At the age of thirteen, Qiantu died in the final selection. Due to his excessive obsession, his soul was trapped in the Samagiri Mountain, waiting for the return of the righteous hero. Yiyong, on the other hand, blames himself for guilt and has not returned to the mountain for eight years. He can only "feel" Qiotu's existence through crazy swings of his sword. He didn't know that those "hallucinations" were real and that Qiang Tu was really there.
At the age of fifteen, Yiyong became a pillar of water, standing at the foot of the mountain but not going up the mountain. That was the closest and furthest time the Soul Qiu Rabbit had ever been to him. After that, the "sense" disappeared, and when Yiyong collapsed, he accidentally triggered a retrospective, returning to the day before the final selection. He began a rescue that lasted for six years: a thousand retracements, a thousand failures, each time consuming his life, each time not knowing that Qiang Tu actually remembered everything, because Qiang Tu signed a contract with a certain existence: Only when Yiyong "stops trying to change his death" can he return as a ghost.
At the age of twenty-one, looking back for the thousandth time, Yiyong finally learned to "accompany" rather than "rescue". After that day, Qiang Tu returned to reality as a ghost and drank the blood of Yiyong every day to survive. The two formed a "double water column" and fought side by side in the decisive battle of Infinite City. At the last moment, Qiang Tu's "blood of righteousness" accumulated in his body for a year changed him back to a human being, at the cost of almost losing his life.
But he didn't die.
After the war, the two returned to Samagiri Mountain and lived in the same cabin. From then on, every morning, Yiyong would ask "Are you there?" And Qiantu would answer "Yes". You can ask for a lifetime.
Intention: Two-way waiting will eventually span life and death.