2 Another chance, no matter the price. (1/2)
”Li Yang.”
As the attacks landed on their bodies and the world around them descended into darkness, Li Yang suddenly heard a booming voice reverberate in the surroundings. Li Yang hurriedly opened his eyes, holding onto the faint hope that maybe the attacks had failed to kill them.
But he was doomed to be disappointed. As he opened his eyes, he could not see anything around him. The hill was gone, the small army of people was gone, but most importantly, she was gone, Fang Ying was gone. Li Yang tried to see if he could spot anything around him, but there was nothing around him, his surroundings were a true void.
”Li Yang.”
As Li Yang was inspecting the darkness around him, the booming voice sounded out again. The voice was so forceful that even the surrounding darkness seemed to shake. Li Yang had not sensed it before, but as he listened to the voice this time, a bone-deep terror suddenly filled his body.
He could only hear a voice, but it contained such a tyrannical power that his knees nearly went weak. He had never felt such a feeling before, not even while he was still just a young child. Even when he faced the person who called himself the Thunder God had he felt such fear.
”Where is Fang Ying?”
Li Yang could not see anyone, nor could he even begin to fathom just how powerful the person talking to him was. But the only thing on his mind was to find out where Fang Ying was, everything else was unimportant.
”I can give you a chance, a single chance to chase after her and grab her hand again. I can send your soul into reincarnation and allow you to be reborn, eventually regaining all your memories. If she makes the same choice, then the two of you can meet again.”
The voice spoke out again, this time sounding like a soft whisper next to his ear, containing infinite temptation.
”I accept.”
Li Yang instantly responded. He did not even stop to think about what would happen if Fang Ying did not accept the offer, nor did he stop to think about what it would cost him. All he knew that he would be given a chance to grasp her hand again.
”Hoh, so quickly? You haven't even bothered asking what I want in return.”
The voice rang out inside the void again, sounding rather surprised. It had expected Li Yang to accept his offer, but it had never expected him to accept it so quickly, nor so easily.
”I don't care. You could be the greatest demon in existence and I would still accept your offer. All so that I can hold her hand again.”
Li Yang responded with a chuckle. In their last life, he had fought against the entire world for Fang Ying, so why would he care about any type of price now? Even if the voice belonged to heaven's greatest demon, he would still gleefully accept the offer.
”But what if she does not accept the offer?”
Li Yang could not see the owner of the voice, but he had the feeling that whoever was talking to him had just raised their eyebrows at him.
”She will. I have yet to brush her hair enough times, so she will chase after me and make me brush her hair until she is satisfied with it. She will make me brush it a hundred times, a thousand times. As many times as it takes until she is satisfied with it. And then she will make me do it all over again.”
As he spoke, Li Yang could not help but grin. He could still remember it vividly. Fang Ying sat on a log, her long hair hanging loosely behind her. He stood behind her with a wooden comb that he himself had made, gently combing her hair under the moonlight, simply wasting the night away. Others feared her poison and it's terrible effects, but to him, it was the sweetest of fragrance.
”HAHAHA. I really wasn't wrong in choosing you! Very well Li Yang! Since you are the only person in this universe to ever manage to comprehend true destruction, you can be considered my successor. I will send your soul into reincarnation, giving you the chance to meet up with your wife again. ”
The voice suddenly broke out into a loud laughter, it's laughter causing the void around Li Yang to furiously shake as if it was about to break apart. it's words caused Li Yang's pupils to furiously contract.
The only person who ever knew that he had managed to comprehend true destruction was Fang Ying, other than her, no one else had ever found out. Even when the two of them were besieged and killed, he had not brought out his powers of destruction.
The reason behind this was very simple. What he had comprehended was not just destruction, it was true destruction. If it was normal destruction, it would be things like destroying lives of towns, maybe destroying half a planet.
But true destruction was different. True destruction was the inevitable destruction of the universe, of all creation. Not even the heaven's would be spared once true destruction arrived, everything would cease to be.
If he brought out his powers of destruction, the entire planet they were on would vanish. He was not willing to destroy that planet, after all, that planet was where they had first met, where he first combed her beautiful hair, where he first grabbed her warm hand.