Farewell Longhua Shan Mountain

"Hahahah... hehehe... killing on this scale is truly a horrifying sight to behold...!" Lou Co, who stood at the edge of the blood lake, diligently guarding it, spoke with an insane smile on his disheveled face as he saw Chen Wei approaching. "Ahah... seriously, you didn't even spare the animals... hehehe... or any other living creature."

"...." Chen Wei, approaching the blood lake and leaving a trail of blood and carnage on the once green grass, followed by various blood creatures carrying bodies, did not bother to respond to this clone.

Although in the past he didn't know who this crazy-looking old man was, now he fully understood that this was a clone created by Kuang Luo To using some method to serve as a portal for Chen Wei to enter and exit the red-walled cave to which he had been taken.

"....ah, come on, talk to me... heheheh... I want to know what's going through your head... hahahah... after killing so many!" Luo Co, as if to betray his appearance of an old man but in line with his insanity, jumped to the ground, clinging to Chen Wei's legs, begging while tears fell from his eyes, but he didn't stop laughing.

'"...ahhh... I want to kill more... to understand more of the Dao" Chen Wei knew that if he didn't give the crazy old man what he wanted, they would never get out of there, so he simply said what was in his heart.

"Hahaha... and you think I'm insane... hehehe... if anything, I'm much more sane than you... haha, safe travels... the main body awaits you." Chen Wei looked at the crazy old man saying this while standing up before placing his hand on Chen Wei's chest, who didn't have time to react before his whole world turned black.

"...what did you do?!?!" This was the first thing Chen Wei heard when his senses fully returned.

Likewise, the first thing he felt was someone gripping the chest of his shirt tightly. This person was, of course, Wang Mei, who was the first one he saw, her expression of sadness and despair on her face, her eyes red from crying so much, and her appearance deplorable because of the tears.

"Please tell me that damned toad showed me an illusion and you didn't do it..." Wang Mei said, burying her head in Chen Wei's chest and crying nonstop while waiting for words from his mouth despite him now being drenched in blood.

"Yes... I don't know everything he showed you... but yes, I killed everyone in our clan," Chen Wei said, gently holding her by the shoulders to prevent her from taking any irrational actions amid her pain.

"No... no... no... why? Tell me that at least you were forced..." Wang Mei, her face buried in Chen Wei's chest, felt the most fragile she had ever been in her life, as if any breeze could kill her due to the suffering in her heart.

"I did it by my own choice... for my own selfishness..." Chen Wei said, feeling Wang Mei's weak punches against his body in a feeble attempt to vent her anger.

He was not worried now about the possibility of her hating him forever, since even though he cared for her with deep emotions, she was not the reason for his life. At this moment, if he were placed in a situation to choose one of the two, he would choose the Dao.

But he knew this would not even be necessary because he, who knew Wang Mei, understood how emotionally dependent she was on him and others, and now that he was the only one left, it wouldn't take long for her to create a good justification in her own mind for his actions.

If anything, Chen Wei's greatest concern now was their child in Wang Mei's womb and how the stress she was experiencing could affect the child, potentially leading to future sequelae.

"Kekekeke... truly such a melancholic moment when a lady's heart is broken," Kuang Luo To, floating in the air, said with a smile on his face, provoking Chen Wei even in such a serious situation.

"Hmm, kekeke, look on the bright side, now you really only have him in this wor--!" Kuang Luo To stopped mid-sentence when he felt a strong chill run down his spine, activating all the danger sensors in his mind.

The feeling he had now was like that of an animal facing an apex predator that calmly and imposingly looked at him, judging whether or not it was its will to kill the prey without the slightest emotion of anger or resentment, just a calculation of whether it was its will to kill or not.

But his situation was even more special because he clearly saw that this supposed predator was just a rank 4 Gu Master who could never do anything against him. Yet the killing intent he felt towards him was the deepest he had ever felt. The most frightening part was how pure this killing intent was, without the slightest feeling, as if it saw death as the most natural law of this world.

"Ahh well... the Immortal Gu... did it work as expected?" Kuang Luo To decided to just change the subject to something he needed to know.

"Perfectly..." Chen Wei said, recalling the ability of this Immortal Gu, which was part of his inspiration to understand that Dao is Death.

This Gu's essence was simple: it absorbed Dao Marks of the blood path upon killing. It wasn't an attack type as he initially expected from the first Immortal Gu of the blood path since the time of Ren Zu, but after discovering its effect, he understood that this Gu was even more incredible.

The reason for this was something every immortal learned and kept in their hearts: everything in this world is Dao Marks, and more importantly, a significant part of an immortal's strength is determined by the number of their Dao Marks. So an Immortal Gu capable of consistently increasing the number of these Dao Marks was like a legendary existence.

Of course, to truly obtain a large number of Dao Marks, the one who was killed also needed to have a substantial number of Dao Marks. Moreover, these obtained Dao Marks would only be of the blood path, which currently had no immortals, so its utility for these immortals wouldn't be as great as it was for Chen Wei.

"Kekeke... I just wanted to confirm since I can feel one blood path Dao Mark on you..." Kuang Luo To said with a genuinely happy smile on his face after seeing the incredible effect of an Immortal Gu created by a Venerable.

Chen Wei was not surprised when he heard this, as the Immortal Gu allowed him to know how many Blood Path Dao Marks he had obtained, but he was certain that it would greatly shock any immortal since mortals having Dao Marks was unprecedented for them.

"So, now that this is done, what do you plan to do...?" Feng Hua, who had been watching the entire situation from a corner, mustered the courage to ask Kuang Luo To.

Hearing this question, Chen Wei turned his gaze from Kuang Luo To to Feng Hua, who now, under his gaze, looked extremely nervous and seemed to shrink, trying to disappear from his sight.

He understood why this reaction since it was the most natural thing, as she had also witnessed the massacre and knew that the person looking at her was someone who had just killed not only the three clans of Longhua Shan Mountain but also all the living beings that inhabited it.

In fact, she seemed to have been the most emotionally strong in relation to Chen Wei's massacre, as Wang Mei was in a deplorable state from the deaths of her loved ones, crying in the arms of the assassin, while Yu Lian was crying alone in a corner, trying to ignore the rest of the world.

"Kekeke, well, I am not someone without a heart. You have your time to bury your loved ones and make your final condolences," Kuang Luo To said to her, pointing to the blood creatures that brought not only the bodies of her loved ones and Wang Mei's but also those of the other two girls.

This might even sound like an act of mercy or an attempt to compensate for what he had done, but the only real reason Chen Wei had done this was to see how the emotions in the hearts of the two girls what could increase his understanding of the Human Path.

"Kekeke, but after that, I want to conduct some experiments with the functioning of the Blood Sacrifice Gu," Kuang Luo To said, snapping his fingers and teleporting everyone along with the bodies to an area of the cave that looked like a celestial forest because of its beauty and grandeur.

"...you are indeed someone well-prepared," Chen Wei said, looking at the various graves dug in the ground while holding Wang Mei, who was still in his arms.

"Kekeke, as I said, I am not a heartless toad!" Kuang Luo To said with conviction, as if he himself were not a demonic Gu Master who had caused countless bloodbaths and endless suffering throughout his life, the most recent being his role in the massacre of the three clans of Longhua Shan Mountain.

"Ahhh... Mei'er, come, I'll help you," Chen Wei said to Wang Mei, who was in tears while simultaneously hugging him for comfort and weakly punching his torso to vent her anger at what he had done.

It didn't take long for them to finish burying the bodies in coffins made of a dark, sturdy wood. Of course, they used Gu to perform these actions quickly, and the same applied to Feng Hua, who didn't seem to care much about the bodies of her adoptive family as she buried them quickly without bothering to pay her respects.

"Hmm, I believe this is related to the cold attitude of Clan Leader Feng Zhi to her possible death" Chen Wei thought as he diverted his gaze to Yu Lian, who had a completely different reaction.

She not only buried the coffins with the utmost care but also made sure to plant a rose on each grave. Now, she was kneeling in front of the graves, performing what he imagined to be prayers in a language he didn't recognize but sounded similar to Polish or some Slavic language.

Then his gaze shifted to Wang Mei beside him, being consoled by him while she also prayed, but she did so in a language he knew, an old version of German, which he could mostly understand.

As for Chen Wei himself, he simply remained silent since he had never been very religious before and even less so now. Besides, he had already made peace with the notion that they were dead when he killed them himself.

"Kekeke, well, unfortunately, I have to interrupt this moment..." Kuang Luo To said with a sad expression on his face, but Chen Wei guessed it must be for other reasons then their mourning and the next words from the toad confirmed this.

"...argh, well, unfortunately, this is goodbye as they are coming," Kuang Luo To said, quickly floating over to where they were.

"What do you mean?" Chen Wei asked in a straightforward tone to the toad.

"Kekeke, I can't say much... just that after you leave here, it's better to run without stopping if you don't want a fate worse than death," Kuang Luo To said as he finished activating a killer move that Chen Wei hadn't even noticed being prepared.

Immortal Killer Move - Untraceable Escape

"What do you mean... ah, damn it," Chen Wei wanted to ask the toad about who might be chasing them, but in the blink of an eye, he was no longer in the cave facing the toad. Instead, he found himself in a forest that seemed untouched by man.

"Ah, as if things couldn't get worse... damn toad," Chen Wei said with a complicated expression. After thinking about using one of his Gu to investigate the surrounding area, he realized that he didn't have any of his Gu with him, his aperture being empty for the first time in a long while.

In fact, not even his clothes from before are now with him and he is completely naked as he finds himself hit by the cold breeze typical of the Southern Border mountains in the morning which leads him to simply open his arms while breathing in the fresh morning air.

"Well, I think the easy times are over," Chen Wei speaks with a calm expression on his face, looking around to see the other three girls who are in the same situation as him, looking around confusedly while covering their bodies in embarrassment.