Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant

Chapter 870: Chapter 385: Longevity Seeker Speaks (Part 2)

The words of the Longevity Seeker were calm and composed, without the slightest ripple, but Li An listened in awe, feeling a chill through his body.

He prided himself on being ruthless, but compared to this Longevity Seeker... he truly fell short.

Li An might be selfish, perhaps indifferent, but ultimately he still held some human emotions; he could feel joy, happiness, and even warmth in his heart because of Shangguan Xiaoxiao or Gu Hong’s presence.

Yet often, he forced himself not to care about those things.

But the person before him, there was utterly none.

How many schemes did he have to endure walking out from among thousands? How much cruelty and callousness did he have to witness? He might have once had companions, but in order to survive, he ended up having to consume them; he might have once been infatuated with a girl, but before life, he could only watch her die.

Becoming a Human Gu, nothing in the world could move his heart anymore.

"Fear her, so kill her."

Li An said.

"Yes, I killed them, in the most ruthless manner."

"So, did you conquer your own fear?"

The Longevity Seeker sighed slightly: "No."

"The human heart is like soil, once a certain seed sprouts, even if you promptly remove it, you can no longer find peace, fear grows, day by day... Speaking of which, you might not believe it, but since then, I’ve often had nightmares."

"Dream of what?"

"Dream of her eyes."

The Longevity Seeker poured a cup of tea, put it to his lips, and took a sip. The tea seemed too bitter, adding a sense of melancholy to his face:

"Every time I fought until fainted, every time I broke realms, every time I slept soundly at midnight, I would dream of her, on the first day I saw her, she was sitting here, brewing tea for her master, I can even recall every detail, her delicate hand lifting the purple clay teapot, the boiling tea water falling onto the tea leaves, emanating a fragrant aroma, with the leaves unfurling along...

"She looked up and saw me... I remember the style of the bun on her head, the green flower hairpin inserted in it, the purple gown she was wearing, the surprise on her face when she saw me, and her eyes, like stars, the moon, lakes, or a deer’s eyes..."

"And her name."

"Yuan Ziyi."

Li An said: "So, fear comes from yourself, not from her."

"Yes... fear is born in one’s own heart..."

He chuckled lightly and said: "So I decided to bring her back to life."

"I found her sect. By then, I was already a Daluo Golden Immortal, so I was able to utilize the causality that still existed for her in time and brought her back to appear again, then I recreated the scene when I first saw her, I once again fought to the limit, and came to this place. This time, I told her who I was, what I did, told her what kind of villain I am..."

"At that time I thought, it was her kindness to me, her goodwill, that activated the fear inside me. If she knew who I was, she would, like others, wish nothing more than to kill me..."

"And the result?"

"The result..."

The Longevity Seeker said: "She didn’t kill me, she still offered me a cup of tea, once again saving me."

"This time, she didn’t just arouse my fear, she also made me angry. I didn’t let her and her master leave, I killed her master in front of her, made her taste her master’s blood and flesh, haha... then I skinned her and devoured her together."

Li An did not ask, because he already knew, this matter would not end so simply, when Yuan Ziyi made the Human Gu fear, angry...

She had already become his greatest calamity.

"But after eating them... I ended up vomiting."

At this moment, it seemed to return to that Bone Transformation Mountain years ago. In the Longevity Seeker’s eyes, an inexplicable sad color flashed: "I never vomit after eating humans, I was already used to the taste of blood; when she was alive, her skin was icy and her bones were like jade, swallowing it down I felt sweet, yet I ended up vomiting, worse than when I first ate a piece of meat on Ten Thousand People Island."

"Not only did I fear, was angry, but I actually regretted..."

"So, I made them reappear once more."

Li An listened silently.

"This time, I didn’t kill them; instead, I followed her back to her sect... because I had already understood, her eyes were the source of all evil; everything was because of her eyes. Her eyes weren’t the moon, they were the purity untarnished by the world, not stars, but infinite hope for the future, not lakes, but tranquility without fear..."

"I want to destroy her purity, sever her hope, break her tranquility..."

The calm words of the Longevity Seeker suddenly became somewhat agitated at this moment, as if he had returned to years ago, when he had determined to destroy everything of Yuan Ziyi’s.

Seemingly aware of his emotional fluctuations, he suddenly smiled and said: "Sorry."

Li An said: "No need, then what?"

"The people of that sect treated me very well, they actually provided the resources disciples needed, their elders didn’t perfunctorily teach but taught seriously, they even, at intervals, would let disciples go down the mountain to do good, to help those so-called people in need... do you know how absurd this is?"

"At first, they just sent me to hunt down some very evil people; this was easy for me, to kill, that was all, whether they were good or evil it didn’t matter, the task was simple, but later..."

"I had killed countless people, yet she forced me to gather herbs for an old woman, I had eaten countless children, yet she made me teach those beggar children to read and write in a private school, I preferred the safety of the night, but she insisted on taking me to watch the sunrise and sunset... utterly absurd, utterly absurd."

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