Chapter 44: Self-Willed and Reckless

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"If you want to let us out to help you, then you should move this damn Sword away!"

Zhong Su, who had been knocked flying, quickly flew back and looked at Emo Lvcheng, who was standing on the other side of the Hell Gate.

This Sword was now equivalent to the key to Hell! And the Righteous Magic on it could only be touched by Lv Cheng!

With this Sword blocking Hell, they still couldn't leave!

"Why do you think I would open Hell?" Emo Lvcheng looked speechless.

If he could touch this Sword, would he still be suppressed like this?

"Using Hell to force me to give up the Sword?" Shengdoushi Lvcheng nodded.

"That is indeed feasible."

"But you are still no match for me."

He was now pure Yang, while the other half of him was only a part of Yin.

Unless he absorbed all the power of Shendu and Ximu who had already come to the human world, the power between them would not be equal.

"This ends here." Shengdoushi Lvcheng took a deep breath, and as Righteous Magic flowed, a long sword shimmering with golden flames condensed in his hand.

"As long as I seal you in Hell, I will be the only one!"

"Enough! Stop fighting!" Luo Pei flew up relying on Gravity Magic and looked at Shengdoushi Lvcheng, who had the upper hand.

"Can't you see the disaster below?"

"Disaster?" Shengdoushi Lvcheng narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Isn't this just the internal strife of humans themselves?"

The power struggles of humans, the death of Wen Tai, the madness of Ye Chang.

The so-called Black Vatican, the so-called disaster, were nothing more than the evil of humans themselves.

Human-made disasters had nothing to do with him.

"The power of a Saint Warrior is used to stop ultimate evil, not to interfere in human internal strife," Shengdoushi Lvcheng said indifferently.

"If I save them, will new evil be born among them tomorrow to harm other innocent people?"

"At that time, what would I, who saved these evils, be?"

"Do you want me to create evil? Luo Pei."

Luo Pei was stunned, "Isn't this just 'better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one go'?"

"I did not kill by mistake, I am simply not interfering." Shengdoushi Lvcheng turned and looked at Emo Lvcheng.

"Demons are also natural creatures on this planet, no different from humans. Humans can hunt demons, and demons can naturally hunt humans. It is just natural competition. Meddling self-righteously may seem to save the lives before me, but in reality, it is only sowing the seeds for a greater disaster."

"I have already witnessed disaster and human stupidity, time and time again. I will not use this power against ultimate evil in places where it shouldn't be used."

"The evil born from humans themselves should be solved by them."

"Now, I am going to solve the evil born from myself!"

Luo Pei frowned deeply.

Yin-Yang Splitting; no matter which Lv Cheng it was, they were both paranoid now. But shouldn't the one controlling Righteous Magic be good? How could he be so cold?

No, having witnessed disaster, could it be...

"Awoo~~~~"

A roar that resounded through Bo City rang out abruptly, interrupting Shengdoushi Lvcheng's attack.

Amidst the vast curtain of rain, a behemoth was flying toward the direction where the few were located; its destination was clearly the Silver Trade Building below, the highest point in Bo City.

"Can't even stop a dog, trash." Emo Lvcheng frowned, raised his right hand, and fired a Dragon Blast at the high-speed flying Winged Wolf.

BOOM!!!

A pillar of fire that pierced the sky erupted abruptly. The Winged Wolf had no time to dodge and was directly blasted, half its head gone, before it slowly fell to the ground and went silent.

"……"

"It... it killed it in one hit?"

Zhankong, who was chasing the Winged Wolf from behind, looked slightly stiff.

Killing a Commander in one hit, is he really a Super-level Mage?

But, where did a Super-level Mage come from?

"Do you think you are doing a good deed?" Shengdoushi Lvcheng said coldly.

"It was human evil that slaughtered the wolf's cubs; the essence of this disaster is a human-made one."

"It is a conflict provoked by humans."

"So? What the hell does that have to do with me?" Emo Lvcheng shrugged.

"I am not you, I don't have the constraints of Righteous Magic. My power, I can do whatever the hell I want."

Shengdoushi Lvcheng frowned, "Self-willed and reckless!"

"Oh? This is already self-willed and reckless?" Emo Lvcheng connected his Demon Qi to Hell, his momentum gradually rising, and the power of the two briefly reached the same level.

"I have even more reckless things, want to see?"

"You!" Shengdoushi Lvcheng lowered his eyes slightly.

"What, don't like the look of me? Come and kill me then?" Emo Lvcheng laughed.

"If you can do it, then do it; if you can't, shut up!"

Shengdoushi Lvcheng's expression turned cold, "Then let's try!"

"Come!"

"……"

"Brother A-Cheng!"

Shendu and Ximu, not wanting the finale to happen today, brought their cheats to save the day.

Both Lv Cheng stopped their movements, turned to look at Xinxia, who was being carried on Xiaotian's back, and asked, "Why are you here?"

Taking this opportunity, Shendu exerted the full power of the Rabbit Talisman to pull the two Lv Chengs together.

The moment the two made contact, Shendu once again activated the Divine Power of the Tiger Talisman; the split two-headed tiger merged, a bright light flashed, and the two Lv Chengs disappeared, turning back into the original Lv Cheng.

And the moment Lv Cheng merged into one, the power of Shendu and Ximu also rapidly weakened, returning to their previous state.

The torn-open Hell gate shattered and vanished, and the Pure Yang Sword turned into a stream of light, returning to Lv Cheng's chest.

"..."

Xinxia looked at the scene before her, feeling somewhat dazed.

Two Lv Chengs, and now they had become one Lv Cheng again?

"Brother A-Cheng?"

"Don't speak yet, let me calm down." Lv Cheng covered his head with a pained expression.

What a strange feeling!

He had been conscious just now!

Both consciousnesses were him!

However, both of his consciousnesses wanted to kill the other!

In other words... he wanted to kill himself?

Damn it! Even if the Tiger Talisman caused a split, it shouldn't have resulted in this kind of situation, right?

"Ximu, go and retrieve that Commander Essence." Lv Cheng pointed at the corpse of the Winged Cang Wolf in the distance.

"Shendu, go and collect the Remnant Souls and Essences in the city."

Although the soul energy of these low-level demons was very impure, having something was better than having nothing.

After working so hard for so long, he didn't want to end up with nothing.

"I... alright."

Ximu had wanted to refuse, but thinking of the Shengdoushi Lvcheng from just a moment ago, he was still very sensible!

He finally understood why Shendu wanted to push Lv Cheng into Yang Li's position.

If they didn't turn Lv Cheng into an existence like them, that Shengdoushi Lvcheng who had obtained the authorization for the Eight Immortals' Righteous Magic could have beaten them all to a pulp and thrown them back even if they had all escaped from Hell!

If they wanted to gain freedom in the human world, they had to establish an inseparable, absolute connection with Lv Cheng!

"Why do I feel..." Lv Cheng looked at Luo Pei, finding it somewhat hard to describe his state.

"There are two voices, right?" Luo Pei sighed.

"Yeah." Lv Cheng nodded.

Even if the Tiger Talisman split him into good and evil sides, still... it shouldn't have reached the point where they wanted to kill each other the moment they met, right?

"It seems you are no simple Shengdoushi." Luo Pei found himself unable to speak for a moment.

A long time ago, those who possessed the blessing of the Immortal God Qi and were favored by Righteous Magic were called Immortal God Descendants by Mages, because their power was incomparably strong, just like those gods who had once descended upon the human world.

In the ancient era, after the Eight Immortals sealed the Eight Demons into Hell, this type of person already existed in the human world; they all fought to protect humanity from the harm of extreme evil.

But evil is not just demons, nor is it just evil souls or demon gods.

Humans are also evil.

The souls of Immortal God Descendants were even more powerful than a Shengdoushi like him, so they would constantly reincarnate and repeat their work.

Their powerful strength made them ignore the evil of human nature, and the result was that they were used again and again by human evil, using the power of Righteous Magic for human infighting and the struggle for profit.

As time passed, these Immortal God Descendants gradually felt angry and disappointed at human evil; they refused to reincarnate again and were unwilling to continue protecting humanity, and by his era, there were almost no such people left.

Those who appeared afterward were called Shengdoushi.

Shengdoushi are weaker than Immortal God Descendants and closer to humans, so they are more easily accepted by humans and are no longer viewed as outsiders.

But they are still often subjected to human schemes and exclusion.

He had experienced it, so he could imagine what those pure Immortal God Descendants had gone through to make such Saint-like existences refuse to continue protecting humanity.

Human evil is far more terrifying than demons.

The evil of demons lies mostly in their powerful strength, but human evil is everywhere; those pure and persistent Immortal God Descendants had already despaired at this human evil.

Therefore, just like the Eight Immortals, they refused to descend again.

This child...

(End of this chapter)