Chapter 206: Tragic

It was indeed a look of taboo, but the taboo was not that deep… and on top of the taboo, I saw Yang Sheng’s expression of hesitation.

Would he still hesitate? I thought he was completely inhuman, so what was he hesitating about?

At this moment, the immense sadness almost shattered my heart, because I knew the power of the river of destiny… Even the top-level Taoist technique of the heavenly and earthly steps could not imprison this power, let alone the heavenly thunder?

Once, my master used the power of his remaining soul to help me resist a bolt of lightning… and what is the nature of the river of fate? It is the power of the soul, layered with various powers!

My sadness comes from the fact that I can foresee what will happen to my master and his friends… What makes me feel even worse is that I can’t indulge in my grief. I still have to continue on my path.

My fingers trembled, and the snow-white hand gave me infinite strength. She held my fingers tightly so that they would not tremble… But under the sky full of lightning, I saw that the river of fate had finally surrounded Yang Sheng… and he began to move again.

Master was very calm and composed… With the help of Uncle Wang’s great formation, the golden thunder kept weaving over his head… I knew this was one of the absolute secret arts of the Li family—thunder punishment!

The power of the heavenly thunder overlaps… and then it is cast on a person, as if the true thunder of heaven and earth is descending.

“If you can, Chengyi, don’t watch.” My hands were almost ice-cold and lifeless, watching helplessly as He Qi’s cruelty unfolded. Ru Xue whispered to comfort me.

“No, I want to watch.” I almost said these words between my teeth… Because I’m not the only one facing it, my fellow disciples, and the little Huigen is also facing it, right?

Suffering makes people stronger. Perhaps in the end, it will turn into my strength… Now, I’m not stupid enough to not understand that our elders are using their last breaths to buy us time, to weaken Yang Sheng with their last breaths, to make it easier for us.

This is the last thing they gave us… their silent love.

I have to watch all of this. I must watch!

I watched Yang Sheng step forward in the thunder and lightning… and reach Yuan Yi, who was bearing the brunt of the attack… and heard his heart-wrenching cries as he was embraced by his brother Cheng Qing… Yuan Yi’s expression was indifferent, and at that moment… he still held the position of the hand seal in his hand. When Yang Sheng roared and shouted, “Get out of the way!”… and his fist landed on him… another dozen bolts of lightning fell from the sky!

His body floated, and was knocked up by Yang Sheng’s fist… He hit the mountain wall hard, then slowly slid down and fell… Only his face, with bloodied lips… suddenly brought a smile to his face at this moment, a look of no regrets… In the ice rain… it was as if he had returned many years ago… the scene of him falling in front of me… his pride, his way.

This time, he had no problems, and finally looked back at Chengyuan with a lingering gaze… Perhaps he was already speechless, and he lifted his arm with great difficulty, sticking out his thumb… and then fell heavily without a sound.

“Dad…” Cheng Yuan cried out… and then her voice was drowned out in Cheng Qing’s arms… What did this last gesture of sticking out his thumb mean to Cheng Yuan? Was it… praising Cheng Yuan, was it… encouraging Cheng Yuan? Or was it the sentence that he had wanted to say to Cheng Yuan for many years, “Daughter, you are great?”

I have no idea… I just saw Xiao Chengqian, like a lone wolf, emitting a sound of extreme pain and oppression from his throat…

Because Yang Sheng had already rushed to Wu Liyu’s side… Wu Liyu was actually very handsome, otherwise he wouldn’t have such a handsome grandson as Xiao Chengqian. For the first time, I discovered that the serious and indifferent Wu Liyu had… a righteous spirit, but it had been blocked by something in the past…

At this moment, he looked like a general fighting for justice on the battlefield… In the end, he was also protecting everything behind him that needed to be protected.

Yang Sheng knew him… So, under the heavy thunder, Yang Sheng stopped for the first time… The river of fate surged by his side, throwing up layers of blue “water spray.”

“Get out of the way.” We had already traveled nearly a third of the way down the path… Yang Sheng was obviously a little anxious, but he could still stop and say to Wu Liyu, “Get out of the way.”

That was all he had to say, no more nonsense… probably in Yang Sheng’s heart, Wu Liyu’s friendship in picking him up from the deserted village was all that was left of its value.

Facing Yang Sheng, Wu Liyu suddenly smiled… This is the first time I have seen Wu Liyu smile so happily… It’s like he has let go of all his burdens and seen a new world.

“I, Wu Liyu, have been wrong for most of my life… the biggest mistake was creating a monster like you! But God is really merciful, and it will give anyone a chance to turn back… even if it’s a moment of remorse in the last moments of life, isn’t it also a heart that has been tempered… and is closer to the truth?” Wu Liyu suddenly said this out loud, but with a very relaxed tone.

“Do you want to let me go or not?” Yang Sheng’s patience seemed to have reached its limit. When Wu Liyu spoke, he kept moving his hands and didn’t stop any of his movements.

Behind him, above my master’s head… a golden sword of heavenly thunder was slowly taking shape.

Wu Liyu was actually delaying for my master… At this time… the space above the two great arrays had already begun to distort… There was a terrifying gathering of heaven and earth energy… It felt like something chilling was about to happen…

Everything has reached a critical moment… no one noticed that at this time, there was a resolute figure approaching Master and the others…

“No, today the heavens have seen, the heroes of the world have seen… I, Wu Liyu, have finally embarked on the path, and fought to defend the way… What reason is there to step aside?” As he spoke, Wu Liyu finally formed the hand gestures again…

More than a hundred bolts of lightning fell from the sky… accompanied by a couple of thunderbolts… which fell on Yang Sheng…

The lightning was naturally overwhelmed by Yang Sheng’s river of fate… Only one bolt of lightning was exceptionally strong… and slightly penetrated the river of fate… leaving a small blackened mark on Yang Sheng’s face…

But Yang Sheng didn’t care at all. He just shouted at Wu Liyu, “If you don’t let me, then get out of my way…” and swung his fist again. Wu Liyu spit out a mouthful of blood, but his body was probably a little stronger, so he just staggered and didn’t fall.

“It’s ridiculous… You’ve been by my side for a while, and you’re actually going to betray me?” As he spoke, Yang Sheng punched again, this time hitting Wu Liyu hard.

He called Wu Liyu a traitor… I found that Yang Sheng actually needed so much recognition? I thought he had gone crazy, and that recognition from others was a load of shit to him…

“Poof,” how could Wu Liyu withstand Yang Sheng’s powerful punches? Finally, his body also floated up… and crashed into the cliff… but Wu Liyu was laughing, and then at the moment of impact, the laughter stopped abruptly… all I could hear was Xiao Chengqian’s heart-wrenching cry: “Yang Sheng, you’re a fucking dog…”

Chengzhen hugged Xiao Chengqian from behind… and was also crying his heart out.

Xiao Chengqian has always been like this… this time, he has been so moved by grief that he can’t even think of what to say to Yang Sheng… at this moment, we are either hugging, holding hands… or supporting each other as we walk forward…

There has never been a moment of loneliness like this… The older generation has fallen before us one after another, and all that is left is for us to meet and warm each other, and to go on with our lives, enduring our grief.

Wu Liyu fell less than five meters in front of his master… At this moment, I finally saw the expression on my master’s face… Underneath the calm, there were two lines of tears… Wu Liyu’s lips were still moving… muttering as if he was saying something, but no one could hear clearly…

But from the shape of his lips… it was clear… that he was saying, “Cheng Qian, my good grandson… my good grandson…”

“Ah… ah…” The sadness was completely undetectable… On this small hill, in the howling cold wind… came Xiao Chengqian’s long, injured howl… He couldn’t cry anymore, and only that howl could vent the sadness that was about to overwhelm him.

One of my hands was held by Ruoxue… but at this moment, I couldn’t hold back the trembling… and the other hand, the nails were piercing into the flesh… I felt very happy, at this moment, I wanted to stab myself all over… would this cover the pain in my heart?

Yang Sheng had already walked up to my master… He raised one hand… just like the god of those years…

The blue power of the river of fate was overlapping in front of his hand… as if the god was manipulating the river of fate to reappear… a large blue hand was rapidly taking shape.

“Master Jiang, I don’t want to kill you,” Yang Sheng said.

His footsteps did not stop… and he stepped over Wu Liyu’s body… Wu Liyu spurted out a mouthful of blood again, then fell to the ground in a dull manner… Yang Sheng’s expression was like he had just stepped on a dead dog.