Free Web NovelChapter 78: Chapter 66: No Regrets for This Love, The Curtain Falls on the First Life (Volume Finale)
「In the blink of an eye, another month had passed.」
To Xu Lei’s surprise, he still wasn’t dead!
The one-month deadline was up!
Qi Yang had finally lost his patience again.
"JINGLE JINGLE."
He shook the Bell again.
The Human Puppet once again flashed out from the darkness.
"I gave you so much time to decipher them, and you couldn’t even break a single Restriction!"
Qi Yang’s eyes were ice-cold, his tone chilling. "You old piece of trash, what use do I have for you!"
’Is death finally here for me?’
Xu Lei, however, was calm about it, only thinking to himself, ’Is my first life finally coming to an end?’
During this past month, seeing Xu Lei grow weaker and weaker, Qi Yang had naturally demanded that Xu Lei translate the English text into Chinese.
He hoped that after Xu Lei died, he could continue trying to decipher it himself.
However, Xu Lei’s answer to this was the same as before.
He basically said that in these strange ancient texts, every single character could have many different meanings.
It was like the difference between Classical and Vernacular Chinese.
A single character in a classical text could sometimes be interpreted in multiple ways.
This was especially true for certain scriptures, which were even more profound and mysterious.
It was impossible to be certain which meaning was the correct one.
Xu Lei claimed that he could write out a translated version, but it wouldn’t necessarily be correct.
When Qi Yang insisted, Xu Lei had no choice but to once again brainstorm and fabricate several more fake translations for him.
In fact, Xu Lei had spent most of the past month doing just that.
The rest of the time, he pretended to continue manically analyzing the ancient text and breaking the Restrictions.
Of course, in the end, Xu Lei still hadn’t managed to break a single Restriction.
And by now, Xu Lei had grown even weaker, his movements becoming much more sluggish.
It was because Qi Yang saw that Xu Lei was on the verge of death and had no more use...
...that he wanted to kill Xu Lei to vent the anger that had been building up all this time.
"Yang Qi, what are you doing?"
But to Xu Lei’s surprise, Miao Ying actually jumped out and said, "If you kill him, you won’t be able to read this strange ancient text yourself. How will you decipher the Restrictions?
At that point, you’ll really have to wait fifty or sixty years for the Restrictions to unravel on their own!
Have you thought this through?!
Don’t be reckless!"
"SLAP!"
Qi Yang slapped Miao Ying across the face. "Stop pretending! What’s the point of acting now?
What’s the act for?
This old fossil is about to die of old age!
Even if we keep deceiving him, we can’t get anything else out of him!
He’s going to die one way or another!
But we’ve gone through so much trouble for him!
He absolutely cannot just die of old age!
He must die at our hands!
What, don’t tell me you actually developed feelings for this old bastard after sleeping with him?
Were you just pleading for him?"
"Ma-Master. I, I wasn’t."
Miao Ying clutched her face. "I was just, just thinking of you, of obtaining the legacy of this grotto-heaven!"
"You’d better be!"
Qi Yang’s eyes were icy as he said, "We cultivate Evil Techniques. We were never good people to begin with!
Besides, how many people have we deceived and harmed?
Don’t you be a fool and let this old man’s sweet nothings actually mess with your head!
You and I are one!
This old fossil is an outsider!"
"What is the meaning of this? Donors, what are you talking about?"
Xu Lei feigned astonishment. "Donor Yingying, what did you mean by what you just said?"
"What did I mean?"
Qi Yang sneered. "It means you’ve been tricked, old Monk!
Miao Ying has been deceiving you from the very beginning!
Did you really think Miao Ying could genuinely fall for you?
That she’d fall deeply in love with you because of your insights into Buddhist Scripture and your remarkable painting skills?
Don’t you even think about it? What do you have to offer?
What could Miao Ying possibly want from you?
Your wrinkly skin? Your feeble Magical Power?"
「Another minute passed in the blink of an eye.」
"You do it!"
Qi Yang looked at Miao Ying and tossed her a longsword. "Finish this old bastard off!"
Under Qi Yang’s gaze, Miao Ying couldn’t say a word.
She could only take the longsword and walk toward Xu Lei.
"I’ll ask you one last time, old Monk!"
Miao Ying didn’t slash or stab him directly. Instead, she asked, "Are you holding anything back?
Do you have any other ideas on how to decipher the Restrictions?
If you tell us, we can spare your life!
As long as you can break the Restrictions—even just one!
I promise you!
I’ll make sure you live!
I’ll speak to Master on your behalf..."
However, just as she said this...
Xu Lei activated the faint Magical Power within him and lunged forward with all his might!
He threw his chest directly onto Miao Ying’s sword!
"PFFT!"
Miao Ying’s longsword plunged straight into Xu Lei’s chest.
"You!"
Miao Ying froze in shock.
"Don’t pull out the sword yet. Don’t."
At that moment, Xu Lei looked at Miao Ying with deep affection and said, "Donor Yingying, to have met you in this vast sea of people... I have no regrets.
In my early years, I mistakenly entered the Buddhist Sect and was bound by its rules, becoming its Puppet.
I never once thought about romantic love between a man and a woman!
I wasted most of my life in vain!
The Buddhist Sect has wronged me!
If not for you, Donor, suddenly bursting into my world!
My life might have been a blank slate until the day I died.
Although your affections were false...
...my feelings for you, Donor, were real.
I am incapable of deciphering the Restrictions. That is my failure.
But I have never lied to you. Truly, sincerely!
It’s true that I cannot decipher the Restrictions!
And it’s also true that these Restrictions will unravel on their own in fifty or sixty years!
As they say, a dying man’s words are true!
Now, Donor, surely you believe me, don’t you?"
After he finished speaking, Xu Lei’s hand fell limp.
’You fool! I was lying to you! I already told you I was lying!’ At that moment, Miao Ying’s heart twitched as she berated him in her thoughts, and her beautiful eyes couldn’t help but well up with moisture.
She recalled that even though it had all been a pretense...
...during their time together with Xu Lei...
...she had indeed received a kind of wholehearted love and care she had never known before in her life.
At that moment, she raised a hand to her face and felt moisture. She realized she was crying.
She couldn’t help but be startled.
「A few seconds later.」
Xu Lei’s consciousness, which had gone dark as he stopped breathing, became active and perceptive once more.
The Ten Thousand Lives Book had taken effect.
[Host’s death detected. Descendant bloodline detected. Reincarnation can be initiated...]
Just like when he had first transmigrated and was bitten to death by a venomous snake in the forest, words appeared on the Ten Thousand Lives Book.
Of course, at this point, Xu Lei was also able to see the situation outside again.
’That woman, Miao Ying, was actually moved to tears by my act?’
Xu Lei was stunned for a moment, then couldn’t help but chuckle. ’But that’s to be expected, hehe. If this performance of mine were a TV show back on Earth, this would be a major dramatic scene!
Even an evil woman is still a woman!
It’s impossible for her to be completely unmoved!’
Of course, Xu Lei’s consciousness was soon jolted!
"BANG!"
Because outside, Qi Yang, who was behind Miao Ying, suddenly flashed forward and slapped the top of her head.
At the point of contact, Magical Power surged violently, blasting Miao Ying’s hair apart. In that instant, blood began to flow from her beautiful eyes and ears.
"Master?"
Miao Ying collapsed to the ground. In disbelief, she turned her head to look at Qi Yang and said, "You? Why?"
"You!"
Qi Yang only said coldly, "Are tainted!"
When Miao Ying heard this, her world started to spin.
She was Qi Yang’s woman!
She had loved only Qi Yang with all her heart!
She had been completely unwilling to give herself to Xu Lei!
But Qi Yang had persuaded her with emotion, convinced her with reason, coerced her with force, and intimidated her with his might!
In short, she had only done it for Qi Yang!
Yet now, Qi Yang was treating her like this!
She couldn’t help but let out a bitter laugh.
As she laughed, tears mixed with blood streamed from her eyes.
She laughed at her own foolishness!
And she laughed at her own retribution!
With false affection, she had deceived Wu Tan—that foolish, infatuated old Monk who was deeply in love with her—to his death!
And she, who had given everything for Qi Yang, ended up with this as her reward!
At this moment, caught off guard and severely wounded by Qi Yang, blood streamed continuously from her seven orifices.
She no longer looked at Qi Yang. Instead, she looked at the corpse of Xu Lei, collapsed on the ground with the sword still in its chest.
She struggled, her weak limbs moving together, trying to crawl toward Xu Lei’s body.
"Divine Monk, Divine Monk!
I’m sorry, I’m sorry!
It was Yingying who betrayed your love!
But Yingying has received her retribution!
Yingying is coming to find you, coming to find you!
If there is a next life, Yingying will never betray you again!
Never, absolutely never!"
Of course, these were just words.
When a person dies, it’s like a lamp going out.
Unlike Xu Lei, she did not have the Ten Thousand Lives Book.
When she died, she would be well and truly dead!
At this moment, she finally understood. Qi Yang did not love her.
The one who truly loved her was that foolish Divine Monk named Wu Tan, who had willingly died on her sword!
In this moment before her death, her final wish was to die beside the foolish Divine Monk who had once loved her with all his heart.
"You still want to die with him?!"
But Qi Yang snorted coldly and stomped on Miao Ying’s body.
He pinned her down, and though she struggled for a while, she couldn’t crawl any further.
In the end, gazing at Xu Lei’s corpse, she died right under Qi Yang’s foot!
