Chapter 102: Forget Her
“A-Lang! You have to live well on your own from now on…”
Beneath a white silk ribbon, two dangling feet swayed back and forth, leaving a lasting impression on his young mind.
“Wretched servant! To think she died just like that…”
“She couldn’t even handle serving the Second Elder? Doesn’t she know how many people would kill for that opportunity!”
“Brother, she’s still warm…”
“There’s a child here!”
“Who doesn’t know about the Third Branch’s idiot son? He hasn’t spoken a word since he was a baby! What does he understand! This woman was a renowned beauty in the Hua Family, someone our brothers usually wouldn’t even get a glimpse of.”
“Heh…”
Young Hua Chonglang didn’t understand. Why, why was the world like this?
“Useless trash! Can’t even learn a simple punch! You have no strength at all!”
“Keeping someone like him in the Hua Family is a waste of food! A waste of resources!”
“Exactly! He’s the last again in the Hua Family’s assessment, this fatherless, motherless child!”
“I heard the Second Elder has already removed the Third Branch from the family records. From now on, he’ll be treated like an ordinary disciple!”
“Good! We don’t need to be polite to him anymore. Beat him up! I hate that arrogant look on his face!”
“Beat him up!”
“Beat him up!”
As Hua Chonglang grew a little older, he still didn’t understand. Why? Why was it like this?
Why was the world like this?!
Why was everyone doing things he couldn’t comprehend?
Beaten and bruised, Hua Chonglang curled up, enduring the blows. He gritted his teeth and clung to life, because it was his mother’s last wish.
“You are visualizing the Ten Kings of Hell! The Ten Kings of Hell are the rulers of the underworld, governing life and death!”
“So you must carefully observe the portraits of the Ten Kings of Hell. You cannot miss a single detail!”
“Crack!” The sound of a bamboo whip.
“Hua Chonglang, focus on your visualization. Do not let your mind wander!”
Why, why visualize the Ten Kings of Hell?
Is it impossible to cultivate without visualizing them?
Can’t I visualize something else?
For example… the woman who lingers in his heart, the last warmth in this world.
“Hua Chonglang, you…”
“Murder! Murder! Hua Chonglang has killed someone!”
“He’s escaped! Dispatch the Discipline Elder to pursue him!”
“He killed the Third Elder’s grandson. Capture him alive and bring him back for the Third Elder to vent his anger!”
“This boy’s technique is strange…”
“He jumped off the cliff! A bottomless chasm, certain death!”
“No, we need to see him alive or his corpse!”
Why? Why was he still alive?
Severely injured, Hua Chonglang was rescued. It was a gentle and lovely young woman.
“Young Master~ You’re so handsome~ I think I like you~”
“Young Master~ You’re so amazing~”
“Young Master~ Why don’t you stay with me forever?”
“Young Master, you…”
I have things to do, I can’t be eaten by you, I’m sorry!
Hua Chonglang pulled his hand from the young woman’s heart, flicking the blood off.
“Ha~ Found you, Hua Chonglang! Back in the family, I never liked you!”
“I want you dead!”
“How… is this… possible… Elder Hua, save me!”
“Boy, let Seventh Young Master go!”
“He’s been struck by my palm, he should be dead!”
Why did others have protectors when they went out?
The world was incomprehensible to him once again.
Coughing up blood, he realized he was dying.
This time, there was no lovely young woman to save him.
That’s what Hua Chonglang thought, but he survived.
At the last moment, he didn’t give up. He fought tenaciously against the injuries within his body.
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Clinging to life, like a weed.
“You’re that traitor from the Hua Family, right! Come here, as long as you obediently listen to us and serve the Xiong Family, we can protect you!”
“We can even let you return to the Hua Family and lord over them.”
“The Hua Family is full of cowards who bully the weak and fear the strong. They wouldn’t dare disobey the Xiong Family!”
“Come here! Lick my boots, and you can change all this.”
“You…”
“Kill him! Kill him!”
As time passed, Hua Chonglang stopped asking why.
Because it was pointless. Just kill the people and things that made him ask why.
Problems couldn’t be solved, but the people who caused them could.
Slaughter and battle became his constant companions.
He grew stronger and stronger, until he had killed everyone he disliked and became the strongest in the Demon Sect.
The entire Demon Sect was in mourning, nine out of ten households were empty, yet he felt no joy.
Because this wasn’t what he wanted to do.
What he wanted to do was explore the reasons behind everything.
Just like when he was a child, he could spend an entire afternoon in front of an anthill, observing the ants and speculating about their behavior.
Or he would sneak out at night and watch the stars all night, giving each star a name.
Why couldn’t people do what they wanted?
Why, why was he always being forced?
When he tried to do these things again, he realized how foolish he had become, like a fool.
In the end, he had changed.
Hatred and slaughter had changed him irrevocably.
He couldn’t feel happiness anymore, he became incredibly irritable.
When he was happy, he would kill a few people to celebrate. When he was unhappy, he would also kill a few people to vent his frustration.
The Demon Sect was too boring, there were too few people!
Then he would kill in the Jianghu!
There were too many people in the Jianghu!
Killing only brought him a fleeting sense of pleasure, until he met someone.
He met someone who defeated him with a single move!
Yuan Jiuzhong, the invincible!
His dull and meaningless life finally had a new purpose.
He wanted to surpass Yuan Jiuzhong, he wanted to kill Yuan Jiuzhong!
He picked up the martial arts he had long neglected, and began to find ways to break through his limits, to surpass his past self, to make his cultivation higher and higher!
Even after being defeated twice by Yuan Jiuzhong and trained by him for several months.
Trapped within Yuan Jiuzhong’s punches of light, Hua Chonglang couldn’t move. Unbearable memories from the past flooded his mind like a tide, dragging him into all kinds of painful recollections.
Things he thought he had forgotten reappeared before his eyes.
Especially the image of his mother, which he had forgotten, and that one sound.
“A-Lang…”
It was the most beautiful and painful memory of his life.
How he wished… how he wished… to hear it again!
Physical pain could never compare to the depths of heartache!
Everyone has pain in their heart that they can’t face!
At this moment, he was like that young child again.
Those past experiences were like fate, one hardship after another, one mountain after another blocking his path.
He had fought with all his might to break through these hardships and mountains.
But there were even greater hardships, even taller mountains waiting for him.
Endless, without end!
Because as long as people lived, they would always face these things!
The only one who could truly defeat a person was himself.
A person’s breakdown could happen in an instant.
Some people, faced with this move, would break down and cry their hearts out.
Like Hua Chonglang the first two times!
Forget her, and life wouldn’t be so bitter.
Forget her, and you would be the flawless Hua Chonglang again.
Forget her, and you could kill Yuan Jiuzhong, becoming the new invincible!
Forget her, and everything would be fine!
