kingnovel Chapter 635 I’m leaving
Chapter 635 I’m leaving
In the 537th year of the reign of Immortal Venerable Qingzhi of the Tianqian Sect in the cultivation world, the great war between immortals and demons broke out. Ji Yan, the young lord of the demon race, led his fierce generals to invade the Northern Continent. In less than three days, the entire Northern Continent had fallen. The demon race in the Western Continent was in dire straits, while the Eastern and Southern Continents were also engaged in fierce battles with the demon race. Except for the Central Continent, which was guarded by the Tianqian Sect, all the Eastern, Western, Southern, and Northern Continents had become bloody battlefields. Human cultivators and demon cultivators were defeated one after another. Only by using the Hopeless Sea and the Desolate Forest as natural barriers to build walls and defensive barriers could the demon race's offensive be barely stopped.
The cultivation world was in turmoil. People were migrating to safe zones and heading to the battlefield between immortals and demons in an endless stream. The sky was filled with all kinds of flying magical artifacts, and countless letters were sent to the three major sects. Every day, countless white lights poured into the political halls of the three major sects.
The three major sects quickly formed an alliance, with Qingzhi Immortal Venerable of the Tianqian Sect as the supreme leader, overseeing the war between immortals and demons. The sect leaders of the Jishen Sect and Taikun Sect, the Demon King, and representatives chosen by aristocratic families served as deputy leaders, jointly discussing matters such as the war's offense and defense, and the relocation of civilians. The elites of the three major sects were all mobilized, and the scions of aristocratic families responded to the challenge, with hundreds upon hundreds of soul lamps being extinguished one after another.
Wailing, weeping, cursing, sobbing... Panic quickly spread to all the cities. Some had begun to despair and were preparing to die, while others took the opportunity to commit atrocities, burning, killing, and looting, indulging in a doomsday frenzy. Still others even took their families and tried to surrender to the demons, only to become food for them...
Limbs, blood, heads, bones, ruins, corpses... the horrific scene was a replay of what happened five hundred years ago, starkly demonstrating the demise of all living beings in this world.
"Junior Brother Sun, hurry back and inform the sect leaders that the defenses here are about to fall. Request reinforcements!"
"I'm not leaving! Let others go. I want to stay here with you all, even if we die together!"
"Sun Li, disciples from Taotie Peak should obey orders, not stubbornly refuse to obey. Do you think one more dead person will save so many citizens behind us? Get out of here!"
Sun Li gritted her teeth, her eyes red with determination, turned around, threw out a high-level teleportation talisman, and disappeared into the golden light of the talisman.
As the light faded, a vast expanse of black shadows, like a black storm sweeping across the land, crashed violently into the already fragile defensive barrier.
High-level teleportation talismans consume a great deal of spiritual energy, which was almost the limit for Sun Li, who was already exhausted. As soon as the effect of the teleportation talisman wore off, he was thrown heavily from mid-air onto the Xuanwu Platform of the Tianqian Sect.
The disciple's robes were tattered, stained with blood, and the wounds were gruesome... The disciples passing by gasped and gathered around, some shouting to call the disciples from Danfeng.
"Take me to see the sect leader..."
"I want to see the sect leader!"
"Huiyun City and Huigu City are about to fall. We request reinforcements..."
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Emerging from the Grand Elder's meditation room, Jiang Junze glanced up at the blinding sunlight, his fist clenching tightly within his sleeve. He took a deep breath and, in the blink of an eye, arrived at the entrance of Xuanlei Valley.
"Halt! No one may enter without authorization!"
"This is the Grand Elder's token. I am ordered to go in and ask her a few questions."
"Let go."
As soon as Jiang Junze stepped into the barrier of Xuanlei Valley, he heard a deafening roar of thunder, and beneath the thunder, a shrill scream that could not be concealed.
Perhaps it was truly the blood ties between siblings, for upon hearing that scream, a chilling pain pierced his very bones, a pain so intense it made his heart ache, his breath catch in his throat, and he almost lost all the strength to walk forward.
Her every cry of pain seemed to follow him like a shadow.
An unprecedented sense of defeat and guilt was deeply embedded in his heart; he couldn't understand why he, as an older brother, had failed so miserably.
In the past, he couldn't protect her when she was young; later, he couldn't help her with her cultivation and trials; now, he can only watch helplessly as she screams in pain, unmoved.
Clearly, clearly, he agreed to join the clan as a child because he wanted to protect his family and uphold the honor of the Jiang family...
A mix of emotions—bitterness, pain, regret, helplessness, reluctance, sadness—overwhelmed his heart, and he could only meet her with such a heavy heart.
—This may be the last time we meet in this lifetime.
Ha, just think about it, a brother who could only spend less than a hundred days with his own sister, and in his thirty years of life, he couldn't even achieve anything.
Stepping slowly, one step at a time, he entered the Xuanlei Heavenly Cave that had trapped her, treading on the sharp pebbles beneath his feet.
Standing outside the Xuanlei Pool, which contains the creation of heaven and earth and countless lightning bolts, separated by a thick barrier, his gaze trembled as it lingered on the small, curled-up blood shadow in the central stone lotus.
A sharp, rusty taste suddenly welled up in his throat. A dignified disciple of an elder of a sect had to lean against the stone wall to keep himself from swaying and falling to his knees.
He choked up several times before he could finally call out her name in a hoarse voice: "...Qianqian...Little Sister!"
A terrifying purple bolt of lightning crashed down from the sky, causing the entire cave to tremble violently. The overwhelming lightning bolts temporarily blinded those inside.
Suddenly, a painful roar reached my ears.
"Little sister!" Jiang Junze stumbled and rushed over, crashing heavily into the barrier. The bone-chilling cold condensed into barbs that instantly pierced his flesh.
He felt no pain at all; his heart was filled only with the agony of helplessness.
He didn't want to see Qianqian like this.
All he wants is for his little sister to be happy.
why.
Why is this happening...
"Have you had enough of the show?" Jiang Liqian, who had just been subjected to the Heavenly Lightning Punishment, nonchalantly spat out the blood in her mouth. Even though she had long since lost all strength, she still refused to show weakness and used the back of her hand to fiercely wipe away the blood, a symbol of her weakness, from the corner of her mouth.
"You...what are you doing here? Are you eager to see me make a fool of myself?"
Jiang Junze gave a bitter laugh, tilting his head back to swallow all the tears welling up. He tried to appear relaxed, forcing a small smile: "I was planning to spend more time with you, but unfortunately, I have an urgent matter and have to return to Dongjun... We never really have a chance to see each other properly and talk more..."
A bitter taste lingered on his taste buds, and he smiled, "I believe you can get through this... Little sister, your future will be brighter than anyone else's."
"Forgive me for not being a good speaker, but... there's something I've always wanted to say to you—I'm sorry, little sister. If only God would give us more time, so I could make it up to you, a little more, and just a little more."
He took a deep breath and slowly took a step back.
"I'm leaving."
"Don't blame Mother. It's not that she doesn't love you; it's just that, as a mortal without any spiritual power, she can't even love herself. She's lived her whole life in fear—fear that Father will abandon her, fear that her lifespan will end prematurely, fear that we will despise her, fear that she will lose her position as the mistress of the Jiang family..."
"I know it's selfish of me. Even if time and space are intertwined and my memories are hazy, those days when my family was together were really happy and blissful. They are my most precious memories."