Chapter 335: Chapter 335: An Unseen Future (2)

Li Feng stared at the other version of himself, who looked a bit older and more mature.

His eyes were filled with the weight of endless years of experience.

A black cloak swayed gently around him as he exhaled cold mist, yet his gaze remained locked firmly on Yue Lan.

Li Feng could feel a strange, overwhelming suppression radiating from the man… a pressure so heavy it made him want to kneel on the spot.

“What’s going on…? Why am I…?” he murmured, utterly lost.

Instead of bringing answers, the vision only flooded his mind with even greater confusion.

Just then, the older ’Li Feng’ walked calmly past him, heading straight toward Yue Lan.

Li Feng’s eyes widened as he remembered… what Yue Lan had whispered earlier.

But he could do nothing but stare at the man’s back.

…And for some reason, he felt a strange sense of guilt emanating from that powerful figure.

Then a sharp voice cut through the howling wind.

“So after two hundred years… you finally decided to come back…”

Yue Lan sneered coldly as she looked at the man approaching her.

“…”

There was no reply.

The older ’Li Feng’ simply continued walking forward with slow, deliberate steps ,as the wind gently blowing his long black hair.

“…Say something, you coward!!”

For some reason, Yue Lan suddenly grew agitated.

Her beautiful face twisted with raw rage.

She grabbed a handful of snow and hurled it at the older ’Li Feng’, but he didn’t dodge.

He simply received the impact in silence, his unreadable eyes never leaving her.

“…”

“Haha! Are you surprised that your precious sect, filled with your little toys is gone? You’re always too late, Li Feng!”

Yue Lan began to laugh hysterically, while sneering coldly at him.

“You actually believed a divine weapon could protect them? Pathetic! You should have seen how I shattered the Azure Moon Sect’s divine weapon. And those women… they screamed for your help, begging for the man who owned them… Yet none of them knew that their so-called master had already fled to another continent… Hahaha!”

The older ’Li Feng’ continued walking forward without pause.

His steps remained unhurried, the snow crunching softly beneath his boots as Yue Lan’s hysterical laughter echoed across the frozen battlefield.

Slowly, snowflakes clung to his long black hair and the edges of his dark robes, but he paid them no mind.

His expression stayed calm and indifferent, like a still lake that refused to ripple no matter how many stones were thrown into it.

Yue Lan’s laughter gradually died down when she realized he wasn’t reacting at all.

Her chest heaved and her beautiful face twisted with a mixture of rage, pain, and something far deeper.

“You… you really have nothing to say?” she spat, her voice cracking slightly.

“After two hundred years? After everything you left behind? After I waited… after I froze everything because of you?!”

She took a shaky step forward, fists clenched so tightly that fresh blood trickled from her palms where her nails dug in.

The older ’Li Feng’ finally stopped a few meters away from her.

His voice, when it finally came, was low and steady… carrying the quiet authority of someone who had seen far too much.

“…I’m sorry, Yue Lan.”

The words were simple… and gentle, even.

But they hit harder than any slap

Yue Lan’s eyes widened, then narrowed into dangerous slits.

“Sorry? You dare say sorry now?!”

She raised her hand, and violent spiritual energy flared around her in a storm of icy blue light.

Snow swirled into a raging blizzard centered on her palm, rapidly forming a lethal spear of condensed frost and killing intent.

“You think ’sorry’ will bring back the Azure Moon Sect? Will it bring back the sisters who died screaming your name while I tore them apart one by one? Will it bring back the nights I spent carving your name into my bones so I wouldn’t forget why I had to become a monster?!”

Her voice rose to a near shriek, tears freezing on her lashes before they could even fall.

The older ’Li Feng’ did not flinch.

He simply looked at her, those deep, unreadable eyes holding centuries of regret, exhaustion, and something that looked almost like… tenderness.

“I know it won’t,” he said quietly. “Nothing I do now can undo what happened. I was too late then… and I am still too late now.”

He took one more step closer, completely ignoring the deadly spear aimed directly at his heart.

“But I came back anyway. Not to fix the past.”

His gaze softened.

“I came back… to end your pain, Yue Lan. One way or another.”

Yue Lan’s hand trembled violently.

For a moment, her fierce expression suddenly cracked with pain as she clutched her head.

“L-Li Feng…”

She murmured his name, not with venom, but with a pleading tone.

“I-I didn’t mean to… Ugh…!”

One of her eyes began to tear up as she looked at him.

At that sight, even the older ’Li Feng’ who had remained calm as a mountain finally showed a small crack in his expression.

His jaw tightened as he clenching his teeth to keep himself from wavering.

…Slowly, motes of golden light began to appear in the surrounding air… illuminating the cold, desolate battlefield and turning the tragic scene almost ethereally beautiful.

Then ’Li Feng’ raised his right hand.

The golden motes gathered rapidly, condensing into a radiant sword made of pure light.

He lifted the sword of light high and murmured coldly,

“Enough, Governor. I know… she is no longer there anymore.”

At those words, Yue Lan’s body froze.

Her eyes suddenly filled with bone-chilling cold as she stared at him.

“Hehe… It seems the loser who ran away from me in the secret realm has grown quite a lot.”

The pleading tone from moments ago vanished as Yue Lan became as cold as the frost itself.

Noticing she could no longer move, suppressed by the golden light, she stared at the sword of light and let out a low laugh.

“Hahaha, and to think you actually obtained Divine Authority… It seems you finally noticed…”

Then she smiled, cruel and mocking.

“But you… are way too late, Li Feng… You will always be.”

The older ’Li Feng’ didn’t seem to hear her.

He simply stared at Yue Lan’s face one last time.

Memories flashed through his mind like a rushing river of time.

With a small, final sigh, he whispered,

“…That is why I came back. To end all of my past.”

With those words, he swung the sword of light brimming with Divine Power downward.

A bright, gentle slash cut cleanly through the raging snowstorm.

“Lightless… World.”

The moment the words left his lips, the entire world drained of color and turned a lifeless grey.

Yue Lan’s eyes widened as she finally sensed the horrifying truth behind the Divine Authority.

Instead of fear, hysterical laughter burst from her throat.

“[Gold] and… [Sever]?… Ah, Li Feng… You never disappoint us. If only you had obtained one of these sooner… maybe… you might have made a difference. Hahaha!”

SPURT!

Bright red blood sprayed into the grey air as her body fell forward.

Yet the older Li Feng moved with surprising gentleness, catching her falling form in his arms before she could hit the ground.

“…Cough… cough… But you are too late… we already… have it all.”

Yue Lan continued murmuring, her vision growing dimmer as the two Divine Authorities suppressed her, working together to grant her…true death.

At her final breath, she murmured softly,

“…Ah… even if this was… only a short one… it was… indeed a beautiful future…”

With those words, her body finally went limp.

’Li Feng’, still cradling her bloodied body, slowly lifted his gaze toward the night sky.

His long black hair whipped wildly in the howling wind, partially obscuring his face as he stood in heavy silence.

Then he stiffened.

A soft, trembling hand gently touched his cheek.

“…Don’t cry.”

Startled, ’Li Feng’ looked down immediately… only to meet Yue Lan’s clear golden eyes gazing up at him.

Her fingers slowly caressed his cheek as she offered a weak, fragile smile… as fresh blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.

“…Please… forgive me… I’m sorry,” she whispered, her voice barely audible, as if using the very last of her will to defy death one final time.

’Li Feng’ grabbed her small, weakening hand tightly and spoke in a voice thick with guilt.

“No! This is all my fault! If only I was stronger! If only I—”

But the words died on his lips as Yue Lan’s body turned ice-cold.

Once again, the life of this Dao seeking cultivator… had finally faded and this time….

…This time, he knew it was gone for real… because he had [Sever] it himself.

’Li Feng’ gritted his teeth.

He leaned forward, fell to his knees, and hugged her now-lifeless body tightly against his chest.

In this world of snow and golden light, the scene felt even more unbearably… desolate.

All the while, the real Li Feng stayed silent, quietly watching the vision unfold.

“…”

Just as he thought the vision had reached its conclusion, his older self moved again.

He rose slowly, scooped Yue Lan’s lifeless body into his arms with surprising care, and stepped into the heart of the blizzard.

When he passed the present day Li Feng,… the raw and overwhelming intensity in those eyes was impossible to ignore.

“…You are next, Divine Blood…”

The murmur faded into the wind as both man and corpse disappeared into the storm.

And with their departure… the two hundred year karma had finally ended.

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