Chapter 98

Chapter 98: We Won’t Wait for Her to Return

Sang Nian felt as if all the blood in her body had turned to ice, her teeth uncontrollably clacked together, making a slight sound.

She abruptly pushed Xie Chenzhou away and ran out.

The blood had soaked into the mud, leaving deep footprints when she stepped on it.

Sang Nian walked unsteadily, the Zhuyu people couldn’t see her, and the cultivators couldn’t see her either.

She couldn’t help anyone.

She couldn’t even touch them.

She had never felt so desperate.

Xie Chenzhou chased after her, silently following behind.

Ahead, the battered fledgling bird suddenly swooped down from the sky.

It screeched, crashing into a cultivator, opening its mouth to spew out scorching flames.

The cultivator fled in terror.

The woman on the ground staggered to her feet, it was Qingyu, her hair disheveled.

She cried and asked the fledgling:

“Manman, where is Qianzhi? Where did Qianzhi go?!”

The fledgling coughed up a mouthful of blood:

“Someone stole my sister during the day, Mother went after her! She will be back soon!”

Qingyu looked around, her eyes glazed over, muttering:

“We won’t wait for her to return.”

The cultivators who had fled earlier returned with reinforcements.

“You dare hurt me, I must kill her!”

“You fool, she’s so beautiful, wouldn’t it be a pity to kill her?”

“Of course, we should keep them, and have them give birth to more little Zhuyu in the future, an endless supply, wouldn’t that be wonderful?”

“Haha, good idea!”

Manman urged:

“Quickly, I’ll take you away, let’s escape together!”

Qingyu looked at the corpses all over the ground, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and gently shook her head.

She handed the child she had been protecting in her arms to the fledgling:

“Manman, take Weiwei away, you two, must live.”

Two-year-old Weiwei cried out loud.

Manman seemed to understand something, tears rolled down its eyes, it bowed to her, its body grew several times larger, and it carried Weiwei on its back and flapped its wings towards the sky.

Qingyu was pressed to the ground by countless hands, she struggled to look up at them, and roared:

“Manman! Don’t forget! Never forget!”

“Kill the human race, kill all the human race!!!”

The bird in the sky let out a high-pitched cry, as if in response.

The Grandmasters who had been coldly watching from the side frowned slightly and moved to capture them.

Qingyu smiled at them with a twisted corner of her mouth.

“Boom!”

Without warning, a terrifying spiritual energy exploded, spreading outwards like a storm.

Countless cultivators were unable to escape, screaming and turning to ashes.

Even the Grandmasters’ faces changed, and they quickly retreated:

“She actually self-destructed?”

As if receiving some kind of signal, all the living Zhuyu people gave up struggling and simultaneously looked up at the starry sky.

A dazzling white light lit up.

“May, the gods bless us.”

After the loud noise, everything returned to calm.

A beautiful white jade slowly flew into the air, splitting into seven pieces, scattering and falling to different parts of the cultivation world, disappearing without a trace.

…

The warm sunlight fell on her face, making her cheeks slightly flushed.

Sang Nian opened her eyes, her head ached terribly.

Xie Chenzhou lightly tapped her forehead with his finger, and her chaotic thoughts instantly became clearer.

Her temples no longer ached.

Sang Nian sat up, unable to recover for a long time.

Xie Chenzhou put his arm around her shoulder:

“Their resentment is too heavy, you were affected.”

Sang Nian murmured:

“Didn’t they always worship the gods? Why, why didn’t the gods come to save them?”

Xie Chenzhou was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice:

“There are no gods in this world.”

The gods didn’t save the Zhuyu, and they didn’t save him either.

He was blind to all suffering.

Therefore, there was only one explanation.

There are no gods in this world.

A slight noise came from outside, someone called Sang Nian’s name loudly.

She sluggishly walked out the door and looked up.

Under the dazzling sunlight, a woman and her husband walked side by side, carrying a basket in their hands.

The basket was filled with freshly picked Lychee fruits, still glistening with morning dew.

The young man held his two-year-old daughter, deliberately making a funny face at her.

The little girl giggled, her eyes curving into crescent moons.

Sang Nian was as if she had been struck by a spell, unable to move.

They walked to the window and greeted her:

“Good morning, we picked some fruits, would you like some?”

Sang Nian opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

Qingyu suddenly made a “huh” sound, puzzled:

“Why are you crying at me too?”

Sang Nian touched her face, looking at the clear water marks on her fingertips, her throat choked, and she struggled to speak:

“I’m sorry.”

Qingyu hurriedly stepped forward and hugged her:

“What’s wrong with you human beings, why are you all like this? What do you have to apologize to me for? You don’t have to apologize to me.”

Sang Nian remembered her mournful cries before her death in the dream, and she couldn’t stop crying.

Qingyu said again:

“Okay, even if you have something to apologize for, I forgive you, okay?”

Sang Nian tried to stop her tears:

“I’ll go calm down by myself.”

After saying that, she said the same thing to Xie Chenzhou and left alone.

Qingyu looked at Xie Chenzhou helplessly.

Xie Chenzhou shook his head very slowly.

Weiwei walked up to him with a fruit, her eyes curved into smiles:

“Zhou Zhou, eat.”

From the moment they met, she had been very clingy to him, no matter what she ate, she would share it with Xie Chenzhou.

Even if there was only one fruit, she wouldn’t stop until he took a bite.

Xie Chenzhou felt an inexplicable strangeness in his heart.

He carefully examined Weiwei.

A two-year-old child, not yet grown, with a chubby face, big eyes, and fluttering eyelashes.

He tried to overlap her with the blurry image in his memory, but he couldn’t do it no matter what.

Was it a coincidence, or…

His expression changed constantly.

Under the giant ancient tree.

Sang Nian squatted on the ground, hugging her knees and watching the ants scurrying around in the mud.

Perhaps it was about to rain, they were starting to move house, leaving in an orderly queue.

Liu Liu flew back and forth above her head:

“You’re not from this world, there’s no need to apologize to the Zhuyu people, don’t blame yourself.”

Sang Nian pulled herself out of her previous state, calming down a lot:

“Yes, you’re right, it’s not my fault.”

Liu Liu: “It’s good that you’ve figured it out.”

Sang Nian said:

“About the Zhuyu people, I didn’t want to investigate further, it’s too dangerous, it’s not something I can get involved in, I might die.”

Liu Liu: “Yes, yes, yes.”

Sang Nian: “But whether I want to get involved or not, I’m already in the game.”

“From the moment I got that book, I had no choice.”

Liu Liu was completely confused:

“I don’t understand what you’re saying.”

Sang Nian raised her head, looking through the dense branches at a certain direction in the void.

Her gaze seemed to pierce through the void, meeting the gaze of a certain existence in the unknown.

She clenched the Shadowstone in her palm, and said word by word:

“I will do as you wish.”

As soon as she finished speaking, she got up without any hesitation and strode away.

Liu Liu hurriedly grabbed her shoulder:

“No, what are you talking about…”

A gentle breeze blew, a few green leaves rustled and fell, spinning and covering the ants’ path forward.

The line of ants was cut in half, and they were in complete chaos.