Chapter 656 - 641: The Things Brought by a Memory

As the story goes, the appearance of Chi Lian’Er, the Artifact Spirit within the Divine Sword Celestial Cry, finally broke the seal on a fragment of memory in Shen Lang’s mind.

Shen Lang finally learned about Chi Lian’Er, and certain matters concerning Chi Zunxin and the War Emperor.

This uncontrollable, forcibly accepted memory—and the events it contained, so contrary to his own personality and methods—instantly plunged Shen Lang into a terrible mood.

Never having seen the War Emperor in such a rage, Chi Lian’Er was now trembling, not daring to speak at all.

"Lian’Er is just a child. Don’t scold her so loudly... Look how frightened she is." Xue Shiyin gently patted Shen Lang’s sleeve. "Please, calm down."

Her intimate gesture and gentle words touched Shen Lang’s heart once more.

Shen Lang let out a long sigh. "I’m so tired. I don’t want to get involved in your family’s business anymore, and I can’t even if I wanted to... Heh, to be blunt, I can’t even manage my own life right now!"

As he finished, Shen Lang’s voice rose several notches, his tone laced with a fiery anger.

"From the moment I met you all, I’ve been trying to change you. Thousands of years... and it was all a fucking waste of time! Only an idiot like me would even try something so stupid!"

The surging wave of anger made even Duanmu Xie, who was outside the room, instinctively shrink back.

At that moment, Shen Lang couldn’t even tell...

...where this anger was coming from.

Shen Lang rarely lost his temper like this.

After all, the events with Chi Zunxin were something the War Emperor had experienced, not Shen Lang.

So, Shen Lang should have been able to treat it as if he were a mere spectator, with no need for anger or hatred.

But the anger came too fast, too fiercely.

It was so fierce that before Shen Lang even had time to control it, it had erupted like a volcano!

As time passed, the souls of the War Emperor and Shen Lang continued to merge more and more deeply.

To some extent, Shen Lang had long since accepted the War Emperor’s identity and had begun to treat everything the War Emperor did as his own actions.

On many occasions, he was starting to be influenced by the War Emperor’s consciousness.

Chi Lian’Er’s refusal to protect Xue Shiyin, and then her tantrum and refusal to help when the Celestial Demon Soul appeared—this had crossed Shen Lang’s, or rather, the War Emperor’s, line!

When this memory was unsealed, Shen Lang understood one thing...

The scene of the War Emperor’s first encounter with Xue Shiyin was not the one Shen Lang knew. The memory he was familiar with was of the Xue Family suffering a great catastrophe, with Xue Shiyin crying in the snow before the War Emperor appeared.

But in the newly unsealed memory, Shen Lang discovered this was actually the War Emperor’s *second* time meeting Xue Shiyin.

This memory drastically changed Shen Lang’s attitude toward Xue Shiyin!

Because the feeling the War Emperor had when he first met Xue Shiyin was exactly the same as the feeling Shen Lang had when he first met Xue Dangdang!

Xue Shiyin was to the War Emperor what Xue Dangdang was to Shen Lang.

Xue Shiyin was Xue Shiyin, and Xue Dangdang was Xue Dangdang. Shen Lang still hadn’t figured out the connection between them.

But the War Emperor was Shen Lang, and Shen Lang was the War Emperor. That was an unchangeable fact...

Since Shen Lang was the War Emperor, the source of this sudden, fierce anger was already crystal clear.

What truly enraged Shen Lang wasn’t Chi Zunxin’s deceit, but the fact that... not long ago, both Xue Shiyin and Xue Dangdang had nearly been annihilated!

Ultimately, Chi Zunxin’s vile personality only disgusted Shen Lang; it wasn’t enough to make him lose his mind with rage...

The real reason the fire in Shen Lang’s heart could not be suppressed was Chi Lian’Er’s refusal to help Xue Shiyin!

From this memory, Shen Lang knew that the War Emperor’s feelings for Xue Shiyin were just like his own for Xue Dangdang.

That was why, before he left, the War Emperor had sealed the Divine Sword Celestial Cry within Xue Shiyin’s arm and ordered Chi Lian’Er to protect her.

The War Emperor had been meticulous in his plans, but he never could have imagined that his decision to have Chi Lian’Er protect Xue Shiyin more than two thousand years ago would turn out to be a grave error!

Because from the very beginning, Chi Lian’Er never had any intention of protecting Xue Shiyin!

Fortunately, Xue Shiyin hadn’t run into any major trouble over these past few thousand years.

If she had faced some disaster and tried to rely on the Divine Sword Celestial Cry, only for it to be just like today... The consequences would have been unimaginable!

Shen Lang’s personality was quite different from the War Emperor’s.

Shen Lang was far more decisive and direct, and also much more cautious... Of course, his caution was mainly due to the gap in their cultivation. At the War Emperor’s level, even if he wasn’t cautious, who could have possibly stood against him?

After silently sorting through his thoughts, Shen Lang finally pinpointed the source of his rage.

’In the end, it’s actually the War Emperor who’s angry...’

The War Emperor thought that with the Divine Sword Celestial Cry, one of the Ten Great Celestial Artifacts, and Chi Lian’Er, a Qilin Divine Beast, within it, he had done enough to protect Xue Shiyin and ensure her a safe and peaceful life...

He never expected that not only would his goal of protecting her fail, but it would be like planting a ticking time bomb inside her body!

Thinking of this, Shen Lang sighed, waved his hand dismissively, and said, "I promised to help you reconstruct a physical body, and I will keep that promise. But that’s a matter for another time... You wanted freedom, right? You didn’t want anyone telling you what to do? Fine. I’ll give you your freedom."

"Go. The world is a vast place. Go wherever you want, just stay out of my sight."

Shen Lang’s voice was filled with desolation. Chi Lian’Er’s actions had made him completely disheartened with her entire family.

Even having idiots like Bone One and Bone Two guard his loved ones would be a hundred, a thousand times better than relying on these so-called Divine Beasts!

Bone One and Bone Two’s cultivation might be weak, but they would never, ever betray him!

Shen Lang had his own standards for who could be a friend, for who could be a brother.

’Since we’re not walking the same path, why should we stick together?’

SOB... SOB...

In the corner, Chi Lian’Er could no longer hold back and broke down crying.

She didn’t know how many years it had been. For all that time, her impression of her ’brother’ was of someone with unparalleled grace—gentle, refined, and endlessly forgiving.

She knew she was unreasonable, willful, and arrogant, but her ’brother’ had always tolerated it.

She never imagined that after being separated for so long, their reunion would begin with a harsh scolding, only to be followed by him kicking her out...

The ’brother’ in her memory had never even been angry, much less raised his voice at her like this.

Nor had he ever appeared so dejected in front of her.

But now, Shen Lang’s words and the way he acted...

At that moment, regret, guilt, and fear finally surged through Chi Lian’Er’s heart, and she couldn’t stop herself from crying out in anguish.

However, Shen Lang’s expression was like stone. He was completely unmoved...

Xue Shiyin glanced at Chi Lian’Er in the corner, then slowly stood up. "Let me handle Lian’Er," she said softly. "I’ll take her outside and we’ll talk for a bit. You should have some quiet time alone, alright?"

"Mm," Shen Lang nodded lightly and closed his eyes.

Watching Xue Shiyin lead Chi Lian’Er out the door, Shen Lang couldn’t help but sigh once more.

When Chi Lian’Er appeared, a memory sealed by the War Emperor was finally revealed in its entirety.

This memory was like a stone tossed onto the surface of a calm lake, sending ripples spreading out across its mirror-like stillness.

This memory contained a great many things, but the most important points were as follows...

First, Chi Zunxin was a pathological liar—sinister and cunning. He acted like a sworn brother to the War Emperor’s face but harbored malicious intentions behind his back.

The War Emperor was magnanimous, so even when he found out, he pretended he didn’t know.

But Shen Lang’s temperament, after all, was quite different from the War Emperor’s.

Relatively speaking, Shen Lang loathed evil and was far more ruthless and decisive.

The War Emperor could tolerate such things, but Shen Lang could not.

Shen Lang’s principles were simple: ’My friends will all live well; my enemies will all pay the price!’

If Chi Zunxin had run into Shen Lang instead of the War Emperor, he would have been beaten to a pulp and thrown into the sea to feed the fish long ago!

How could he have gotten away with deceiving him time and time again?

That two-faced bastard... No matter his reasons or his supposed hardships, in Shen Lang’s eyes, he was nothing but a scoundrel.

If it weren’t for Chi Zunxin’s disobedience, how could Chi Lian’Er have nearly had her form and spirit obliterated? And how could Chi Yanfeng still be suppressed under the Profound Dao Sect’s Extreme Thunder Peak to this very day?

Moreover, at the time, the War Emperor had been hunting down members of the Demon God Hall. He was following the trail and about to get to the root of it all when Chi Zunxin stirred up all this trouble, completely derailing the War Emperor’s plans...

If it had been Shen Lang, he absolutely would have slaughtered the Candle Dragon first before annihilating Chi Zunxin!

How could he possibly have called him a brother?

Second, he now knew that the Qilin suppressed beneath Extreme Thunder Peak was Chi Yanfeng. This meant there was a sliver of hope for obtaining the Qilin’s drop of the Ten Divine Beasts Essence Blood.

However, that hope was still incredibly slim...

Chi Yanfeng wore the Slaughter Armor and was almost completely controlled by the Demonic Qi within it. After several thousand years, it was impossible to predict how much of the Slaughter Armor’s Demonic Qi had been cleansed;

With Chi Yanfeng’s cultivation, his Qilin body, and the Slaughter Armor, even Xue Shiyin armed with the Divine Sword Celestial Cry would stand no chance.

But in any case, Chi Yanfeng had been under Extreme Thunder Peak for a full six thousand years. He had not only been using the Vast Righteous Qi and Thunder Power of the entire Profound Dao Sect to cleanse the Demonic Qi, but he also had an Elemental Power Fragment helping him suppress it... After so many years, perhaps he had already regained his sanity.

’I’ll have to put the matter of Chi Yanfeng on hold for now. I need to go to the Amber Dream Realm and get the Green Dragon’s Essence Blood first. Otherwise, one misstep and the entire Profound Dao Sect could be destroyed at his hands.’

Third, from this memory, Shen Lang learned that the force behind the Candle Dragon was called the Demon God Hall, a powerful Dark Force that had always been an enemy of the War God Hall.

Although there wasn’t much information, Shen Lang could basically deduce one thing...

The power that caused the War Emperor’s fall definitely came from the Demon God Hall!

The power of the Candle Dragon and the Demon God Hall made the joy Shen Lang felt from his recent breakthrough evaporate.

In the face of such a powerful entity, his King Martial Realm cultivation was completely useless.

War Wolf, plus his zombie brother Duanmu Xie, could probably sweep through any Spirit Copper Level Influence...

But compared to the Demon God Hall, that strength was utterly insignificant.

When he was ignorant about the Demon God Hall, Shen Lang had felt frustrated and stifled.

Now that he knew, the formless pressure had multiplied!

’After I leave the Yumu Cave Blessed Land, I must immediately head to the Amber Dream Realm to find the Eternal Tree! I can’t delay any longer!’

If he could obtain the Green Dragon’s Essence Blood in the Amber Dream Realm, his Chaos Divine Body would undergo an unimaginable transformation!

This was something Shen Lang anticipated even more than advancing from the King Martial Realm to the Emperor Martial Realm or even the Quasi-Emperor Martial Realm!

’Besides the Chaos Divine Body, the Nine-Nine Tribulation Thunder is also something to look forward to...’

Thinking of the Purple Tribulation Thunder and Golden Tribulation Thunder he had absorbed, Shen Lang felt a stir of excitement.

’This is a level that even the War Emperor never reached!’

With a flicker of his thoughts, Shen Lang’s consciousness immediately entered the Tai Chi Diagram.

The moment he entered the Tai Chi Diagram, the Ghost King lunged forward, grabbed Shen Lang’s leg, and started wailing, "Boss, I’m begging you, get me out of here! This is too damn terrifying! It’s scaring my three souls and six spirits right out of my body!"

As he spoke, the Ghost King glanced fearfully at the orbs of Tribulation Thunder hanging from the large tree.

The next Chapter will be released at noon, so everyone doesn’t need to keep waiting.