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Chapter 265 Martyrdom for Love
The rolling dust between heaven and earth gradually came to a stop.
Wild horses, dust, and living things breathing each other.
The mountains and rivers were shattered, and everything was in ruins, but the small mountain village remained spotless. Not a single grain of dust or sand from the outside world could approach it, and not a drop of blood from any living being could taint it. It was like an eternal and indestructible pure land.
The Ninth Emperor and Xia Jingmo both silently watched Yang Yi as he perished, their eyes filled with a sense of regret and sighing.
Yang Yi is a formidable opponent. His understanding of the Great Dao and his mastery of supernatural powers and techniques are unparalleled in the underworld.
"Pity."
The ninth emperor murmured.
"To be able to see one's true self at the end is already a rare and precious thing."
Xia Jingmo sighed, "Yang Yi faced a tribulation, but what about us? Before he died, he at least knew what his tribulation was and overcame it. We, on the other hand, haven't even seen a tribulation. In comparison, he is far superior to you and me!"
Upon hearing this, the Ninth Emperor was also terrified and couldn't help but ponder.
Xia Jingmo's words awakened him. Yang Yi was walking in a dream, self-destructing, but who among the common people is not like that?
Everyone is choosing their own tribulation, yet no one is fully aware of it.
Li Lan was also quite emotional at this moment...
Who exactly is that person? Yang Yi, the Black Dog, and others are all peerless talents, but to him, they all seem like mere pawns, like blades of grass...
He had foreseen the calamities and hardships that Yang Yi and the others would face hundreds of thousands of years ago, but he simply did not intervene.
Li Lan had no doubt that all the great battles and upheavals of today were perhaps just traces he casually sketched as he viewed the scroll of time...
Did he once look back from the distant past and see Li Lan as she is today?
Li Lan was unaware.
He stopped thinking and, struggling to support his badly injured body, said, "It's time for all of this to end."
The big black dog nodded and said, "I'll go and get her!"
Yang Yi is dead, the curtain has fallen, and no one can stop Li Lan from regaining control of Reincarnation.
It prepared to re-enter the small mountain village, but before it could even take a step, the gate to the small courtyard opened once more.
A woman had already come out, holding an iron chain in her hand.
At the other end of the chain, another girl was chained up. She was emaciated, extremely thin, and her face was deathly pale, devoid of any color. But at that moment, she raised her head and saw Li Lan in the distance outside the mountain village. Tears instantly welled up in her lifeless eyes—
"Ruo Bing!"
Outside the mountain village, Li Lan was shocked and instinctively tried to rush into the small village.
"stop!"
But Lin Ruoxue spoke coldly, her fair and delicate hand already landing on Lin Ruobing's head, saying, "If you dare to enter the village, I will kill her on the spot!"
Li Lan suppressed his anger, stopped, and said in a deep voice, "Lin Ruoxue, she is your sister!"
Inside the village, Lin Ruoxue said calmly, "That's right, she's my sister, but if I remember correctly, she's also your wife... Am I right?"
Li Lan stared at her.
"Do you know how I became the Lord of Reincarnation?"
Lin Ruoxue looked at Li Lan, her eyes seemingly filled with mockery, though it was unclear whether she was mocking herself or Li Lan:
“Once you have control over the power of reincarnation, it is extremely difficult to take it away, but the continuation of cause and effect is one way.”
"Ruobing once shared a marital relationship with you, was deeply in love with you, and had the deepest karmic connection with you. Therefore, she is the best successor, and Yang Yi chose her for this very reason."
"What a pity... Love is both her strength and her weakness. She didn't want to hurt you, and even went so far as to attack Yang Yi for it."
"Therefore, Yang Yi had no choice but to settle for second best, and I became that second best."
"Ruobing has the deepest karmic connection with you, and I, besides you, have the deepest karmic connection with Ruobing. Therefore, all I need to do is replace Ruobing..."
As she recounted these events, a glimmer of pain, a pain she didn't want to recall, seemed to linger in Lin Ruoxue's eyes, but she suppressed it and said:
"So, you're the one who ruined Ruobing, and you're the one who ruined me too!!"
She stared at Li Lan, her eyes filled with complex emotions—anger, resentment, and even a hint of humiliation…
She had once ignored Li Lan, but later came to admire him, even unconsciously developing a crush on him...
In fact, during the last Great Battle of the Realm of Truth, she personally went to see Li Lan and gave him advice not to come, but all she got in return was Li Lan's indifference.
"You are dead, so why can't you die cleanly and have to come back?"
She glared at Li Lan with resentment, but then let out a maniacal laugh and said, "No, I should thank you... thank you for not dying completely."
"Otherwise, I might have already been devoured by Yang Yi... Heh, what true feelings are there in this world? It's all just about interests."
"Thank you for helping me kill Yang Yi."
The madness in her eyes slowly faded, then gradually returned to calm. She stared at Li Lan and said:
“Li Lan, I have given up everything – I have nothing left to lose.”
"And you? Let Ruobing die, and then you can take the cycle of reincarnation, unify the world, and become the true ruler of the Origin Realm—"
"Or perhaps, we should pay a sufficient price to allow Ruobing to live?"
She smiled, as if she had presented an extremely interesting question and was eagerly awaiting Li Lan's answer.
Beside her, Lin Ruobing was trembling, tears streaming down her face. She wanted to shake her head, to speak, and even to commit suicide... But now she was unable to move or utter a single word.
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Outside the small mountain village.
Li Lan stared at Lin Ruoxue, the killing intent in his eyes almost tangible!
He had never shown such intense killing intent towards anyone before!
Back when the Abyss Realm fell, Li Lan had already harbored murderous intent towards Lin Ruoxue, but because of Lin Ruobing, Li Lan treated her as a stranger and simply ignored her.
But I never imagined that one day she would go to such extremes.
Today's Lin Ruoxue is completely distorted, a far cry from the proud daughter of the Great Li Dynasty of yesteryear.
Her pride, her persistence, and her stubbornness vanished, replaced by a ruthless determination to become stronger by any means necessary!
"We need to find a way to lure her out, otherwise it will be difficult to kill her in one blow if we attack from a distance."
The big black dog's bark came, but it was now helpless.
The small mountain village is a real place. If the heavens and earth were to attack from the outside, it would be very difficult to harm even a single blade of grass or tree there, let alone kill Lin Ruoxue.
"She won't come out."
But Li Lan shook his head. He looked at Lin Ruoxue, sighed softly, and said, "I can let you go, and no one in the Origin Realm will make things difficult for you. You can go wherever you want."
"If you don't believe me, I can swear an oath."
He desperately wanted to kill Lin Ruoxue, but he wouldn't act foolishly because of his impulse.
Right now, saving Lin Ruobing is the most important thing...
"Thank you for your mercy, but in your eyes, is someone like me, who betrays his family and uses any means necessary, worth the same as Ruobing? I'll let her go, and you'll let me go?"
Lin Ruoxue smiled and said, "I always felt that her life was more precious than mine, so wouldn't it be too much of a loss for me to trade her life for mine?"
"What else do you want?" Li Lan asked calmly.
"Ruobing's life should be equal to yours. She was willing to die for you, so you should also be willing to die for her..."
Lin Ruoxue said, "Of course, I don't want you to die—this is a cultivation technique from Yang Yi. After cultivating this technique, one's own origin will change, becoming a strange creature, and all one's cultivation and other abilities will turn into nothingness!"
"In this way, you will no longer be able to compete with me, and you will never be able to seize the reincarnation authority that belongs to me in this life!"
With a wave of her hand, an ancient book flew out of the small mountain village, which Li Lan caught.
After glancing at it, Li Lan's expression changed. The ancient book did indeed record a method for flesh and blood to transform into strange creatures!
Born from flesh and blood, he must abandon everything. Therefore, his existing cultivation, physical attributes, aptitude, level of cultivation, techniques, etc., will all be reduced to zero.
Moreover, after he became a destitute gray mist being, he was completely unable to compete for the reincarnation authority and would no longer pose a threat to Lin Ruoxue.
"How dare you! Even at this point, you still covet reincarnation!"
"Don't you think you've gone too far with your greed?!"
Both the Ninth Emperor and Xia Jingmo couldn't help but shout angrily.
"Woof, you little wench, do you really think I can't bite you?" The big black dog threatened, its eyes filled with menacing intent.
But Lin Ruoxue just smiled calmly, ignoring everyone else, and looked only at Li Lan, "Is my sister's life worth it?"
Li Lan held the ancient book in silence for a long, long time.
He gazed at Lin Ruobing from afar; she had always been so beautiful, full of vitality, pure and kind…
In a daze, Li Lan seemed to see the first time he met her.
She was dressed in a bright red wedding dress, sitting on the embroidered bed, with her feet on Li Lan's, looking charming and adorable.
Now, for Li Lan's sake, she rejected Yang Yi's request, was betrayed by her own sister, and is emaciated...
"What you want, I can give you, but I have one condition—"
Upon hearing this, both the Ninth Emperor and Xia Jingmo were taken aback and hurriedly transmitted their thoughts in secret:
"No!"
"A grand plan for the ages cannot be abandoned because of one person! Do not fall for this woman's treacherous scheme!"
But Li Lan ignored their attempts to stop him and continued looking at Lin Ruoxue, saying:
“I can forgo reincarnation and make you the master of reincarnation. You can cultivate this method as you say and transform into a monster. I can even make the Black Emperor and others not make things difficult for you. But I want you to set Ruobing free and not to persecute anyone from the War Alliance or the Longevity Alliance!”
"Furthermore, when you go to the source to prove eternity, you must also give a portion to the three seniors: the Black Emperor, the Nine-Life Emperor, and Xia Jingmo!"
"You... could you do that?"
Li Lan's words were extremely solemn!
Upon hearing this, Lin Ruoxue was taken aback, seemingly incredulous:
"You...promise?"
She seemed to be witnessing something impossible...
Lin Ruobing in her hands was a bargaining chip. She knew this valuable chip was very important to Li Lan, so she was certain she could exchange it for something...
But she never expected that Li Lan would actually give up everything that was already within her grasp for Lin Ruobing!
When Li Lan finally made this decision, she felt no joy, but rather a strange sense of loss, a deep bitterness, and even an indescribable jealousy...
He actually gave up everything for Ruobing?!
At that moment, she couldn't help but glance at Lin Ruobing, her eyes filled with self-mockery and regret, almost uncontrollable.
Tears were streaming down Lin Ruobing's face!
She tried desperately to shake her head, to deny, to stop, but she couldn't. She couldn't move. She could only look at Li Lan from afar, her eyes filled with a mix of emotions, her heart breaking.
"Your life has been fulfilling..."
Lin Ruoxue murmured to her younger sister, then suppressed all her emotions and looked at Li Lan, "I agree to your conditions!"
"Once Li Lan cultivates his techniques and transforms into a strange creature, Lin Ruoxue will treat Lin Ruobing kindly and will never seek revenge against the War Alliance, the Longevity Alliance, or any other such entities in this lifetime!"
She made a solemn vow, her words resounding with conviction!
Outside the mountain village.
Li Lan nodded, then gave the order:
"From this day forward, no one shall be an enemy of Lin Ruoxue; otherwise, they shall be betraying me!"
This is the last decree he left for everyone, formed directly from the power of the Great Dao. It can be considered his last words. When his followers see this decree in the future, they will know his intentions!
Then, he looked at the Black Emperor, the Nine-Life Emperor, and Xia Jingmo, and said, "This junior has failed to live up to the expectations of the three seniors. I hope the three seniors will not take this matter to heart. When Lin Ruoxue goes to the source, the three seniors will also be able to glimpse the other shore within the source—"
The Ninth Emperor, Xia Jingmo, and others all had complex expressions. The Ninth Emperor said, "You need to think carefully. How many people are waiting for you outside, wanting to follow you to the source? How many people are waiting for you, wanting to stay by your side forever..."
"You can't let Lin Ruobing down, but can you let them down? Bai Ruoling, Jin Muyun, Shangguan Xiaoxiao, Li Yue..."
He was still trying to stop Li Lan.
Li Lan simply shook his head and said:
"When I was just an ordinary mortal, I was fortunate enough to receive Ruobing's deep affection. I must not abandon her today. My mind is made up, and I beg you seniors to grant my request!"
Absolutely not!
Before the Ninth Emperor could say anything more, Xia Jingmo sighed, "The word 'love' is the tribulation of all living beings. But if he is heartless and abandons Lin Ruobing for the sake of reincarnation, how is he any different from Yang Yi, Lin Ruoxue, and others? Fellow Daoist, we don't need to persuade him anymore."
"Li Lan, it is a great pity that you sacrificed yourself for love, but it also shows your heroic nature. Rest assured, from now on, Xia Jingmo will protect Lin Ruobing, Shangguan Xiaoxiao, Jin Muyun and others with all his might. If anyone wants to harm them, they will have to step on Xia Jingmo's corpse!"
He was a demon lord, and his words were resounding!
Li Lan couldn't help but say gratefully, "Thank you so much for your kindness, senior!"
Then he looked at the big black dog.
The big black dog stared at Li Lan for a long time before finally speaking: "Woof, if you want to die, I won't care. But if you want me to carry this little wench's sedan chair, I can't do it."
"From this day forward, I will live in seclusion. You little wench, don't you dare mess with me, or I will make you taste my heaven-shattering divine power!"
After saying that, the big black dog disappeared from the scene!
It has left, seemingly disheartened and unwilling to concern itself with worldly affairs anymore!
Li Lan stood silently for a long time, then without hesitation, landed in front of the small mountain village, sat cross-legged, and began to cultivate the techniques in the ancient book!
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