??298: Chapter 172: Lifting the Curse
298: Chapter 172: Lifting the Curse
This is an unspeakable sorrow.
“Zhou Lingzhe, this was all my own choice, truly, it has nothing to do with the Heart of Nature!
I had already been able to resist the lure of the Heart of Nature long ago.
Zhou Lingzhe, believe , we must have had a beautiful past, we must have!
Otherwise, why would I feel so unforgettable, so heartbroken the mont I first saw you?”
“Zhou Lingzhe, I’ve always wanted to help you, to save you, but I don’t have the capability.
This ti, either I die, or we leave together!”
Huangfu Jing seed to suddenly go mad.
Zhou Yan looked at her with a hint of pity in his eyes, until she could no longer speak.
“You are really foolish, can’t you see reality?
Everyone here is a chess piece, the constantly changing situation makes us think we control the ga, but it’s rely others letting us feel this way.
From the beginning to the end, we have never escaped being re chess pieces.
Especially , Zhou Yan, here perhaps everyone else could survive, but definitely not Ji Tianxu, Zhou Yuntian, Yang Qingtan, and I.”
Zhou Yan’s words nad everything.
Even Zhou Yuntian, at this point, could only sigh disheartedly and chose to accept silently.
Thinking he was fortunate, but unexpectedly, just like Zhou Yan, rely a pawn in the hands of the powerful.
This, Zhou Yuntian could tell ever since the Ancient Evil Spirit died.
“It seems, you really have understood a lot.”
From Qian Xi’s previous faction, at this ti, a strange black-clothed Cultivator stepped forward.
Then, everything about him changed, and finally, he turned into soone Zhou Yan knew well—Ji Wudao.
“Ji Wudao, is it you who is playing tricks, scheming against ?” Ji Tianxu had been silent until Ji Wudao appeared, then he suddenly beca enraged.
“You’re no longer qualified, yet your ambition is too great, ungrateful.”
He smiled and said no more.
However, his behavior wasn’t considered important by Zhou Yan, because at the mont, almost nothing could be considered important by Zhou Yan.
“I am willing, at worst I die, with the torture from the Ti Curse, I can’t even experience one true mont of youthful bloom, my previous girlhood was actually all an illusion.
Living in such anguish, better off pursuing my heart in death.”
Huangfu Jing whispered softly, expressing her resolve to die.
“Little Princess, no!”
Elder Ling beca anxious.
“Sister, please do not!
There is hope only if you’re alive!”
Huangfu Zhan was moved as well.
He hadn’t expected that Huangfu Jing’s feelings for Zhou Yan could run so deep.
His heart trembled, yet he was powerless!
He was the number one genius of the War God Family’s Huangfu Family, but here, he deeply felt the sensation of defeat.
In the eyes of a true genius, he was nothing but an ant; in the sa realm, Ji Tianxu could kill him a hundred tis with one move!
And even though Zhou Yan’s realm was even six Realms below him, he could still kill him a hundred tis with a single sword stroke!
He suddenly realized how foolish, naive, and hilariously immature he had been before, truly thinking that below the Void Realm he was invincible, now recalling it, he feels disgraced.
But these are nothing compared to his worries and guilt towards his sister, for she had long ago ntioned Zhou Yan was not simple, yet arrogantly he hadn’t listened.
If it hadn’t been for this trip to the City of No Tears, he wouldn’t have even taken Zhou Yan seriously!
But now, he knew he was too far off.
“Huangfu Jing, you may not care about your own life, but Elder Ling ca here bringing the hopes of the War God lineage with him, can you really bear that?
If you believe , then wait until the day we et again.
I, Zhou Yan, will die, but no one can annihilate !
Even the mighty Nine Origin Sword Saint can’t do that!”
Zhou Yan suddenly said this.
The statent triggered inexplicable alarm in many Cultivators’ hearts.
They were unsure if Zhou Yan was comforting Huangfu Jing, or Li Yunjin, Zhou Wangchen, and others, but they couldn’t fully discern the aning.
Perhaps it was true, perhaps it was just a kind lie told by Zhou Yan for self-comfort and comforting others.
“You…”
Huangfu Jing was sowhat dazed, staring blankly at Zhou Yan.
“Co to my side, I’ll help you undo the Ti Curse; I’ve already thought of a way, though I’ve had no chance to act before.”
Zhou Yan smiled gently, in this mont, he was very tender.
This tenderness, he had never shown before even to the won he admired.
However, the more so, the more so Cultivators felt bittersweet.
In the distance, Li Yunjin lowered her head, unable to watch the scene.
For she feared she could not stop her tears.
Beside Yunjin, Zhou Wangchen did not watch this scene, for he feared he would not be able to resist intervening.
Acting now, with no possibility of rescue, would only make things worse.
Huangfu Jing did not hesitate and approached Zhou Yan.
At that mont, she was only five or six years old, just like how Yanyan once was, equally fragile and helpless.
“I will never let you suffer again, I know this pain, it’s very bitter.”
Zhou Yan’s gaze seed sowhat confused as he murmured to himself.
Then, he crouched down and placed his hand on Huangfu Jing’s forehead.
In that instant, a strand of Fist Intent, suddenly accompanied by a strand of Purple Fla, entered Huangfu Jing’s brow.
That strand of light, fleeting in a flash, then returned to calm, no one knew what had happened, they all assud that Zhou Yan was healing Huangfu Jing.
And indeed, it seed to be the reality, because in that instant, the color of pain on Huangfu Jing’s face had evidently lessened a lot.
Huangfu Jing was slightly startled, her face sowhat puzzled, because she couldn’t sense anything, the curse within her soul seed to have significantly lessened.
“Don’t resist my Soul Shock, let go of your guard, and I will disperse this curse force in one fell swoop.”
Zhou Yan said solemnly.
Seeing Zhou Yan serious, Huangfu Jing did not think twice and imdiately did as Zhou Yan had instructed.
But the group of Ti Curse did not suddenly disperse; instead, Zhou Yan’s soul surged out and swept it away in one go.
Zhou Yan replaced Huangfu Jing’s pain with his own soul, transferring the curse’s power onto himself.
At that mont, Zhou Yan did not beco a little boy but turned into an old man, his skin rapidly withered, his hair as white as long strands of snow.
“Zhou Lingzhe…
you…”
Huangfu Jing suddenly appeared seventeen or eighteen years old, ethereal, but her beautiful eyes carried imnse shock, emotion, pain, and regret.
It seed only at this mont did she realize that Zhou Yan’s promise to save her ant transferring the curse’s power to himself.
Her body started to tremble violently, her heart doing the sa.
“Understanding souls is rare, being able to wield them is even rarer, yet I am proficient in both.
Not only that but our hearts resonate and our constitutions naturally attract each other, so only I can perform this thod.
And I am a man destined to die anyway, debts do not overwhelm , what does another curse matter?”
Zhou Yan smiled faintly and said, “If you want to show gratitude or repay , then live on for .
I have no right to love you, but I hope you continue living the life I’ve given you, even if just for , persevere.”
Zhou Yan gently caressed Huangfu Jing’s face, at that mont, Huangfu Jing was not herself but seed like Yanyan relieved from pain, because at that mont, when Huangfu Jing was still a little girl with a face showing imnse pain, Zhou Yan subconsciously treated her as Yanyan.
Perhaps, in Zhou Yan’s eyes, all five or six-year-old lovely girls enduring imnse pain could be Yanyan.
He could not save Yanyan, but he could use all his strength to save Huangfu Jing.
Saving her, and himself, for at that mont, that strand of Purple Fla that left was actually the Purple Fla Void, entrusted in Huangfu Jing’s brow.
The Purple Fla Void, wrapped by Fist Intent, seed like a void, perfectly hid by Huangfu Jing who almost shared a physique that could rge with his.
The Ti Curse’s power was absorbed, and the Purple Fla Void was hidden there.
“Zhou Lingzhe…
Zhou Yan…”
Huangfu Jing’s eyes brimd with tears that lingered long.
Eventually, under Zhou Yan’s watchful, hopeful gaze, she bowed her head and silently retreated.
“Little Princess, let’s go.”
Elder Ling’s voice was sowhat hoarse, yet he respectfully bowed to Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan silently endured, then watched Elder Ling leading Huangfu Jing and Huang FuZhan away, turning into a stream of light and departing.
The next mont, another blue light disappeared.
But this ti, Zhou Yan discovered that the departing individuals had not left the City of No Tears nor the Despair Abyss; they had rely left the Sacrificial Heaven Ancient City and stood outside the city in the Void of the Despair Abyss, silently observing the developnts here.
Because the Purple Fla Void contained his essence, Zhou Yan felt connected to both the inside and outside of the Sacrificial Heaven Ancient City, sensing everything.
Qian Xi was still enveloped by a breath of Yao, remaining outside the Sacrificial Heaven Ancient City in the Void, witnessing everything below.
Eternal Spirit Jia Yongheng was also on the other side, watching the developnts inside.
Holy Daughter’s Ping’er, leading a group of dozens of won in white, quietly watched the changes in the Sacrificial Heaven Ancient City below.
“What’s going on?”
Zhou Yan wondered in his heart, feeling that his body, having left with Huangfu Jing this ti, had truly stepped out of the chess ga.
This, of course, was also an idea within the Purple Fla Void; even ‘Yao’ could not see through the secret inside the Purple Fla Void, let alone the others?
Yao and the Master had been in contact, and there were still many things incomprehensible to them.
Yet this ti, only a faint trace of Yao’s presence had co, perhaps a ten-thousandth of what Zhou Yan had experienced when he encountered Yao.
However, this faint presence made the woman in white with a severed arm extrely wary, not daring to harm Qian Xi at all.
This revealed that Yao was stronger than them all.
This also indirectly showed that no one could yet decipher the secrets inside the fused Void developed by the Master.
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