Luo Shangchen's furious and almost crazed roar spread through the entire sect like a shockwave. Many disciples panicked and trembled in fear, while the elders rushed to his location to see what was happening.
"Hehe, the show has started. Too bad I can't see Luo Changsheng's wonderful face from here," Yun Wuji muttered, standing in his palace's garden and gazing at the sky with a sinister laugh.
He was grounded by Luo Guxie and couldn't leave. Besides, it was too risky to go where two Divine Masters were about to fight.
In Luo Guxie's residence, she was in the middle of instructing her son's cultivation when she heard her brother's furious roar and sensed his berserk profound energy. She stopped teaching Luo Changsheng and frowned, muttering, "What is this guy doing?"
As she watched the approaching figure streak through the sky, an uneasy feeling rose within her. Why would her useless brother, who always maintained a meek attitude toward her, suddenly charge in like an enraged beast?
"Father?" Luo Changsheng was also confused. He looked up at the sky and spoke, sensing the oppressive aura his father was radiating even from a distance. It made his chest tighten, and he subconsciously took a step back, hiding behind Luo Guxie. Only then did his breathing ease.
Luo Guxie's residence wasn't far away. In just a few moments, Luo Shangchen arrived. He stopped mid-air and looked down at his sister and the person he had always believed to be his son standing together. His face was still deathly pale, his breathing ragged, and his eyes had turned a shocking, conspicuous scarlet red... They radiated a darkness and killing intent, unlike anything they had ever seen before.
"Where is Changsheng?! Where is my Changsheng?!" he roared.
His arms, no, his entire body was trembling violently, and his aura was wildly agitated and disordered.
"Father, what are you talking about? I'm right here!" Luo Changsheng stepped out from behind Luo Guxie and spoke to his father in a bewildered voice. As he spoke, an inexplicable fear rose in his heart, as if he was about to lose something important today.
But his assumption was completely wrong, he wasn't going to lose just one thing, but everything he had.
"Shut up, you bastard! You're a fake! A fake bastard!" Luo Changsheng's words triggered Luo Shangchen's most painful wound. His blood-red eyes locked onto the person he had once treasured more than his own life, and he roared like a wild beast. His killing intent, radiating fiercely, fixed on Luo Changsheng.
"Fake! Fake! Fake! Everything is fake, ahhh!!!" This was the greatest and most cruel blow he had ever endured in his entire life. He would rather die than face something like this! He would rather watch the entire Holy Eaves Realm be destroyed before his eyes than experience this! The pain tore at his soul mercilessly, so intense that he wished for nothing more than to be dead.
One must admit, although Luo Guxie was batshit crazy and her methods were far-fetched, and Yun Wuji felt she was utterly uncreative in her revenge, the effect was still undeniably evident.
Luo Guxie, who had been silent, suddenly laughed. Her eyes were filled with mockery as she said, "My trash of a brother, it seems you've finally discovered the truth."
Although her trash brother discovering the truth had caught her off guard and disrupted her original plan, it didn't matter much to her. Now that she had Yun Wuji, her desire for revenge had significantly lessened.
"Master! Father! What are you talking about?" Luo Changsheng's unease grew stronger. He had never seen his father look so crazed, nor had he ever seen his aunt act so strangely.
"I am not your father! Bastard!" Luo Shangchen roared. The last thing he wanted to hear were those words. With his emotions completely out of control, he thrust his palm forward in fury.
Rumble!
A massive, transparent palm, as large as a mountain, shot toward the helpless Luo Changsheng. The air was violently pushed away, and the space itself began to crumble under the force of the attack. Black cracks spread around them. Although the laws of space were extremely strong in the God Realm, for an 8th Level Divine Master, shredding space was an easy feat.
Luo Changsheng stared at the palm hurtling toward him, motionless, without making any attempt to dodge. The mental blow he had taken was utterly devastating. He stood there, looking at his father's twisted face, still unable to believe that the person he had always respected and who had doted on him would actually attack him!
"Hmph!" Luo Changsheng may not have moved, but how could Luo Guxie allow her precious son to be harmed by a worthless piece of trash? With a cold snort, she waved her sleeve.
BOOOM!!
An earth-shattering explosion rocked the space, causing the building they were in to crumble. Luo Guxie's figure shot through the rubble, and the energies of two incredibly powerful Divine Masters clashed violently in the air. The shockwaves were so intense they nearly toppled the gigantic sect building.
"Sect Master! Don't be impulsive! Ahh!" At this moment, the sect's Grand Elder finally caught up. While flying toward them, he shouted, but the shockwave from the clash between the two siblings sent him flying. He was just a pitiful 10th-level Divine Sovereign, even a simple shockwave was deadly for him.
"Sect Master! Fairy Guxie!" As the Grand Elder arrived, the other Elders quickly followed. They had initially thought an enemy had invaded the sect and had rushed to the scene, only to find their Sect Master locked in a fierce battle with Luo Guxie.
Luo Guxie, the Holy Eaves Realm's pillar of stability and strength, actually fighting her own brother, the Sect Master!
"Sect Master, what...what is going on?" One of the Elders gathered his courage and spoke, trying to keep his voice as calm as possible.
"KILL!!!"
However, the Elder's words provoked a shrill, bloodcurdling scream from Luo Shangchen. He pointed his finger at Luo Guxie, and every part of it trembled violently as he roared, "Kill her! Kill her! KILL HER!!!"
"Heh, kill me? Hahahaha!" Luo Guxie laughed wildly. With a flick of her sleeve, she sent all the Holy Eaves disciples that were approaching them flying. She stared into Luo Shangchen's scarlet eyes and sneered, "A useless piece of trash like you wants to kill me? Hah! That will only ever be a pipedream for someone like you!"
The Grand Elder's face was pale because he already knew the inside story, but the others dropped their jaws, their eyes widening to the size of saucers. They were completely at a loss for what to do.
"Where is my Changsheng?! Give me back my son!" Luo Shangchen roared and lunged at her, attacking with violent fury.
Bang!
Luo Guxie responded in kind, slamming her palms into him, sending him flying, blood trickling from his lips. Luo Shangchen didn't care about the injury. With a crazed look in his eyes, he rushed back toward her, relentless in his fury.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The two sides clashed fiercely, one side disregarding everything, fighting with manic desperation, while the other, much stronger, easily blocked the crazed attacks. Profound energy raged chaotically through the air, creating a scene that seemed capable of destroying the world. Space itself shook and shattered like glass, black lines spreading everywhere, and black lightning crackling from them. Many disciples who had been watching from a distance were caught in the turmoil, dying miserably as they were swept up by the devastating forces.
The Grand Elder and the other Elders tried to protect the disciples, but they were just as fragile as them in the face of such power. They could only manage to carry them to a safer distance, away from the chaotic battle.
The only person left standing was Luo Changsheng, untouched amidst the rubble. He remained completely unharmed because Luo Guxie had been protecting him all along.
At that moment, a terrifying thought began to form in his mind. From his father's words and actions, it seemed... it seemed that he wasn't really his son?
No!
That couldn't be true!
It had to be a lie!
A fucking lie!!!
He stepped out from the rubble and watched the two figures clashing against each other. With each collision, shockwaves rippled through space, and in every clash, his father was at a disadvantage. After all, Luo Guxie was a whole level stronger than him.
Even if there were two of him, they still wouldn't stand a chance against her.
"Aunt!" When he uttered that word, his eyes remained fixed on Luo Guxie. They were red and filled with despair, but there was still a glimmer of hope in them. "Tell me that none of this is real... that none of this is real..."
"Changsheng..." After sending her brother flying again, Luo Guxie turned to look at her son. A sharp breath caught in her throat as she saw the confusion and despair in his eyes, she had never seen him so lost before.
Luo Guxie didn't know how to answer Luo Changsheng's question, but Luo Shangchen responded in her stead. His furious voice was filled with hatred and killing intent, trembling as he pointed a finger at Luo Changsheng. "You... dog bastard! You've conspired with this bitch to deceive me all these years... and you're still playing dumb!?"
Luo Changsheng's body swayed, his face turning a sickly white. The hatred in his father's eyes and the voice dripping with killing intent shattered his last illusion completely.
The two words, "dog bastard," struck Luo Guxie like a cruel force, plucking at the very strings of her soul. They dug deep into painful memories she had desperately tried to bury, ones she never wanted to recall again.
Her head snapped violently as she glared at Luo Shangchen. Now that the painful memories of the past had been pried open, the complex emotions and guilt that had welled up in her heart completely dissipated. All that remained was a deep hatred and determination. "Luo Shangchen, didn't you keep asking me what happened to your 'Changsheng' just now?"
She began to laugh, her laughter cold and sinister. "How ridiculous! How utterly ridiculous! Since when did you ever have a 'Changsheng'? 'Changsheng' is a name I chose, his life is something I brought into this world, his cultivation was personally guided by me. From his head to his toes, from beginning to end, he never had anything to do with you!"
"As for that pathetic and pitiful son of yours, he went to accompany that pitiful mother of his a long time ago. I mean... How could I allow him to live!?"
Luo Guxie's words exploded like deafening thunder in everyone's ears, causing shock to instantly appear on countless faces.
Even though Luo Shangchen had already deduced that this was the only possible conclusion, hearing Luo Guxie utter those words caused the blood vessels in his eyes to nearly explode. "You bitch... YOU BITCH!!"
As he roared those words, his body lunged toward Luo Guxie. A towering tidal wave of energy ripped through the surroundings, sucking up all the debris in its path as it surged toward her in a frenzy
Luo Guxie waved her hand, and in that instant, the energy wave collapsed, causing the earth to crack apart. Despite Luo Shangchen's desperate attack, his cultivation couldn't compare to Luo Guxie's, and he was sent flying backward by her blow. However, the killing intent radiating from his body hadn't diminished in the slightest. His face had turned as red as blood as if all the blood in his body had rushed to his head in his extreme fury.
"Hahahaha, hahahaha!"
Luo Guxie's laughter rang out as Luo Shangchen raged. Her face twisted with madness as she laughed uncontrollably. Her eyes gleamed with contempt and delight as she sneered, "This is karma! This is the karma you and that old dog reaped! This is the karma that the Holy Eaves Realm reaped!"
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