Chapter 151

The re-birth of a severed limb is obviously extremely painful, and Li Bu Yu was in so much pain that his whole face became twisted. Blood dripped from his broken arm, and the eerie sound of tendons and flesh tangling with each other made people shudder. He kept gasping for breath, his blue-grey lips chattered slowly, "Would you believe me if I said that I did all this because of you?"

Zong Zi Heng said fiercely, "Because, of, me?

"If you don't believe me, then ask that magical treasure of yours if this statement of mine is true or not."

"Cut the crap! Where is Zong Ming He's corpse, and why did you swap it!?"

Li Bu Yu laughed bitterly, "I did it for you, so that I could be near you, so that I could avenge you, so that you could get what you wanted ..."

"Shut up!" With a cold flash, the sword in Zong Zi Heng's hand was pressed against Li Bu Yu's throat. He was itching to cut Li Bu Yu alive, "Shameless, a pack of lies! For my sake, you destroyed my family, for my sake, you shattered my mother's soul, for my sake, you made me into a sinner who killed my father the emperor for eternity!"

"Am I the one who harmed you?" Li Bu Yu growled, "Was it me? Without me, would you have a loving father, a virtuous mother, and respectful brothers?!"

Zong Zi Heng was stunned.

"How did Zong Ming He treat you? Do you want me to help you recall? I used to visit my cousin and aunt at Wuji Palace when I was young. I watched you from one side. As the eldest prince, did anyone in the palace look up to you? Did anyone take you seriously? Even Zong Ming He, your own father, didn't he raise you for the sake of that core in your belly?!"

Zong Zi Heng staggered back a step: "You, how did you ..."

"You want to ask me how I know?" Li Bu Yu laughed hideously and morbidly, "He told me personally. That beast begged me before he died, just like he begged you not to kill him on the Eight Trigrams Platform. He begged me not to take his core. He asked me to take yours. He said you have an imperial destiny, and your core can make the best immortal core in the world called the 'Absolute Human Emperor ', hahahahaha ---- no wonder, no wonder you turned against each other and even fought against each other. If I don't kill him, will he be able to spare you when he heals?!"

Zong Zi Heng said with a shuddering voice, "You killed Zong Ming He for the sake of your Li family, for the sake of Wuliang Sect."

"That's right. That sinful beast, Zong Ming He, humiliated and fooled my aunt in every way, used and suppressed my Wuliang Sect, and my Li family was as if carrying a mountain on its shoulders for all these years. I thought everything would be fine until my cousin inherited the throne, but he was afraid of the power of Wuliang Sect, and wanted Zong Zi Xiao to succeed for fear that the state power would change hands. After what happened to both my cousin and Zong Zi Xiao, I thought he had no choice but to help you succeed, not realizing that he only wanted to dig up your core, so I had to kill him. For your sake, and for the sake of my Wuliang Sect."

"And Shen Shi Yao, was she really doing it for you? She did it so that she could strive for vindication and get back at Zong Ming He and my aunt! You used to be so gentle and modest that you had no intention for the throne at all, yet she did whatever she could to force you to go up, step by step. You were willing to carry the evil she did, was it caused by me?!"

"Shut up! Shut up!" Li Bu Yu's words gouged his heart like the death by a thousand cuts, Zong Zi Heng's eyes were bloodshot and the hand holding the sword trembled beyond recognition, "She was guilty, but sinners have the chance to redeem themselves, yet you scattered her soul."

"She deserved it." Li Bu Yu laughed sinisterly, "And also Zong Zi Xiao. He is the one who deserves to die the most. When I was young, he always gave me a supercilious look. How he humiliated me at the Jiaolong Assembly back then, and how he has humiliated you now, what I regret most is that I didn't send someone to kill him at the beginning!"

"You're so insane that you'd put him to death just for a disagreement you had as a teenager."

"Didn't he deserve to die? As a younger brother, he had lewd thoughts of his big brother, and he played with you, the dignified Human Emperor, like a prostitute. Doesn't he deserve to die?" Li Bu Yu growled, "I did lie to you, but without me, you probably would have ended up no better than you are now."

Zong Zi Heng was seized by his Qi and blood, and darkness appeared before his eyes immediately. The confrontation with Li Bu Yu had uncovered all the scars he had accumulated over the years. All the pain and despair and all the wounds that had already scabbed over were bloodily peeled away in the sunlight once again, baked by the scorching sun and battered by the wind and rain. He looked back and examined every stage of his life, shrouded in either clear or indescribable gloom, and realized that he was never expected, never loved, never had a choice, and never had freedom. His life was counted from the moment he was born. Until today, he was utterly isolated, and his family was destroyed. Whatever he did, or whatever he didn't do, will be against his wishes. He has nothing.

Li Bu Yu was right. Without Li Bu Yu, he could not have escaped from that kind of father and mother, and his and Xiao Jiu's fate was doomed to become a tragedy long ago.

He had done no evil, so why had fate treated him so harshly?

Zong Zi Heng's eyes were like two pools of stagnant water, distressed to the extreme, as if all that remained was numbness.

Li Bu Yu looked at Zong Zi Heng's ashen face, his voice already choked: "I lied to you, but I never thought of harming you. From the moment you saved me, I was willing to follow you for a lifetime, to embrace you as the Human Emperor, and to clear all obstacles for you."

Zong Zi Heng said grimly, "You are doing this for your own sake and you still try to use me to justify the evil you have done."

"It is true that I have a selfish heart, but my feelings for you are also true." Li Bu Yu said with tears in his eyes, "I have mediocre qualifications, and I have tried desperately to catch up with you, yet I am not half as good as Zong Zi Xiao. If I didn't use the human core to transform, I probably will not have the confidence to stand by your side for the rest of my life."

Zong Zi Heng was disgusted to the extreme, "You are extremely shameless."

"Yes, I am shameless. Who isn't shameless? Who doesn't have a selfish heart?" Li Bu Yu laughed twice in a low voice, "Xu Zhi Nan, do you trust Xu Zhi Nan so much that you even went up to Mount Shu with him to question me? Back then in the underground palace, he and Qi Meng Sheng clearly knew that I was there, knew that I had heard the secret of Zong Zi Xiao's birth, but which one of them told you, huh?"

Zong Zi Heng's body shook again.

"If you don't believe me, take your magical weapon and test him properly. Is he not selfish?"

Zong Zi Heng remembered that Xu Zhi Nan, at that time, had advised him more than once to fight for the crown prince's position and the throne, and he had never agreed to do so, could it be...

Li Bu Yu mocked, "Emperor, which one person around you doesn't have selfish motives? Is it not selfish that Xu Zhi Nan and Qi Meng Sheng want to prop you up to the throne? The supreme immortal core that Zong Zi Xiao has gone to great lengths to refine is in your belly, does he have this selfishness?"

Zong Zi Heng gritted his teeth and said, "You still want to stir up trouble when you're on the verge of death? Say, where exactly is Zong Ming He's corpse?"

"You still want to bury him in the ground?"

"I want to know exactly what you have done."

"What I have done?" Li Bu Yu said with hatred, "I made him suffer like hell for eternity."

"What have you done?"

Li Bu Yu smiled grimly, "If the Emperor really wants to know that much, why don't you let me go first?"

"You think I will let you go?" Zong Zi Heng shook the stick tube in his hand and the spiritual sticks clattered, "If you don't tell me, I'll ask myself."

 

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PS: some people think LBY is disgusting, but what he said is actually true too. IMO, I don't really hate him. He really has genuine feelings for SZH (he didn't eye on SZH's core but SZX did), though the things he did are evil & ruthless. He really didn't think of harming SZH intentionally, but he didn't think that what he did will hurt him. So what you guys think of him? ╮(╯3╰)╭

 

Edited on 3 May 21 (Emzie)

 

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