Published: March 8, 2025
As Ao Xieyun thought of this, his eyes had already turned red.
The people who protected him had fallen one after another, leaving only him now! He had completely lost all his support!
The family was too far away!
Right now, he was just an individual, just Ao Xieyun! He was not the eldest young master of the Ao Clan, not the top genius of the younger generation! He was not that charming evil young master either.
He was just a person being hunted, fleeing for his life! Behind him, there were thousands of people, thousands of experts chasing and blocking him, wanting to kill him!
In such extreme circumstances, Ao Xieyun had instead unearthed all of his potential!
Du Qingyun had heroically sacrificed himself fifteen days ago! In these short fifteen days, Ao Xieyun had wanted to cry countless times, but he knew he could not. Even silent tears would not escape the poisonous blade family’s Ou Duxiao!
He could only abandon everything, including sadness and anger, and escape with all his might! Using all his wisdom to carve out his own path to survival.
These fifteen days felt like fifteen years! Even longer than fifteen years!
He had learned how to conceal his body odor and sweat while running out of breath. He had learned how to use a small grass to cover his entire body, how to utilize the features of mountains and water, and how to use the refraction of sunlight to create the illusion of invisibility and escape the encirclement...
All these were things he would never have dreamed of before.
Now he realized that although the Ao Clan was the first family, it still couldn't intimidate people! The Ao Clan was nothing special, and he himself was even less remarkable!
The destruction of the Ao Clan was merely a pile of broken walls; if he died, he would also rot in a patch of land! There was no difference from beggars who knelt at others' feet every day.
Before the urn of ashes, everyone is truly equal! (This thought struck him as he was writing.)
In these fifteen days, Ao Xieyun had suffered over a hundred attacks and chases. Dozens of times, he believed he would surely die, yet he escaped from the brink of death every time.
At this moment, feeling the cool river water wrapping around his injured body, a sense of ‘safety’ finally arose deep within his heart, even if this safety was so fragile!
At this moment, he finally had time to think about some things.
Recalling the deaths of Du Qingyun and Qin Zhan, Ao Xieyun felt sorrow swell within him; Du Qingyun and Qin Zhan should not have died so early. But they bravely went to their deaths, why?
When he turned north and the enemy continued to chase him, Du Qingyun and Qin Zhan knew that this time, they would surely die!
So they wanted to push Ao Xieyun’s growth one last time before they perished!
Three people's escape was, after all, less focused than one person's goal.
As long as Ao Xieyun could escape, that would be enough!
But with the two of them by his side, even though Ao Xieyun didn’t want to rely on them, it was an invisible form of reliance. It prevented him from fully unleashing his potential! That way, when they were truly cornered by the enemy, everything would be over.
Thus, Du Qingyun and Qin Zhan began to use real combat and self-reliant escape to hone Ao Xieyun! As long as Ao Xieyun could comprehend and master the essence of it, his chances of escaping alone would be ten times greater than when the three were together!
That was why Du Qingyun chose to die when it was not necessary!
Leaving the young patriarch alone!
When there is hope, to abandon you is disloyalty! But when there is absolutely no hope, to leave you to die alone... is an even greater responsibility!
With our hot blood, we ignite your soul! With our lives and deaths, we awaken your potential!
These were words that the Two Elders would never say, but now Ao Xieyun heard them from deep within his heart.
Silent tears fell, merging into the water; only on such a night, in such an environment, could Ao Xieyun dare to cry without restraint.