"Alright, grandpa listens to you." Gu Taitian sighed upon hearing this and nodded.
Gu Changsheng heard the conversation of the two behind him, suddenly closed his eyes, but the force in his hands gradually loosened.
Given a chance to catch her breath, Xiangka Tianji immediately clutched her neck and leaned to the side, looking at the face before her, which she abhorred from the depths of her soul, with fear and uncertainty. She took a few deep breaths and spoke, "Why... why don’t you kill me?"
"Killing someone like you would only dirty my hands! Xiangka Tianji, you don’t deserve to die by my hand!" Gu Changsheng slowly withdrew his hand, took a deep breath, and spoke in a deep voice.
"You!" Xiangka Tianji, upon hearing this, felt no joy at narrowly escaping death but instead became even more furious, "You little bitch! You’re just like your mother, both of you are no good! Do you think by sparing my life, I will remember your kindness? Let me tell you, dream on! I will haunt you as a ghost and never forgive you alive!"
"Won’t forgive me? Heh heh..." Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng laughed, his crimson garments fluttering without wind, in an instant creating an otherworldly aura. With a scornful glance, Gu Changsheng spoke spiritedly, "With just you? Xiangka Tianji, dreaming isn’t done ! Now that you are powerless, don’t say you won’t forgive me, you don’t even have the ability to hurt even a bit of my son! Oh! I was mistaken, even in your prime, you couldn’t harm a bit of my son, let alone now?"
"You! You!" Xiangka Tianji, upon hearing this, trembled with anger, thinking of that bastard that made her life worse than death, she truly hated him immensely.
Unfortunately, at this moment, she really had no other way!
Gu Changsheng looked at Xiangka Tianji, slowly bending down, looking down at the very disheveled woman beneath him. With slightly parted lips, he slowly spoke, "Xiangka Tianji, I won’t kill you, heaven will claim you! The life you’ve bought with beauty, how long can it last? Long enough to watch me flatten the Three Palaces and revive the Phoenix Clan? To see your Xiangka Clan fall from clouds to dust, becoming the sinner of the Southern Border? I want you to live, to watch the country you once built turn to nothing piece by piece in my hands, I want you to see your Xiangka Clan become the target of all, struggling to survive in the Southern Border. I am the chopping board, and you are the fish, I want you to experience once again the helplessness I felt when my son was abducted!"
Speaking of this, Gu Changsheng slowly stood up, striking a palm on Xiangka Tianji’s body.
"Don’t worry, this palm won’t take your life, it will just make you weak and powerless to harm anymore!" Gu Changsheng looked at Xiangka Tianji, curling his lips and speaking, "Seizing the throne, only with your Xiangka Clan alive can the people of the Southern Border remember the dismal fate of betraying my mother’s clan! Xiangka Tianji, as the saying goes, a good death is not as good as living disgracefully. If you want the Xiangka Clan to exist, you better find a way to survive, so... hehe... this way you’ll have a chance to see my mother return!"
"Your mother? Return?" Xiangka Tianji, upon hearing this, was instantly struck dumb as if hit by lightning, her eyes full of panic, shaking her head vehemently, "No! Impossible! Fenghuang Ruoshui is dead! She cannot be alive! Impossible!"
"My mother is dead, dead under your ambition, but as long as there’s a glimmer of hope, I will gather her soul and bring her to see the light of day again!" Gu Changsheng said with a faint smile, "Now, I have found a way, Xiangka Tianji, the return of the former master is within reach, I guess you must be delighted, right?"
"No! No! Master, this isn’t real! This isn’t true, right?" Xiangka Tianji shook her head, her face full of hope looking at Gu Taitian. The person she hated most in this life was Fenghuang Ruoshui!
"Even if it takes a lifetime, I will reunite with Ruoshui!" Gu Taitian’s answer was straightforward and resolute.
"No!" Xiangka Tianji shouted loudly upon hearing this, "Puh!"
The crimson blood, in front of her, blossomed into a strange flower, very bewitching.
Gu Changsheng turned and walked away without looking back at her, heading out of the Witch Gu Temple.
"Mother! Mother, wait for me..." Little Meat Bun came to his senses and saw his mother walking far away. He quickly called out and followed.
"Benefactor Changsheng, put down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha immediately. Benefactor Changsheng has formed another good karma." The Little Monk Bu Jie clasped his hands together, smiling as he spoke.
"Good karma?" Gu Changsheng looked back upon hearing this, looking at the desolate Witch Gu Temple behind, and slowly spoke, "What I formed should be bad karma, right? The cruelest thing in this world is being unable to live or die. But I let her and her clan live !"
Love and obsession, there was nothing wrong in themselves, the mistake was only in loving the wrong person!
Speaking of which, this was partly because of her parents!
She isn’t a merciful person, but having come this far, after traveling through time and getting fatherly love, she no longer wishes to stain her hands with meaningless blood!
If living is hope and dying is despair, then languishing on the edge of life and death may not be without hope!
Xiangka Tianji’s wrong love became a lifelong obsession, and her parents, were the catalyst for that obsession. Who’s right and who’s wrong is really unclear; at least her father was compassionate, so why should she create unnecessary killings?
"Live, living you still have a chance to love, to hate, once dead, there’s nothing at all..."
With a light sigh, Gu Changsheng turned and picked up his son from the ground, heading to the back mountain of Witch Gu Peak.
She hoped what awaited her in the Three Palaces wasn’t forcing her to go on a killing spree!