Chapter 562

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Protagonist:

Xuan Ge

"Qian Xiao, my karmic lines are complicated; you just cut whichever you see fit, don't worry about me."

Xuan Ge infused power into Qian Xiao and comforted her not to be nervous.

"Qian Xiao, just cut whichever one displeases you and be done with it, no need to listen to Xuan Ge's bullshit, he's just afraid of losing the big one."

Jinguang's hand rested on Qian Xiao's shoulder, steadying her state.

"O... okay."

Cold sweat beaded on Qian Xiao's forehead; she gritted her teeth forcing herself to calm down.

Too... too many...

Qian Xiao looked at the dense, patternless karmic lines before her eyes; she felt as if she had entered a kaleidoscope world, hallucinations everywhere.

"Don't be afraid, even if you cut wrong, We will definitely punish you, making you unable to get out of bed for at least seven or eight days."

A whisper came by her ear; one listen and it was Xuan Ge speaking.

"Se... seven or eight days unable to get out of bed..."

Hearing this, Qian Xiao's nervousness vanished completely, replaced by a crimson blush born of shyness that climbed over her cheeks.

"Can you not say these things in front of a child."

Jinguang frowned.

This old bastard Xuan Ge is truly shameless; the other party is still a schoolgirl!

There's no coaxing someone like this!

"I'm coaxing my own consort, what's it to you?" Xuan Ge gave Jinguang a sidelong glance, "You really meddle in everything."

"Qian Xiao hasn't even married in yet, what do you mean staring into the pot like this?"

"That's only a matter of time, you mind your own damn business."

"Aren't you afraid she'll cut wrong?"

"I trust her."

When Xuan Ge said this his tone was flat, without the slightest hesitation.

"You trust her too."

Jinguang didn't reply, but the hand resting on Qian Xiao's shoulder tightened slightly.

Qian Xiao closed her eyes; beads of sweat on her forehead slid down along her cheeks.

Those karmic lines surged in the severing view — red, black, gold, gray — each one tethering a past or future.

And that wasn't all; within those karmic pasts and futures were mixed massive amounts of karma.

If she cuts wrong, to put it mildly Xuan Ge loses his wives.

No, this is a big thing, this is no small matter.

"Focus your mind, find my line first."

At this moment Jinguang spoke, using the same gentle tone as Xuan Ge, patiently guiding Qian Xiao.

"My line is different from his; it's black."

His karma is black because he himself is the sum of karma, so it manifests as black.

Under normal circumstances his would be red-gold, because at that time he had not walked the Path of the Hunt.

While Xuan Ge has been blue-gold from beginning to end.

"Mm." Qian Xiao answered, her voice trembling a little.

Xuan Ge looked at Jinguang and suddenly spoke: "Shu Hu."

Jinguang didn't speak, but his ears twitched.

"The first enemy you face upon returning is Shu Hu, and your growth time is fixed; how will you counter?"

Hearing this, Jinguang turned away, not letting Xuan Ge see him smile.

"Can you lend me something.... or rather, give me something."

"Given."

Xuan Ge knew what Jinguang meant, then condensed pure Hunt power into a light arrow.

Just like those Xuan Ges who died in Jinguang's hands before, he pinched out an identical thing.

"I should thank you on Ai Li Ou's behalf; after all you didn't reach into Ai Li Ou's mouth."

"Hehe~ that little kitty would probably cry upon seeing me."

Jinguang looked at the light arrow in his hand, then wrapped it in karma to ensure that upon returning to his world this light arrow would not be noticed by the Hunt.

"Many thanks."

Jinguang said thanks, then the atmosphere between the two fell silent on this snowfield.

"Too many of the other Xuan Family's people have died; they all followed with their lives and hearts."

Xuan Ge gazed at the snow-white misty sky, breaking the silence first.

He owed the Xuan Family Corps of that time too much, too much to ever repay.

"Weighing, schemes, politics..... sometimes I'm also very tired...."

This sigh scattered the falling wind and snow, yet could not blow away the cold wind biting in his face.

He has been this Divine Might General for so many years; only the very beginning was happy.

Because at the time he didn't consider the future at all, he only wanted to expand his own power, to have an equal standing with Jing Liu.

But the Shuhu Chaos ruined everything of his.

It was Shuhu who forced him into the position of Xue Tie Jiang Jun.

Regarding the Bai Lang incident, he could act on impulse, go punish Da Li Hua.

But he couldn't.

Shen Wu Xian Zhou, this is a mobile military fortress, but even more so a home.

The word General weighs heavily on 'army'; under his command are not just the orphans of the Xuan Family Army, but also those Shen Wu soldiers who follow him.

Everyone needs money, needs merit to support their families; he cannot cut off others' livelihoods to indulge himself.

This is unrealistic.

"Mm, I'll pay attention."

"I'm not telling you to pay attention." Xuan Ge looked at Jin Guang, "I'm telling you to definitely do it."

"Jin Guang, it's been too long since you've heard them call you General, right? You've also forgotten how they'd beg you for a quick death, say their wives and children are entrusted to you....."

Jin Guang didn't speak, just listened.

He understood, Xuan Ge was reminding him and at the same time making a realization.

And also making up for the regret of that year.

"Absolutely no mistakes; you no longer have a chance to do it over. When you use the Light Arrow I gave you, the Star Gods will trap you to death."

"I understand." Jin Guang nodded slightly, "This arrow, I will definitely kill Shuhu, leaving it no ability to turn the tables."

Between the two people it grew quiet for a while, only Qian Xiao's rapid breathing and the wind on the snow plains.

"Xuan Ge."

"Mm?"

"You have too many concubines." Jin Guang's tone was very flat when he said this, "Take in a few less, save yourself from not being able to tell them apart."

"You sure meddle widely."

"I'm not meddling with you, I'm reminding you. Every extra one you take in, karma ties one more thread; when something happens then, can you protect them all?"

Xuan Ge didn't answer immediately.

He glanced at Qian Xiao, then glanced at those vague figures at the end of the snow plains.

"Can't protect them, still have to protect."

Xuan Ge spoke with righteous confidence; pure beauty is his underlying code, cannot be changed a bit.

"Since I took them in, it's my business."

"Stubborn."

"Aren't you the same? For one Jing Liu, going around such a big circle."

Jin Guang choked for a moment.

"You... you motherfucker, can't you say something nice to hear."

"Can't."

Qian Xiao suddenly opened her eyes, pointing at a golden thread in the Void: "Found it."

That golden thread was very thin, but among the myriad karma threads it was the most special.

Because only this one completely has no past and no future.

Her Resonance ability, plus the Causal Power Xuan Ge gave, let her see it clearly.

Xuan Ge didn't immediately let Qian Xiao act, but said to Jin Guang: "Don't fail."

Jin Guang sneered: "If I were going to fail, I'd have gone to dig out Ai Li Ou's cat belly long ago."

"I really want to say something nasty, because you have failed before, and it was a total defeat."

"... You motherfucker really don't know how to talk."

"Learned it from you."

"I never taught you this."

"Your existence itself is a negative example."

Jin Guang opened his mouth, finally laughed: "Fine, you win."

He looked down at Qian Xiao, voice softened a bit: "Girl, cut it. Don't be afraid."

Qian Xiao nodded, then she closed her eyes, precisely locking onto that causal thread.

"Xuan Ge."

Jin Guang suddenly spoke again.

"What now?"

"If you die on some woman's belly, I won't let you go even as a ghost."

"Then you'll have to queue; the ghost queue is very long, people who want to kill me are a dime a dozen."

Jin Guang laughed, Xuan Ge also laughed.

Qian Xiao's scissors fell.

The golden thread snapped in response.

Jin Guang's figure, starting from the feet, bit by bit turned into light particles, drifting toward the Sky.

"Xuan Ge." Jin Guang spoke for the last time.

"Speak."

"Jing Liu is the best, you piece of trash, fundamentally don't understand."

"I understand better than you, you pure-love old virgin."

Jin Guang's mouth twitched, but in the end he did not retort, merely saying two words.

"Take care....."

Xuan Ge stood in place, watching those golden light motes vanish above the snowfield.

"You too." He said softly.

Qian Xiao returned from the causality world, looked up at him: "Xuan Ge... are you crying?"

"No, the snow is too big, it got in my eyes."