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Chapter 993 - 646: The Second Phase

Chapter 993: Chapter 646: The Second Phase

When the last image vanished, Li Changhe remained silent.

This world seemed so beautiful, as if devoid of any suffering. Everything was developing towards the utmost beauty.

However, after the image ended, Li Changhe still hadn’t returned to the real world.

Instead, he continued to exist in some gloomy space.

Fortunately, all the sealed abilities on his body were fully restored.

And in his consciousness, a task settlement popped up.

[Task Completed: River Ghost]

[Task Type: Special Challenge Task/Story Task]

[Task Reward 1: You may draw a martial technique or equipment from one of the thirteen Transcendents]

[Successfully drew the ’Ghost Hand’ Earth Travel Technique Learning Card]

[Completed Side Task: Ghost Valley’s Last Wish]

[Task Reward: Gift from Ghost Valley][Please choose one Ghost Valley inheritance]

[Note: As the player is not a Qi Cultivating Transcendent, the effect of the inheritance will be greatly reduced, or even invalid]

[Choice 1: Ghost Valley Immortal Locking Array]

[Choice 2: Planting Beans Into Soldiers Skill]

[Choice 3: Vertical and Horizontal Swordsmanship]

...

[Choice 13: Three Corpses Transformation]

As it was a special challenge task, the task reward did not include player experience or game currency; the instance was entirely designed to strengthen the player.

Li Changhe silently looked at the rewards and did not rush to make a choice but took out the ’Earth Travel Technique’ learning card.

[Earth Travel Technique]

[Type: Auxiliary Skill]

[Effect: Enables the liquefaction of the surrounding earth and stone, allowing one to hide and move within]

[Consumption: Consumes one physical strength value every five seconds]

[Remark: Sigh...]

Li Changhe silently looked at the learning card for a moment and chose to learn the Earth Travel Technique.

This might be the only thing left to him by his father.

Then, with an expressionless face, Li Changhe made a selection from Ghost Valley’s Gift.

A new image flashed before him.

In the first image, a blood-soaked Ghost Hand practiced the Faceless Method, Li Yuanba, standing in front of a pregnant mute woman and several second-generation disciples.

Alone, he fought against Sword in Wine, Jiang Shenchui, and the head of the Golden Bone Sect.

In the end, facing disadvantage, he used the Earth Travel Technique to pull all three into the ground and was never seen again.

In the second image, a thin, weak, and pale-faced mute woman held an infant swaddled in a blanket, sitting by the door of an orphanage.

Her beautiful appearance had long faded, and her eyes were filled with a deathly aura. Her dry lips parted as if trying to tell the infant something.

But she could only produce an unpleasant sound.

’Ah... ugh... ah’

The mute woman’s voice intertwined with the baby’s cries under the night sky, composing a tragic symphony.

In the end, the mute woman gently placed the infant at the doorstep of the orphanage, tears streaming down her face as she and her senior sister vanished upon the river pathway.

Then, a haggard middle-aged man opened the door of his house and discovered the infant wrapped in the swaddle.

"Poor child..."

Meanwhile, Li Changhe, absolutely silent, already had tears streaming down his face.

The third scene was of Li Kun, disheveled, seated cross-legged atop the Soul Locking Coffin, blood streaming from all seven orifices.

A mass of bronze chains burst forth from the coffin, madly entangling the youthful form of the Three Corpses God.

"I, Li Kun, have achieved Celestialhood!" Li Kun whispered, yet the flesh on his body was rapidly withering away.

"To achieve Celestialhood amidst the Three Corpses’ rebellion, and to use the Celestial life to activate the Soul Locking Coffin, you truly are ruthless!" the Three Corpses God said, fearless: "But you are just as foolish as Ghost Valley! Wasting your life for nothing. You can’t contain me."

"I know..." Li Kun continued to cough up blood as he spoke: "But at the very least, I’ve gotten you... out of the Array."

"To dismantle the Array? Is that your plan?" the Three Corpses God said with a cold laugh: "Once you are dragged to death, I’ll go ahead and kill that girl myself, strangle that bastard!"

"Hahaha..." Li Kun laughed, his smile gradually turning manic: "You killed my disciple, murdered my good friend, caused the death of my son-in-law, and now you want to harm my grandson? Don’t you even think about it!"

"Humph... You..." For some reason, the face of the Three Corpses God changed: "You actually!"

"I know, I know that as long as those you have turned are still outside the coffin, you cannot be sealed. Otherwise, Sword in Wine and the others would not have been ensnared," Li Kun laughed loudly, tears of blood streaming from his eyes: "But what if they all died?"

At the same time, the survivors scattered throughout the towns of Yanyun calmly shattered their own heart vessels.

The mute girl, with tears flowing, threw herself into the river. As she sank, she saw a petal... just like the one she first saw, given by Ghost Hand, that tiny white flower.

The mute girl caught the flower, smiled foolishly, and then passed away.

"Please!" A member of the Golden Bone Sect took out a blade and stabbed it into their own heart: "Carry on with our... hope, and survive..."

"This is our bitter wish, and also our plea," a Buddhist Transcendent declared as they shattered their own heart vessels.

"Fellow transcendents, I will join you," said a Daoist Transcendent as they closed their eyes and breath ceased.

In that instant, aside from Li Kun, all the transcendents within Yanyun’s domain calmly embraced their death.

They knew that only by their death could the Three Corpses God be sealed once again. Only in this way... could they leave behind some hope...

...

"You actually... sacrificed all of them?" The shock was evident on the face of the Three Corpses God as it swung its hands trying to break free of the chains: "You cannot seal me for long! As soon as there is even a slight gap open, I will rise again in the world! All this you’ve paid, is it just to save that bastard?"

"That is hope," Li Kun said with a skeletal smile as his body had become skin and bones: "And you... will ultimately die at his hands."

"Then you will surely be disappointed!" The Three Corpses God said coldly, finding itself unable to escape the Soul Locking Coffin, it coldly declared: "All your efforts are ultimately in vain."

"Then... let’s just wait and see," Li Kun weakly replied.

As his voice faded, the Three Corpses God was dragged into the coffin by the bronze chains, and the bronze coffin slammed shut.

Li Kun then lifted his hand and struck the top of the bronze coffin, instantly sending the coffin deep into the ground.

"Cough..." Li Kun, trembling, got up and sat in a small boat by the river, murmuring weakly: "Actually, I lied to them. You are not any hope... I don’t want you to become some hero or master. I just wish you could live on safely... my Changhe... survive... "

As he closed his eyes, he took his last breath and died.

[Triggered the second phase task: Hope and Revenge]

[The Three Corpses mark on the player has been detected, the Three Corpses God shall re-emerge in the world]

[The revenge after twenty-one years will finally unfold]

[Task Reward: Upgrade to top-level revenge-related skills]

Meanwhile, under a factory in a suburban area of Yanyun.

The bronze coffin, firmly encased in rocks and earth, trembled slightly.

A low and chilling voice emanated from within the coffin.

"Li Kun, everything you have given, ultimately amounts to nothing!"

With the Three Corpses mark revealed, the Three Corpses God returns to the world!

(I’ve finally written up to this point, everyone please don’t find it too troublesome.)

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