Chapter 441
Chapter 441
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 441
>Chapter Title: Memorial
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Li Huowang watched as the light in Zhuge Yuan's eyes on the ground gradually faded, his heart aching like it was being carved by a knife.
His mind was a complete mess right now. He seemed to want to say something, but facing his dying friend, he couldn't open his mouth no matter what.
“Brother Li, the bugs in your stomach are almost all dead. Are you really okay?” Zhuge Yuan gazed at Li Huowang's increasingly hollow chest cavity, asking this with his final breath.
A smile more ugly than crying appeared on Li Huowang's face as he shook his head vigorously.
“Brother Zhuge, do you... do you have any last words? Just tell me, and I’ll definitely do it!”
As Zhuge Yuan slowly exhaled, his voice became intermittent.
“No... This humble one has lived... an upright and open life... with no regrets... whatsoever.”
The snow that had stopped earlier began to fall again, gradually landing on Zhuge Yuan's dilating pupils.
Just as Li Huowang watched in utter grief as Zhuge Yuan gradually lost his vital signs, something suddenly occurred to him. He lunged forward excitedly.
“Brother Zhuge, I just thought of a way! You can still be saved! You can still be saved!”
As he spoke, he raised his bulging-veined hands and viciously tightened them around Zhuge Yuan's neck.
Gazing at the lifeless eyes looking back at him, Li Huowang used all his strength to whisper tremblingly in his ear,
“Brother Zhuge, I’ve killed some people in the past!! Or some who died by my side! For some reason, they turned into hallucinations staying with me! Maybe you can too!”
“As long as you can become a hallucination, once I achieve great success in cultivation! I’ll definitely turn you from illusion to reality!”
As Li Huowang spoke, his hands tightened frantically until he overexerted himself and directly twisted off Zhuge Yuan's head.
Kneeling on the ground, he cradled Zhuge Yuan's head and looked around blankly. Jinshan, the Monk, Hongzhong, Peng Longteng—exactly four hallucinations, and Zhuge Yuan did not reappear.
Zhuge Yuan hadn't become a hallucination, which meant Zhuge Yuan was truly dead.
Li Huowang's pale lips trembled slightly as he hugged Zhuge Yuan's head, his upper body gradually hunching over. His left hand, missing two fingers, clenched shakingly and smashed viciously into the ground.
The solid rammed earth gradually cracked under the blows, mixed with blood flowing from Li Huowang's wounds, splattering outward.
But no matter how much he vented, it was useless. Zhuge Yuan was dead, and once dead, he wouldn't come back. Li Huowang's tears kept dripping onto Zhuge Yuan's hair in his arms.
Why, why did everyone in this world who treated him well end up like this!
Or was it a problem with this world? Could it really be that good people don't live long, while villains live a thousand years?
A surge of indignation suddenly welled up in Li Huowang's heart—an extreme fury toward this chaotic world. This was wrong! This world was wrong! The human realm shouldn't be like this!
After smashing for the time it takes half a joss stick to burn, Li Huowang gradually stopped his bloodied and mangled hands. It wasn't that he wanted to stop; he simply couldn't lift them anymore.
The intercalary five elements hour was almost up. If he didn't resolve this soon, he'd die alongside Zhuge Yuan.
A hint of hesitation flickered in Li Huowang's eyes. If it came to that, it didn't seem so bad. He didn't care anyway.
But immediately after, Li Huowang slammed his head viciously to the ground. The pain of his skull splitting open rapidly dispelled the suicidal thoughts from his mind.
“Zhuge Yuan gave everything to save your worthless life! What right do you have to die? Are you worthy of him?!”
“If you kill yourself now, Zhuge Yuan becomes a joke! No dying! You have to live like a human being!”
Li Huowang headbutted the ground several more times, stopping only when his forehead exposed the white skull beneath.
Gritting his teeth, he staggered to his feet just as Li Sui, controlling Li Huowang's original body, walked over.
Li Huowang watched his darkening field of vision and shook his head forcefully. Then he raised the sword in his hand and slashed his body's forearm.
“Stop pretending! Even now you want to set up a trap? Li Sui, retract all your tentacles!”
As soon as he said this, Li Huowang saw the clearly drunk Beifeng calmly open his eyes.
“This body of yours is about to break down. Hurry and switch us back. I absolutely cannot die right now—I need to live!”
Beifeng, with his vision restored, endured the pain as he looked at Li Huowang in front of him. The corner of his mouth curled up in a disdainful smirk.
“Why should I?”
“Because you owe me a favor from five years ago at Woman's Mountain! What, you want to renege on it?”
Hearing this, Beifeng looked Li Huowang up and down carefully before cupping his hands and bowing in congratulations.
“Boss Hongzhong, congrats on returning. You played really big this time—I almost thought you weren't coming back.”
With that, as his eyes gently opened, their bodies swiftly swapped back.
Returning to his own body and feeling it was little more than an empty shell, Beifeng immediately started complaining.
“Hey now, you turned my body into this state. It's completely unusable.”
With that said, he looked toward a one-legged Daliang Embroidered Uniform Guard lying on the ground in the distance.
As he opened his eyes once more, their bodies swapped again. Before the guard could adapt to Beifeng's ruined body, his expression stiffened, and he collapsed to the ground, lifeless.
Now in the Embroidered Uniform Guard's body, Beifeng hopped over to Li Huowang's side on his remaining leg.
“Boss Hongzhong, why are you just standing there? Let's go help Boss Dice and the others. Tsk tsk tsk, look over there—they're beating each other's brains out like dogs.”
But after talking for a while with no response, he saw Li Huowang tearfully gazing at the empty space to his left.
Beifeng puzzledly reached toward that side but touched nothing.
At that moment, he heard Boss Hongzhong's voice trembling as he spoke.
“Brother Zhuge, long time no see?”
Li Huowang's heart pounded wildly. He stared excitedly at Zhuge Yuan before him, unable to contain himself.
The composed Zhuge Yuan was still in his white robes, holding a folded fan inscribed with "Born a Genius" and gently fanning his chest.
The other hallucinations around him eyed the newcomer with curiosity.
Zhuge Yuan snapped his fan shut and pointed toward the hallucinations beside him.
“Brother Li, could you introduce these gentlemen to this humble one?”
Li Huowang was so excited he was speechless, his hands shaking violently. It took him half a day to shout,
“My god! It worked! You really became a hallucination!”
It seemed Zhuge Yuan hadn't appeared earlier because he hadn't been inside his heart-element body at the time.
(End of chapter)