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Chapter 2582 - 127: The World Pities Me, and I Pity the World! (Part 3)
His fist shattered a plane, smashed down a sky, as if he intended to drag down the entire heavens of the World Without Life to bring unavoidable destruction to Jiang Wang.But at this moment, a voice responded to him.
Jiang Wang was still coughing up blood, clutching his sword tightly with his only remaining left hand, preparing to counterattack, so it wasn’t Jiang Wang.
This voice was so calm yet detached... softly questioning.
"What kind of thing are you... that he needs your recognition?"
In his rapid descent, Zhang Linchuan felt as though his fist was entangled by something. Upon closer inspection, it seemed like... a fishline?
A fishline without a fishhook, yet it caught him.
It drew him upward to the high dome!
Zhang Linchuan felt an overwhelming, irresistible power, felt an unchangeable rule, and also felt a tremendous absurdity!
In his own World Without Life, he encountered an irresistible force? Rules that executed others’ wills?
He re-examined his surroundings with utmost calmness, offered no resistance, and let the fishline pull him upward—
He was reeled up into the clouds!
When did these clouds gather?
They stretched distantly as if for thousands of miles.
Zhang Linchuan hadn’t figured out the answer when he saw a person.
A person he couldn’t have been more familiar with.
A face he couldn’t have been more familiar with.
These were his own eyes, his own nose, his own features, his own face... his original self!
Wang Changji!
"Truly, fate cannot be stopped!" Zhang Linchuan stared steadily at him, scrutinizing this body, so familiar yet so strange: "Are you here to return my body?"
Compared to Zhang Linchuan’s surprise, Wang Changji remained undisturbed, simply saying: "Found you."
Both came from Fenglin City, part of the so-called three prominent families of that small city, yet never had any intersection. Their only conversation was when Zhang Linchuan originally sought to seize the Bone Holy Body, and Wang Changji left the words, "I’ll come find you."
And today he said, "Found you."
The hair on the back of Zhang Linchuan’s neck stood on end!
A fishhook had unknowingly already hooked onto the back of his head, then jerked upward, as if threatening to rip open his whole skull!
The too-sudden and intense pain triggered Zhang Linchuan’s instinctive reactions. The terrifying light of Hidden Thunder ignited all over his body, radiating like it had the power to destroy worlds. But it extinguished with just a single struggle!
Only then did he remember that Wang Changji had already understood his Hidden Thunder Ban Method back in that cave within Zhuang Country.
He opened his mouth and discovered a fishhook inside!
And his nose, his eyes, his ears... all his orifices and limbs were covered in fishhooks!
His whole body involuntarily rose, being detached from his connection to the World Without Life.
Countless fishlines intertwined above his head, like a spider weaving a web, forming a tangled mess. He seemed to become a puppet, manipulated by the mystical methods of its creator, walking step by step towards an unknown and terrifying end.
He felt the power of "Tao" from within!
Thus, he shut his eyes tightly, allowing his eyelid to be hooked open by the fishhook, presenting an ugly rupture.
The pale color in his pupils overflowed from this rupture, like jade liquid, similar to jade nectar, as if his whole body was washed in moonlight. He finally extricated himself from the terror of being covered in fishhooks and entangled in fishlines...
And returned to the World Without Life.
The sky was still a mournful white, the clouds underfoot still unknown as to when they gathered, not far away still stood Wang Changji holding a fishing rod.
"Very well, our journey together was not in vain." Zhang Linchuan gently clapped his hands, full of admiration, "An impressive display of power, it broadened my understanding of the world."
Then he saw Wang Changji gently lift the fishing rod—
Only then did he realize that Wang Changji had more than one fishing rod in front of him.
He had just caught him, but the other one?
He felt Jiang Wang already behind him.
On his blue robe, bloodstains were everywhere, his right arm hanging weakly by his side, his left hand holding his sword Longing.
His momentum was far less magnificent than at the start, yet more sharp and menacing.
Zhang Linchuan slightly shifted his stance, his whole being influenced by Rootless Divine Power, teetering between existence and nonexistence... he dared not turn his back on either Wang Changji or Jiang Wang.
"When did you arrive?" Jiang Wang asked Wang Changji across Zhang Linchuan.
"I’ve been here quite a while." Wang Changji answered across Zhang Linchuan, his eyes detached as he glanced around: "I’ve been studying this place all along."
There seemed to be some unspoken understanding between them, needing no further communication.
"Have you figured out anything?" Zhang Linchuan interjected with a smile.
At this moment, he stood in the center, Jiang Wang to his left, Wang Changji to his right.
Upon hearing his question, Wang Changji shifted his gaze calmly, looking at him.
Zhang Linchuan found his gaze held immobile!
At this moment, he could only see Wang Changji, see that all-too-familiar face.
And to the left erupted an intensely sharp and pure killing intent.
Against the bleak white sky of the World Without Life, four radiant Star Towers of different forms reflected the path of Jiang Wang’s Tao in this world!
And between the Star Towers, Star Paths twisted and linked, forming the Seven Stars Road. The Big Dipper turned here, with its handle pointing north!
After repeated mortal combats, after the Samadhi True Fire scorched time and again, the mighty power of Jiang Wang’s Tao path began to penetrate the World Without Life!