Chapter 233

Under the look of that emotionless gaze, Fan Wu She felt he had no place to hide himself. He gasped. The Supreme Demon who had already possessed the ability to destroy the heavens and the earth, was actually murmuring guiltily: "They ... they should be killed."

"If you dare to do it, why are you afraid of people knowing it?" Extreme humiliation tore his sense of shame into pieces. At this moment, facing those needle-like gazes made him feel like a walking corpse*. He can’t feel any pain from the hacking knives and chiseling hatchets. To gouge out his heart, or gouge out his core, he doesn’t care anymore.

Fan Wu She opened his mouth, yet did not know how to answer.

With each resonance from the throat to the chest, Xie Bi An felt his heavily damaged spiritual veins bursting in pain, so he also returned to being silent. His chest was hurting a lot, so painful that he was dizzy. He followed the tree trunk, and slowly sat down again.

Fan Wu She walked over with a few steps.

Xie Bi An lifted his hand with his palm facing out, and bluntly refused.

That sickly pale face made Fan Wu She extremely agonized. He said in a deep voice: "Big brother, your spiritual veins are damaged, but ..."

"Don't call me big brother." Xie Bi An's tone finally had a little unnoticeable rise and fall, "Don’t ever call me that again."

"... You're my big brother." Fan Wu She said firmly.

Just as everyone was frightened by this series of drastic changes and was momentarily unaware, Xu Zhi Nan had actually melted the ice coffin completely. Cheng Yan Zhi's young and fresh body was exposed in the air, surrounded by the faint firelight of the Seven Star Lamp, yet not easily extinguished by any demonic wind gusts.

"Xu Zhi Nan, don’t you dare!" Hua Xiang Rong drew her bow, but she could not cross the snowy owl's huge body for a moment.

"No one shares a long life with the Big Dipper, the seven stars wait for the moon to cross the Han river." Xu Zhi Nan muttered incantations under his breath, "Seven stars, listen to the order! Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng* ..." he recited while carrying Cheng Yan Zhi and jumped onto the snowy owl's back.

Every time Xu Zhi Nan read a star aloud, the Seven Star Lamp’s flames flourished greatly in sequence. At last, all the seven long candles were ignited with raging flames, which covered Cheng Yan Zhi's skin a soft orange. His pale skin took on a color visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, the snowy owl spread its wings and lifted off.

Fan Wu She got up to give chase, but he has been perplexed in mind for a long time. With a slight loss of concentration, that ancient beast had already fluttered its huge wings and flew out for a few miles. Nothing in this world can catch up with it yet, and Fan Wu She was too busy attending to other things at this time, and actually let Xu Zhi Nan run away like this. Hua Xiang Rong was unwilling to give up and chased after him.

The remnants of Cangyu Sect’s defeated troops that were left behind in Fengdu, as well as those cultivators who had sided with the Cangyu Sect, looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Li Bu Yu died, and the Immortal Alliance hardly ceased to exist except in name. In fact, as far back as after the battle in Chidi City, the Immortal Alliance was already doomed to die. It merely relied on a few major sects to barely hold together until today. And those who sailed with the wind and originally thought they could rely on the Cangyu Sect, something even more absurd had happened, and they were unable to protect themselves from top to bottom. Tonight, the Fengdu boundary was damaged, and a large number of fierce ghosts and evil spirits were released. As cultivators, even if they were severely injured, they still had to shoulder the burden of demon subjugation, yet the ghost king in red has taken over the underworld, not knowing what kind of disaster will be brought to earth. For a while, the immortal cultivation world does not know what path to follow.

The sky is just beginning to open. The first light of sunrise shone onto the earth. This long night, which seemed to have no end, turned out to have time to see daylight again, but the darkness has not been dispelled. It stayed in the world.

The Hungry Ghost Festival is over. The boundaries are sealed, but the wretchedness left in Fengdu, the overturned underworld, and the evil spirits that have roamed around may turn the ghost festival into the norm on earth. The people who are bathing in the rising sunlight still feel the bone-chilling cold.

The sound of footsteps approached, and Xie Bi An saw the black clothes and shoes appear in sight.

Fan Wu She returned to Xie Bi An's side again, reached out and was about to inject spiritual energy into Xie Bi An to heal his wounds.

Xie Bi An hit his hand away without hesitation.

"Your injury is important." Fan Wu She said.

Xie Bi An leaned against the tree trunk. His gaze was hollow as he looked ahead. The calmness and blankness of this moment were so similar to that moment when he welcomed his death in his previous life. Although he knew Fan Wu She would not let him die.

"Big brother." Fan Wu She almost obstinately called out again, trying to use this title to awaken some old memories, as early as they are naive and ignorant, and showing love and respect as good brothers, as early as everything has not yet moved towards the most hideous direction. Calling out "big brother" at that time only was full of trust and love.

This "big brother" has changed its flavor long ago. From that moment he returned this person's deep love and righteousness with hate.

He really doesn't deserve to call out "big brother", but what can he do? This may be the only connection between them which must be emphasized by him over and over again.

Xie Bi An no longer retorts. His consciousness is gradually blurring. Fan Wu She’s face is also blurred. Not knowing whether he can't see it clearly or doesn't want to see it clearly at all.

It’s been one hundred years. He also had countless painful and despairing nights, hoping that this person who tormented him would know the truth, and also hoping that someone would find out that he was forced to carry the blame for a crime that did not belong to him, and then clear his name. The tattoos that were imprinted* on his soul one after another. He could explain some, and he could not explain others, but when he faced this person, he said over and over again to the only person he cared about but hated him deeply ---- "I did not harm you before".

But this person did not believe it ah.

So he gave up. As early as a hundred years ago, he had stopped explaining, and he did not care whether the truth came out one day or not. The truth that had come a hundred years too late. It was no relief to him, it was no comfort, it was no justification. It was nothing.

Meaningless. Nothing.

Xie Bi An’s gray with defeat and empty eyes made Fan Wu She feel unspeakable fear. He swore solemnly: "Li Bu Yu died. I will also turn Xu Zhi Nan into dust. All, all the people who have hurt you, I will not let anyone go."

Upon hearing these words, Xie Bi An's gaze shifted and finally fell on Fan Wu She, looking at him quietly just like that.

Fan Wu She understood in an instant what those eyes without any emotion were saying. His heart was aching so much. He said with difficulty, "I will account for you, but now, let me heal you."

Xie Bi An closed his eyes. His heart was like dead ashes, and could not even stir up a trace of light dust. He was too tired. He had struggled for too long, and he wanted to rest.

A warm stream was injected into his body, and his internal organs, which were in so much pain to the point of spasms, were soon soothed. The tremor of his body slowly subsided, and he fell into the darkness without knowing it.

Before he passed out, he seemed to hear someone whispering in his ear, "I'm sorry.

 

----

Walking corpse* [行尸走肉 ]---an utterly worthless person

Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng*[天枢、天璇、天玑、天权、玉衡]---- 天枢 (alpha Ursae Majoris),天璇 (beta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper),天玑 (gamma Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper),天权 (delta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper),玉衡 (epsilon Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper)

***There’s 2 more which SQC didn’t write down: Kaiyang and Yaoguang 开阳 (zeta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper) and摇光 (eta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper)

#iloveastronomy

imprinted tattoos *[黥刑]---it is a punishment used in ancient times where the faces or foreheads of criminals were tattooed.

Edited on 8 June 21 (Emzie)

 ←Previous Chapter                                                                                             Next Chapter→