Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 460: Chapter 218: Demon Lord Descends the Mountain, Killing Star Arrives!

The cave emitted painful roars, echoing through Snow Mountain, like the mountain’s own cries.

Li Yelai felt his brain tearing apart, a terrible tremor relentlessly shredding his mind. Countless hopeful and hateful thoughts from the past now transformed into sharp blades that stabbed into his heart, wildly churning.

The heartache choked him and brought him to tears.

Countless images floated before his eyes.

He saw his father, who had mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind a farewell letter at home.

He saw his mother on the sickbed, her body emaciated from illness, still waiting for her lover’s return.

He saw his weeping sister by the grave, alongside a pain- and rage-filled version of himself.

His mother had waited for this man until her death, even using sign language to tell Li Yelai that he would surely return, that he certainly would...

Back then, Li Yelai couldn’t understand.

His mother was beautiful and accomplished with a high degree of education. Although mute, she never let her children’s education suffer.

She came from a distant Giant City, reputedly from a very privileged background.

Li Qiong once boasted that after defeating many competitors and even several bouts with maternal family members, he finally won his beauty.

This boast made their mother blush and punch him on the chest as he, with a weird smile, yelled, ”Cuihua! What are you doing, Cuihua!”

The playful nickname provoked his mother to strike him even harder.

His mother had changed her name; for some reason, she chose the name Cuihua, and his father used it playfully to address her.

At the time, the young Li Yelai simply thought he was boasting.

But he couldn’t understand why such a capable mother would fall for someone lazy like Li Qiong, who came to Border City No.3 incognito and laboriously.

Even until death, she still held hope for him.

He had abandoned his wife and children! A scoundrel!

This had driven Li Yelai to intensely hate Li Qiong, hating the father who left when his mother needed him most!

Even though death was irreversible, you should at least have been with her in her final moments, you bastard!

During these six years, Li Yelai constantly hated him.

And now, years of hatred had transformed into blades piercing Li Yelai’s heart, causing excruciating pain!

”Ah... ah... why is it like this, what have I done!” Li Yelai covered his splitting head and let out painful roars, never imagining he would encounter his father, Li Qiong, here.

In Li Yelai’s original perception, this man had abandoned his mother and left Giant City when she needed him most, disappearing without a trace.

Li Yelai had often fantasized about finding this man.

Perhaps this man had started a new family in another Giant City and felt helpless when confronted by Li Yelai.

Or returned to Border City No.3 begging forgiveness from his children, only to be met with Li Yelai’s indifference or violence.

Or any other possibility... Li Yelai had considered him dead.

But he never expected to see him here, to see his end and death.

He really was dead...

Before dying, this man faced a horrible roundup; his right ankle was severed. Dragging his severed leg, he fought through, making it here, but even as death loomed, he refused to release the white Spirit Fruit in his left hand.

His originally handsome face was filled with pain and despair.

He had obtained a Spirit Fruit, almost, just almost could have returned to Giant City... almost could have... saved his wife.

Pain and despair overwhelmed Li Yelai, it was so close...

It could have prevented all tragedies... his mother wouldn’t have died, his father could have survived.

”I’m sorry, Xiao Lian, I can’t return...”

The residual sound echoed again.

Causing Li Yelai immense pain, he dropped the Black Gold Dragon Pattern Spear and trembled as he reached to close his father’s eyes, yet feared damaging Li Qiong’s corpse.

He could only kneel by Li Qiong’s corpse, weeping bitterly, his heart wrenching.

Li Qiong had never given up on his wife and children, he... just died on his way home... and could never return...

And yet, Li Yelai had hated him for six long years.

Endless pain and despair nearly drowned Li Yelai, almost suffocating him. Even the Soul Well began to tremble with signs of collapse.

As a Spiritual Ability User, such intense emotional turmoil could cause distortions.

Li Yelai struggled to catch his breath, calming the pain in his heart.

What followed was an overwhelming killing intent brought forth from his pain and despair!

Li Qiong was just one step away from returning to Giant City but was ambushed by the Withered just as he was leaving the Snow Mountain and was chased down and killed here!

It was them! All of them!

These bastards!

Kill them all, must kill them all! Leave none! Kill them all!

Kill! Kill! Kill!

Li Yelai almost clenched his teeth to pieces, his killing intent palpable, chilling the temperature in the cave once more.

The terrifying killing intent created a bizarre link between Li Yelai and the Face.

Voices emerged again.

”Some day if I am Green Emperor...”

”Blood won’t cease, won’t rest till death...”

”All invaders, both internal and external, anyone who dares to wage war shall be slain! Decimate the barbarians!”

Three legendary figures from history and myth responded to Li Yelai’s killing intent.

Li Yelai could faintly see the figures of those existences.

The first to appear was a man in Battle Armor, yet holding a book.

He stood under the ancient city, seemingly scholarly, yet his fighting spirit boiled over, leaving a trail of rivers of blood and widespread wails.

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