Matters Concluded 2

Beneath Lanying Tower.

The sword of light in Lin Sheng's hand slowly crumbled away inch by inch and dispersed.

Opposite him, the Legendary mage Wudiye wore a bewildered expression as the colorless giant python before him slowly coiled.

"Why? You're unharmed?!"

He stared blankly at Lin Sheng across from him.

The explosive force produced by the collision of two Legendary spells was something even a warrior-class Legendary with an enhanced physical body could not withstand.

He and Lin Sheng had endured the same explosive force.

Yet—

Pfft!!

Countless bloody wounds of varying sizes appeared across Wudiye's body. Scalding blood turned into a red mist, spraying from the wounds and drifting through the air.

With a thud, he weakly planted his staff against the ground to support himself and keep from losing his balance.

Yet his eyes remained fixed on Lin Sheng, filled with unwillingness.

"Why...!?" he asked weakly for the second time.

But this question did not carry the same meaning as the first.

He was asking why Lin Sheng had gone this far.

Lin Sheng looked at him calmly.

"Shouldn't you know better than anyone why I came here, given who I am?"

He had tried to kill his uncle, brushing aside all opposition and stubbornly insisting on his course.

Having gone this far, he still dared ask why?

"...Heh." Wudiye laughed bitterly at himself.

Indeed. If the other party truly was that person, then he should have understood better than anyone why he had come knocking.

At that moment, he suddenly hated his daughter, Golden Ear, beyond measure.

His efforts of several centuries, his centuries of accumulation, his centuries of pursuit and expectations—all of it turned to bubbles in this instant.

He was unwilling!

But at this point, unwillingness could no longer change anything.

Hiss.

His body gradually