Chapter 242: Give You an Explanation? (4K)

And while over there the Genius Flow and the Trash Flow were fighting tooth and nail.

They both completely forgot that in a corner to the side, ignored by everyone, there was actually still a pair of sisters.

Pinned down directly, Li Lingling only felt her back aching from slamming into the ground, while her front had been hit hard.

Her younger sister clearly still had a youthful look on her cheeks, but at some point, she had already surpassed her own sister.

Feeling this weight like Mount Tai pressing down.

Li Lingling knew that she was...

Pinned down.

"Mmph, wuwu! Mmph mmph mmph—"

("Cough cough, Yu'er! You, you're pressing on my face, I can't breathe...")

Before her eyes was total darkness; Li Lingling finally managed to push away the heavy object pressing on her body with her face in the darkness.

"Ha!!! Haa!"

Greedily sucking air into her lungs, Li Lingling thought with lingering fear.

"Encountering such a thing is already bad enough; if I were to be smothered to death by my own sister..."

Thinking of her experiences during this time, Li Lingling felt like doubting her own bad luck.

She had thought that by relying on lies, she could be lucky enough to enter the Zhengqi Sect; even being the lowest-ranked disciple would have been fine.

Although she was just a village girl, she also had a little bit of wisdom.

Her sister and she were helpless and alone; after entering the sect, they would certainly not be respected, and not being mocked to their faces would already be considered good.

Perhaps they would make us act as servants to attend to their daily lives.

But that was fine.

That little bit of injustice, compared to the benefits gained, was not worth worrying about at all.

At least after entering that place, they would no longer worry about food and clothing, and would no longer worry about dying from an unknown plague.

"As long as my younger sister can grow up healthy, I am willing to give everything I have."

But looking back, her initial thoughts were truly too naive.

"I am truly too stupid."

"I thought that as long as I entered the sect, I wouldn't have to worry about life and death, but I didn't expect to encounter such a thing."

An unknown, terrifying existence blocked their path to the sect and also blocked the extravagant hopes in Li Lingling's heart.

"People die everywhere."

"Being a village girl leads to death, and being a disciple of a great sect... also leads to death."

Those three Senior Brothers, each thinking themselves powerful, were already starting to stiffen at this moment.

Senior Sister Xie, this enviable woman, although she sometimes looked at me with unsettling eyes, she was quite good to us.

And now, she was disfigured and had fainted from the pain.

This matter of entering the Zhengqi Sect had been beautiful like an unrealistic dream from the very beginning.

"When Senior Sister Xie announced it, I was thinking, am I even worthy of this luck?"

"Now, I know."

"I am not worthy."

I am not worthy.

So, the dream should end.

I am just a village girl with thin fortune and a cheap life; I am simply not worthy of this luck.

"Perhaps I am just a Heavenly Fiend Lone Star; maybe I should just die."

"No, I still have Yu'er, I cannot fall."

She still had a younger sister to take care of; it was not yet time to give up.

"Thankfully, I still have Yu'er, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to hold on..."

Thinking in self-abandonment, Li Lingling sighed and patted her sister's shoulder.

"Yu'er, get up quickly, let's take this opportunity to escape!"

After being shaken by Li Lingling for a long time, Yu Yu, who was lying on her, finally reacted slowly.

She opened her eyes slightly, looked at the face close at hand, and smiled weakly.

"... Sister, sister."

As soon as Yu Yu opened her mouth, Li Lingling realized something was wrong.

No, why was her voice so weak?

"Yu'er! What's wrong with you? Yu'er!!!"

"Don't scare me, Yu'er!"

Hugging Yu Yu, Li Lingling suddenly felt her hand touch a pool of slippery liquid.

This is...

A bad guess formed in her heart, and she pulled her hand back trembling.

Red.

A handful of bright red.

Blood.

"Yu'er, why are you bleeding? Where are you hurt?"

Li Lingling panicked and wanted to turn Yu Yu over to look, but she stopped halfway through.

Yu Yu stopped her movement.

"I am fine."

It is already meaningless.

Fresh blood had long since flowed all over the ground.

Yu Yu understood herself that she was undoubtedly going to die.

The role she was playing had reached its end here...

Is this, then, the limit?

Ah...

I feel somewhat unreconciled.

I still wanted to walk a little further with you.

I really wanted to see what you would look like in the Zhengqi Sect.

Thinking this with an unreconciled heart, yet what she spoke were gentle words.

She said:

"I am very happy to be able to be your sister."

In this dream-like game, I was actually really quite happy.

Having the chance to be treated as a younger sister by my elder sister.

Having the chance to see you looking like a village girl.

It is just a pity that it is already coming to an end...

No!

Her eyes lit up with a final flash of brilliance, and a surge of strength appeared out of thin air in Yu Yu's body.

Forcing herself to hold on with her last breath, she grabbed the palm of the dazed Li Lingling.

Holding it tightly, she conveyed her will:

"Sister... hurry and run away."

Yu Yu smiled and spoke slowly:

"You will escape, don't be afraid!"

"There is nothing left to be afraid of..."

After finishing the last word, her pupils rolled upward, and her entire body fell uncontrollably into Li Lingling's embrace.

"What?"

"Xiao Yu, don't lie to your sister, don't lie to me!!!"

"You must be scaring me, right!"

Li Lingling shouted in a low voice, her pupils trembling violently as she pushed Yu Yu's body.

Slap, slap... plop.

The moment Yu Yu's arm fell limply, Li Lingling felt the world stop.

Everything, absolutely everything, had lost its color and fallen into a pitch-black darkness.

"You must be lying to me..."

The voice from her mouth grew smaller and smaller, until it finally faded into silence.

She just held Yu Yu's gradually cooling body with vacant eyes, her lips trembling slightly.

Finally, she let out a shrill, miserable roar:

"Ahhh—"

The next moment, however, she let out a chilling, strange laugh:

"Hahahaha!"

Li Lingling's eyes turned completely blood-red, and she looked up to the sky and laughed.

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault!"

"I am too stupid!!!"

"It is all my fault; Father and Mother died because of me, and it was also I who caused Xiao Mei to die a miserable death."

"I understand now! Everything, everything is because of me!"

She roared crazily, and in the shadow behind her, a bright star as scarlet as blood seemed to light up!

Accompanied by the appearance of a strange aura, the aura on her body grew stronger and more terrifying.

Almost like a wild beast!

She tilted her head back and roared at fate:

"I am that Heavenly Fiend Lone Star!!!"

"But I will not admit defeat! My life is decided by myself!!!"

She said:

"I will overturn this Heaven! My life is not determined by Heaven! My life... eh?"

While swearing an oath, Li Lingling's expression suddenly changed, and she became completely quiet.

Blinking her eyes rapidly, Li Lingling looked around in a daze:

"Where is this? Why am I here..."

As she was speaking, her body instantly vanished from where she stood.

And the corpse of Yu Yu, which had been held in her arms, lost its support and fell heavily.

The neck, which had already been mostly severed by the rampaging Sword Qi, snapped completely with a crack.

Roll, roll...

After rolling separately for a moment, the heads dissipated at the same time.

……

"Foster Father, did you do that on purpose?"

【Ah... how should I explain this to you? This genre is a bit retro; it's the Blackened Flow.】

Ren Yidao gave a wicked smile and spoke eloquently:

【Simply put, it's when someone's personality changes drastically after a breakdown; in short, switching to a dark personality.】

【Besides, although this trope is old, it has its reasons for being old.】

【It never goes out of style! After all, who wouldn't like the setting where 'blackening makes you three times stronger'...】

Yu Yu stared at Ren Yidao expressionlessly until he unnaturally shifted his gaze away.

【……】

Her lips moved, and she walked up to Ren Yidao, looking indignant, then raised her hand to press against his cheeks and asked:

"You, did you do that on purpose?"

Ren Yidao wanted to turn his head but was held firmly in place, forced to look directly into a pair of eyes filled with anger.

Oh my, the child is angry.

After hesitating for a moment, Ren Yidao honestly admitted it.

【……Yes.】

"……"

Staring into that gaze, Ren Yidao, as if possessed, added:

【Don't you think it suits her?】

Chuunibyou and blackening go very well together, you know!

With eyes full of disdain, Yu Yu let go, then kicked Ren Yidao's calf hard as if to vent.

Slap!

"Do you think this is very funny!"

Ren Yidao: I'm sorry! But, yes.

"I'm fine with it, but later! You must go and apologize to Lingling! Did you hear me!"

【Uh, I heard you.】

After shouting loudly, Yu Yu felt it wasn't enough to vent, so she gave him two more kicks before turning and walking away.

As she walked, Yu Yu kept touching her own neck.

Even though her body was whole at this moment, she still had a strange feeling of having had her head separated.

"Hmph!!!"

Ren Yidao blinked, watching Yu Yu's figure as she stomped away, and muttered to himself:

【Hmm, she's not asking me to apologize to her, but is worried about Li Lingling?】

【And, 'I'm fine with it?' Heh...】

What a good child!

After Yu Yu exited, Ren Yidao, who only had a tiny bit of reflection in his heart, looked back at the battlefield between the Second Prince and the Ninth Princess.

However, this look left Ren Yidao quite surprised.

He truly didn't expect that the Trash Flow and the Genius Flow would decide a winner so quickly!

……

Just a moment ago, Li Fengyao, who had been almost completely insane, suddenly regained her clarity.

She didn't suddenly turn back from her lost path, but was instead shocked by another, more powerful killing intent.

？？？

Li Fengyao looked in shock to the side, which she had previously ignored, and saw that figure wailing in a breakdown.

She was shocked.

My pain... is actually beneath hers!

Impossible!

It was also at this moment, seeing the resentment on Li Lingling's face, that Li Fengyao suddenly realized something.

Li Fengyao, who had already been just one step away, completely awakened.

"No, I am not some Holy Son of the Zhengqi Sect."

"I am the Second Prince of Beigan... Li Fengyao!"

She remembered who she was, and in an instant, she even realized what she was doing now.

Then, she narrowed her eyes and looked at the dazed Li Qiushui opposite her.

A flaw.

With this power in her hands right now, as long as she seized this opportunity, she could give her a good lesson in this illusion.

But Li Fengyao hesitated for a moment and still didn't do it.

The moment she regained her will, she felt the attraction from the outside world, wanting to pull her back to the real world.

Not following this summons like Li Lingling, she chose to resist.

Without saying another word to Li Qiushui, she seized this opportunity and disappeared directly from here.

Li Fengyao still had one thing to do in this world.

Revenge.

Revenge against the Zhengqi Sect!

"This is an illusion, and everything this body experiences is nothing but fake..."

Li Fengyao is very clear about this, but she does not care about what is real or fake.

"But some things are real."

"The hatred they hold for me, Li Fengyao, is real."

Seeking revenge for the slightest grievance is Li Fengyao's life creed, a nature that will never change.

Even if it is a fake illusion, she must take revenge.

So she went.

Alone with a single sword, she slaughtered her way up to the Zhengqi Sect.

Amidst the incredulous, ghost-seeing gazes of all the disciples of the Zhengqi Sect.

Regardless of gender or age, whether she had crossed paths with them or not, she spared no one.

Anyway... it is just an illusion, isn't it?

She did not distinguish, but with a calm expression, she killed every life she saw...

A discarded disciple of the Zhengqi Sect, she completely exterminated the Zhengqi Sect.

And after finishing all this, Li Fengyao was already in blood-stained clothes, standing on the highest peak of the sect.

She looked at the sea of fire beneath her feet and suddenly spoke:

"Daoist Ren... no, Ren Yidao."

Li Fengyao touched her jade ring with fingers as slender as jade and said softly:

"I think afterwards, we should have a talk."

"I need you to give me an explanation."

【Oh my, I don't know what you mean! As for that talk, let's skip it; I am from the Li Qiushui faction, it is not convenient to meet with you in private.】

Seeing that Ren Yidao was not playing dead, Li Fengyao laughed, licked the blood flowing to the corner of her mouth, and said playfully:

"Then do you mean you want me to mention it in front of others?"

【...】

Ren Yidao felt a little guilty.

Which matter are you referring to when you say "mention"?

"Heh."

In front of the gradually collapsing and disintegrating mountain gate, Li Fengyao's laughter was clear, but it sounded exceptionally chilling to Ren Yidao's ears.

"If you don't mind, I don't mind either."

"I will go ask my Imperial Father right now if I can take on a Foster Father."

【... Oh.】

Oh, you scared me, you meant that matter!

Small matter!

I will agree to you right now... actually, forget it.

To be honest, for a moment, Ren Yidao was actually tempted.

He really wanted to see the expression on Li Long's face when he heard this question.

But he was also rational, and at the last moment, he managed to suppress his desire to court death.

【Ahem!】

Although this proposal is very tempting, it won't do...

【Well, the signal is bad, let's talk later, let's talk later.】

Huhu still cannot beat him, the time is not yet ripe!

But when the day of turning the tables finally comes...

Hmph hmph!

You all will be in for a great treat!