Chapter 1026: Chapter 1026 - 452: End of the Green Demon Arc - Rain (3)

The battlefield over there is beyond my ability to intervene.

The only issue is, all three ancestral elders have taken action, yet there is no sign of the Tianyuan Formation being lifted.

I hope it won’t end with those elders being defeated, leaving Tianyuan Town shut in like trapped dogs, to be slaughtered and razed...

"No matter how it ends, all we can do is leave it to fate. I can only focus on doing what I can manage right now, and..."

Fang Yu remembered that rainy night when he lost control—the scene of a beam descending from the sky, clashing against the Tianyuan Formation.

Perhaps...

No, now is not the time for such thoughts.

Looking around, Fang Yu found himself at the very extreme edge of the south side of Tianyuan Town, right under the South Gate.

Though the Three Thousand Wood-Blood Jutsu streaked across with reckless abandon, it had not deviated much from its path, running straight through to its end.

"Since I’m here, I’ll go look for Ding Hui first."

"With the streets and houses damaged like this, I wonder if anything has happened to Ding Hui. Her frail body couldn’t withstand much hardship."

While Ding Hui’s abilities in research are undoubtedly exceptional, her strength, truth be told, never improved.

A hundred blood count might have felt formidable at the start of the game, but amidst the upheaval in Tianyuan Town, where immortals are clashing, she’s like an ant, easily crushed by any Great Demon.

"I’ll find Ding Hui, get her settled, and then immediately head to the inn to find Brother Qing."

With Tianyuan Town in such chaos, there’s no way Green Demon wouldn’t know about it. Whether he’ll still be waiting at the inn for me, honestly, even Fang Yu is unsure.

He could only rely on the bond between him and Brother Qing!

Even if it’s the end of the world outside, Brother Qing will surely honor his promise, steadfastly waiting at the inn for me to arrive!

Fang Yu clenched his fist, reassuring himself.

"Ding Hui! Ding Hui! Where have you gone to hide? Come out quickly! It’s me, Diao Deyi! If you hear me, come out and meet me!"

Fang Yu shouted loudly, scanning the sight of collapsed buildings.

Suddenly...

Boom!

A flash of lightning erupted in the dark clouds. Fang Yu found a figure standing atop a slanted collapsed building.

"Ding..."

Fang Yu’s face lit up with joy as he stepped forward twice, then abruptly stopped.

Because the silhouette on top of the collapsed building wasn’t Ding Hui, but... Green Demon.

Green Demon in his demonic form.

"Are you... looking for her?"

Green Demon slowly raised the object in his hand.

It was a head. A bloody human head.

Boom!

Another flash of lightning illuminated the shape of the head in Green Demon’s grip.

In an instant, Fang Yu’s pupils constricted violently, his ears buzzing with sound.

He felt like he couldn’t breathe, drowning in a sensation of suffocation.

Because the head that Green Demon held aloft, that face.

It was... it was Ding Hui’s face.

Ding Hui’s lifeless eyes stared wide open, as if she had been dead for a long time.

Her slightly parted lips seemed ready to speak something.

And below the lips, where the neck should’ve connected, there was only a horizontal cut, like something had even grown from the wound.

Boom!

Before Fang Yu could see clearly, Green Demon tossed Ding Hui’s head to the ground amidst another flash of lightning and stomped on it.

"Diao Deyi, should I call you Diao Deyi, or should I call you Blood Demon?"

Green Demon’s cold voice echoed, unfamiliar and frightening to Fang Yu.

Because the head representing Ding Hui, which Green Demon had stomped, no longer displayed a health bar!

This meant... Ding Hui was long dead, reduced to a corpse, a lifeless object!

What happened...?

What happened?

Brain buzzing, Fang Yu looked up at Green Demon in bewilderment.

He felt his throat moving, but it seemed like no sound would come out.

"Why? Are you asking why?"

Green Demon spoke out, replacing Fang Yu’s voice.

Green Demon’s face gradually contorted into a hideous visage.

Slowly exerting force with his foot, causing Ding Hui’s head to creak audibly.

"This question should be asked by me! Diao Deyi!!!"

He stared at Fang Yu, erupting with his fury, roaring out with the voice of his soul!

"Why did you deceive me! Diao Deyi, why did you deceive me!!!"

"I trusted you as my brother, you know I truly held you as a brother of life and death, but you! You kept deceiving me! You kept seeing me as some sort of fool!!"

"Time and again, laying my soul bare, entrusting life and death, it all turned out to be fake! All of it was fake, wasn’t it!!"

"You never truly considered me as a brother!"

Green Demon’s body shook with anger that came from his very soul!

Facing the stupefied betrayer below, Green Demon’s memory drifted to two months ago, the night they first met.

"No wonder... No wonder you didn’t strike your relative with a human skin back then."

"Turns out it wasn’t because that guy was still useful, it was about you! You cared about that woman!"

Boom!

Thunder flashed again.

Memory traced back to the port dock, to their life-and-death battle with the Foolish Underworld.

"It was the same then... it was the same then!"

"You opened the way for me with your life! Charged forward to perish with the enemy! Battled fiercely with Hundred Households!"

"I was moved, truly moved at that time! I thought I found someone to entrust life and death to as brothers!"

"But I was wrong! I was wrong! If you’ve been with those people from the start, where does sacrificing to save come from? Where does the life-and-death struggle come from? It’s all a play, an absolute human self-directed farce!!!"