Chapter 313: Like and Dislike

In an instant, it was as if all sounds were silent, time was frozen, and amidst the trance-like illusion, the whole world seemed to come to a standstill—right under a sharp blade manifested from An Ning's fingertips.

Rather than calling it a sharp blade, it was better to say, it was like an illusion.

Crystal clear, as if existing at An Ning's fingertips, but no matter how one stared at it, the shape couldn't be distinguished, dreamlike, between existence and non-existence.

Clearly called 'Ku Zhou', it made the whole world so gorgeous and brilliant, everything was full of color, so vivid!

No need for that line of flying light anymore.

At this moment, all things contained light and were released!

Whether it was the Ba Snake with infinite life, the Wolf Sin hidden within the shell, or Yue Chen blessed by the ruins, they actually felt a bone-chilling cold in that omnipresent light.

Ku Zhou, left her hand.

In a flash, it disappeared, as if it had never appeared in this world.

Then, in the static and solidified world, all scenes disintegrated, and the crisp sound of jade breaking rang out, overlapping, endless, gathering into a tide.

Countless raindrops suspended in mid-air shot out, colliding with each other, agitating, ripples exploded, spread, and thousands of ripples passed, grinding everything into powder. Countless water droplets bloomed like flower buds, enchantingly.

Then, amidst the gale that suddenly galloped, the nine heads of the giant snake were like candles in the wind, vanishing into ashes, broken at the root. Amidst the countless evaporating and boiling blood, half a residual limb fell.

The Wolf Sin gasped violently, leaning behind Yue Chen, his blood color dimming.

At this moment, all the iron light and rock color on his body dimmed, and cracks crisscrossed from his chest, revealing a heart like crystal, jumping in anger.

Pulsing!

Then, rapidly recovered—

Most of Ku Zhou's lethality was shared by the Ba Serpent. The Wasteland-rank that had long abandoned humanity and integrated into matter hadn't suffered heavy damage, survived, and recovered rapidly.

Including the dying Ba Serpent, at this moment, under the irrigation of the infinite blood rain, it sprouted again.

And Ji Jue and the others... had already disappeared.

"Ran."

The Wolf Sin reappeared in the blood shadow and sighed: "Bluffed."

Yue Chen, the Wolf Sin, and the Ba Snake—no matter who they targeted, it was difficult to change the result. It was clearly a sure-kill strike, yet it could disperse the damage, buying space to catch their breath and pull away.

It was just...

"Under the coverage of the Blood Rain Disaster, Kunwu has been thoroughly locked. Where can they run?" The Wolf Sin laughed hoarsely, unable to stop: "In my life, I never thought there would be a time when I could hunt the hunter."

Amidst the chaotic blood rain mountains, the Ba Serpent reborn again, roaring in anger. The mountain-like body writhing, sniffing the smell left in the wind, dashed out!

Can't run!

At this moment, amidst the mountains covered by blood rain, the Little Niu Ma, which had retrieved its accessories and returned to the vehicle state, was covered in cracks. Steel limbs kept popping out, jumping, and in the carriage that was leaking wind everywhere, Ji Jue was rushing to give An Ning first aid.

Thanks to the Awakened constitution, the non-human vitality of the Rebirth Rank, she could persist for so long even with a ruptured heart.

Amidst the violent shaking, Ji Jue stitched the flesh and blood with one hand, his speed fast. Another deformed and out-of-control metal arm hung down, shaking with the shaking of the carriage.

Sin-tainted alchemy extracted the wolf poison, fluid alchemy purified An Ning's blood, and then, physical interference forcibly stitched the ruptured heart back together, roughly and quickly piecing it back to its original state to mend the tear.

"This is not first aid..." An Ning was amused: "It's clearly repairing a car!"

Ji Jue was indifferent, glanced at her, and his movements didn't stop:

"Why didn't you run?"

"Eh?" An Ning seemed puzzled.

"You should have evacuated immediately after discovering you were poisoned."

Ji Jue asked coldly: "The one who wins is the hunter. If you know you are going to die and don't know how to run, that kind of idiot who sends food to the door, living will only lose face... Isn't that what you said?"

"Eh? Did I say that?"

An Ning blinked ignorantly, glancing at his gloomy appearance, suddenly grinning, triumphantly: "Were you deceived? We are even!"

"..."

Ji Jue didn't want to talk anymore, didn't want to ignore her, the injection gun was pressed on her neck, injecting medicine, mercury deep into the lungs, repairing wounds, bridging cracks.

An Ning made woo-woo sounds, restraining her tears.

"Brother Ji Jue, I'm injured."

"En." Ji Jue was cold.

"Brother Ji Jue, I'm in so much pain."

So, the mercury prosthetic arm was raised, throwing over a board of painkillers:

"Eat it yourself."

"That doesn't work!" An Ning had tears in her eyes, pulling his clothes: "If there is no kiss, it won't be better!"

Ji Jue was indifferent: "Then wait for death."

An Ning was suddenly even more sad, tears couldn't be wrapped: "So cold, clearly I like you so much!"

Ji Jue finally raised his head, expressionless, looking at her.

"An Ning, do you really like me?"

He asked coldly, unable to restrain his anger: "Or rather, do you understand what kind of feeling liking is? Or is it that your so-called liking is just the possessiveness of wishful thinking?"

What you like, is it Ji Jue, or a toy named Ji Jue?

If there is something, if others have it, you should also have it. If you don't have it, you have to grab it and make it your own thing.

Just like a cat, seeing something good-looking, you have to take it as your own. When you think of it, play with it, mess with it. At other times, put it aside, even if you don't think of it, you don't allow others to touch it.

"I am not anyone's attachment, An Ning, I have never been your thing."

Ji Jue told her word by word: "I don't like you."

"..."

From the short silence, An Ning seemed to be stunned, her lips trembling.

Stunned.

"So annoying, Brother Ji Jue, saying that people are like a bear child..."

Ji Jue didn't answer, his expression was as always, without any fluctuation.

That kind of expression that was not moved by any external objects...

"So annoying." An Ning said.

"En."

"Annoying to death!" An Ning raised her voice.

"En."

Ji Jue nodded, drew his sword, and stabbed into her broken heart that had been stitched up, until the end of the handle.

The slender bone knife strangely disappeared.

But that heart, incredibly, beat again.

Subconsciously, An Ning wanted to struggle to get up, but she had no strength, and could only watch Ji Jue stand up and pick her up.

The Little Niu Ma's car body collapsed, changed again, abandoned many cumbersome parts, and turned into a broken armor.

Just like that, Ji Jue put her into

"I'll be fine if I die, just don't you die."

*Snap! *

The cabin cover closed, the armor reached out, hoisted Ji Jue up, and rushed out toward the distance again.

Almost there.

He calculated the distance and understood. It was almost there!

*Boom!!! *

At this moment, above Kunwu, in the pitch-black sky outside the blood rain, earth-shattering thunder suddenly sounded.

A giant palm manifested from the starlight, overwhelming, locking onto Ji Jue's position beneath the blood rain from afar... without hesitation, it slammed down!

But immediately after, it stopped abruptly.

It paused in mid-air.

From the Longyuan yellow sands outside Kunwu, the old man holding the Staff of Heavenly Craft turned his head abruptly, looking behind him.

At those two figures who had appeared behind him, he knew not when.

Gender, appearance, age, height, and weight—the two middle-aged men looked as if they had been printed from the same mold, carrying the same curiosity and the same smile.

They were poking their heads around.

"How strange, old man." The man on the left asked: "Why didn't you press down?"

The man on the right asked: "Do you not like it?"

The old man's expression changed, his pupils contracted for an instant, and he retreated violently, fully on guard.

"The two fingers of the Wilderness Gathering... An Neng and An De?"

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The man on the left raised his hand and added: "An De Guangsha Qianwan Jian!"

The man on the right puffed out his chest and introduced himself: "An Neng Cui Mei Zhe Yao Shi Quan Gui!"

"..."

For a moment, the old man's expression twitched; he really wanted to curse.

It was like they were fucking sick!

That old thing from the An family must have been terrified that the children's names would be taken by others and be inconvenient. Their names were getting longer and longer, and each one was sicker than the last!

"You people from the An family are truly like lingering ghosts..."

"Can't help it."

An De sighed: "When a child goes out, the uncles always have to be careful, don't let her be harmed by others."

An Neng nodded: "But it doesn't matter, we aren't close to her, you can go ahead and do it."

"Mm, that's right."

An De also nodded, looking as if it were a matter of course: "If she dies, we'll just take revenge later."

"Lu Yingyue can barely save herself now, and you're still jumping into this stagnant water?" The old man's expression grew increasingly gloomy.

The two still looked as normal as ever.

An De said: "We take money to do the job, it's not shameful."

An Neng also nodded: "We just take the money to help deal with those who want to interfere with the competition and flip the table; if you don't make a move, we naturally won't either."

"..."

The old man was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "The employer is dead, so the mission naturally can't be considered complete; why don't we each go our own way? You take your family's little brat, and I'll only kill the artisan."

He paused and warned: "Get this straight, if you don't care, that candidate finger of your generation is going to die!"

"Indeed."

"Yeah, what a pity."

An De and An Neng looked at each other, shrugged helplessly, and sighed: "We are family after all, we must love each other. As uncles, we are elders, and now we see it in our eyes and feel anxious in our hearts.

Pity, no matter how anxious we are, it's useless."

"We can't snatch her wolf."

"Yeah, yeah, but if she dies, then it naturally won't be us snatching it!"

"Right, right." An De agreed deeply.

But An Neng frowned and looked over: "But brothers must settle accounts clearly; who does the wolf belong to?"

The two looked at each other and immediately beamed: "Then let's follow the old rules: whoever grabs it, it belongs to them!"

Those two identical faces took turns speaking, one sentence after another; before they even made a move, the old man already started to feel dizzy.

At this moment, his blood pressure couldn't help but skyrocket.

Damn you, Bai Lu!!!!

People from the An family all have some fucking mental illness! Mental illness!!!

From start to finish, these two idiots didn't have a shred of family love in their brains; they didn't care at all that the next generation's seed was about to die, they were only thinking about that wolf!

More important than the affection between families is the respect between hunters.

Hunter fingers are incompatible.

At this moment, outside the wilderness, the hunter is waiting, waiting for another hunter to return, or, to go to the hunting ground himself.

The raised dust will eventually settle.

The outcome will gradually become clear from the blood rain.

"How strange, not running anymore?"

And on the speeding Ba Snake, the Wolf Sin's expression changed suddenly, looking toward the rift valley between the distant mountains, and even that broken armor quietly bathing in the blood rain.

As well as Ji Jue, who was sitting in the blood rain with a small stool.

He lowered his head expressionlessly, treating his wounds as if he were repairing machinery, methodical and fluid.

Waiting quietly.

When he lifted his head and glanced at the Ba Snake hissing in fury in the distance, he raised his chin.

"It was quite a bit slower than expected."

That contemptuous overlooking, as if he were the one at the highest point at this moment, was a natural arrogance and indifference, mocking all challenges.

Was that a bluff born of overestimating his own abilities, or was it the confidence of someone who already had victory in his grasp?

It was truly hard to distinguish.

But that cold gaze, undisguised, inexplicably made the Wolf Sin's hair stand on end, an instinctive unease.

A certain aura of adoration, even purer than his own, swirled within the sin-tainted blood rain, winding around Ji Jue's body.

In the fleeting, eerie electric light, his shadow behind him was illuminated.

The shadow swayed and wriggled, hungry and ferocious like a wolf!

Another wolf?!

No, it hadn't even been transformed by sin, it wasn't even a subordinate of Bai Lu... this was clearly just an artisan, yet now, it seemed to be the object of adoration and love for all the great sins of the world.

The essence of the great sin, which would be enough to make many sin-worshippers jealous to the point of madness, manifested from that wisp of spiritual quality that had liberated its essence, and then, without disguise, it absorbed the pollution in the blood rain to strengthen itself.

When the thunder in the darkness crossed again, under the momentary, bleak white fierce light, it illuminated the ground beneath his feet—those layered, incomparably complex spiritual quality circuits.

Mercury swirled, reflecting iron light, actually like a living thing, rooted in the sin-tainted pollution, growing on its own, radiating in all directions. And within it, one great sin emblem after another slowly appeared, so clear and lofty, it was as if they were being reflected into the present world from beneath the vortex!

Compared to them, those holy emblems and totems of the Sin-Evil Cult circulating outside were simply non-combustible trash!

And now, the essence of many great sins was slowly manifesting and being outlined beneath Ji Jue's feet.

Once again, inscribed upon the present world.

"Calculating the time, it's about time."

Beneath the blood rain, Ji Jue whispered, tilting his head and glancing at the suspicious and vigilant Ba Snake, Wolf Sin, and Yue Chen in the distance, full of confusion: "I'm waiting for my cooldown, what are you waiting for?"

He lifted his left hand.

A crisp bell sound rang from his palm.

Echoing in the sky full of blood rain and wailing, so clear.

——Soul-Calling Bell!

(End of chapter)