Chang Le felt no pity or sympathy, nor would she feel such feelings towards someone who was her enemy.
It's just a bit disheartening.
Furthermore, she now understands why the two made different choices.
But Hades doesn't understand yet.
His gaze towards Chang Le was filled with incomprehension and hatred, as if he regarded Chang Le as a coward.
“We are completely different,” Chang Le stated calmly, “even though we seem to have been given similar trajectories by fate.”
“We were different from the very beginning.”
“We are all expected to be born, but the expectation of my birth is a love for my uniqueness, while their expectation of you is more of a need for reciprocation for their own survival.”
“I spent my most innocent, carefree, and joyful childhood on that Jingchen Mountain, and my life grew from that warmth and love. But you are different from me; no one sees you as a sentient being with normal needs.”
Hades chuckled coldly: "You think you can sway my mind with these words? You're far too naive."
I never resent these experiences of being trapped. It was because of these experiences that I found my goal: to be free and to control others.
Unlike you, I don't resent my past experiences. On the contrary, I'm incredibly grateful for them, as they shaped me into who I am today!
"Really?" Chang Le asked doubtfully.
"Do you feel grateful when you are imprisoned in a dark and sunless cage, tortured and reformed, transformed from the dawn that symbolizes the spark of civilization into a calamity that strangles civilization?"
“There’s no need to deliberately repeat those seemingly cruel experiences,” Hades saw through her intentions.
"Yes, I admit that I was in pain and resentment when I went through that, but when I stand here now and look back on those experiences, I have no resentment at all. In my heart, there is only gratitude."
"I thank him for transforming me and giving me the power to control those people; I thank him for using his life to teach me the beauty of freedom and control."
He gave me a turning point in my life. I not only don't resent him, I'm even grateful to him, and I want to become like him, to change others who are trapped by worldly constraints.
Chang Le said, "So the people you've dragged into the god-making faction are all people you call 'trapped by worldly affairs,' and you think you're saving them?"
Hades raised his eyes, his gaze mocking: "Trying to trap me? I never thought I was saving anyone. They agreed to follow me, so naturally they have to support my plan. As for whether I'm saving them or not, you can ask them yourselves."
Chang Le, do you think that just because others think they are saving you, it can be called 'salvation'? When Shen Fuguang was willing to die to save you, why didn't you accept it gladly, but instead went mad?
Not only did you refuse to accept it, but you also resented his devotion to you, didn't you? He was truly doing everything for your own good, so why didn't you know how to be grateful?
Chang Le's inner fire trembled visibly.
It was when Hades said, "Shen Fuguang is willing to die to save you."
Even if no one blames Chang Le for Fu Guang's death, when that person is someone of utmost importance to him, he cannot absolve himself of responsibility no matter what.
Humans are creatures capable of self-blame.
When there is no one to vent one's resentment on, oneself and everyone else become the last resort.
Chang Lehui was the former, keeping the resentment to himself.
Hades would be the latter, venting his resentment on everyone else.
Seeing Chang Le's gloomy expression, Hades pressed closer.
“You clearly know that the one who started the killing of Shen Fuguang was Daqu. You clearly have the ability to take revenge. Clearly, the people behind you are hoping that you can help Shen Fuguang avenge his blood debt. Clearly, Daqu, especially the Hua family, treated you the same way they treated me.”
But you! You chose to side with them!
Jiu Fang Chang Le, you deserve to be all alone!
O cowardly saint with a saintly heart, clinging to your laughable conscience and laughable protection, you are eternally alone.
This is the ending you chose for yourself.
Chang Le took a step back, his heart burning with turbulent emotions.
She frowned, like a dying beast desperately swinging its claws:
"So what about you? You also have the ability to retaliate and take revenge, and you have indeed taken revenge on everyone who has displeased you, but so what? What have you become now?"
You're still forced to flee in a sorry state, forced to submit to the body of a weakling you despise, still trapped, still unable to achieve what you wanted. What will your fate be?
Are you getting angry out of embarrassment?
A glint of light flashed in Hades' eyes as he seized upon Chang Le's weakness:
“I have long since broken free from the body that binds me. This world, which I have carefully chosen, is about to be under my control, and no one can stop me. I will take control of this world, reconstruct order, and establish a high-quality, high-level civilization.”
"Only with you, may all be filled with joy!"
You've wasted a winning hand; you've driven yourself to become a dog of the region; you've been chained by your own conscience!
Even in death, if you abandon revenge, you will have no face to meet the souls of the dead. You will be unable to live, unable to die!
"Chang Le! You're a loser in this life!"
"And I will become the god of the new order!"
The two flames of the heart vibrated simultaneously; one almost went out, while the other burned too intensely and became unstable due to the owner's surging emotions.
"Unfortunately, you won't make it."
Chang Le, whose heart should have been on the verge of breaking, said these words calmly.
Hades's smugness and illusions vanished abruptly, and the drastic emotional shift caused the flames to flicker violently.
"What are you talking about?" Hades looked at Chang Le.
The person who had just looked gloomy now exuded an extreme indifference.
It was as if those emotions from just moments ago were merely an illusion, but Hades could see that the flame was clearly about to go out.
Hades first judged that Chang Le was merely struggling on the verge of death: "Trying to fabricate a few lies to shake me?"
Chang Le's spiritual power seemed somewhat weak, like that cluster of flames, barely extinguished yet still burning. Her tone was so calm that no weakness could be detected.
"It's not a lie, it's the truth."
"You cannot become a god."
Hades felt a bad premonition, but he kept his composure: "Words without substance are ineffective against me."
Chang Le calmly explained:
"You said that both your abilities and Jiu Fanggui's are related to the origin of the universe. But there is one major difference between your abilities and Jiu Fanggui's, and you know what it is."
Hades' expression changed slightly.
"That is, Jiufang Guineng disperses itself to communicate with different worlds at the same time, but you can only exist as a whole in a certain world, which is equivalent to being trapped in a certain world."
Hades' expression suddenly turned icy, his sinister eyes carrying a suffocating sense of oppression.
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