Chapter 194: All Out
The howling wind stopped at some point… and the sky was filled with snowflakes falling down…
The gray sky was mixed with a strange red color… It always felt like the image of hell in my imagination, bleak and silent… a mixture of loneliness and a little cruelty.
Time passed slowly under the cruel and fierce collision.
The collision between the two sides has become a “meat grinder” existence. Although it is not like a real war in the secular world, where tens of thousands of lives are needed to be called a meat grinder, here, it is a complete hand-to-hand combat, where people sacrifice themselves, and the madly dying are full of violent monsters… The bloody cruelty brought by this power struggle is not weaker than that of secular wars.
Sacrifice is inevitable… fallen warriors, corpses stained red with blood… the doctor’s pulse, which has turned to his own body, is pale and silent, his head hanging low… just like sleeping quietly.
The first pair of tragic brothers, the older brother lost his arm and fell face down on the ground… Under him was the corpse of a monster… The younger brother was lying less than two meters away from his brother… Behind him was a long trail of blood, and along the way on his side… there were 4 or 5 monster corpses lying in a mess.
I couldn’t see my brother’s expression… but I could see a faint smile on my brother’s face, as if he was still alive, shouting in delight for having killed another monster…
There are countless heroes like this on the battlefield… I can’t count them all… Even though it’s so inspiring, and almost every minute a living being dies, I can’t be numb.
My grief grew deeper and deeper… Looking at the snowflakes, I felt that they were also crying, gently covering the fallen warriors with a layer of white ‘quilts’.
From quiet to shouting, from shouting to the heavy breathing that remains now… the only thing that has not changed is the will to protect.
The altar on Yang Sheng’s side has already begun to take shape… and the dozen or so cultivators led by Wu Tian have reached the end of their chanting… I can feel the bloodstains of the horses that died earlier and the chaos on the battlefield with my eyes closed… under his chanting, there is a rapid gathering of black energy…
“You’re actually going to use this?” I whispered.
The blood on the battlefield is full of the evil of the battlefield, and the horses were killed innocently… full of resentment… Combining these negative energies together, the person who is affected will become incredibly crazy…
“He is a high-ranking figure, and the same Kunlun Preacher… shouldn’t he be full of righteousness? When the face has a heart, and of course when the heart has fallen, the means used have also fallen.” Facing the cruel battlefield, the old headmaster did not say a word, but when he saw Wu Tian’s methods finally revealed, the old headmaster actually commented on such a long sentence.
He still stood beside me, unmoving… But at this moment, the master who had been sitting in the front row watching Master Hui slowly walked towards me.
Is Master also the one who will accompany me all the way to the end? I have no way of guessing… but I see him casually holding a pipe, and the original white robe of the Snow Mountain Sect is also worn crookedly and unpresentably…
He had his hands behind his back, his messy hair and beard… I was a little dazed… It was as if I had returned to Chen Chengyi’s childhood memories and saw the same master walking towards me in the village.
The two figures kept overlapping. No matter how much time passed, some memories remained the same.
On the path that the master was walking on… I saw many cultivators standing up, including Wu Liyu and others… I couldn’t believe it when I saw an acquaintance among them, it was Yuan Yi’s brother… The wind blew their clothes, but their expressions were like a lit fire… It felt like they were all saying the same thing, that it was finally our turn.
In a short distance, Master quickly came to our front… He bowed to the old master, and the old master also bowed to him, saying, “Please take care of the battle before the formation of the heavenly punishment formation… Yang Sheng will definitely try to destroy it.”
“Don’t worry,” the master said simply, and that was a promise.
“Chen Chengyi, come down…” After talking to the old master, the master looked at me.
I was actually a little dazed. Was I really Chengdao or Chengyi? But when I heard his words, I subconsciously walked up to him… At that moment, I felt a great sadness in my heart, but I also understood that this was his journey.
If I am destined to see him off here… then this is how I should see him off, with a cruel but happy heart for him, dying in a worthy way… facing death with a complete and regret-free heart.
I am not alone in this… the young people standing beside me are all doing the same… behind each of them is a huge shadow of grief.
The wind that had just stopped is blowing again now… The master squints at the sky and begins to sprinkle the snow that is falling northward, saying softly, “Well, it’s a good day.”
I didn’t say anything because I was in a trance, completely unaware of myself. But it was so natural, as if there was no process of argument. I was just being pulled by the sadness, afraid to speak. Tears are not appropriate in a battlefield.
From time to time, monsters died and warriors sacrificed themselves. Life was so small at this time, fragile and precarious, yet so heroic, sublimated by one’s own will… The sky was dyed red.
“I’m going,” the master said to me, bowing his head.
“Master,” I said, my throat swelling up, unable to say anything more… I didn’t know how to express myself, but a single word, “Master,” was worth a thousand words.
“Haha…” he laughed, then looked at me. The loving expression in his eyes returned, and he put his hand on my shoulder and said, “I know you’ve grown up. You’re standing on the big rock, looking mighty… You’re going to take the hardest path later, and you’re a man now! I’m proud of you…”
At this point, he paused again and said to me, “I also know that you have returned.”
I knew what he meant by “back” … he meant Chen Chengyi was back. I wanted to deny it … but I couldn’t. Why was my mood all about Chen Chengyi?
“I’m leaving.” He put the pipe in my hand and said, “Keep this for me… I can come back and smoke it… I don’t really want to smoke it anymore, so it’s not a bad thing to just leave it here.”
As he said this, he had already turned around… his voice gradually became smaller… almost inaudible…
I thought I wasn’t crying, just standing there in a daze… the snowflakes in front of me were about to blind my eyes, but the sudden sound beside me interrupted my train of thought.
“It’s hard to cry with a smile on your face… and when you’re in a certain place, you don’t know if you’re crying or not?” I turned around and saw a face with a gentle and handsome expression, but it was standing in the most vulgar way, standing in front of me with a big sword.
I didn’t say anything, but he had already shoved a cigar into my mouth… and without asking my opinion, he took it out of my mouth, lit it, and shoved it back in.
“Look how good I am to you. I just saw you hug my wife… I’m not going to hold it against you because you’re her brother… I’m giving you my favorite cigar. No matter how much I save, I only have two left… It’s like no matter how much you miss my grandfather, he’s still gone.” Xiao Chengqian’s words seemed to be endless.
Although the cigar smoke had obscured his face, I could see the tears on his cheeks had not yet dried… I felt my own face was also cold…
I didn’t know if I was crying or he was. I took a drag of his cigar too… After a while, the flavor faded. What was he cherishing? Maybe it was the only thing he wanted to affirm after denying his past?
At least, he didn’t seem to be showing his past in front of us in such a bad light.
I stood in the wind, very silent… I glanced at the back of my master, feeling the wind and snow getting stronger and stronger, almost engulfing me… At this moment, a figure crashed into my arms, crying softly, “Brother Chengyi, I’m so afraid that my father will sleep for many years like he did before.”
It was Chengyuan…
I patted her back gently… This memory is only in my and her memories, a clean and small home, a strong girl, Yuan Yi’s brother sleeping in the bedroom… It was I who took her on that day to a different life.
And in front of me, it seemed like I was still in that desolate village… I saw that figure fall and say to me, “Chen Chengyi, my Yuan family is powerful, right? How is it compared to your master?”