"You're saying all this to make me feel guilty so I'll let that little girl go. You've got your hopes up." Lou Munan sneered as he placed a black piece in his hand.
White pieces were in trouble. Xu Fengzhi didn't say anything more, but focused on the chessboard.
Lou Munan remained silent, and the black pieces fought even more fiercely on the chessboard than before. They didn't know when, but their surroundings had changed; this place had become a universe, with black and white energies swirling within, like a black and white vortex.
Lou Munan and Xu Fengzhi kept placing their pieces, and the black and white energy devoured each other, pulling all the stars in the universe into the black and white vortex.
The black aura expanded over time until only a tiny bit of white aura remained.
On the chessboard, all of White's paths to survival were blocked, and White lost.
Xu Fengzhi stared at the chessboard without speaking, while Lou Munan coldly stared at his clone. They remained silent for a long time. After a long while, Lou Munan sneered, "You shouldn't be surprised by this result, right? Did you really think you could defeat me? You'll always just be a clone."
"A clone can never defeat the original body. To be honest, it's quite surprising that you were able to awaken. Among your clones, there's actually one that didn't betray you."
Xu Fengzhi looked into Lou Munan's eyes: "It seems you care a lot about my betrayal of you."
Lou Munan's eyes flashed red; he was very concerned about why he had betrayed himself.
He stared intently at Xu Fengzhi for a long time before finally uttering, "Why?"
Xu Fengzhi had hidden many memories, and since he couldn't get the answers, he could only ask himself. Xu Fengzhi looked to the side, and the surrounding scenery changed.
The place transformed into a beautiful landscape. Xu Fengzhi and Lou Munan stood atop the mountain, watching a figure flying in from afar. That figure looked exactly like Lou Munan.
His long, jet-black hair flew wildly, his pupils were blood-red, he wore a magnificent robe, and his expression was indifferent, as if nothing in the myriad realms could truly enter those eyes. His gaze was chillingly cold; it was a truly ruthless gaze.
The man who looks exactly like Lou Munan is Xu Fengzhi, the Xu Fengzhi from the beginning.
As Lou Munan's clone, Xu Fengzhi was initially exactly the same as Lou Munan.
"After I came out of that sealed land, I had no intention of betraying you. I searched everywhere for a way to get you out of the sealed land. At that time, the Golden Crow Clan had disappeared from the river of history. I searched for their hybrid descendants for a long time and only found some. But even after draining their blood, it did not have the effect I expected. So I searched for other methods and killed people everywhere."
[The seal on Yan Tang, which has lasted for trillions of years, is still extremely powerful; even spells cast with the Golden Crow bloodline cannot be effective.]
"And so a million years, ten million years, a hundred million years passed..."
"One day, I came to a valley."
As Xu Fengzhi spoke, he and Lou Munan found themselves in a valley filled with many flowers, their snow-white petals crystal clear.
Lou Munan looked at Xu Fengzhi in his memory. Xu Fengzhi, who looked exactly like him, stood in this valley, gazing at this sea of flowers. He looked and looked for a long time before picking the most beautiful flower.
"The valley is full of flowers, just ordinary flowers, but for some reason, looking at these flowers, I feel a strange emotion. These flowers are so beautiful, pure white and immaculate. I have never had this feeling before, never had any thoughts other than killing for anything."
“I picked a flower, held it in front of my eyes, and looking at that flower, I suddenly became tired of killing.”
"Perhaps I had long been tired of killing, but I suddenly realized it on that day. On that day, I suddenly didn't want to continue existing as your clone, so I named myself Changfeng. I knew that even if I stopped helping you find a way, you would eventually leave that sealed land. Knowing that I betrayed you, you would never forgive me."
“As an avatar, even when you are at your weakest, you still have the advantage when facing you. So I tried to sever the connection between us and accumulate power. I thought that as long as I have enough power, perhaps one day I will be able to devour you.”
Xu Fengzhi said that a butterfly flew towards him and landed on his fingertip.
Lou Munan remained expressionless throughout. After listening to Xu Fengzhi's entire statement, he scoffed, "Is this your reason for betraying me? And not because of anyone else?"
Xu Fengzhi shook his head.
It wasn't because of anyone else; he was simply tired of killing.
Lou Munan looked at Xu Fengzhi and suddenly burst into laughter: "You betrayed me not because of that little girl? But just because you were tired of killing?"
Feng Yao is the reincarnation of Yan Tang, but she may not be the only one. How many times has Yan Tang been reincarnated over the years?
Over these four trillion years, has Xu Fengzhi encountered her in reincarnation? Was he influenced by her?
Lou Munan couldn't understand why his clone betrayed him. The only reason he could think of was Yan Tang. He had encountered Yan Tang's reincarnation and was bewitched by it.
He knew how deep the karmic entanglement between himself and Yan Tang was. As his alter ego, Xu Fengzhi, even if he did not inherit his emotional part, would still be affected. Didn't he fall in love with Feng Yao?
He thought his betrayal was because of Yan Tang, but now he's being told that it was no one else, it was just his own idea.
"Slaughter? You say you betrayed me because you were tired of killing? That's laughable! That's absolutely hilarious. You betrayed me because you were tired of killing? How many lives did you kill to get rid of me? In the trillions of years I was sealed away, the number of lives you killed outside probably exceeded mine! You actually dare to say you were tired of killing? That's laughable, hahahahahaha..."
Lou Munan burst into wild laughter.
Xu Fengzhi remained silent because what Lou Munan said was true.
He gained his true self because he was tired of killing. In order to get rid of his original form, he committed even more crimes of killing. He didn't know how many lives from countless eras had been sacrificed for the trap in the Tomb of the Thunder Emperor.
He loathed killing and didn't want to be Lou Munan anymore, yet his essence was no different from Lou Munan's.
The more he tried to get rid of his original body, the more he realized that he couldn't get rid of it.
His mindset and his essence have never truly changed. Even if the connection were to be severed one day, he would remain the same as his original self.
"You've killed more than I have. You've never changed in essence. You are me, and I am you. You can reincarnate ten thousand times, a million times, but you can't change your nature." Lou Munan said cruelly. "That little girl hates me and despises me. She's infatuated with you only because you've never revealed the side of you that's the same as me in front of her."
"Her relationship with you is like my relationship with Yan Tang. Even if we were once in love, it will never have a happy ending. Even if you devour me today, the two of you will one day become enemies, just like Yan Tang and I, because you are essentially the same as me."
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