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Chapter 415: 411 Inheritance

Chapter 415: 411 Inheritance

Lu Wu was still very curious about that leader of the Zero Organization.

But in the third cherry blossom memory, he failed to see the true face of that legendary existence.

What he saw was only a figure, against the light, one hand lifting Yukawa Ryuzo’s daughter.

And finally, the moment that person waved his hand, the shelter Yukawa Ryuzo spent ten years pouring his heart into was destroyed in an instant.

Then, that piece of memory ended.

Lu Wu returned to the Sakura Space once more.

He was about to touch the cherry blossoms again when this time, the blossoms actively approached him.

Behind the flurry of cherry blossoms, Lu Wu entered Yukawa Ryuzo’s memories for the fourth time.

This time was longer than the previous three.

It was also the first seamless continuation of memory.

After that being arrived…

Yukawa Ryuzo’s daughter was taken away, his shelter was destroyed, his beloved died in this event, and he himself paid the price of an arm and a leg.

Yukawa Ryuzo went back to ten years ago.

Even more tragic than ten years earlier.

This time he lost his daughter too, and he was crippled.

More importantly, the display of strength by that person led him to despair.

He knew he had no hope of taking revenge or rescuing his daughter in this lifetime unless something unexpected happened.

However, just when he was about to sink into this despair, he suddenly heard about the legend of the Gate Fragment.

This ethereal legend gave him boundless hope.

Yukawa Ryuzo started to pull himself together, with the goal of finding the Gate to gain the power to rescue his daughter, and began a decade-long adventure, dragging his broken body.

Lu Wu, from a third-person perspective, watched or participated in his ten-year-long adventure in a fast-forward manner.

This decade-long adventure showed Lu Wu what an adventurer’s life was like.

It was not pleasant, in fact, it was particularly grueling.

He went in and out of countless Secret Realms, defeated various Summoned Beasts, endured dozens of tests of humanity, and countless near-death experiences. But more despairing than all.

For ten years, a full decade, Yukawa Ryuzo’s power did not improve at all.

Despite his frantic training and diligent study of the Sword Dao.

It was as though there was an invisible barrier on him, preventing his power from advancing even a step.

It was a situation that nearly drove one to despair and breakdown.

Fortunately, fate finally looked upon the old man.

In the tenth year after losing his daughter, he finally found a fragment of the Gate in the outskirts of an Underground Palace Secret Realm.

Although the moment he held the fragment, it whisked him out of the Underground Palace.

But from the moment he acquired that fragment, Yukawa Ryuzo’s cheats started.

That very day, the arm and leg he had lost for ten years grew back.

His power, stagnant for ten years, showed signs of breakthrough, and with just a little effort, Yukawa Ryuzo advanced to King-level.

His once ordinary Divine Artifact also transformed into an Epic Level Divine Artifact.

Moreover, Yukawa Ryuzo gained the ability to borrow the power of the fragment.

This gave Yukawa Ryuzo hope of rescuing his daughter as he began to investigate the Zero Organization.

Seeing this, Lu Wu guessed that the old man was done for.

But, he was powerless to stop any of it, after all, it was a memory that had already happened.

So, Lu Wu could only watch as the old man stubbornly sought out the Zero Organization, only to realize he couldn’t even face the leader.

He hadn’t even met the leader when one of the Five Ambassadors beat him up. If it hadn’t been for the fragment powers in the end, he would have died at their hands.

In the following decades, the old man began an endless entanglement with that one envoy.

Yukawa Ryuzo kept getting stronger, constantly challenging that one envoy.

With the help of the fragment, Yukawa Ryuzo’s power rose rapidly.

In just over a decade, he had reached the Epic 1-star level.

(Yes, rapidly by ordinary people’s standards.)

When he made this breakthrough, he immediately challenged the rival he’d been entangled with for over a decade.

That battle was incredibly tough for Yukawa Ryuzo.

The opponent was very strong, and it was during the fiercest part of the fight that Yukawa Ryuzo discovered the opponent also possessed a Gate Fragment.

This discovery nearly drove Yukawa Ryuzo to despair.

He wanted to save his daughter, but he couldn’t even defeat a subordinate of theirs.

Moreover, the only thing he relied upon was already in the hands of a mere henchman. Did he still have any hope of revenge or saving his daughter?

In despair, Yukawa Ryuzo exposed a weakness.

It was an opening his foe could have used to kill him in one strike. The opponent moved instinctively, but upon realizing that Yukawa Ryuzo hadn’t resisted, they changed their expression and forcefully stopped their attack.

However, Yukawa Ryuzo didn’t notice this.

When he came to his senses, he spotted an opportunity.

Without any hesitation, he raised his longsword and seized the chance to pierce through the opponent he had been entangled with for more than a decade.

To ensure a fatal blow, he even tapped into the fragment’s power.

The opponent reacted, also utilizing the fragment’s power, but it was a step too late.

As the longsword shattered the opponent’s mask and pierced into their skull, Yukawa Ryuzo felt an unspeakable sense of triumph.

After so many years, he had finally killed this adversary.

He was one step closer to his revenge.

But his surprise and pleasure quickly turned into disbelief and despair.

Because in that moment, he saw for the first time the face beneath the mask of the foe he had been entangled with for over ten years.

It was a mature, stunningly beautiful face, full of shock and seemingly trying to say something.

But the key point wasn’t the beauty; this face was that of his daughter.

Despite not having seen her for over twenty years, he recognized her at a glance. This person before him was the one he had desperately longed to save without any regard.

At that moment, he remembered every detail he hadn’t noticed before.

Whether it was the first strike or the numerous clashes over the decade.

He had survived each time because his daughter had deliberately held back. If she had not repeatedly spared him, he would never have lived to this day.

And, many details during their battles could have, and should have, been noticed by him.

His daughter had hinted over and over again, trying to persuade him to let go.

But blinded by hatred, he hadn’t noticed any of it until now, until his sword had pierced his daughter’s skull.

But it was all too late!

As Yukawa Ryuzo was engulfed in total despair and breakdown, a calm voice sounded.

“Very well refined!

Thank you for your efforts over the years, father and daughter.”

A figure emerged against the light, and as this person appeared, the Gate Fragments from both Yukawa Ryuzo and his daughter’s bodies rose up and fell into their hands.

The appearance of this one man deeply stabbed Yukawa Ryuzo.

It made him, who was originally in utter despair and collapse, lock all his hatred value onto the man before him.

Everything was because of this man, his life’s tragedy was all because of this man, and he wanted to kill this man.

He wanted to avenge himself, and his daughter.

But he couldn’t budge, the two men’s power was not on the same level at all.

Facing the man before him, Yukawa Ryuzo couldn’t even think about revenge, he didn’t even have the ability to move.

After taking the two fragments, this man didn’t give Yukawa Ryuzo another glance.

Instead, he turned to look at the corpse of Yukawa Ryuzo’s daughter.

“I once promised her that if you could recognize her under specific conditions, I would set her free.

She was delighted, confident that you would definitely be able to do it.

Unfortunately, after more than a decade, she ultimately failed to make you do it.

However, I will keep my promise, I promised not to kill you, so you get to live.

Live well.”

With that said, this being disappeared right under Lu Wu’s eyelids.

And Yukawa Ryuzo fell into the boundless hell under Lu Wu’s gaze.

For the following decades, he lived in a world of self-blame and regret.

Until about twenty years ago, when he gathered unprecedented courage to attack that man again.

This time, although Yukawa Ryuzo lacked the fragments,

With decades of accumulation, combined with the boost from an epic level Divine Artifact, he reached the epic 2-star level.

Within the entire Alliance, he was among the top rank, with power reaching elder level.

Moreover, he had grasped an extremely powerful sword technique.

With a host of trump cards and the resolve to succeed or die trying, he went.

As an observer, Lu Wu was supposed to know the outcome.

But having heard from Zero Organization that the man had disappeared for over two decades, Lu Wu couldn’t help but harbor some expectation.

Hoping for a miracle to occur.

Perhaps it was Yukawa Ryuzo who had seriously injured or even killed that man, causing him not to show his face for over twenty years.

However, reality swiftly slapped Lu Wu in the face.

And it slapped Yukawa Ryuzo as well.

Yukawa Ryuzo found that being in a small city in Area 1 South.

“You finally came.”

The other party was not surprised to see Yukawa Ryuzo arrive.

“I should have come earlier!”

As Yukawa Ryuzo drew his longsword, the other kindly gave a reminder.

“If you strike, I will defend myself, and although I won’t deliberately deliver a killing blow, if you die, it won’t be considered breaking my promise.”

Yukawa Ryuzo didn’t care, he had come with a resolution to die.

Without another word, he drew his Divine Artifact and thrust his sword at the being.

This thrust was identical to the one he had used to fatally stab his own daughter decades ago.

For the past decades, this thrust had haunted Yukawa Ryuzo like a nightmare.

And Yukawa Ryuzo dared not forget it, integrating this thrust within his very bones, within his spiritual power.

Over the past decades, he had infused all his regret within it.

At this moment, decades of regret erupted, elevating this thrust to incredible heights.

Witnessed by Lu Wu as a third party, Yukawa Ryuzo appeared to elicit shock on the other’s face as he thrust his sword.

Although Lu Wu couldn’t see the other’s face clearly, he did sense that flicker of shock.

Subsequently, the thrust truly exploded.

Next, Lu Wu saw Yukawa Ryuzo, originally looking well at over a hundred years of age, turn into a decrepit old man after that thrust.

And the being across from him had been pierced through the chest by a sword.

This thrust went straight through the other’s chest, blood gushed out in great spurts.

This made both Yukawa Ryuzo and Lu Wu wear expressions of hope.

Did they succeed? Was this guy finally dead?

Amidst their infinite expectation, the other raised his head and cracked a smile.

“That’s quite good, a very tasteful thrust, it made me reluctant to dodge.”

With that, the being casually pulled the sword from his chest.

As the longsword was withdrawn, his spilled blood reversed, and his wound healed instantaneously.

Then, as he was about to speak, his expression changed abruptly, and he turned to look down at the small city below.

Lu Wu followed his gaze, and his expression changed as well.

Because down in that small city, he saw a figure that was both familiar and strange to him.

Before Lu Wu could take a closer look, a strong force came, sending Yukawa Ryuzo flying, and at the same time, Lu Wu also left Yukawa Ryuzo’s memory world and returned to that moment when the world was blooming with cherry blossoms.

However, at this time, the previously beautiful world of blooming cherry blossoms had changed.

The once-vibrant cherry blossom trees had withered.

The cherry blossoms floating in the air had turned into a muddy mess.

Beneath the cherry trees, there was an additional figure.

A figure of an old man so frail that he might die at any moment.

As Lu Wu looked at him, he extended his hand, offering his sword, and with his last bit of strength said,

“You must, you must defeat him!”

With these final words, Yukawa Ryuzo died completely.

The entire cherry blossom world where Lu Wu was situated began to collapse, leaving behind only Lu Wu and the sword handed over by Yukawa Ryuzo.

Lu Wu instinctively reached out and grasped the sword.

As Lu Wu held the sword, it sprang to life, with a huge surge of energy and information flooding into his body.

At the same time,

Within Extreme Cold Hell, the Heavenly Cluster Cloud Sword, which Lu Wu suspected of since entering the Secret Realm, soared into the sky, instantaneously landing in front of Lu Wu.

With a roar, it absorbed the sword in Lu Wu’s hand.

As Yukawa Ryuzo’s sword was absorbed by the Heavenly Cluster Cloud Sword, the blade instantly broke through to the epic 1-star level.

At the same time, in the Undead Secret Realm, Little Skeleton emerged from its cocoon, wielding a large scythe.

In the Prisoner Dragon Secret Realm, Little Flood Dragon awakened mysterious powers after absorbing golden blood, and broke free from the realm with a roar.

And not to mention Hanhan, who had just broken through to the epic level 1 star at Lu Wu’s side.

Four streams of power poured into Lu Wu’s body all at once, instantly elevating Lu Wu, who was originally at king-level 3 stars, to the epic level.

In that instant, just the energy and the might bursting forth from Lu Wu’s body

made the Pismi trio standing before Lu Wu struggle to stay upright, using all their strength just not to kneel…