548 News Delivery – Bad News (2/2)
”It was just this random line. I don't know if Venerable Lord Ice didn't finish his words before his death or if this really was all he had to say. This is the third request that I mentioned was only a half” Yun Yang said carefully.
This was added by the youth himself. In spite of it, he strongly believed that Venerable Lord Ice would only relay relevant information to them based on their brotherhood. Yet Yun Yang was also worried that they may not perceive the information due to the current ensuing chaos, thus he made a gentle reminder here while the opportunity was available.
Once what said was said, the three Venerable Lords exchanged looks with each other, their gazes vaguely contemplative.
”Hong Zhan… Hong Zhan… Hong Zhan…” Venerable Lord Frost lowered his head as he mumbled. The sense of begrudging vileness within his repetitive murmur was so thick that entire rivers would not be able to wash it away.
Venerable Lord Snow gripped the God's Bone tightly, his tears rolling down his neck like a broken pearl necklace. He raised his head and murmured, ”Five of us brothers… we've roamed this world for decades together, parting less when we're together and almost never separated from each other.
Who knew that Saber would perish earlier, grief has struck us all, and today, another one is gone!”
He closed his eyes, tears coursing down continuously. At that moment, his initially smooth face was adorned with lines of wrinkles. The half black and half white hair he had turned full snow-white in the blink of an eye, not a single different shade was present!
Seeing Venerable Lord Snow's aged look shocked Venerable Lord Sword and Venerable Lord Frost.
”Snow!” Both of them cried out simultaneously.
Venerable Lord Snow remained deaf to the cries but his aging process continued. He breathed in deeply and heaved an equally long sigh, his tears never stopped flowing. There was a strong sense of powerlessness that exuded from him without being hidden.
Venerable Lord Frost and Venerable Lord Sword watched Venerable Lord Snow in stunned silence. Struck with realization, they finally realized how much Venerable Lord Snow cared about the truth of the God's Bone.
The blow from this matter was exceptionally heavy on him.
It could be said that while Venerable Lord Ice's demise brought Venerable Lord Snow much anguish, the truth of God's Bone that had suddenly become a reality, had killed his last hope. The combination of both matters caused all of Venerable Lord Snow's life principle to collapse just like Venerable Lord Sword's!
The agony was nothing that an outsider could empathize with unless one had personally gone through the experience.
Yun Yang watched them with indifference, unaffected from the very start. He was never a cold-blooded person but when he looked at the Venerable Lords' grief, there was only a sense of gratification in Yun Yang.
”You're finally tasting the feeling of your closest brothers' death, eh?”
”How is it? Nice? Does it feel good?”
”You finally feel a sliver of what it felt like when my eight brothers died, right beside me back at Tianxuan Cliff…”
”You can barely handle it when only one of your brothers has died?”
”What about me?”
”Who can understand my pain?!”