đź“– Chapter 1062 - Chen Yang!
Chen Yang didn’t want to die!
Even though he told himself that this was all an illusion, when he felt the aura of death closing in, Chen Yang still chose to resist.
Inside the cave that Chen Yang had taken as his hiding spot, two people who had their cultivation bases sealed fought with their bare bodies. In the end… Chen Yang won.
He lost an eye. But in exchange, he broke the young man’s neck.
However, the sadness in the young man’s dying gaze, as well as his last words, made Chen Yang stand stock still where he was.
“You will soon understand whether this is real or fake.”
These words continued echoing in Chen Yang’s mind until midnight arrived. Then, for the first time, Chen Yang didn’t see the scene of his family dying. Instead, the figure of an old man appeared.
Chen Yang had never seen this old man, but he knew the other party’s identity from a statue he had seen. The old man was… the founder of the Holy Sect, as well as one of only six Immortal Realm cultivators in this universe. In the Holy Sect, he was called Old Patriarch Holy Immortal.
“Anyone participant in this game who kills one person will be able to see this old man’s projection!
“Don’t question things, and don’t hold any expectations. This is not a trial nor a test. What you are seeing is all real. If you see your family members or friends die, then they are truly dead.
“Whether you believe or not is all up to you. If you don’t want to participate, you can just commit suicide or let yourself be killed by others. But if you want to keep going… once you kill one hundred people, I will tell you something you want to know.
“Then, when you kill one thousand people, ten thousand people, one hundred thousand people, one million people, and even ten million people, I will tell you more and more. Finally… I don’t know who will qualify, but if you survive until the end, this old man will tell you the complete answer!”
The image disappeared, and Chen Yang stood there with a blank expression on his face. He was silent for a long, long time, until finally, he left his hiding spot. At that time, there was still brightness in his remaining eye. It had dimmed, but it was still there…
A few days later, almost 90% of their batch of one hundred had died. And then… another batch of one hundred cultivators entered Crimson Hell.
Thus, a new round of killing started. One day, one kill!
And every few days, a hundred more people would arrive. Gradually, Crimson Hell truly became crimson with blood. Blood and gore covered the ground, and the stench of decay and aura of death grew stronger and stronger, permeating the air.
It seemed as if there would never be an end. Initially, they had been told that the prison would open once there was only one person alive, but it was impossible for only one person to survive the day. That was because… it was difficult to kill more than one person in a day. Whenever someone killed a second person in a single day, an invisible force would descend and weaken the killer. The more they killed, the weaker they would become, and it would be impossible to continue killing. Rather, once they grew weak enough, they would instead be killed by others!
So the killings repeated, again and again, in a nightmarish cycle.
Just like that, days passed. Chen Yang’s ears were gone, his face was now marred by a hideous scar, and he was limping along on one leg.
But in exchange for all this, he finally killed one hundred people, and the figure of Holy Immortal appeared in his mind once more.
“What is life? Junior, think about this question carefully. When you kill a thousand people, this old man will tell you my opinion on this matter.”
The image disappeared after granting him this one sentence.
Inside Chen Yang’s remaining right eye, the light that could once be seen was almost completely gone. In order to see the figure of the old man and hear that single sentence, he wasn’t the only one who had paid a great price. Over this period of time, he had failed to fulfill the quota of one kill per day several times, and so he had been treated to the sight of his family’s tragic deaths.
His mother died, then his grandfather…
Every time a loved one died, the light in his eyes would fade a little. Days continued to pass, and he eventually lost track of time. One day, Chen Yang saw the scene of his final relative dying, and the light that had once filled his gaze became like a weak flame that could wink out at any time.
And then, inside the blood-soaked Crimson Hell, when even he himself was painted red with blood, the figure of Holy Immortal appeared in Chen Yang’s mind for the third time.
“Life… is illusory. It’s nothing but a bad joke. It’s just like how our universe is running out of time. There are only thirty years left before it dies and is reborn… We need a ceremony. A ceremony… to slay a god!”
This time, Holy Immortal’s words contained some extremely shocking information. However, when they fell into Chen Yang’s ears, his expression didn’t change in the slightest. Then, a few days later, among the newest batch of a hundred cultivators sent into Crimson Hell, he saw… a familiar figure.
“Little junior sister…” These were the first words Chen Yang had spoken ever since his first kill. As soon as he saw her, he began to tremble, and light reappeared in his eye. His gaze was full of deep yearning.
Two people who were once promised to each other now met again in Crimson Hell. Although there should have been no warmth in this bloody prison, the appearance of his little junior sister gave Chen Yang, whose heart was withering in despair, the motivation to live on once more. That was because… she was his hope!
He immediately ran to her, holding her tightly in his arms.
After his little junior sister arrived, she told him everything that had been going on. Just like Holy Immortal had said, his family had all been killed, and the outside world was undergoing shocking changes. Planets had begun to collapse completely without warning.
Countless living things suddenly went crazy for no apparent reason, and the whole universe seemed to be trembling…
Chen Yang was silent. He didn’t want to think about the outside world. He just wanted to stay here with his little junior sister and try his best to survive.
But reality was often different from one’s hopes. Although both of them were very powerful, as time passed, Chen Yang received more and more injuries. Despite his cultivation base’s gradual recovery, his injuries grew more and more serious.
But one day… Crimson Hell opened.
That was because he succeeded. Before the next batch of people arrived, Chen Yang became the only living person in Crimson Hell. This wasn’t due to him killing the second-to-last person, but rather because… the other person committed suicide.
And this other person was… his little junior sister.
“First Senior Brother, I’ll open up Crimson Hell for you. Let me help you see what’s happening in this world…” These were his little junior sister’s final words before she ended her own life.
Holding onto his little junior sister’s dead body, Chen Yang cried like never before. His whole body trembled violently as he sobbed, and the pain in his heart grew deeper and deeper. As it accumulated, it seemed like his heart was about to explode.
At the same time, after Chen Yang left Crimson Hell, he saw a bloody world appear in front of him… It was a vast and boundless world, filled with an unending sea of blood. This sea of blood was formed by blood flowing out of countless islands.
Crimson Hell was nothing more than a small island, and the outside world… was just as hellish. It was another prison full of blood and despair.
The rule of killing one per day hadn’t disappeared. As for the targets to be killed, they were the cultivators who walked out of different small islands. There were too many small islands, so Chen Yang was unable to count the number of cultivators. However, as he stepped into this new hell, he came to understand one thing… This so-called game wasn’t just for the Holy Sect. The younger generation of all the other sects were sent in as well.
Because Chen Yang had no more loved ones left, the punishment for failing to complete his kill quota was a tearing pain in his soul.
It was torture!
And although there were many more cultivators in this new hell, each one had walked out from a mountain of corpses, and none were easy to kill.
Thus, the majority of participants received the punishment each and every day. Their bodies, souls, and everything about them suffered a severe pain like they were being ripped apart.
“Why is all this happening…” Chen Yang didn’t know how long he could persevere, and he didn’t even know why he was persevering. In truth, he had thought about committing suicide countless times.
“But… I want to hear the answer!”
Time passed slowly as he suffered in agony. It had been a long time since Chen Yang had completed his quota, and as the severe pain passed a certain point, he lost the light in his remaining eye.
After losing his vision, Chen Yang’s world should have been filled with darkness. But instead, all he saw was the crimson color of blood. A color that couldn’t be washed away by anything in the universe.
However, Chen Yang still persevered, and a long, long time passed… Finally, Chen Yang’s arms had melted off, and half of his body had rotted away. All he could do was float around in the sea of blood. He was in indescribable pain, and yet, he didn’t choose to die.
But Holy Immortal’s voice never reappeared. It was as if this place had been long forgotten…
More time passed. In the end, the other half of his body rotted away, and the only thing remaining of Chen Yang was half a head. Logically speaking, he should have passed away long ago, and yet… he was still alive!
And it was only after this happened that a cold voice suddenly echoed in his mind.
“Everyone has died. Why are you still persevering?”
"Because I have resentment in my heart. Resentment for Holy Immortal. Resentment for all people. Resentment for the world. Resentment for the universe…
“I hate this world. I hate all living things. And I hate my fate!!
“So… I want to keep living! I want to see this universe be destroyed with my own eyes!!” Chen Yang didn’t know what he was saying, or whom he was saying it to. He only knew that he had gone crazy.
The cold voice was silent for a long time. Maybe it was a year, or a decade, or a century, but in the end, it finally spoke again.
“The Six Immortals of this universe wanted to make a weapon capable of killing me and preventing the death of the universe. That’s why you had to suffer through this bitter ordeal…
“The six of them failed in the end. They… didn’t choose you, and they even forgot you existed. It’s a pity that those six were stupid and chose the wrong weapon. If they had chosen you, whose resentment toward all things has reached such a level, then they might really have been able to kill me…
“But in the end, your resentment and hatred are karmically linked to me… I don’t know what kind of personality you’ll have in the next life. You might be very kind, like in this life, but I think… it would be interesting if you became a weapon.
“A weapon that gathers all your hatred and resentment. A weapon that can kill me.
“I’m looking forward to it.” As the voice echoed in his mind, a powerful force suddenly converged from all directions, sweeping over what was left of Chen Yang’s body and robbing him of his consciousness. Chen Yang was no longer able to see anything, not the world around him, nor the fact that the world had become completely different from when there was light in his eyes.
It was pitch black. It was like a universe without color, or a starry sky without stars. There was nothing but void, and in that void… was a woman in a white palace dress.
The woman had a peerlessly beautiful appearance, and there was an illusory book in her hand. The book was open, and the page in front of her was covered in pictures that seemed to represent the universe and all living things within it.
But as she lifted the page about to turn it, her hand suddenly stopped.
“That somewhat special soul… seems familiar…” The woman frowned. After pondering for a while, she sighed softly.
“So, it was you…” Reminiscence flashed through the woman’s eyes.