1440 Father and Son? (1/2)
All of a sudden, the Honor Demon got furious. A cloud of dark qi started to rise around him. In a savage voice, he shouted and said, ”F*ck!”
”Ye Xiao, I want to kill you! I want your body! Your spiritual power! Your soul! I will lock your spiritual soul for tens of thousands of years, and I will burn it every day with the great demonic fire! I am going to torture you! You f*cking son of a b*tch! How dare you ruin my great plan…”
Boom!—with a cracking sound, a whirlwind flew up from nowhere and then something rushed out immediately.
Somewhere far away in the sky, suddenly the clouds started to surge.
All the people in the world, whoever heard the man's angry shout, strong or weak, all trembled because of fear.
That moment, they felt like they just went through a huge graveyard and got blown by a chilling creepy wind.
The Dark Robe Honor Demon was watching the sixty-three men who kept the nine altars running. He was watching them secretly.
After a while, he closed his eyes and said to himself, ”This should be enough… I think…”
His black robe was fluttering, and he started to walk out slowly.
As the Dark Robe Honor Demon was walking out, another person, who was wearing a purple robe hastily entered the room and stopped right in front of the Honor Demon.
The Dark Robe Honor Demon stopped but didn't look at the man in a purple robe. ”What is it?”
”Father, we have a new message. Xiao Monarch has destroyed the East Hall, and he is coming to the West Hall with his people.”
It was Zong Xingyu, the current prime master of the West Hall.
He was also the only son of the Dark Robe Honor Demon, Zong Yuankai.
At this moment, Zong Xingyu looked pretty anxious. That was not all. In fact, he seemed to have a complaint in his heart.
”Hmm. I know.” The Dark Robe Honor Demon coldly nodded with an expressionless face, and he casually went on walking out again.
”Father!” Zong Xingyu stopped him and anxiously said, ”I don't understand! Why should we watch the East Hall die? Why couldn't we send backup? The East Hall and the West Hall should face any troubles together! We are on the same boat!”
The Dark Robe Honor Demon humphed and said, ”The East Hall is the East Hall, and the West Hall is the West Hall. We are never on the same boat! All you need to do is to take good care of the West Hall. Do not worry about others.”
Zong Xingyu anxiously said, ”We built the East Hall too. Father, you worked so hard for it! Tens of thousands of years! And I'm just supposed to accept the destruction of it… I… I truly couldn't…”
The Dark Robe Honor Demon coldly stared at Zong Xingyu and didn't say a word.
”I need to know the reason. I have to know why.” Zong Xingyu insisted.
”Reason? What reason do you want?” The Dark Robe Honor Demon's eyes flickered with ghostly light. ”Is this your first day in the martial world? Why is your head filled with such stupid questions? No reasons are needed in the martial world. We don't need a reason. We own the power.”
”We do have the power!” Zong Xingyu was a bit hot-blooded, and he said, ”Even though our outer forces are all dead, we still have the power! Maybe we couldn't keep the East Hall fully unharmed, but we can at least save the leaders of the East Hall! We can absolutely make that happen!”
”If we do our best if we sent our best people, perhaps, we can kill Ye Xiao and his men in the battle of the East Hall!”
”We can do it!”
”However… Father… You chose to watch the East Hall being slaughtered! You let the massacre happen!”
”I do not understand! No, I don't! Please tell me why, could you?” Zong Xingyu was in pain, and said, ”Father, you spent so many years in building the East Hall. Why do you have to abandon it like it is a worn-out shoe?”
The Dark Robe Honor Demon stared at Zong Xingyu with cold sharp eyes and said, ”You said it yourself, did you not? It is me! I spent those years to build it! Didn't I? It is mine, isn't it?”
Zong Xingyu heard his father's words, which didn't seem to make sense. He raised up his head staring at his father's cold and merciless face, and he felt lost. After a while, he said in a hoarse voice, ”That is right! It is true! The East Hall is yours! You built it! Does that mean you can just do whatever you want with it? Does that mean you can just destroy it as you wish?”
Zong Xingyu didn't sound well, because he was desperate already.
”Yes! I can!”
The Dark Robe Honor Demon's eyes were cold. Every word he said sounded so cold like it just came out from a crack of ice. The Dark Robe Honor Demon was like an ice sculpture from an ice mountain which had been snowy for thousands of years.
Zong Xingyu was shocked and shivered helplessly. He felt so powerless at this moment.
He didn't know what he should say now, and there were no words he could think of anymore. He felt exhausted and lost.
He looked at his father with dull and lightless eyes. He then said in an unsteady voice, ”Even… Even Wu Fa died in that fight… He died… Ye Xiao killed him…”
The Dark Robe Honor Demon's eyes were like two bottomless ponds. He stared at his son but didn't say a word.
”The entire… The entire East Hall… Everyone… Every single person… Superior cultivators… Average disciples… All died. They were all killed. The East Hall has become just a name in history…” Zong Xingyu continued talking.
The Dark Robe Honor Demon still didn't say a word. He was just silent as if he was a part of the void.
”Now the enemies are gathering up, marching toward the West Hall… They are here to kill every single one of us…” Zong Xingyu seemed to be lost in it.
The Dark Robe Honor Demon's eyes flickered. That was the only change that could be seen on his face.
Zong Xingyu didn't waste such an opportunity, so he suddenly turned excited, and said loudly, ”Do you want to… Do you want to sacrifice the West Hall too? Just like what you did to the East Hall?”
When he said these words, his face was all red. He had lost control.
The Dark Robe Honor Demon didn't say a word. This time, his eyes didn't blink.
Zong Xingyu stared at his father with anger in his eyes, and said, ”You built everything up by yourself. We won't say no as long as it is your decision!”
The Dark Robe Honor Demon finally moved. He turned around; he tilted his head and stared at his son with a weird expression in his eyes.
Well, there was nothing soft or warm in his eyes.
Zong Xingyu could feel the indifference and strangeness in his father's eyes.
He couldn't believe that his father stared at him as if his father was staring at a stranger!
Their connection was lost; he couldn't feel the bond between them anymore.
Every time he got close to his father, he always had this strong feeling of strangeness. It had been happening for years.
It seemed to him that his father was forgetting the relation between them bit by bit. It seemed like the man had been leaving himself behind step by step.
It seemed… It seemed like he had been losing the sensation of a human being!
He was losing all of his feelings!
Zong Xingyu felt a severe pain deep in the bottom of his heart. He murmured and said, ”We won't say no. We have no rights to complain… However, father, did any of us ever cross your mind? In the West Hall, there is your son, your daughter-in-law, your grandsons, your great grandsons… You have your family living in the West Hall… Do you not remember this?”
The Dark Robe Honor Demon indifferently nodded and blandly said, ”I do remember. In the West Hall, not the East Hall… In the West Hall, I have my son, my grandson, and the others. I remember.”
When he spoke, he seemed to be so indifferent.
In fact, he was sneering deep in his heart when he said these words. He even wanted to laugh.
'Family?'
'Hah!'
'Family, huh?'
'What is the point? How is family useful to the great plan of the demonic future? What could it do to help?'
If the answer to this question did not agree with his ideals then the Dark Robe Honor Demon surely could just speak it out indifferently, because it was nothing he truly cared about!
Zong Xingyu's heart was hit by a chill.
In front of Zong Yuankai, Zong Xingyu was a son. However, he was also a knowledgeable old man who had experienced a lot in this cruel world. When the man was being sincere, he would know it. When the man was being indifferent, he would know it as well! He could tell!
He turned around and looked at the dark and ghastly place that had the nine spooky altars with flames in different colors…