"The orders I received were to survive the siege ten years from now." Upon seeing an old acquaintance, Lincang relaxed a bit and found a spot not too far away to sit down.
He glanced at Chu Changliu, who had reached the Mahayana stage of cultivation, and asked uncertainly, "Did you survive the last battle?"
After all, Chu Changliu had been missing for some time. It happens once every ten years, so he should have survived the three major sieges.
The thought of this possibility made Lincang somewhat uneasy.
"Yes, just like you thought, I survived three ambushes." Chu Changliu said casually, his expression unchanged. "You should rein in your fire elemental energy, or you'll evaporate all the water here."
Lincang touched the tip of his nose somewhat embarrassedly and concealed his aura.
"So you didn't go out? The instructions given to everyone here are the same: get first place after the encirclement and annihilation ten years later, and you can leave."
He discreetly gathered information.
Chu Changliu suddenly sneered, "This instruction was a scam from the very beginning."
From the moment they stepped into this place, these captured prodigies had only two possible outcomes.
To become one of the dead, or to become the only one alive.
Hearing him say that, Lincang nodded in agreement, "That's right, otherwise you probably would have left long ago."
After he finished speaking, the air fell silent again.
Chu Changliu just stared at him quietly, his emerald eyes completely calm.
Lincang felt somewhat embarrassed and sat on pins and needles.
He remembered that Chu Changliu used to be very talkative, but after decades, he had changed quite a bit...
However, having finally met someone who had stayed in this godforsaken place for so long, Chu Changliu must know much more about this place than he imagined.
Lincang still wanted to get some information out of him.
Therefore, he casually started a conversation, saying, "Senior Wenyi has been searching for your whereabouts all these years..."
"I have neither a mother nor a father," Chu Changliu said slowly after hearing his words. "I've long forgotten them."
Huh...huh?
No, so resolute? This guy used to follow Wen Yi Yuanzun and his demon king father around like glue.
Lincang looked at him suspiciously. He had to admit that his thought process was quite peculiar. "So, you popped out of a crack in a rock?"
Chu Changliu: ...
"Let's just say that," he said, remaining strangely silent for a long while.
After having a pointless conversation with Chu Changliu, Lincang became increasingly convinced that Chu Changliu had lost his mind.
In particular, whenever Wen Yi's news was mentioned, Chu Changliu would always fall into an eerie silence.
This act of using silence to distance oneself—it's like someone has something wrong with their brain...
That's where the problem lies.
Lincang's expression changed drastically, and he nervously swallowed. "Does coming here mean I can't even acknowledge my own father?"
Chu Changliu's face froze, and his eyes twitched involuntarily.
"You can acknowledge me as your father, that's fine too," he calmly uttered an abstract statement.
That's more like it.
Lincang rolled his eyes. "You've been here for so long, you must be getting restless, right?"
It seems like he's been holding it in for too long and it's caused him some kind of health problem.
"..." Chu Changliu closed his eyes, clearly not wanting to say anything more.
"You're so strong, do you know how strong the people who were thrown here are?" Lincang felt that Chu Changliu knew something.
Suddenly, Chu Changliu smiled and said, "You are the weakest here."
Lincang: ...?
"Since we're both from the Nine Provinces Continent, you'll protect me, and I'll tell you about the situation outside." Lin Cang has always been flexible and adaptable. Although he had a falling out with Chu Changliu before, he believed that discretion is the better part of valor.
Here, in a place where no one knows them, the surrounding blood and evil energy are almost solidified.
“I’m not interested,” Chu Changliu said, his eyes lowered.
He gazed silently at his reflection, then reached out and touched the clear water. Ripples spread, disturbing his image. "If you have nothing else to do, then get lost."
"No, I did make a mistake back then, but it didn't warrant death—"
"Besides, our Xuanyou Sect has already compensated your family. How can you bear to kick out a Nascent Soul cultivator like me?"
"Get lost." With a surge of spiritual energy, Lin Cang was blasted away.
Lincang, who was blasted into the sky and stood shoulder to shoulder with the sun, was momentarily stunned.
In that instant, he vaguely saw Chu Changliu raise his head and glance at him.
Just a fleeting glance.
"How did this guy become like this...?" Why is he looking at him like that?
A nameless sadness.
The next moment, he saw Chu Changliu put on an indifferent expression, his pupils unfocused as he stared at him, empty and lifeless.
The look in his eyes startled Lincang so much that he quickly closed his eyes.
"Why is this guy looking at me like I'm dead?" Lincang muttered under his breath, then crawled away as soon as he landed on the ground.
After he left, the figure of the God who had just returned gradually appeared behind Chu Changliu.
"I didn't expect you to let him go."
"...", Chu Changliu finally looked up at him.
He spoke with some difficulty, "We'll all die sooner or later, it's no different."
...
Chu Changliu never expected that in this trial ten years later, Lincang would fight to the very end with sheer grit.
Lincang and Chu Changliu faced off.
"...It's just the two of us left." Lin Cang held the somewhat dimmed immortal artifact, looking at Chu Changliu, who was covered in blood, before him. He licked his dry lips, his throat feeling parched.
"You can't beat me."
"I know, I've held on until now, and all I want to do is ask you one question," Lincang said, putting away the magical artifact.
Chu Changliu hadn't expected him to leave a will, so he nodded and said, "Go ahead."
Is it possible for people who die here to come back to life?
"..." Chu Changliu was taken aback by the question, his voice a little hoarse, "Dead is dead, there's no other possibility."
Lincang gave him a deep look, "I understand."
"..."
The battle between the two ended quickly; Chu Changliu killed Lincang almost effortlessly.
Looking at the corpse lying on the ground in front of him, he lowered his eyes, his unreadable emotions churning within them before finally settling into calm.
"This time it ended even faster than before, Xiao Changliu."
"I never expected you to be so heartless..."
“…Life shouldn’t be like this.” Chu Changliu watched the corpse in front of him slowly dissipate, and it took him a long time to find his voice again.
He muttered a sentence to himself.
He turned around and walked straight to the island in the middle of the lake, where he simply sat and stared blankly at his reflection.
Once the laws of life, derived from the laws of death, are understood, they will not be suppressed.
One day.
He will leave here.
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