Chapter 818

Malanyn: "General Feixiao will ultimately die in the midst of going mad?"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "....."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "If we cannot find a way to cure Feixiao, then this will be her final ending."

The video continues.

【And to repay her life-saving grace, you intend to give everything you have to challenge this unsolvable riddle.】

Hulei had already come to know Seeing Jiaoqiu's obsession.

【Hulei.... do you know what the most sorrowful thing is, for a physician?】

【All this time, I have exhausted everything I learned in my life, trying to snatch back those lives headed for death from monsters like you.】

【I collapsed to the ground in utter exhaustion, my hands trembling, wondering if everything I had done held any meaning.】

【Yet they once again charged toward the battlefield.】

【And so, I heard the news of their deaths.】

【They died beneath the claws of your kind, in the flames of a fallen Star Skiff, in the light-arrows of the Divine Bow...】

【I was like a futile Bai Chi, fishing a creature called life out of a cauldron named death — watching it struggle once, then leap back into the boiling broth.】

【I asked myself, what drove them, after being healed, to rush toward death once more without a care for themselves?】

【Why would they not cherish a life so hard-won?】

【It left me bewildered, hollow....】

Stelle: "I never expected Physician Jiaoqiu to have had such a moment of despair."

Ying: "People just saved, and before long they rush back to the battlefield, until word comes of their death."

Ying: "Then what is the meaning of saving them?"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Yes, if those I save with my own hands are doomed to die again, then what is the meaning of saving them?"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "That was exactly what I thought back then."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "And so, carrying this question, my heart dead, I stopped practicing medicine."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Until Feixiao woke me up."

Brother Dan Heng: "A physician, even if they can bring the dead back to life and grow flesh on bare bone, with medical skill reaching the realm of the miraculous, healing many people—"

Brother Dan Heng: "Still cannot cure the agony of war..."

Silver Wolf: "So studying medicine can't save this world!"

Silver Wolf: "If you want to change all of this, you must have powerful strength!"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Yes... one must have strength sufficient to change all of this."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Only then can tragedies like these be reduced."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "I am only a physician, a cook — in this life I can forget about having such strength."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "But Feixiao has it — she has the ability to change all of this!"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "And I, I must have the ability to cure her!"

March 7th: "I think I understand Mr. Jiaoqiu's thinking now."

March 7th: "This is the obsession Mr. Jiaoqiu has carried all along, isn't it?"

The video continues.

【Heh... I smell a despair that has seeped into your very bones.】

Hulei listened to Seeing Jiaoqiu's account with keen interest.

【In the end, I understood — there is value in departing as well.】

【They pressed the weight of their departure upon the hearts of us who remain, granting us greater strength.】

【They used the coin of death to exchange for more....】

【This is everything I do now — staying close by your side, only to witness one outcome with my own eyes: your death....】

【Your death, too, holds value.】

【It will buy the peace of the Martial Deity Ceremony; and a Feixiao healed by my hand.】

Seeing Jiaoqiu raised his head,

gazing calmly at Hulei.

【Hmph, the thoughts turning in that pitiful head of yours are just as expected.】

At Seeing Jiaoqiu's words,

Hulei gave a contemptuous cold snort.

【You knew all along?】

Seeing Jiaoqiu's brow rose.

【Indeed, for no one knows the value death can bring better than the Buli people.】

【And a physician like you, long accustomed to death, cannot be deterred by mere fear.】

【What a pity.】

【The moment I finished hearing this story, a trace of respect for you actually rose in my heart.】

On Hulei's face,

a rare expression of appreciation appeared.

【In that heart of yours, flowing with poisonous blood.... can such a thing as respect also arise?】

A hint of mockery seemed to flicker in Seeing Jiaoqiu's eyes.

【Of course, for I caught a whiff of a kindred spirit.】

【Pity, you are after all nothing but a soft, powerless fox.】

【As the ancient wolf proverb says: Grant the wolf a dead end, and let it find a path forward.】

【Feed the wolf a death count, and let it eat its fill.】

【Crawling in fleeting peace, there is nowhere to live; fighting to the death, Wan Shi endures.】

Welt: "The ancient wolf proverb?"

Welt: "Sigh, Hulei is about to make his move."

Stelle: "Hulei's meaning is, he wants to cut out a path forward?"

Stelle: "Damn, isn't this just charging in blindly?"

Topaz: "Rather, this is the resolve of being the alpha wolf."

Topaz: "As expected of the leader of the Borisin."

Topaz: "Setting aside everything else, at the very least this bearing is truly extraordinary."

Black Swan: "How could the leader of a faction that once forced an entity as colossal as the Xianzhoulian Alliance into a desperate situation be any ordinary person?"

Black Swan: "The terror of the Abundance Race can absolutely not be easily overlooked."

Boothill: "What a fine ancient wolf proverb!"

Boothill: "Holy sh—t, a bunch of wolf cubs, and they're acting all noble about it."

Boothill: "Their nobility is built upon the bones of countless innocent people!"

Boothill: "Just a pack of filthy beasts!"

Keqing: "A tribe that wantonly tramples the dignity and lives of others like this would be better off disappearing."

Keqing: "I hope the Luofu Xianzhou can completely eradicate them."

The video continues.

【This is also why I'm temporarily keeping you around — I will show you the Borisin's greatest tribute to their enemies:】

【Devour your flesh and blood, nourish our sinews and bones, shatter your visions, and open our hunting path;】

【I will have your dead souls bear witness — the future belongs to me!】

Hulei's emotions grew increasingly fervent.

【My lord! The compatriots responsible for the rendezvous have sent word — the arrangements at Huixing Port have been discovered, we must depart immediately!】

At this moment, Modu, who had received the message,

hurriedly reported to Hulei.

【This was not at all beyond my expectations.】

【Modu... what is this sound?】

Suddenly, an inexplicable sound came through, leaving Hulei somewhat puzzled.

【It's the Jingfeng Ship.】