as well. He stared at the mysterious young man and pulled off his oxygen mask. “I will choose my own destiny. Let me ask you one thing. Where is my Xiaoyu? Where did you kidnap her!”

The entire world started to burn with white flames. The sickbed he was lying on, his oxygen mask, the curtains in his room, and everything else around him started to burn.

Lu Shu burned everything into a crisp. He retrieved Seizing Thief from the void, but the red flames on Seizing Thief had turned white as well. It had turned to the original color of the stars.

Suddenly, Filth Removal started to panic.

At that moment in the void, Lu Xiaoyu softly said, “Why do I feel he is not just waiting for one person? He has never opened the seventh level.”

[1] ‘huomiao’ means flame in Chinese