Chapter 627: Leave My Corpse Intact....
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
In the rain, Jiang Hao watched the oncoming thugs with a frown.
They left a trail of death in their wake. They didn’t just kill the villagers, but all life seemed to wither away. Flowers, plants, trees, birds, and animals…
Everything died. Even the cured meat hanging in the courtyard decayed.
The villagers met even more gruesome fates. They were either dismembered by horses or had their heads severed from their bodies.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to intervene, but he had tried to act discreetly from the beginning, and it had no effect. All his powers were ineffective against the thugs.
The villagers were still killed regardless of someone blocking the blades. The bandits raising their knives were just a gesture. All life ended regardless.
On the seventh day, the village was about to be destroyed.
“So, this is what it means when they say Seven-Day Village.”
He now understood what the old woman from the Heavenly Tower meant when she said he couldn’t use people here to threaten the members of The End of All Things.
Creak…
The courtyard gate opened.
The little boy walked out into the rain. He saw the thugs brutally slaying the villagers.
As a nine-year-old child, he was scared.
But it seemed like he knew what his fate would be. He didn’t attempt to run away.
Jiang Hao frowned. He could see that the little boy before him was trembling and deeply afraid.
“It seems like something bad is happening on the seventh day, ” Jiang Hao said as he shielded the boy from the pouring rain.
“Something good is happening today. My father will be coming back,” the little boy said and trembled. “But I won’t be able to see him.”
“Really? Do you miss him a lot?” Jiang Hao asked.
“Yes.” The little boy nodded. “I want to ask him if he’s doing well, and if I’ve caused him any trouble. I wanted to ask if he missed me.”
Jiang Hao fell silent for a moment. “I’ll ask him for you.” The little boy looked at Jiang Hao. “Uncle, can you do me a favor?”
“Sure,” Jiang Hao said without hesitation.
He had understood the fate of the Seven-Day Village. Although he didn’t know why, the village’s power was gradually erasing all life here. It wasn’t just that. Even the meat they had cooked over the past few days was starting to decay.
The boy asked, “Uncle, are you a bad person?”
“Yes.” Jiang Hao nodded.
“Bad people kill others, right?”
“It depends on what kind of bad person they are. But I have killed too.”
“In that case…” The boy stared at Jiang Hao. “Uncle, can you kill me and leave my body intact? Otherwise, I’m afraid my father won’t be able to find me.”
Jiang Hao was stunned. He was shaken by the boy’s words.
He fell silent.
Just then, excited cheers came from a distance as many villagers were left dead and without comDlete corDses.
Seeing this, the boy grew even more frightened. He looked at Jiang Hao pleadingly. “Uncle…”
Jiang Hao gazed at the nine-year-old boy before him. He found it hard to remain composed. He could never do something like that if it were only him, but he was Smiling San Sheng here.
He smiled kindly. “Sure.”
However, his voice lacked the calmness it usually showed.
Hong Yuye looked at Jiang Hao.
Before the boy could thank Jiang Hao, he suddenly looked behind the boy in surprise. “Your father is here.”
The little boy turned around instinctively. In that instant, a blade flashed.
The strike had no intention to kill.
Tian Chen walked the narrow path. He was walking slowly in the beginning, but now he hastened his steps.
His formidable cultivation aura burst forth as he rushed toward the village like a madman.
If he was fast enough, he could avoid the tragedy.
However, no matter how many times he tried, he couldn’t do it. He grimaced. The speed at which he walked left others dumbfounded.
“Wait for me! Wait for me!”
He went mad.
Soon, he arrived at his house. As soon as he arrived, he saw the blade flash over his son.
The boy, who was just an ordinary person, lost his life under that strike.
With a thud, his body fell to the ground.
Tian Chen lost his sanity.
“I’m going to kill you! I’m going to kill you! ”
Tian Chen let out a howl and unleashed all his power. He wanted to end the person before him.
Jiang Hao laughed. “You’re so slow. I only struck him gently, but he died.” Tian Chen looked ferocious.
His power began to burn. He was going to die with the person before him, but suddenly he felt a gaze on him.
He looked down. It was his son’s gaze.
In an instant, his power vanished, and he snapped back to reality.
Finally, he walked to his son’s side, knelt, and wept.
Jiang Hao watched but didn’t say anything.
He didn’t know why he had said that to Tian Chen. He hated himself for it.
At that moment, the thugs on the horses passed them and collected the life energy of everything around them.
As outsiders, they didn’t pose any problems.
Jing Fengyun was scared to death and thought he would have to face these mysterious thugs too. However, seeing that no one else was reacting and only he was getting nervous, he felt somewhat embarrassed. He lowered his head and dared not do anything.
“He had a few questions for you,” Jiang Hao said to the man before him. His voice was calm yet piercing. “He wanted to know if you were doing well, and if he had ever caused you any trouble. He also wanted to ask you if you missed him.”
Tian Chen held his child and wept.
Jiang Hao lowered his head. He had heard Tian Chen’s story. Even when Tian Chen was just an ordinary person, his family had experienced an undeserved tragedy.
Now that Tian Chen had achieved the peak of the Return to Void Realm, at least
a hundred years had passed since then.
A dead nine-year-old would still stay as a nine-year-old child in a hundred years. He should have understood it a long time ago.
The resurrection had just frozen the dead loved ones at a certain time.
The person he sought had appeared, but Jiang Hao had no intention of asking any questions. Instead, he watched the vanishing thugs and fell into deep thought.
By this time, the village had already lost all its vitality. It was in ruins and was engulfed in silence, like a burial ground.
“You should leave,” said Tian Chen after weeping for a long time. “The first day is about to arrive. Without special protection, if you stay here, your lifeforce will be sucked away little by little. It will affect you.”
Jiang Hao looked at Hong Yuye, who looked as indifferent as ever.
“Young friend Jing, please leave first.”
Hong Yuye could protect him, but there was no guarantee for Jing Fengyun.
Jing Fengyun dared not linger and quickly left. Mi Lingyue and the others left with him.
They exchanged glances and realized that Jing Fengyun was the weakest among them. However, they didn’t dare to provoke him as they had seen Jiang Hao’s extraordinary abilities.
He had single-handedly killed Madame Gong.
As time passed, moonlight appeared once again.
At midnight, Jiang Hao looked up and faintly saw the shadow of a dragon. Following that, a surge of lifeforce began descending.
The grass, trees, and the land itself regained its vitality, and all living things were reborn. Death and life alternated like a continuous cycle.
With each breath, it repeated itself.
The first day was about to begin..