Wang Mu looked at the woman before him.

She had a beautiful oval face, arched eyebrows, and bright teeth. Her enchanting smile and clear, almond-shaped eyes radiated warmth and intellect. This, coupled with her gentle smile that felt like a spring breeze, made her easily approachable and likable—captivating, without seizing one's soul.

If one didn't know better, they would assume the woman before them was a gentle, stunningly beautiful, pure, and adorable girl-next-door...

"..." Wang Mu.

Unfortunately, she was black-bellied.

Wang Mu could feel what lay beneath that gentle smile...

Meeting again after a thousand years, what kind of emotions could this Mo Xilan harbor?

In a daze, Wang Mu recalled the plot involving her.

Speaking of Mo Xilan, there was actually a significant amount of plot involving her in the game.

Just the storyline of testing Elixirs for her and boosting her Attributes took up a long stretch of plot.

Of course, the most important storyline was that of Immortal Sorrow.

Within Immortal Sorrow, there was a particular storyline, "The Heartless One's Tear," which was the most crucial part of the Immortal Sorrow plotline.

This storyline spanned several years.

This storyline was actually quite interesting.

It was a major subplot in the mid-to-late game and also the final major subplot involving Mo Xilan.

It began when the protagonist and Mo Xilan arrived in a northern city. While exploring an ancient tomb's crypts, they were accidentally trapped. The Ancient Tomb was filled with miasma and sealed from the outside, and they could find no Mechanisms inside, leaving them stranded.

At that time, Mo Xilan's Constitution was already rather weak, and her Martial Arts skills were not high. Compounded by the poor air circulation in the Ancient Tomb, she frequently fainted after inhaling the stagnant air.

Even after taking some detoxifying Elixirs, the effects wouldn't last long.

Upon reaching the deepest part of the Ancient Tomb, they would find a Sheepskin Scroll among some withered bones. The Sheepskin Scroll explained how to open the Ancient Tomb. However, opening it required learning an extremely yin and cold Martial Art. Once this Martial Art was learned, the protagonist's temperament would change; he would temporarily lose his emotions and become a heartless person.

Mo Xilan, however, would be unaware of this.

At this point, a choice would appear: whether or not to learn this Martial Art.

Theoretically, they could still find a way out later even without learning it, but Mo Xilan would die if they didn't escape in time.

Mo Xilan had already fallen unconscious by then; any further delay would undoubtedly be fatal for her.

Thus, the only choice was to learn it.

However, once he learned it and became heartless, his affection levels with other female leads would enter a locked state.

This meant it would be impossible to increase affection with other female leads thereafter.

For achieving the Love Saint ending, this was a disastrous blow, yet it was an unavoidable path.

After learning it, the protagonist would unlock the Ancient Tomb's Mechanisms and bring Mo Xilan out. Due to the Cultivation Technique, his relationship with Mo Xilan would end there. He would send Mo Xilan back to Medicine King Valley to recover and then leave alone. During this period, he couldn't invite other female leads to join his party or pursue their subplots.

He had to advance the main storyline alone.

Meanwhile, Mo Xilan, having fully recovered, would seek out the protagonist.

However, she wouldn't know what had happened to the protagonist in the Ancient Tomb, so she would still smile brightly, wanting to travel with him.

Then, another choice would present itself: accept or reject her company.

If he accepted, due to the Cultivation Technique, the protagonist's Inner Breath would flow in reverse, his strength would plummet, and he would surely lose the final battle.

If he rejected her, there were two ways to do so. One was to reveal the truth.

The outcome would be Mo Xilan and the protagonist staying together, with Mo Xilan following him until the very end. However, in this ending, due to the Cultivation Technique, the protagonist could not pursue other female leads. The Immortal Sorrow subplot would also vanish. Mo Xilan could not be saved and would eventually die after the grand finale.

So, the rejection had to be one where the truth wasn't revealed.

The other type of rejection was a direct refusal, which would trigger a different major ending later on.

Because the truth wasn't revealed, Mo Xilan wouldn't follow the protagonist. He would then achieve the final ending alone, which also served as the gateway to another game ending: the Lone Wolf ending.

To achieve the Love Saint ending, however, a different choice was required at this juncture:

Teach this Cultivation Technique to Mo Xilan.

That was it.

After imparting it to Mo Xilan, her various Attributes and her Constitution would significantly increase, making her much stronger.

This was one of the few opportunities for Mo Xilan to become stronger...

Initially, as Mo Xilan's Constitution strengthened through Cultivation of the Technique, her affection for the protagonist would increase.

Once she successfully completed her Cultivation of the Technique, she would temporarily lose her emotions. Upon learning the truth of the matter, her affection for the protagonist would instantly turn negative, shifting from adoration to hatred.

Yet, due to this emotional void, she couldn't truly hate him; she would merely make a mental note of the protagonist's actions.

This state of affairs would continue until the protagonist later completed the subplot of another Sect, one that could only be triggered if he undertook it alone.

Upon triggering it, he would encounter another practitioner of this same Cultivation Technique, who was also one of the foremost experts of the era: the Heartless Swordsman, Liu Yibai.

This Liu Yibai had also been a great romantic in his youth. However, after cultivating this Cultivation Technique, he lost his emotions and became a merciless killing machine. But after decades of research, he discovered a way to overcome this Cultivation Technique.

After the protagonist completed this subplot alone, Liu Yibai would tell him how to overcome it:

The method was simple: if a man and a woman, who had both cultivated this Cultivation Technique, could genuinely develop feelings for each other once more.

Then, their shared Cultivation Technique would shift from yin to yang. If they then cultivated it in reverse together, it would transform into a supreme Secret Skill embodying both ultimate yin and ultimate yang. This was also one of the game's most powerful Inner Strengths: the Seven Emotions Divine Skill.

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