Why?

The room fell into dead silence.

Blood continued to stream from the corner of Mu Li's mouth, and his aura was rapidly weakening. The moment he realized he was incapable of protecting his younger brother, he had nearly lost the will to live.

He had promised to protect him, yet all he could do was watch helplessly as his younger brother was killed before his eyes. What utter despair.

Lin Chuan's forehead had already been pierced through. This was the last thing Mu Li saw with his own eyes. Let alone an infant, even a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator could not have survived such a blow.

"Alas..."

With a sigh, Lin Chuan, who had seemingly died, suddenly moved. The bloody hole in his forehead slowly vanished. At that moment, a pair of blood-red eyes emerged, each containing two tomoe spinning rapidly.

"Why? We aren't related by blood, so why did you come to save me? What exactly do you want?" Lin Chuan turned to look at Mu Li's unconscious figure, his heart filled with endless doubts and complicated emotions.

Lin Chuan had always believed that there was no hatred without reason, nor was there love without reason.

Though Mu Li was his brother in name, they had no blood relation whatsoever. That was without even considering Lin Chuan's reincarnation.

Moreover, Lin Chuan could tell that his birth had placed this older brother in an extremely awkward position. It could even be said that he had taken everything that originally belonged to Mu Li.

By all logic, Mu Li should have hated him deeply. Even if he did not hate him, there was no way he should have liked him.

Yet judging from Mu Li's earlier actions, none of it had been an act. In that moment, he had truly been