Transcending the Nine Heavens

body.
That day, the ten of us brothers supported and held each other as we staggered out of the Dragon Straits.
We were weak and feeble, almost unable to stand.
But as we looked out into the world, all of us felt that with our brothers by our sides, we were invincible!”

“And now… I’m all alone!”

“Now, I’m all alone… My brothers, do you know that I miss all of you?!”

“Now that I’m all alone passing time by myself, even if I’m wounded, injured by others and suffered grievances… there’s no one whom I can pour my woes to and no one who will stand up for me anymore… hurhur…”

Wu Juecheng’s voice became lower and lower, as if the moment a sentence left his lips, it died out in the wind and disappeared without a trace.

He was an almighty expert in this world; he naturally didn’t need anyone to stand up for him.
But during the Slaying of the Tao back then, he was ambushed by the Dharma Supreme and critically injured.

After he was injured, he thought countless times of how his brothers had stood up for him back then! He thought to himself countless times, “If my brothers were still around? If my brothers were still around!”

What would have happened?

They probably would have charged ahead long ago! Whether he was the Dharma Supreme or whoever else, he would have been pummeled into the ground by now!

If my brothers were still around, who would dare to bully me? Who would dare to deceive me?!

That feeling of having brothers who would stand up for him… was simply too heartwarming! Too heartwarming!!

Every time he thought of that, Wu Juecheng, who was already several tens of thousands of years old, would feel exceptionally lonely, solitary and desolate.
He felt exceptionally like a child who had no one to depend on in this vast and boundless world… The sorrow in his heart made him desperately want to burst into tears and bawl.

But his brothers were no longer around.
Even if he wanted to cry… there was no one he could cry to!

Chu Yang watched the sky in front of him somewhat absentmindedly.
He murmured, “Sing together in chorus, dash through the martial world together on horseback, go through life and death together, brave through perilous situations together… If an elder brother was in trouble, the younger brother would draw his sword and go forward; if the younger brother was in trouble, the elder brother would face death without even looking back! With our brothers by our sides, we are invincible! …”

These words, when said by Wu Juecheng, were filled with sorrow and melancholy.
But when said by Chu Yang, they were filled with a heroic sense of contentment!

Wu Juecheng was talking about his brothers, but the ones whom Chu Yang was talking about were his own brothers.
The two of them uttered the same words, but the feeling they gave off was two complete opposites — One was filled with the desolation and bleakness of the autumn wind, whereas the other gave off the blinding rays of warm light of the blazing summer!

Sighing, Wu Juecheng turned and looked over.

Even though neither his eyes nor his expression was visible, Chu Yang could sense that his eyes were filled with envy.

“Back then… we were the same as what you’re like now…” As though Wu Juecheng wanted to prove something, this line of his was said exceptionally emphatically and forcefully.
As if he was sulking, he added, “More content than you are!”

Chu Yang replied heavily, “I believe you!”

When such emotions existed in their hearts, anyone would feel that they were more blissful and more content than others!

“Chu Yang, let’s have a casual chat?” After staying silent for a moment, Wu Juecheng said.

“Alright.” Chu Yang laughed wryly in his heart.
Wu Juecheng had just reminisced with much emotion and looked back at his past.
Why was that?

An expert who had reached a level such as his, every action of theirs was pretty much in line with the way of the great Tao.
How could there possibly be something like a ‘casual chat’?

The moment this line left Wu Juecheng’s lips, Chu Yang knew that he definitely had something to say! And it was likely… it was likely something he had been very worried about!

That was about to happen!

But even after he said to have a ‘casual chat’, Wu Juecheng remained silent.
After a long while, he said, “Le’er, go to the cliff and keep a lookout.
Don’t let anyone come near.
Your Big Brother and I have something to discuss.”

As though she had just awakened from a dream, Chu Le’er responded with a sound of acknowledgment.
She got to her feet and walked off.

Chu Le’er was by their side the entire time, but she had been very out of it.
Sometimes, she would look at Wei Wuyan’s body and sob.
She didn’t hear a single word of the conversation between Wu Juecheng and Chu Yang.

But Wu Juecheng had sent her away nonetheless.

Watching Chu Le’er go far and watching Wan Renjie and the other two continue to busy themselves, Wu Juecheng asked, “Chu Yang… Do you know what I want to say?”

Chu Yang let out a resigned laugh.
“I’m all ears now.”

“Chu Yang, how old are you now?” Wu Juecheng asked after staying silent for a long while.
When he asked this question, it seemed like the fog shrouding his face became even thicker.

“I’ve just turned twenty!” Chu Yang answered after being stunned for a moment.

“Just turned twenty… hurhur…” Wu Juecheng chuckled lightly.
He said, “More than three years ago, when you were not yet eighteen, you subverted the Lower Three Heavens by yourself… and was hailed as the King of Hell Chu… Truly impressive!”

A jolt went through Chu Yang’s heart.

“Two years ago, you were not yet nineteen.”

“And now, you are not yet twenty!”

“Yet your cultivation has already reached second-grade Supreme Martial Artist, and a second-grade Sword Supremacy!” Wu Juecheng went on.
“And it hasn’t even been two years since you came to the Upper Three Heavens!”

Wu Juecheng’s voice was very indistinct.
He went on.
“You’re neither from a large clan nor do you have that kind of premium-grade Heavenly Treasure aura around you…”

“And yet you’ve achieved such an accomplishment.”

Wu Juecheng’s words were very peaceful and very calm, but Chu Yang felt an intense reverberation within him that came from the bottom of his heart.

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