Towards the end, her voice was excited, the flames burning brightly, yet then she calmed down, along with her expression and tone.
"So what? It's not like I just realized my problem today. It's not like you suddenly pointed it out. I'm just a little sentimental, but it's not enough to shake my resolve."
"Moreover, you said something wrong that really took me out of the story."
Hades racked his brains, but couldn't recall what he had said: "What did you say?"
"If you give up revenge, you will have no face to meet the souls of the dead in the underworld."
"A wandering soul? Fu Guang, huh?" Chang Le scoffed.
"You really believe in reincarnation? If I could really see him, I'd be shameless, and I wouldn't even care about the next life, I'd run to see him. Even if he resents me, I'd still see him!"
"Besides, then again, he won't."
Chang Le's eyes held a look of pity that seemed to emanate from above: "You really don't understand humans."
“Fu Guang would never want me to avenge him; he only wants me to be happy and joyful—I am absolutely certain of this.”
So even though I can't forgive myself, it's my problem, and I'm already on the path of helping others find hope. He'll be happy for me, at most a little heartache, but definitely not disappointed.
You don't know, this is the one thing I'm most certain of.
But you're trying to sway my heart with this.
"Shadow of Calamity, you underestimate the bond between him and me."
Hades' expression suddenly changed drastically, and blood began to flow from his mouth and nose.
This is a sign of mental exhaustion and brain overload.
"You've been guiding me from the very beginning!" Hades exclaimed in astonishment. "You deliberately gave me that opening!"
Chang Le smiled and said, "The willing have taken the bait."
"Bang!"
The container holding Hades' flames exploded and cracked.
A crack appeared in Hades's mind.
Hades' expression changed completely.
Because from this moment on, the breakdown of his mental state negated his hundreds of years of painstaking efforts.
But Chang Le's attack wasn't over yet: "If you are still [Dawn Veil], you still have a chance."
"What?" Hades looked up in astonishment.
"Because there is no world that does not wish to have the [Dawn Veil]."
"If you were still the same person you were before, I would be very willing to form a bond with you and help you become a deity to be worshipped."
Perhaps when this world completes its evolution and is no longer easily destroyed for millions of years, you will be abandoned, you will regain your freedom, and you will truly have the opportunity to become a god.
"But you gave it up yourself, you gave up what was originally your most precious thing. And you are proud of having your most precious thing taken away from you."
It is precisely because you firmly believe that you are abandoning something useless that you have no other choice but to seemingly take the initiative, yet helplessly, step by step, drive yourself into a narrow dead end.
Hades retorted sharply: "What kind of good choice is it to be the Dawn Veil, kept as a pet by beings like you?"
Chang Le changed the subject: "Do you know why we took different paths? It's not just because of the personalities we developed in the past."
Hades listened unconsciously, having lost count of how many times Chang Le had guided the conversation.
Chang Le told him:
"Because I met it."
—Meeting loving parents and relatives, meeting Ye Buqi, meeting the Hua family, meeting Goubuli, meeting her sun.
"I belong."
—From the moment I became connected with these people in this world, I truly belonged to this world.
"I am tolerant."
—I am willing to try to adapt to the world, willing to accept the shaping of kindness, and willing to accept the changes in myself.
"I am independent."
But beyond meeting, belonging, and being embraced, I am still me. No matter what the world is like or what the people around me are like, I have never lost myself.
I am good because I wish to be good; I am evil because I also wish to be evil.
And these things, you, the shadow of calamity, are absent.
When you met Ying Shaochuan, you chose to be firm in your heart and deceive him, without truly accepting him and the world he lived in. Without understanding, you were prejudiced and viewed the world with your own one-sided perspective, embracing all the evils of the world and ignoring the truly precious and rare things, like the dawn.
Lacking inclusivity, belonging, and listening, they are stubborn, self-willed, and extremely arrogant.
Clinging to their own self-righteous prejudices, they attempt to deceive the world and consider themselves gods.
How absurd!
But if you were still the same "Dawn Veil," would you end up in the same situation?
Sharp words transformed into countless blades, piercing straight into Hades' heart.
"But you made a mistake; you lied to me first."
"You lied to me!"
"What gives you the right to define this world with your so-called 'decay'?"
"It's not this world that's decaying, it's you!"
Who was wrong?
Who is decaying?
Who failed?
Who is the loser?
Is it...me?
Hades' body shook violently.
Once you start to doubt what you are most certain about, your heart is no longer strong.
The container made a violent shattering sound, with countless cracks covering it. The flames were almost extinguished, leaving only a faint glow.
Chang Le flashed to appear in front of Hades and uttered his last words:
"In fact, if you are [Dawn Veil], with its absolute invincibility, no one can kill you."
But you are not, the Shadow of Calamity, which has weaknesses.
This is what Ying Shaochuan told me. He asked me to kill you and him.
"Snap—"
"Bang!"
The container shattered with a crash.
Two figures reappeared in the sky.
Chang Le, now in the form of Fu Jiu, stood in the air, his tentacles lashing out and piercing through Hades.
"I won."
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