Chapter 44 (1/2)
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Crazy Father Charging On His Horse
“Father?”
Li Chengfeng was stunned, then grabbed Li Chun's reins and screamed, “Father? Now is not the time! Snap out of it and run!”
He kept pulling on Li Chun's reins but he seemed to be under a spell, nailed straight into the ground.
“My son!” Li Chun's low voice was warm. “Go protect your mother and run!”
Chengfeng cried angrily, “Father, what are you talking about? We're leaving together!”
Li Chun smiled calmly. “I can't leave!”
“Why?!”
“Because if I run, our Li family will be done for!”
Every word hit Li Chengfeng's chest like a heavy hammer. He stumbled backwards, his eyes widening as if it was the first time he met his father, the man he was so embarra.s.sed of!
Li Chun was currently riding a magnificent black horse, Black Wind, completely devoid of the usual haze he was plagued by.
“The Li family of the Cleansing Moon Sect was once number one in the world, it cannot die in my hands!” Li Chun gazed at his son deeply, his eyes filled with love. “My cultivation failed and I am useless now. You're not the same, our family's future now rests in your hands. Go!”
Li Chengfeng was shaken, his eyes reddening. He had never seen his father look at him like that. To him, his father was always the crazy man, the man who embarra.s.sed their family!
Until today… At the most critical moment, the puppet patriarch of the Cleansing Moon Li family with his heirloom spear and the steed that had been with him for twenty years, sprinted courageously towards a monster no one had seen before.
“My friend…” Li Chun crouched down and patted the horse on its black neck, muttering slowly, “It's been a long time since we went into battle together!”
Although Black Wind was old, it still had some fire in it. It snorted heavily, whinnied, then sc.r.a.ped the snowy ground excitedly with its hoof.
“The fate of the Cleansing Moon Sect falls on me!”
Li Chun shook the reins. The pitch-black horse, Black Wind, lifted its front legs, letting out a piercing cry. Li Chun raised his spear to the sky, dignified as ever!
The people who were running turned around instinctively, not believing their eyes.
Madam Xie covered her mouth as tears flowed. He looked exactly the same as he did twenty-one years ago!
On that day, he also sat on a tall, black steed with his long spear raised at the sky, as if he was king of the world!
Twenty-one years ago, he had many brothers charging into battle with him, he had not gone insane, and the moment he took off his helmet, the smile on his handsome face won over the heart of a girl from a scholarly family!
He was the most talented child the Li family had seen in ten generations. Everyone was waiting for him to break through his bottleneck and succeed in his cultivation. Yet he still failed in the end! Ever since he went insane, all his brothers left his side and the Li family collapsed. As if it was on its last breath, everyone was sure of the death sentence looming over the family!
Madam Xie looked at the person she once fell in love with through her blurry tears and suddenly screamed with all her might, “Ah Chun, DON'T!!”