“You guys probably came from the same place as him and maybe even followed the same master.” A hint of dread appeared in Lord Demon’s eyes for a moment. Despite them being enemies and that person giving the order to kill them all, this connection they had made him no longer certain of his actions. Would killing them be a problem for him in the future?“Him? Who is he?” Mu Chaoran thought of something and quickly exchanged a glance with Tang Ningyu.Lord Demon raised his eyebrows and said, “Heh, that’s not something that you need to know.”

Immediately after saying that, the snake swarmed the two of them from all directions. They were like tidal waves. Wave after wave continued to crash down as if they weren’t going to stop until they completely devoured the two of them.

Tang Ningyu and Mu Chaoran almost simultaneously threw out their fists.

A purplish blue dragon and a purple dragon appeared. The two large dragons suddenly wrapped around each other and in the end formed into a purple colored fire and lightning dragon. It ruthlessly went towards the tidal wave like a King Cobra fighting through an ocean of snakes.

“In your dreams!” Lord Demon snorted coldly. The tidal waves grouped together into one big wave before crashing down.

Boom! The two amalgamation of energies finally ruthlessly smashed into one another.

Unsurprisingly, Mu Chaoran and Tang Ningyu flew backwards and smashed against the pillars of the hall. The impact caused the pillar to fall over. If it wasn’t for the fact that the foundation of the hall was secure, it was possible that the roof might have crashed down on them.

“Ugh!” The two of them had blood sprayed out from their mouths almost at the same time. Just that one attack, because of the severe gap in strength, already caused them to be severely injured.

“You two are indeed very good, but that’s it. Compared to that person, it’s like night and day,” said Lord Demon as his right hand grabbed the purple colored lightning and fire dragon.

Right after speaking, he pinched his fingers with great force. The dragon cried out in pain and vanished in an instant.

“Now, it’s time to deal with you two.” Lord Demon frowned. He slowly walked towards Mu Chaoran and Tang Ningyu. Having been severely injured, they couldn’t move a single muscle of their body. They could only watch as the grim reaper slowly approached them to reap their lives.

In the Blue hall, two people were sitting on the steps in front of the hall. The two of them were 50 centimeters apart and each sat in a corner. They didn’t bother each other and just sat there silently. It was as though they were comparing to see who could be silent for longer.

“Hey, Lin Zhong-qing.” Finally, one of them couldn’t handle the depressing atmosphere anymore. He frustratingly called out to the person, who could stay silent for longer, beside him.

Lin Zhong-qing turned around with a blank expression on his face. “Hmm?”

“Do you think we’ll die here?” Li Yingjie put his hand behind his back and looked towards the starry sky. Each one of them were like large bright lights which made the surroundings clear in his eyes.

Li Yingjie was quite proud in the past and thought very highly of himself. However, after being with Ling Lan for so long, he also knew well of the difference between him and Ling Lan. He also knew very well that the enemies who were coming tonight weren’t ones they could fight against.

Perhaps, once the fight begins, it would mean that they had reached the end of their days.

“What’s wrong with dying? We should have died already,” Lin Zhong-qing thought it through already for some reason.

If Boss didn’t force himself to activate the god-class mecha and hold off the enemy forces, they would have died on Planet Haijiao before reinforcements had arrived. They were given a second chance to live by Boss. It was already good enough that they were able to live this many extra years.

“But I still want to live. I still have so many things I haven’t done yet.” Li Yingjie had a burning desire to live in his eyes. He didn’t want to give up without living life to the fullest.

This Li Yingjie, who was now full of life, actually improved the impression Lin Zhong-qing had about him.

Lin Zhong-qing was silent for a moment then he asked, “Boss told you to go back. Why did you go back?”

“You guys all stayed here. If I go back, wouldn’t I be mocked for being a coward?” Li Yingjie glared at Lin Zhong-qing. He wasn’t going to make them look down on him. He especially didn’t want Lin Zhong-qing, who he had looked down on, to look down on him.

“We won’t do that. You have family, responsibilities and burdens to take care of. From the very beginning, we are not on the same path.” Lin Zhong-qing felt it was odd that Li Yingjie kept thinking he was part of their group. From the start, he was the one that randomly joined in. If it wasn’t for Boss’s extremely heaven-defying strength making Li Yingjie give in, perhaps they would have broken off their ties a long time ago.

“What do you mean not on the same path? When was I not on the same path?” said Li Yingjie angrily. This kind of attitude annoyed him greatky. It made it seem as though he was never a member of their group, as though he had never been considered a peer by Lin Zhong-qing. This pure disregard of his existence made him extremely angry and at the same time invoked a feeling of failure.

“Isn’t your dream to inherit the Li family and become the family head?” Lin Zhong-qing still remembered Li Yingjie’s grand ambition.

“Becoming the family head and being on the same path as you guys have zero connections, alright?” Li Yingjie, of course, hadn’t given up on his goals. However, that didn’t mean he wasn’t part of their group.

Lin Zhong-qing thought for a moment and felt Li Yingjie wasn’t wrong. “Alright, but shouldn’t you try your best to stay alive to go back to inherit the family and become the family head?”

If that was the case, then why stay here and give up his life? Lin Zhong-qing didn’t understand.

In the past, Lin Zhong-qing felt that he knew Li Yingjie very well. However, in the past few years, he felt that the image he had of Li Yingie in mind was straying further from reality. Moreover, there were too many people above Li Yingjie if he stayed in Lingtian. Being under Boss’s command, he acquired many military merits and climbed the ranks like a rocket. However, no matter how fast he did it, there were always a few people who climbed even faster than him. That made Li Yingjie seem not that outstanding when compared to those people.

If he had gone to an army arranged by the Li family, with Li Yingjie’s current ability, he would be able to naturally advance to the rank of major general with the Li family’s help. Maybe, if acquired just some more military merits, it might even be possible for him to be a commander of an army. This begged the question; why did he intentionally get involved with Lingtian’s messy situation if he had another safer and peaceful path to choose from?

“Actually, after I refused Boss’s order for me to leave, I have been asking myself why I refused him.” Li Yingjie smiled bitterly. He was very well aware that he and those in Lingtian had an unbreakable barrier between them. Despite them being nice to him and them treating him like brothers, it was still just ‘like’ brothers and not actually brothers. Li Yingjie was a perceptive person so after so many years, how could he not feel the difference between the two.

If they didn’t treat him as a brother sincerely, it would have been logical for him to leave them at that moment.

Li Yingjie knew even if he left, they wouldn’t blame him. However, at the eve of that major decision, he decided he didn’t want to leave.

“Did you find the answer?” Lin Zhong-qing was a bit curious.

“Not yet.” Li Yingjie didn’t know where to start. He just knew that he didn’t want to just leave like that. If these people died, this regretful feeling would follow him for his entire life and haunt him for the rest of his life.

Li Yingjie was a clear-cut person. If he didn’t want to leave, he chose to stay.

“Do you regret it?” asked Lin Zhong-qing.

“Regret?” Li Yingjie said with a self-mocking smile on his face. “I don’t regret my decision now. I just regret…”

Suddenly, he stopped speaking. Lin Zhong-qing looked at him confusedly. He didn’t understand why he had stopped talking.

‘If it was possible, I want to go back to when we first met and portray myself as a good person so I could become your friend. I wish I was not a massive bully towards you, so much so that I made good people like you hate my existence.’

‘You don’t know how much I regret that…’