Chapter 130: The Fall of Suzaku

“Hahaha! Lu Ye, you really are a sentimental fool. But now that you and I are one, isn’t that even better?”

The parasitic sky demon, now fully fused with Lu Ye, spoke using his mouth.

Vermilion Bird watched this unfold, terror slowly overtaking her expression.

No!

No!

No!

It’s not like this!

It

can’t

be like this!

In the light screen, Lu Ye’s lips curled faintly upward.

“Another one gone... what a shame.”

“What do you mean?”

The parasitic sky demon froze.

In the next second, it sensed that the energy inside Lu Ye’s body had begun to go berserk—mad and violent.

“Lu Ye’s” face changed drastically.

“What are you doing?!”

“Lu Ye, what are you doing?!”

“Have you lost your mind? What kind of grudge is this—are you really going to self-detonate just to take me down with you?!”

“You’ll die too! You want to drag me into a mutual destruction? You lunatic!”

“Stop! Stop right now!”

“Lunatic—fuck—you’re insane!”

...

“No—don’t!”

Vermilion Bird screamed too—don’t self-detonate! Don’t do it!

...

Boom!

Within the # Nоvеlight # light screen, a brilliant sphere of white light burst forth like a rising sun above the Canglan Sea.

A gaping void was torn open across the sea. Massive waves rose like ten-thousand-foot walls, surging outward in all directions.

Lu Ye had self-detonated.

He had pulled the parasitic sky demon into his own body—along with its final soul fragment—and detonated himself.

They perished together.

Vermilion Bird was completely stunned.

All of this... had happened after she lost consciousness?

Lu Ye had actually substituted himself, allowing the parasitic sky demon to infect

him

, then self-detonated to destroy it completely.

He used one of his lives—just like that—because of

her

foolishness, because she had trusted White Flame Spirit.

The scene in the light screen hadn’t ended yet.

Lu Ye, who had died once, appeared again.

He let out a gentle sigh, his expression a bit helpless—as if he simply didn’t know what to do with the women in his life.

“But it’s fine...”

A smile once again appeared on Lu Ye’s face.

But Vermilion Bird understood the unspoken second half of that sentence.

He must have been thinking:

But it’s fine—Vermilion Bird is safe.

The scene continued.

She saw Lu Ye waking up the unconscious her aboard the spirit vessel.

“Why am I here?” Vermilion Bird in the light screen looked at Lu Ye with red eyes, dazed, clutching her head.

“You were parasitized by the sky demon. You came here trying to stop me from killing it. But it’s all right—my skills were superior. Not only did I purge the parasite from your body, I also destroyed the parasitic sky demon completely. Pretty impressive, right?” Lu Ye beamed brightly.

He always looked so cheerful. As if... just now, he hadn’t

died

.

Vermilion Bird didn’t raise her head. She just gave a quiet reply.

“Impressive...”

“That’s it? That’s your whole reaction?”

Vermilion Bird lifted her head. A look of admiration now rested on her face. She smiled. “Impressive. Lu Ye is amazing.”

Lu Ye froze.

He stared at Vermilion Bird’s smile, momentarily at a loss.

“You...”

“What? I praised you. Isn’t that enough? What more do you want from me?”

Lu Ye fell silent.

Vermilion Bird smiled on the outside—but in her eyes... was mockery.

“Are you not curious how I managed to expel the parasitic sky demon from your body? Or how I killed it?”

“You used one of your lives. That’s enough, isn’t it?”

“Enough, Lu Ye. I’m tired. I want some peace.”

Lu Ye...

...

Vermilion Bird watched everything in the light screen.

Tears streamed down her face.

She saw the joy, the pride, written all over Lu Ye’s expression—completely extinguished by just a few of her words.

She remembered clearly... exactly what she had been thinking back then.

She hated Lu Ye.

In that moment—she hated Lu Ye with all her heart.

She didn’t even want to pretend anymore.

She didn’t know what the point of pretending was, when facing a liar like him.

The light screen disappeared.

Shen Xitong looked at Vermilion Bird, tears pouring down her face—and the entire system was soaring with joy.

Ding ding ding.

Not trusting your own lover—forever this foolish.

You deserve to end up like this.

“Can I kill her now?” Lu Ye asked Shen Xitong.

“Wait! I have one more question!”

Vermilion Bird’s voice trembled with remorse and guilt.

“What is it? Say it.”

Shen Xitong was full of anticipation.

Come on, let me hear—what’s your last sentence going to be?

Vermilion Bird’s eyes were filled with tears. She stared at Lu Ye in a daze.

“Lu Ye...”

Her voice quivered.

Lu Ye’s expression was cold and indifferent.

“Lu Ye...”

She couldn’t even finish her words anymore. Her whole body shook like a leaf as she sobbed.

“You...”

“When you self-detonated that time... were... were you afraid?”

“Did... did it hurt?”

Shen Xitong was stunned.

Lu Ye’s

Heavenly Lord Fist

began to form again.

And he gave Vermilion Bird an answer.

“I wasn’t afraid. And it didn’t hurt.”

“Did... did you regret it?”

The Heavenly Lord Fist had now gathered to its peak.

Lu Ye looked at this Vermilion Bird—the one he had truly loved and cared for in his past life.

A thousand thoughts passed through his heart.

He gave her the most sincere answer.

“I regret it.”

Vermilion Bird’s face twisted into a wretched smile.

Regret...

He regrets it...

She closed her eyes.

The Heavenly Lord Fist came crashing down.

Boom!

This time, Vermilion Bird exploded completely into a sky full of flame.

Her soul—and the half-dead soul of the Myriad Spirit Demon Emperor tangled with hers—were reduced to dust beneath that one punch.

From this moment on, there was no longer a Vermilion Bird.

No longer a Myriad Spirit Demon Emperor.

Vermilion Bird—has fallen.

...

Lu Ye looked at the Vermilion Flame drifting in the void, his expression obscure, lost in thought.

Vermilion Bird had once loved him.

He had once loved Vermilion Bird.

And now, it had come to this.

So be it. So be it.

It was nothing more than... a bit of frost in the wind.

Lu Ye formed a seal. The Vermilion Flame drifted toward him and merged into his own flames.

Lu Ye turned and left.

Shen Xitong, fully satisfied, turned into a stream of light and flowed back into Lu Ye’s body.

Lu Ye passed through various realms and began once more to refine the

Great Flesh Pill

.

Time passed by the second.

Until finally—Lu Ye returned to the Great Wilderness. The instant he arrived, the transmission stone lit up.

Because it couldn’t transmit messages over such vast distances, he had only received them now that he was back in the Great Wilderness.

“Lu Ye, what’s your relationship with Chu Ling?”

“She stole the Sword Mountain of the Supreme Sword Sect. Now they’re hunting her across the entire world.”

“The Supreme Sword Sect is our Grand Dao Sect’s ally. Their Sword Mountain was stolen because most of their experts came to help us.”

“What do you think we should do? Should you contact Chu Ling and ask her to return it? If she wants a treasure like Sword Mountain, maybe we can try forging something similar.”

“If she truly needs it, we of the Grand Dao Sect can compensate the Supreme Sword Sect...”

A string of messages lit up.

Lu Ye picked up the transmission stone and replied.

“Chu Ling and I are enemies. If the Supreme Sword Sect helps me kill her, I’ll be eternally grateful.”