Volume 5: The Mystery of Shamo Chapter 34: A Century of Life and Death
"Stop pretending. I know exactly what you're thinking. These so-called panaceas are just excuses. You just don't want to go back to Shamo City with me! Don't think I don't know that in your heart you don't even consider me your senior brother. Maybe I'm even worse than an outsider." Wu Su exposed her lies without hesitation. In fact, he had always seen some things clearly.
After being rebuked like this, Ping Lili felt a little embarrassed, because the other party was indeed right. She wanted to continue playing dumb, but when she saw Wu Su's aggressive eyes, she suddenly felt inexplicably irritated.
"Don't trust that so-called senior brother of yours! If he really wanted to protect you, he wouldn't have watched those people kill you back then!"
At this moment, a long-buried impulse suddenly took over her mind for no apparent reason. Her eyebrows raised slightly. She no longer cared about her previous plans and pretense. She had been holding back some words for a long time and she couldn't help but say them: "Yes, I was killed by my uncles and sealed away by my own brother for five hundred years. If I don't use my wisdom, I will die without a burial place again."
"You..." These words were like thunder out of the blue, hitting Wu Su's heart. His eyes were wide open, and his pair of dead wood-like hands were clenched into fists under his sleeves, even trembling , as if he was deliberately suppressing the anger in his chest.
"What's wrong with me? Did I say something wrong?" Gong Lili raised her head angrily, looking like she was ready to give it all up. There were some words that she had been holding in her heart for a long time, but now that she said them out in one breath, she felt much better.
Although she knew Wu Su had been forced to seal Yao Ji, and that he had done so out of a desire to protect her, for some reason, Ying Lili still couldn't understand his actions. If he truly had wanted to protect her, he wouldn't have stood by and watched those uncles kill her. What would be the point of trying to remedy the situation later? Even if he had saved her spirit, Yao Ji was already dead, her body destroyed. What was the point?
What was the point of guarding an invisible and intangible soul for five hundred years? Qing Lili could not understand such a feeling, could not comprehend it.
"What happened back then was not as simple as you think!" After a long while, Wu Su seemed to have calmed down his emotions. He looked steadily into the golden brown eyes of Ying Lili, sighed, and then slowly uttered these words. In fact, he did not need to explain to her, but for some reason, when he thought that she had such resentment towards him in her heart, Wu Su found it difficult to control his emotions. Seeing the other party's appearance, Ying Lili became even more presumptuous. Anyway, since so much had been said today, she might as well ask for clarification. She would rather die with a clear mind: "What are you planning to do now? Do you want to take me back to Shamo City and let me die again?"
When she said this, her face was full of sarcasm, and she did not hide her distrust of him at all.
"You...it turns out that in your heart, I, your senior brother, am so despicable!" Wu Su was extremely angry and flicked his sleeves fiercely. His lips were trembling with anger because of Ping Lili's aggressive words!
If it weren't for her, if this body wasn't the woman that had worried him for five hundred years, Wu Su would have slapped her to death with a single blow. How could he allow her to provoke him like this and be so presumptuous in front of him!
As soon as Gong Lili said this, she actually regretted it. She thought in her heart that this seemed to be a bit harsh, but when she thought of Wu Su always calling her Yao Ji and how Wu Su had been persistent in wanting Yao Ji to replace him, she couldn't help but want to satirize him. It seemed that the more she hurt him, the happier she would feel in her heart. It was as if she wanted to tear down all his defenses and hurt him completely.
But seeing the lingering sadness in the other person's eyes, she felt a little regretful. It turned out that some words not only hurt others, but also hurt herself.
In reality, Ying Lili knew that Yao Ji herself had never resented him, and even held feelings of attachment and gratitude towards this senior brother. He was merely relying on his face, which looked just like Yao Ji's, and using the same voice as hers to vent his personal grudge.
Such thoughts made her feel a little guilty.
"Brother, I don't want to die..." After a long time, she sighed deeply, looked at him steadily with her golden brown eyes, and said these words quietly.
Seeing the helpless expression of the woman in front of him, Wu Su suddenly felt his heart tighten. For no reason, the last helpless look of Yao Ji before her death suddenly flashed into his mind. He knew that although she did not say such words that day, her eyes were exactly the same as now.
Did she also want to say this to him at that time?
Did she ever blame herself for not being able to protect her from her uncles?
Thinking of this, Wu Su felt a sharp pain in his heart. This was a pain that Wu Su had buried deep in his heart for five hundred years. In countless midnight dreams, he had asked himself thousands of times why he had not been able to protect her that day.
Don’t dare or can’t?!
If time could go back, would he have the courage to betray the Shamo people, the elder teachers and uncles, and protect her at all costs?
He asked himself this question countless times, but never got an answer.
He carries too much on his shoulders. Since he was a child, he has been placed with high hopes by his elder teachers and the people of Shamo. He has known since he was a child that he would devote his entire life to being loyal to Shamo, and he has almost never put any other personal feelings above the interests of the Shamo clan. After five hundred years of vicissitudes, this rule of putting the interests of the Shamo clan first has long been integrated into his blood.
But, was such a choice, such a life, a mistake from the beginning?
He had no answer, even though he asked himself countless times, he still had no answer.
He had originally thought that these were all passing clouds, that he had long since seen through the complications of this world, but now, facing this woman he once deeply loved, facing her simple words, he was speechless! Speechless!
Don't want to die...
Yes, she was so young at that day, just over eighteen years old, such a bright and beautiful age, her life had just begun, but she eventually became a victim of the feud between the Nayu and Shamo tribes.
Wu Su's heart suddenly softened. Although he understood that if Yao Ji truly awakened, this woman's spirit might disappear from this body, perhaps coexisting with Yao Ji, at that moment, he suddenly began to doubt whether this was right or wrong. She was still so young, as brilliant as Yao Ji had been that day. Was it right to drag her into such a dispute? Was that the outcome he really wanted?
However, he knew that he had no choice. The four uncles had already awakened, and it was only a matter of time before the seal was broken. If he did not take her back before the uncles broke free from the icicles, and let this body merge with Yao Ji's soul to regain Yao Ji's power, he would become even more passive.
The uncles, conscious of their past life experience and their deep prejudice against Yao Ji, were bound to criticize her profusely. Given the woman's temperament and cultivation, her fate wouldn't be much better than Yao Ji's. However, if they didn't take her back, allowing her to wander the Void Realm like this, the uncles would definitely not tolerate it, and the entire Shamo clan would not tolerate it either.
After a struggle in his heart, reason finally overcame emotion. He knew that the arrow was on the string and had to be shot. He had no choice, not from the beginning.
His eyes gradually dimmed, and he deliberately made his voice even colder: "I only have one last question for you. Do you want to go back with me, or do you want me to do it myself?"
Hearing this, the last trace of guilt in Ping Lili's heart finally disappeared. She sneered and said, "Since that's the case, then, Great Elder Wu Su, let's talk based on our strength!"
Before he finished speaking, a circle of golden barrier appeared in front of him, and his golden-brown eyes gradually cooled down, as if covered with a layer of frost.
When Wu Su heard the name that Gong Lili used to deliberately distance herself from him, he suddenly became a little angry. However, he had no choice. He gradually narrowed his eyes, and a trace of helplessness finally appeared on his face that was full of vicissitudes of life.
He suddenly spread out his sleeves and slowly raised his arms like a roc spreading its wings. His ten fingers continuously tapped, hooked, circled, flicked, bent and grabbed with endless changes. Several pure and clear spiritual energies swirled and danced, forming a complicated sickle-shaped pattern in the air!
When Ping Lili looked at the familiar sickle-shaped pattern, she felt a little sad. This pattern had been with her since she came to the Xu Ming Realm. It had always been protecting her. She had also regarded this pattern as her own amulet, but she had never expected this day!
She subconsciously touched her forehead. Since the Battle of Yonghui, the sickle-shaped mark on her forehead has disappeared. Does this mean that her connection with the Shamo people has come to an end?
At this moment, the world in the pot suddenly changed, and Wu Su's sickle-shaped pattern suddenly disappeared. He took a deep breath and found that his spiritual power was actually imprisoned by an invisible force. It was Ying Lili who reacted first at this time, because she had had such an experience before. It was Shen Fei!
It is said that this alchemy pot and Shen Fei are one and the same, and the world in the pot can change according to Shen Fei's thoughts. This time, Wu Su's moves were dissolved, and it is easy to figure out what happened. Shen Fei actually intends to wade into this muddy water!
