UGB Chapter 1: How could I bear to lie to you?
Chapter 1: How could I bear to lie to you?
"You already know the answer in your heart, so why have you remained silent for so long, having traversed most of the human world? Now that you've reached the Southern Heavenly Gate, won't you speak?"
Thinking about the upcoming Endgame Art, Lu Chen swallowed hard and subconsciously adjusted his [game helmet] to maintain optimal visibility.
He really didn't want to miss a single change in the woman's expression behind him.
Lu Chen slowly turned to the side and looked at her.
The stunningly beautiful woman, dressed in a snow-white gauze dress and with her hair tied in a double-heart bun, suddenly tensed up.
Having already reached the fourteenth realm, practically invincible under heaven, her pretty face was now pale, her lips tightly pursed, and her eyes, which were usually as bright as stars, were filled with bewilderment as she stared intently at the handsome man who was a head taller than her, as if trying to see the warmth of the past in his eyes.
Lu Chen's lips curled up slightly, and he spoke in a rather light tone.
"Or should we take action directly?"
The words fell.
Bei Hanyue instinctively reached for the long sword at her waist with her right hand, but the movement stopped in mid-air.
The next second, she took half a step back.
First, her expression turned sorrowful, then she sobbed in a pleading tone, "No, don't do this... Brother Jingming."
"You're already an enviable fairy, why are you still acting like a child?"
As he said this, Lu Chen's eyes turned cold.
"stop!"
With a low shout, Bei Hanyue's body trembled, and she instantly stopped sobbing.
Lu Chen glanced at her with pity, then turned around and his aura completely changed. He stood up straight, one hand clenched into a fist and placed on his abdomen, the other hand outstretched behind his back. Stepping on the sea of clouds, he slowly and deliberately tapped the white jade steps and walked towards the dome gate of the old Heavenly Court.
He ignored Bei Hanyue who was following behind him.
Looking at the towering Nantianmen, Lu Chen couldn't help but think of the two times he had stood here before.
"I wonder about those two..."
"No, this is Fairy Raising 3. According to the game's timeline, the characters from Fairy 1 haven't been born yet; there's only Fairy 2. But why didn't Feng Qingling, the new Heavenly Lord I chose, appear in the recent war against Heaven?"
"They said save files could be shared across servers, I thought there was some kind of Easter egg..."
Thinking to himself, Lu Chen felt it was a pity.
With one less final boss to defeat, his meticulously planned artistic ending lacked a key driving force.
Otherwise, why would Bei Hanyue hesitate so much and be reluctant to kill him?
According to Lu Chen's original plan, the art would have exploded by now!
But it's not a big problem. We've come this far, what's meant to happen will happen.
Upon realizing this, Lu Chen became excited again.
Suppressing the pounding in his heart, Lu Chen continued walking, gazing at the vast and boundless fairy palace on the horizon, while recalling the entire plot of the "Fairy Cultivation Project" trilogy one last time.
The three games were released over a span of nearly five years, and he spent tens of thousands of hours playing them.
It's time to bring this to a close.
Just then, Lu Chen stopped on the seemingly endless white jade arch bridge.
With the Heavenly Court without a ruler, one must reach the fifteenth realm to cross this arched bridge.
Lu Chen gently patted the railing and looked down at the world for a while.
Bei Hanyue stopped about three steps away from Lu Chen.
"Now that you know the answer, what are you waiting for?" Lu Chen asked again.
Bei Hanyue's expression turned panicked, but she stubbornly shook her head: "No, no."
"Heh~"
Lu Chen chuckled softly.
"Am I lying to myself, or am I lying to myself?"
"Horned Wood Dragon, Neck Golden Dragon, Root Earth Badger, Room Sun Rabbit, Heart Moon Fox, Tail Fire Tiger, Winnowing Basket Water Leopard—the Seven Luminaries of the East have united as one, standing at the peak of this fourteenth realm just like me. You can't be unaware of what that means, can you?"
Bei Hanyue was struck as if by a heavy blow, her face turning ashen.
"Didn't they tell you long ago that when the seven luminaries unite and ascend to the Ascension Platform, it's either you eat me or I eat you?"
"No, you knew that from the moment I brought you by my side. It's not just about the Twenty-Eight Constellations Dao Integration Realm, but even the cultivation methods we practice together. We have a connection in our hearts. Han Yue, you couldn't possibly not know that this is a warning of a sworn enemy among fellow cultivators, could you?"
"The four ancient paths to godhood, along with the twenty-eight constellations of the east, west, south, and north, can be combined to enter the Heavenly Court and achieve the highest status. Possessing all four paths can even allow one to transcend the Heavenly Court."
"It's a pity that it's just you and me here. Neither of them is as obedient as you. No matter what we say, you stay put at the Six Mansions of the Harmonious Path. So, out of the three of you, I favor you the most!"
"Stop, stop talking!" Bei Hanyue suddenly exclaimed.
Before anyone knew it, her eyes were already filled with tears, and she seemed to have lost three souls and seven spirits.
Lu Chen, however, ignored it and persisted relentlessly.
"What? You don't want to admit it? Didn't you secretly learn swordsmanship behind my back? Since the first war against the heavens a thousand years ago, among the great paths that have emerged in the mortal realm that lead directly to the fourteenth level of the Dao Integration Realm, only the swordsmanship is the most adept at killing."
At this point, Lu Chen took a breath.
"Wasn't this prepared for me?"
"No! No!"
Bei Hanyue seemed to be making a crazy attempt to explain herself.
Lu Chen knew, of course, that Bei Hanyue was not prepared for him.
Not only Bei Hanyue, but the other two fairies he nurtured were also prepared to immediately unify the Seven Luminaries and ascend to the peak of the Fourteenth Realm.
They were all prepared for the original final boss, the Lord of the Heavenly Court of the Fifteenth Realm.
For him, it was, of course, for protection.
Or rather, it's for the sake of fulfilling a wish.
Who would have thought that the ruler of Heaven was not actually in Heaven?
Therefore, Bei Hanyue, who listened to him the most, became the only person to come here with him.
"Draw your sword. It would be a shame not to draw it after practicing for so long."
With a series of thuds, Bei Hanyue took three steps back, tears streaming down her face like broken pearls, shaking her head in despair.
"What, are you ready to give up and just let me 'eat' you?"
"No, that's not how it is, Brother Jingming, you're lying to me, aren't you? We're here to dismantle those high and mighty gods, to reclaim what our human race rightfully belongs to us, that's it, that must be it, Brother Jingming, you said it, that we should put people first, that we should value life, and that the high and mighty gods should no longer be able to rise above people."
Lu Chen did not answer, but only gave a mocking chuckle.
After staring at Bei Hanyue for a few seconds, Lu Chen seemed to get annoyed.
He looked away and withdrew his hand from the railing.
"In that case, I shall take your sword."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Chen reached out, and the long sword hanging at Bei Hanyue's waist trembled and hummed. It uncontrollably left its sheath, but Lu Chen managed to grasp the hilt.
The sword had become sentient, and even though it was already in Lu Chen's hand, it still wanted to escape.
It's not about returning to its sheath, but about escaping.
Unfortunately, Bei Hanyue's mind was in turmoil at the moment, and she was completely unaware of this.
Lu Chen exerted his strength, and the sword instantly stabilized.
Immediately, Lu Chen held his longsword and pointed it directly at Bei Hanyue.
Staring at the tip of the sword in front of her, she slowly raised her head, her gaze finally landing on Lu Chen's face as he held the sword. After a moment of daze, Bei Hanyue closed her eyes as if resigned to her fate.
"That's fine, it saves me some trouble."
The next instant, the longsword pierced through the air and thrust straight forward!
The spiritual energy attached to the sword surged and churned, and Bei Hanyue's cultivation at the fourteenth realm allowed her to clearly perceive the absolute killing intent contained within that violent power!
That is, at the critical moment when the sword tip was about to pierce Bei Hanyue's heart.
The northern moon moved.
She didn't open her eyes, but her fist, which she had clenched at some point, suddenly slammed out!
However, the expected excruciating pain did not come; instead, her fist slammed into the hilt of the oncoming sword.
Bei Hanyue suddenly opened her eyes, her pupils filled with intense fear and disbelief.
However, what she saw was no different from what she perceived. She didn't know when the long sword had switched ends. Her punch, which was at the pinnacle of martial arts, combined with the spiritual power that Lu Chen poured into the sword, pierced through Lu Chen's heart in an instant without any hindrance!
Rather than saying it pierced through, it's more accurate to say that a huge hole was blasted into the heart area.
Not only that, but what surprised Bei Hanyue even more was...
The man before them had clearly already reached the fourteenth realm, and the hole in his heart should have been slowly healing, but now it was starting to bleed continuously, instantly staining his white robe red.
"What? How come you missed a night...?"
He murmured something, and Bei Hanyue, as if in a daze, slowly raised her head to look at Lu Chen.
He is laughing.
The unfamiliar distance from before vanished completely, replaced by familiar warmth and doting gaze.
But he's going to be gone.
The seven constellations of the East—metal, wood, water, fire, earth, moon, and sun—and her peak cultivation at the fourteenth realm, where the seven luminaries are unified, allowed her to clearly perceive that Lu Chen's life force was rapidly fading away.
Then, Lu Chen fell straight backward.
Bei Hanyue instantly transformed into a streak of light. Her unimaginable speed caused explosions and ripples in the surrounding space, even causing the celestial arch bridge, which had existed for tens of thousands of years, to tremble.
The light fell in an instant, and she hugged Lu Chen.
puff!
She coughed up a mouthful of blood.
This is because the heart of Tao is broken.
She didn't mean to hurt him; she just wanted to take him back.
He wants the cultivation level of the fifteenth realm, and the supreme status of the Lord of the Heavenly Court; he can have either.
All she needs to do is stay by his side.
"No, no, that's not how it is!"
Bei Hanyue wept uncontrollably as she fully activated her fruit position. The Eastern Seven Mansions, which should have been in charge of spring and wood, especially the Horned Wood Dragon, which was in charge of new life and the budding of life to heal its injuries, actually accelerated Lu Chen's loss of life!
This is not the Horned Wood Dragon, it is clearly the Kui Wood Wolf, the chief weapon of the White Tiger Seven Constellations!
"As expected, the most obedient one is the most disobedient. I didn't even know you practiced martial arts."
"fraud!!!"
Bei Hanyue was on the verge of collapse, feeling as if she had been struck by lightning.
"Don't cry."
Lu Chen wanted to reach out and touch her, but found that he was too weak.
Bei Hanyue grabbed his hand and pressed her cheek against his palm, large tears streaming uncontrollably through his fingers.
"How could I bear to lie to you? If I gave up the Seven Luminaries, you would die."
"How...how could this be! No! Brother Jingming, no! Please..."
As the girl sobbed in his arms, Lu Chen's vision was gradually replaced by darkness.
"Don't even think about dying yourself, and don't forget why we came here. This is the last thing I need you to do: 'eat' me so you can see the gift I left for you in Jiaomujiao..."
He left behind his last words, and then he could no longer feel or hear the warmth of the girl lying on him, nor her cries.
With his eyes closed, Lu Chen savored the moment of the girl's final breakdown.
He was so excited he felt like his scalp was tingling!
After a while, Lu Chen's smile suddenly froze. He was stunned at first, then horrified.
"Wait! Where did my huge 'Exit Game' button go?"
"I still have my hands! I can't touch the [gaming helmet] anymore!"