Chapter 1519: Extravagant Request

On the fortieth day of Xiao Shu's arrival in the City of No Redemption...

Zhang Xun had already waited forty days.

Mo Jingyu had also waited five days.

Neither now awaited a verbal response from Xiao Shu.

For today, the journey to God Ascent, witnessed by ten thousand eyes, had reached its final precipice.

If God Ascent was not achieved, any response was futile.

If the body achieved God Ascent, what need was there for a response?

In this very moment, before him and behind, above in the heavens and below on the earth, everywhere were people.

Countless gazes intertwined, forming a pressure, both formless and tangible, heavy as mountains.

Xiao Shu's heart was calm, his spirit focused.

He had walked for twenty years; today he would impact the barrier between Heaven and Man.

All his efforts in this life, in this world, must today find their vindication.

Under the gaze of ten thousand, he slowly opened his eyes. They were deep and luminous, imbued with a will that belonged to Xiao Shu alone.

He stood, his clothing thin, his sleeves empty, yet he stood straight as a pine.

His feet were rooted in the earth, his shoulders bore the weight of ten thousand *jun*.

He looked calmly ahead, his gaze seeming to pierce further, into a more ancient time.

In a trance.

He spread his hands, his fingers slightly splayed.

With him as the center, the surrounding Heaven and Earth *yuan* force suddenly overturned rivers and seas.

Then, as if summoned, the clouds on the horizon scattered, and four star towers aligned and shone!

Boom! Boom!

Within his body, blood surged like a mighty river, like a surging flood.

His momentum began to rise.

It was like the roar of a sea tide, each wave higher than the last.

His power continuously emanated, perceptible to all, inspiring awe. That power seemed endless, forever expanding.

He lowered his eyes slightly, his gaze fixed on a spot half a *chi* before him. A colorless, translucent pill, the size of a longan, thus appeared, spinning in the air.

It was clearly colorless, ethereal within, yet every person who gazed upon it saw a different color, and each person saw something unique.

This was the Six Senses Pill, renowned in Dan Country! This was the ultimate treasure medicine of this session's Origin Beginning Pill Meeting!

It had, in truth, been hidden within Xiao Shu's gaze all along...

It was beautiful and mysterious, concrete yet hazy.

People were involuntarily drawn to gaze upon it.

Their gazes were pulled, shifting to Xiao Shu's lips, as he swallowed it in one gulp!

The Six Senses Pill entered his abdomen, and the connection of gazes was severed.

Those who witnessed this scene couldn't help but feel a sense of regret. It was as if a treasure that should have belonged to them had thus vanished. A heaven-born treasure held its own regrets.

And Xiao Shu's divine soul... in an instant seemed to magnify countless times!

That was, of course, an illusion, but Jiang Wang, sitting by the window on the sixth floor of the Prison Tower, still perceived a sudden oppressive sensation – as if in the depths of Xiao Shu's divine soul, a terrifying beast was awakening.

Xiao Shu's perception expanded, his control increased.

He continuously deepened his understanding of this Heaven and Earth, continuously strengthened his control over it, shaping his "domain," achieving his god-like dignity... this, naturally, gave people the illusion of his divine soul instantly expanding countless times.

Under the effect of the Six Senses Pill, he easily controlled the expanding power and pushed towards an even more powerful direction.

How could there be a dead end among endless dangerous peaks?

At the end of the heavenly ladder, one could still ascend!

How high was Heaven? How vast was this world?

Going South or North, spring coming or autumn passing, ask the world how many heroes there are!

In this feeling of controlling everything, Xiao Shu involuntarily floated upwards, rising above the heads of the crowd, above the roofs, parallel to Zhang Xun and Mo Jingyu... and even surpassing these two God Ascendants.

There was always a higher place.

He floated towards that boundless high sky, his entire being bathed in god-like light.

Within his body, power thus boiled!

His entire being's Dao Yuan seemed to be burning!

His entire body's blood seemed to be roaring!

His muscles trembled, his bones crackled.

A life-essence altering change was occurring!

Everyone in the field could perceive the undisguised resonance between Heaven and Earth, the submission of *yuan* force, the response of the rules; this Heaven and Earth were welcoming a new God Ascendant!

But Xiao Shu's countenance suddenly changed, in this moment of extreme brilliance!

That instant, his face was filled with disbelief, then pain! Resentment! Unwillingness! Fear! Struggle! But it quickly calmed.

Extreme emotions came too fast and vanished too fast.

His face became smooth, like a wrinkled rag being smoothed.

The resonance between Heaven and Earth terminated.

The surging blood stopped.

The burning Dao Yuan fell silent.

If a fierce fire burns halfway, what happens when the firewood is removed?

If a flying bird skims the sky midway, what happens when its wings break?

The divine light in his eyes dimmed.

His momentum was like a leaking flood!

He was like a broken-winged bird, falling from the high sky!

The light of the four star towers in the distant starry sky extinguished one after another. It was as if some great existence in the darkness had blown out the lamp of hope that belonged to Xiao Shu!

He heavily struck the ground, his bones emitting clear snapping sounds.

"Puh!"

His forehead hit the ground tiles, bounced up and fell back, finally sticking powerlessly to the ground. Fresh blood sprayed from his mouth, still gushing.

Quickly, a pool of blood accumulated beneath his head...

This journey to God Ascent, witnessed by ten thousand eyes, had failed!

From an existence as bright and dazzling as a god, to a defeated dog curled up in a pool of blood.

He used only one breath of time.

Heaven and paradise, hell in an instant.

"Ah..."

People emitted sounds of either sudden realization or regret... but nothing could influence the outcome.

Jiang Wang sat by the window, looking at this scene in astonishment, somewhat unable to react.

He, under the circumstance of his whereabouts being publicly exposed, had risked danger to sneak back into the City of No Redemption with Zhu Weiwo, hiding in the Prison Tower, waiting for forty full days, just to witness a miracle occur.

From an impossible feat to a source of both praise and sighs.

Just when he thought everything was logical, and another star was about to illuminate the sky... Xiao Shu fell.

Looking back at the path, Jiang Wuqi God Ascended, Wang Changji God Ascended, Dou Zhao God Ascended, Zhongli Yan God Ascended, Zhu Weiwo God Ascended...

Saying "God Ascent" seemed like a very easy thing.

But the people he had come into contact with were all, originally, the most top-tier geniuses under Heaven.

The world, after all, had differences.

Miracles, after all, did not occur.

Jiang Wang could not avoid feeling regret.

A cry of an eagle suddenly came from the long sky, awakening the stunned crowd.

It was like a stone disturbing the surface of water.

The entire City of No Redemption suddenly fell into a huge commotion. Everyone discussed the matter with excited emotions, discussing the outcome.

And in that clear high sky ten thousand *li* away, sharp feathers cut through the wandering clouds. That huge flying eagle, with knife-like feathers, had already flapped its wings and flown far away.

The flying eagle carried Mo Jingyu on its back, no longer sparing a glance at the fallen Xiao Shu on the ground.

The people on the ground argued, making noise, saying this self-seeking Xiao Shu had wasted a treasure medicine like the Six Senses Pill, or saying that forty days was too arrogant a choice, discussing how good it would have been to agree to the Yong Country's conditions...

People dispersed their excited emotions, some leaving the city to return home, some preparing to go to the casino to play a couple of hands... finally, they scattered.

This was not their story; they were just witnesses to this "accident."

No one paid attention to the person in the pool of blood anymore.

He was still gasping for breath, but there was no difference between him and the dead.

The star towers were all extinguished, his five organs shattered, his divine soul on the verge of extinguishing... originally, he was just waiting to die.

But why was he still unwilling to die?

He was curled up in the pool of blood, like a huge worm, but after all, he was still breathing.

He was already defeated, already lost a life.

Why was he still struggling?

The pain of a dying person.

No one cared.

Or perhaps someone did care.

A person wearing a hood and hemp clothes appeared, no one knew when.

He walked through the air, stepping over several blocks, falling beside the fallen Xiao Shu, half-squatting.

He reached out and pressed on Xiao Shu's heart, futilely sending Dao Yuan – this, of course, could not save Xiao Shu's life.

Nonetheless, Xiao Shu's action of spraying blood stopped, and his pre-death pain was at least somewhat alleviated.

He looked at this poorly disguised person, grinning.

His eyes were very profound.

His lips were very heartless.

He had an indifferent face.

But he seemed to like laughing very much.

He spat blood foam and laughed, saying: "Sitting and discussing the Dao is not possible, it seems we can only lie down and discuss the Dao."

Jiang Wang looked at this person, feeling a hard-to-describe emotion.

Sorrow was not to that extent; he and Xiao Shu had no friendship before, and it was hard to say how much pain he felt for him.

But the sorrow of a rabbit dying and a fox grieving existed.

And the powerlessness of empathy existed.

His appearance at this moment seemed irrational.

But when he looked down from the high building's jade-latticed window, looking at this person's last struggle in the pool of blood, looking at the gazes that had once gathered on this person's body scattering like smoke in an instant...

He involuntarily flew down.

He knew he couldn't do anything.

But he thought, a person so unwilling to leave must surely have a reason for being so.

Struggling all the way here, always struggling until this moment.

At the very least, at the very least, there should be someone to listen, to listen to what he wanted to say last.

That kind of person should exist.

Jiang Wang was willing to be that person.

"Unfortunately, we cannot discuss many sentences," Jiang Wang said softly.

"Enough. What more can I covet?" Xiao Shu's voice was already very weak, but he summoned strength to ask: "Dao friend, do you think I am a stupid person?"

Jiang Wang sincerely said: "Anyone who has seen these forty days of yours cannot utter the word 'stupid'."

"Hehe..." Xiao Shu laughed two difficult sounds, and then asked: "Then do you know why I refused Mo Jingyu?"

Without waiting for Jiang Wang to speak, he already answered himself: "I don't like others standing so high and looking at me..."

"He and those people from Dan Country are actually the same."

He looked at Jiang Wang again: "You are not the same."

At this time, he somehow found the strength to lift his hand. His right index finger lightly touched the center of Jiang Wang's brow.

Jiang Wang did not stop him.

A wisp of complex information flowed into his brain sea.

That was... the Star Road method.

Jiang Wang looked at him with some complexity: "What can I help you do?"

Xiao Shu slightly, slightly shook his head: "No need..."

"Why?" Jiang Wang couldn't help but ask.

Why give such a precious thing to himself, a person he had only seen a few times.

Why not ask for any return, nor have any last wish.

Having lived to this point, were there truly no regrets?

Xiao Shu slowly said: "The person willing to risk danger and sympathize with me, I believe he has the courage to change the world... if he is willing."

As he spoke, his hand fell down, caught lightly by Jiang Wang, and slowly put down.

He was already too weak to open his eyes again.

He closed his eyes and asked in a thread-like voice: "Zhang Xun still hasn't left, right?"

Jiang Wang lifted his head to look at Zhang Xun, still suspended outside the City of No Redemption, and answered: "No."

Xiao Shu murmured: "He wants to watch me die, then he will be at ease..."

In his last moments, he lightly hooked up the corners of his mouth, seeming to laugh, seeming to mock.

His breath, finally, scattered.

And Jiang Wang, half-kneeling in front of such a corpse, felt a kind of confusion he had never felt before.

The courage to change the world... huh?

Zhang Xun silently waited in the air outside the City of No Redemption. At least at this moment, compared to Mo Jingyu, he indeed showed more obsession towards Xiao Shu.

Although this obsession... was not so warm.

Zhang Xun let out a long, long breath. This breath was like the last one that scattered from Xiao Shu.

One leaving, one falling.

Then he turned and flew towards the direction of Dan Country, no longer looking back.

His expression was calm, his powerful strength quietly hidden within his body.

He flew fast in the high sky, still the god-like powerful one high above.

However, at the moment he turned and left the City of No Redemption, he finally felt sweat on his back. There was an indescribable huge weakness, and an instant of hesitation he couldn't shake off.

The fear deeply hidden in his heart only had a slight moment of revelation when there was no one around.

No one knew...

No one knew what he was afraid of!

Mo Jingyu left, Zhang Xun left, and Xiao Shu's last breath also scattered.

Looking around the long street, there were no pedestrians.

Lian Heng, with his little braid, walked over.

"Brother." His voice was much more polite. He looked at Jiang Wang and said carefully: "Regarding collecting corpses, I am actually quite skilled."

Jiang Wang loosened Xiao Shu's corpse and stood up.

He was stunned for a moment, then remembered and nodded to Lian Heng: "Thank you for your trouble."

"No problem." Lian Heng shrugged, saying self-deprecatingly: "I've already gotten used to being a miscellaneous worker."

"Alright, our esteemed Vice Commander." Zhu Weiwo, no one knew when, stepped onto the long street. He reached out and pressed the back of Lian Heng's head, gently pushing him: "Go and attend to your business."

Lian Heng neatly took out a corpse wrapping bag, wrapped Xiao Shu up, carried it on his back, and put it on his own shoulder.

No matter how amazing a genius, after death, they could only be wrapped up in one bag.

Lian Heng carried this package and said to Jiang Wang as he walked: "Brother, see? You have to work hard. This world is just this cruel. If you can't win, you can only do miscellaneous work."

Jiang Wang's previous jump from the Prison Tower to mediate the matter had clearly earned him a favorable impression, and this time his words were much more numerous.

It was a pity he caught Jiang Wang at a time when he didn't want to speak.

"Let's go." Zhu Weiwo waved his hand: "This time, your senior brother will truly accompany you to wander the world."

Jiang Wang didn't speak, following behind Zhu Weiwo and walking outwards.

The two senior brothers were silent. Under gazes both intentional and unintentional, they once again left this city.

In the wilderness outside the city, there were mountains, forests, wilderness, and of course, random grave mounds...

Desolation filled the eyes.

"What are you thinking about?" Zhu Weiwo walked ahead, suddenly asking out of the blue.

Jiang Wang said dully: "They say I'm not the same, but honestly, I don't feel I'm any different."

"They?"

"Um, besides Xiao Shu, someone else said that before. It was someone from an organization called the Equal Country. But actually, I fundamentally don't know them, nor do I agree with their ideas. I even just treat them as enemies."

Jiang Wang's voice held some confusion: "But when they saw me, they seemed to treat me as one of their own kind."

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