Chapter 109
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The Anomaly Lord died like this???
Lou Yan couldn’t believe it, his eyes wide open.
The first emotion that arose in his heart wasn’t jubilation, but rather doubt and confusion.
Did the Anomaly Lord really die?
It shouldn’t be… How could the Anomaly Lord die so easily?
Could it be that this is just an illusion created by the Anomaly Lord? Or perhaps Fu Xuezhou didn’t kill the real Anomaly Lord?
Lou Yan’s thoughts were in turmoil, but he could feel that things were beginning to change around him. His mental strength was no longer declining, and his body suddenly felt lighter, indicating that the mental contamination from the Anomaly Lord had disappeared.
The internal changes aside, just looking at the external situation, the thick fog began to dissipate, and the crows that emerged from the fog began to screech and fall to the ground. Because the Anomaly Lord was dead, the entire amusement park began to collapse, the temple shattered, stones from the walls fell, gradually revealing the true appearance of the library behind the walls.
Countless anomaly screams erupted inside the temple.
The paintings on the walls, the carved heads on the floor tiles, and the anomalies that survived attached to the Anomaly Lord in the darkness… Their screams resounded clearly in Lou Yan’s ears, and for a moment, he couldn’t even count how many different voices there were.
Below on the lower floors, one could hear the panic spreading. Anomalies ran around, shouting, and the vibrations spread from the lower floors to the upper ones, everything felt incredibly real.
“The Anomaly Lord… is dead?”
Wen Yian murmured in shock, covering her mouth, looking at the huge corpse in front of her with fear.
“This, this is impossible…”
That was the Anomaly Lord!
Fu Xuezhou kneeled down from the air to the ground beside the Anomaly Lord’s corpse. He calmly stood up from the ground, expressionless, and glanced at the Anomaly Lord’s corpse, bringing the remaining pieces of heart in his hand to his lips and beginning to eat.
He ate absentmindedly, blood smearing his slightly pale lips. It seemed that killing the Anomaly Lord just now was nothing more than an ordinary event for him. Watching him eat the heart of the Anomaly Lord, the people present couldn’t help but feel a strong chill in their hearts, even shivering involuntarily.
The Anomaly Lord, who had just exerted immense pressure on them, was killed by Fu Xuezhou just like that, and Fu Xuezhou remained so calm.
Such extreme contrast couldn’t help but instill fear of Fu Xuezhou in people.
Is this person, is he still human?
Even Lou Yan didn’t expect Fu Xuezhou to be so powerful. He frowned deeply, looking at Fu Xuezhou’s eyes with not only inquiry but also some confusion.
Fu Xuezhou said he was “five hours later than last time,” which meant he had not killed the Anomaly Lord for the first time. But if the one who died was indeed the Anomaly Lord, then what was going on with the amusement park, which had been present in the later stages of Lou Yan’s three lifetimes’ memories?
And what about the anomalies that continued to exist until the later stages of anomaly resurgence, becoming stronger and appearing more frequently? Even though there were fewer anomalies until Fu Xuezhou’s demise, they still existed.
Does the death of the Anomaly Lord mean nothing can stop the anomaly resurgence?
Or is it that anomalies, like humans, will have a new ruler born when the old one dies, but no matter how many rulers die, it doesn’t affect the survival of anomalies themselves?
Fu Xuezhou also said, “Where is it”…?
Could this “it” be the real Anomaly Lord? Or the next one to be born?
The more Lou Yan thought about it, the more he felt shrouded in mist. But he confirmed one thing he had always doubted before, that Fu Xuezhou didn’t just return three times, as he had imagined.
In the Red Coffin World, he suspected that if Fu Xuezhou had only returned three times, he would not have been so familiar with the world inside the Red Coffin. Now, this scene undoubtedly confirmed his speculation. When he didn’t know it, Fu Xuezhou might have returned dozens of times, or even hundreds of times.
So he was so proficient in killing the Anomaly Lord, and he knew that even if the Anomaly Lord died, it wouldn’t tell him “where it is.”
Fu Xuezhou… might be a more dangerous existence than the Anomaly Lord.
He was the true “god” who knew everything about this world.
Even the Anomaly Lord died in his hands.
If Fu Xuezhou can destroy and restart the world time and time again, then this world is just a game to him. He obviously doesn’t care about the lives of others in this game— including anomalies, including humans.
Lou Yan slowly clenched his fingers, his eyes becoming dark and obscure.
He couldn’t help but recall the great fire that ended the world in the previous three lifetimes.
The pain, despair, and hatred at the moment of death piled up in Lou Yan’s heart, shattering his soul, unable to rest.
He didn’t know why Fu Xuezhou kept reincarnating, nor did he know why Fu Xuezhou destroyed the world. He only knew that in those three lifetimes, the one who ultimately destroyed the world was not the anomalies, nor the Anomaly Lord, but Fu Xuezhou.
That’s enough.
As long as he kills Fu Xuezhou, as long as he ensures that this world is not completely destroyed by a great fire, that’s enough.
Earlier, Lou Yan was still intimidated by the power of the Anomaly Lord. He was hesitating whether to let Fu Xuezhou go first so he can deal with the Anomaly Lord. But now, Lou Yan was determined.
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Fu Xuezhou took two bites of the heart, then suddenly reached out towards a cluster of thick fog.
Shadow Reaper staggered out of the fog, crying with a mournful face, kneeling on the ground, grabbed by Fu Xuezhou by the neck. It begged in a low posture, “Mr. Fu, I’m just a servant of my master, completely insignificant! Please spare me, there’s no need to waste effort killing me!”
Fu Xuezhou lifted him from the ground. “Where is it?”
The fear on Shadow Reaper’s face turned into panic, and it swallowed a mouthful of saliva fearfully, with a forced smile, asking, “This ‘it’ you mentioned refers to?”
Lou Yan’s ears subtly perked up.
Fu Xuezhou said indifferently, “The real Anomaly Lord.”
The obsidian raised its finger blankly and pointed at the corpse of the Anomaly Lord. Its smart brain couldn’t quite understand Fu Xuezhou’s question. “My master… My master has already been killed by you!”
But Fu Xuezhou paid no attention. “I’ll ask one last time, where is the real Anomaly Lord?”
“My master is the real Anomaly Lord. It was just killed by you!” Shadow Reaper was about to collapse, wracking its brains trying to find evidence to prove that the Anomaly Lord killed was indeed the real Anomaly Lord. “If my master wasn’t the real Anomaly Lord, how could I willingly serve it? If my master wasn’t the Anomaly Lord, who would fulfill the wishes of these challengers? My master is really the Anomaly Lord. Just because you’re so powerful and so skilled, you doubt that my master isn’t the Anomaly Lord!”
Li Sanxin couldn’t help but shed a sympathetic tear for the Anomaly Lord when he heard this.
Such a servant is better off not existing at all.
Fu Xuezhou didn’t seem to be speaking without reason, but Shadow Reaper didn’t seem to be joking either. It left everyone nearby wondering whether the dead Anomaly Lord was really the true Anomaly Lord.
But except for Lou Yan, everyone else was more inclined to believe Shadow Reaper’s words.
After all, Shadow Reaper was the servant of the Anomaly Lord, and it was the one who sent out invitations to the amusement park on behalf of the Anomaly Lord and served as the explainer of the rules of the amusement park. This undoubtedly showed that Shadow Reaper had a close relationship with the Anomaly Lord. Even Shadow Reaper said that the Anomaly Lord was dead, and even dared to beg Fu Xuezhou for mercy in front of the Anomaly Lord, so its words were obviously more credible.
“Forget it,” Fu Xuezhou said somewhat absentmindedly, “I’ve asked you countless times, and I’ve never gotten anything out of it. Whether you’re pretending to be stupid or you really don’t know, you don’t deserve to live anymore.”
As soon as he finished speaking, unexpectedly, Shadow Reaper let out a piercing scream that shook the heavens and the earth. Fu Xuezhou’s actions paused for a moment because of this scream, and Shadow Reaper took advantage of this moment to turn into a cluster of thick fog and slip away from Fu Xuezhou’s grasp.
“Hahaha, you dead-faced person also wants to catch me?” The thick fog flew away with arrogant laughter. “Goodbye, everyone, I’ll take the first step, hahaha!”
In the blink of an eye, Shadow Reaper had disappeared.
And Fu Xuezhou, watching Shadow Reaper disappear, only lowered his raised hand and surprisingly didn’t pursue.
Lou Yan pondered.
It seemed that Fu Xuezhou had paid quite a price to kill the Anomaly Lord. His mental strength might not be enough to kill Shadow Reaper now, so he let Shadow Reaper go like this.
After understanding this point, Lou Yan didn’t intend to stay here any longer. He turned around and said to Li Sanxin and Lin You, “Let’s go.”
Li Sanxin and Lin You glanced at Fu Xuezhou with trepidation. Seeing that Fu Xuezhou had no intention of harming them, they nodded.
At this moment, most of the temple had collapsed, and the true appearance of the eighth floor of the Chengjiang City Library came into view.
They walked directly into the library, and just as they were about to leave, Lou Yan inexplicably turned his head to look at Fu Xuezhou.
Fu Xuezhou stood in the collapsing and disappearing temple, quietly watching him.
His gaze seemed to contain a thousand meanings, piercing through the flying debris and the passage of time. His silver hair was blown scattered by the wind, and his clothes were billowed by the wind. He stood alone with the Tang blade beside the Anomaly Lord’s corpse, revealing a heavy, lonely, and dead water-like loneliness.
It made Lou Yan hold his breath for a moment.
Lou Yan hurriedly turned his head back and walked quickly to the elevator door of the library. When the elevator door opened in front of them, Lou Yan clenched his fists, and then, inexplicably, turned his head again to look at Fu Xuezhou.
The temple was only left with the last corner drifting away with the wind, but Fu Xuezhou was nowhere to be seen.
Lou Yan couldn’t describe what he was feeling, but he felt relieved after all, but then the look Fu Xuezhou just gave him flashed through his mind. He shook his head, and when he saw his prison guard uniform through the mirror inside the elevator, he immediately remembered Fu Xuezhou’s coercion towards him on the fifth floor.
Lou Yan’s mouth straightened again, his eyes covered with coldness. The faintly complicated and strange emotion just now was completely buried.
The three of them entered the elevator and watched as the elevator door closed again.
Li Sanxin looked at the three people in the elevator, suddenly hesitated and said, “Something seems wrong…”
Lin You frowned, echoing, “I also feel like we’ve forgotten something.”
Lou Yan, being reminded like this, also felt like they had forgotten something. He looked around the elevator, and suddenly, a flash of insight struck him, “…What about Ye Buyan?”
Ah… that’s right.
The three of them looked at each other.
What about Ye Buyan?
Author’s Note:
Ye Buyan is still lying on the ground unconscious: zzz
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