Lin Fan suddenly deeply knitted his brows as he began going through the various memories in his mind.
Everything that he seemed to have treated as natural now seemed foreign and strange for him.
There were many things that didn't match his memories and there were many other things that just didn't make sense.
When Lin Fan turned back to look at the people that he thought he knew that were now standing in this store, he felt that he didn't know any single one of them.
Lin Fan turned back to look at the portal in front of him and felt that there was something important on the other side. It was calling to him, as if it could give him the answers.
But he also felt that he couldn't just leave without saying a thing, so he turned back to the people he thought he knew and said, "I'm leaving, I'm going back to the place that I belong."
Everyone immediately started pleading with him, asking him not to leave.
Song Shu came forward with tears in her eyes as she took Lin Fan's arm and said, "Big brother Lin, why are you leaving? Are you not happy being here with us?"
Angela came forward with a hurt look as she said, "Is there something wrong with us? Did I do something wrong?"
There were all kinds of pleading and questions asking him if they had done something wrong, but Lin Fan didn't seem to feel anything from them. As he watched them, he almost felt that this didn't seem real.
But to say that it didn't affect him at all would be considered a lie.
When he saw the way Angela looked at him, Lin Fan couldn't help feeling a tinge in his heart.
But in the end, he still decided to go through since this didn't seem right. In his heart, he felt like going through would give him the answer that he wanted.
At the same time, it would finally end the battle inside his mind that kept fighting over whether he should return to earth or not.
So he cast aside all of them and moved over to the portal. Turning one last time as he said, "Goodbye."
As soon as his voice fell, he walked right into the portal, disappearing from the pet shop that he had just spent five years with.
When he walked through, there was a sense of losing his balance as it seemed like he stepped on nothing, falling into the great beyond. At the same time, he really wasn't falling since he seemed to be floating in space.
What appeared in front of him was a space that was completely white and the only thing there was a figure that was standing there waiting for him.
That figure's appearance was completely blurred out to him, he couldn't see what this figure looked like at all, but even then, he felt that it looked familiar.
It was like looking at something that he had seen his entire life, something that he almost couldn't know any better.
When the figure saw him appear, it seemed to reveal a smile as it said, "You're finally here, that took long enough. Five years, you really did take your time, didn't you?"
Lin Fan knitted his brows when he heard this, even the voice was familiar to him.
Lin Fan cautiously looked at the figure before asking, "Who are you?"
The figure just stood there and asked back, "Who do you think I am?"
Lin Fan knitted his brows even deeper as he asked, "Do you think that this is a game?"
The figure just shook their head and said, "There's no meaning if you don't figure it out. This is something you have to do or else it won't work."
"Work? What do you mean by work?" Lin Fan asked in a confused voice.
"Search your memory and you will know."
Lin Fan began searching through his memories and he still found no trace of this figure, but he did find something else. That was that his memories didn't match up to the reality that he had just lived.
After coming through this portal, there were many things that were completely different with the memories that he had once had. All the people that were in his memories were completely different from the world that he had just come from.
As he continued to think, he suddenly remembered more and more about this world in his memories. These memories continued to play until it reached the final scene of him meeting the reinforcements from the upper realm, when he had been put into this world of illusions.
It was at that moment that he realized where he was, but there was still one thing that confused him.
Just who was this person that was in front of him?
Lin Fan narrowed his eyes as he looked at the person in front of him.
He was familiar even though he was completely covered up.
If he had to match this person with someone, he would have matched him with himself.
But at the same time, it felt like this person was completely different, like he was the complete opposite of him at the same time.
It took him a while, but Lin Fan suddenly realized who this person was.
It was no one else, it was him, but also not him.
The moment he realized this, what was blocking the appearance of the figure in front of him disappeared and what appeared in front of him was another version of him. However, unlike the current him, this one had a faint smile on his face that made him look very friendly, like he couldn't hurt a single butterfly.
Lin Fan looked at this "other" him and said, "But you disappeared from this world. How are you still here?"
The other Lin Fan said, "While it's true that I was on the verge of disappearing when you came into this world, there was a portion of my soul that was preserved when you came. This caused a fusion between our souls when you arrived, which created the current us."
Lin Fan knitted his brows for a bit before saying, "Then which one of us is the real one?"
The other Lin Fan said with a smile, "Is there a need for a real one? We're just us, aren't we?"
Lin Fan was taken aback when he heard this, but then he said with a smile as well, "That's right, we're just us."
The moment he said this, it felt like all the shackles in his heart had disappeared and he finally could see through everything that had been in his heart.
This entire time, it was just like in the illusion world. He had thought of himself as an outsider in this world and while he did slowly make a life in this world, he knew that one day that he would have to go back to earth.
That was what had held his heart back and didn't allow him to make his breakthrough. In the end, he knew that he would leave all of this, but he really wasn't willing since he had become attached.
But the words that this other Lin Fan had just said had cleared up all his thoughts.
That was right, there was no Lin Fan from earth and Lin Fan of the Blue Star Planet, there was just Lin Fan now. He was him, so what was the reason he had to return to earth?
For the current him, his life on the Blue Star Planet was just as much his as his life on earth. For the current him, he was also a resident of this world.
If he were to become strong enough to travel back to earth, that would also mean that he would be strong enough to travel back to this cultivation world.
Since that was the case, why would he stay on earth then?
He would go back to earth to finish off his unfinished business, but staying there? That wasn't in his future.
For now, his future laid on this world with the new family and friends that he had found. He was no longer the same person from before who rampaged all over from a lack of attention.
Lin Fan looked at the other Lin Fan and asked, "So now the important question is, are you the good one or the bad one?"
The other Lin Fan just smiled and said, "Isn't it clear?"
Both Lin Fans broke out in laughter without saying a single thing.
Then the other Lin Fan said, "But that doesn't matter now doesn't it?"
Lin Fan nodded and reached his hand out as he said, "Then shall we do this together?"
The other Lin Fan nodded as well and took his hand as he said, "Together."
Then with a flash of light, they disappeared from this world.
The other Lin Fan was a fragment of the soul from the original Lin Fan, which had created the friction in Lin Fan's soul. One of them had been good and one of them had been evil, it wasn't hard to tell which was which.
But both had their own faults in their actions.
Neither pure good nor evil could exist by itself in this world, they needed each other to create a balance which was exactly what had happened in Lin Fan's soul now.
It was all very simple, there weren't two Lin Fans, there was only one Lin Fan.
I am me and me am I, there was only one.