Published: March 8, 2025
"Hehehe..." Chu Yang forced himself to laugh a couple of times, trying to wake himself up and calm down. But his voice sounded as if it was stuffed with a piece of burning charcoal.
He could tell that Tan Tan was not joking.
"If that kind of time comes, and if I am still awake, I will leave on my own. Don't look for me!"
"If that kind of time comes, and if I am not awake, then you say... kill me!"
"If that day really comes, I beg you, kill me!"
Then came the sound of Tan Tan knocking his head on the ground, thud after thud.
In an instant, Chu Yang seemed to lose consciousness, his mind echoing with those few phrases and the sound of the thuds, leaving him in a daze.
After feeling dizzy for a while, he finally sat down on the ground.
I can kill, I can kill everyone in the world!
But how could I lay a hand on my brothers, my family?
"Killing you... Hehe..." Chu Yang felt as if he was floating, an overwhelming sense of helplessness washed over him, and he murmured: "Tan Tan... if you were me and I were you, if we swapped places, would you kill me?"
Tan Tan was stunned: "How could I kill you?"
"Same reasoning! How could I kill you!" Chu Yang reached out and hugged his junior brother, sighing: "You are my brother, how could I kill you? Do you know how cruel the request you just made is for me?"
Tan Tan was lost in thought for a long time and said: "But I... I really could hurt you. I feel it. Sometimes when I see you... there arises an intense impulse within me to kill you... I desperately try to suppress it, but I can't!"
"Don't say that!" Chu Yang said calmly and decisively: "There will never be such a day!"
He thought to himself, if that day really comes, I would rather be hurt than let you suffer!
I am the older brother; if someone has to bear it, it can only be me! But you must not get hurt!
Hearing Chu Yang's resolute words, Tan Tan felt a bit more at ease in his heart, but he was still somewhat dazed, wanting to say something. He wanted to mention the three people who suddenly called him 'king' that day, but a sudden pain started in his mind, and fragmented images kept surfacing, causing him to frown...
"Alright, everything will pass: it's like a nightmare; once you wake up, it will be fine!" Chu Yang, tangled in his thoughts, didn't notice Tan Tan's expression. He patted Tan Tan's shoulder to comfort him: "In the next few days, your priority is to eat well and sleep well! Don't think about anything, don't do anything! And don’t practice either. Otherwise, if your inner demon invades while you're practicing, you might go down the wrong path."
Tan Tan responded with a faint 'hmm', lowering his head and not speaking; he was resisting the intense pain in his mind with all his might, not wanting his senior brother to see his pained expression, worried that it would make Chu Yang concerned for him.
Chu Yang sighed, stood up, gazed at the starry sky, and silently asked: "Master, if you encountered such a situation, what would you do?"
Lost in thought, he couldn't help but sigh again.
With Meng Chaoran's indifference, if he encountered such a situation, he probably wouldn't care about his own life or death, whatever would happen would happen. Even if that day truly arrived, it would just be a matter of closing his eyes and resting.
This was Meng Chaoran's character, indifferent to the point of being passive.
But Chu Yang was different; he was free-spirited yet stubborn. Since he knew in advance, he would try every means to make up for it, to stop it. Even if it happened, he would only think of how to salvage it, never doing nothing!
The battle between the blade emperor and sword emperor had reached its conclusion.
Gu Duxing and Dong Wushang, in order to allow their watching brothers to better comprehend their current state, deliberately engaged in a tedious back-and-forth battle, repeatedly executing moves infused with their understanding of the great Dao, using their vigorous energy and ethereal Dao realm to allow Rocky Luo, Ji Mo, and others to learn from and break through...