Wu Long released a few talismans that floated behind him, and made a small array circle, while more talismans flew up into the sky, his lips whispering something as his eyes lit with light.

“Infernal Prison!!!”

“Shards of Raging Fire!”

Gu Zhen released eight orbs of fire that flew in different directions and then without delay created a barrage of fire attacks against Wu Long.

Wu Long did not even look at the barrage of fiery projectiles, blocking them with a giant shield of water and moving toward one of the orbs, striking it with his palm with streams of water rushing to it.

“Sky Ripple Palm”

The orb broke as ripples went through it much like Gu Zhen’s fire defenses before, the other seven that were taking place in a cubic shape around Wu Long dissipating, as the alchemist’s left eye widened.

‘Sky Ripple Palm? The Sky Ripple Palm of the legendary Heavenly Flowing Mist Pavilion? A palm strike that makes ripples in the skies as if it were water? That Sky Ripple Palm?’

As this thought went through his mind, fear gripped him once more.

If this was indeed that technique it was no wonder his most powerful defensive moves did not work before, but more than that, if that was true, the terrifying answer to his question of Wu Long’s identity was becoming more real.

‘Lies! It is all lies to make me believe his ridiculous bluff!’

Gu Zhen clenched his teeth as he made more hand seals.

He did not dare to send out the furnace as an attack, even though it could be a powerful one, as he had a feeling that the moment it was far enough away from him, Wu Long would somehow use that to kill him.

The tables now turned, as Gu Zhen sent out attack after attack with fire techniques while Wu Long had no effective way to harm him, evading and breaking the fire techniques.

“Why?!”

As Gu Zhen grew more and more frustrated at not being able to do much against Wu Long even as he had the Profound Grade furnace, he suddenly shouted.

“Why did you oppose me?

It wasn’t me who decided to go against you! It was you who started ruining the work of my subordinates first!!!

I even gave you a chance to put aside our differences despite that! I offered you peace!!”

The Alchemy Tower Master was angrily shouting through the winds and rain, and the rumbling of thunder, no longer shielding himself from raindrops falling on him as he became soaked in water.

He was sending out dozens of attacks, one after another, explosions ringing from those ones that missed Wu Long and landed somewhere in the distance while Wu Long’s attacks all landed on the furnace that circled around Gu Zhen, protecting him.

“If you really are that Wu Long, then you are far from a saint! Why did you stand in my way then?

Was it not because of some bull** morals?

What?! Because, because… I did something wrong, right?!”

Gu Zhen bitterly spat out his words, becoming agitated and feverish in his demeanor.

“Ooo~oh!! What a bad man! He kills innocents to prolong his life!

So what?! Life is not fair! Boo-**ing-hoo! Get over it!

They are just unlucky! Simply born in the wrong place at the wrong time! Collateral damage!

Did I cry when I was screwed over?

Did I run to someone to get justice for me?

No! Even as life **ed me over I took everything into my own hands and paved my way!

Do you think I did not feel it was unfair?

I was born to become an Immortal! I was born in the right family, with unrivaled talent among my peers, and all the qualifications and opportunities!

And then what?! The Great Calamity struck and I am supposed to roll over and wait to die?! To abandon all I am meant for?!

No! I simply make it so that I get what was promised to me!

Haha!

What’s more!

This world is repairing faster than I thought!

Soon I will be free to go through the wall of Ascension to the Boundless Profound World, and continue on the way that was stolen from me!

Continue on the way I was supposed to tread!

So there is even no need for that many of them! A few billion over the next 10~20 years is all I need!!! Maybe a dozen billion if a bit longer!

But no! Mr. Goody-two-shoes has to come at me with his morals! And stand in my way!”

The alchemist poured more and more attacks as his immediate surroundings started turning into a sea of fire.

“Why…?!

Am I wrong? Tell me I am wrong!

If you were really that God of Slaughter… you wouldn’t even care!

Answer me!!! Why are you standing in my way?

Why impede me from getting what you yourself once got? Huh?!!

Why deny me of what I want?!

Tell me! Tell me how am I worse than any other?!

Tell me why should I settle for life of mediocrity and then death when there is a way for me to live?!!

Fate? Fuck fate!!!

Tell me why given life, and a way to immortality, must I die helplessly crying over my fate in this Heaven-forsaken world that broke off from the rest for no **ing reason?!?!?!

Is it so wrong to ask for more?!

Is it so wrong to want to reclaim what was taken from me?!

IS IT SO WRONG TO TAKE WHAT I CAN TAKE?!?!”

His voice grew, as did his anger and frustration, as he felt like Wu Long right now represented a wall.

A wall that appeared abruptly without any prior signs and impeded him from getting everything he ever wanted, which reminded him how he felt about the Great Calamity.

And so he poured out his innermost thoughts, held deep in his heart from that day his dreams were shattered by the catastrophe, hoping to get an answer to the question he could not ask the Great Calamity.

However, he did not notice as the amount of water around his sea of fire was growing exponentially, the amounts swirling around their battlefield exceeding what rainfall in such a short time could produce, rather, he was currently in the middle of almost a sea.

*Crackle* *BOOM!!!* *BOOOOOOOM!!!!!*

Suddenly, as he finally caught a glimpse of a massive wave reaching the skies approaching him from the side, a bright flash of light illuminated his world, and then an explosion of a massive proportions shook the surroundings, that then became discolored and froze, as the flames, smoke, any remaining water, and rain for a large distance around were split in two.

“World Severing Sword, First Form, Split Planes”

Wu Long’s eyes with a sharp look reflected Gu Zhen’s half-

distorted face, an expression of confusion and disbelief appearing from the angered one on the half that was normal, as his body was cut in two at the waist.

*Thud*

The Alchemy Tower Master’s upper half fell to the mud on a clearing, with the lower half landing somewhere in the nearby burning forest, and Wu Long’s figure holding a sword softly landed beside him a moment later.

“Khuk! How… how is that possible?!”

Gu Zhen spat blood and asked.

True to his high cultivation, and the fact he took Blood Vitality Pills, his consciousness was still intact for some time, as his body desperately tried to live.

Wu Long turned his head up, where a golden furnace was bound by glowing chains coming down from the sky, connected to the Formation, trembling in struggles to escape the bounds.

“You were right about Zhiqiu not being able to do much through this formation, but it doesn’t mean I can’t tap into it’s power, as one of its other functions is to trap your Profound Grade Treasure”

He turned back to Gu Zhen as the latter started to understand.

The explosion, source of which he still did not know was too weak to cause damage to him, as its energy was too dispersed, but completely overwhelmed all of his senses.

That was the moment the furnace was bound and thus failed to protect him from the decisive strike.

“Will you… will you tell me…?”

Gu Zhen’s face turned back from the furnace bound in the sky to Wu Long.

“Haa~

I don’t know much about fate, lately I have many questions about it myself so I cannot say anything as if I know.

Neither am I qualified to give you an answer on behalf of fate, or someone omniscient who knows the answer you seek.

But, since you ask…

If I give you an answer following your own logic and thinking, it would be something like this:

You became a bit confused. You somehow assumed the world revolves around you.

That’s why you search for a reason. Why should there be a reason?

If you doing things for your goals, and hurting others in the process is not bad by your own assertion, and is only logical as life is not fair and you doing what’s best for you is normal no matter the consequences for others…

Why should someone else’s actions for their goals have a reason to hurt you and not much like you have nothing to do with you personally?

In your logic, our paths and interests just happened to cross.

Thus, by your own logic, there is no reason, simply opposing interests.

You were just unlucky. Unlucky to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time”

Wu Long sighed, and then spoke without much emotion, returning Gu Zhen’s words to him.

“Ha… haha… hahaha- khu-khak!

Boo… hoo… hahaha… and now the one crying is me khu-khu!

I… I see… so I was just… khu-ekhuu!… collateral damage… how laugh~a~…e”

The Alchemy Tower Master’s left eye widened, and then the left side of his mouth curled up in a smile as he leaned his head back to the muddy ground and turned his gaze up into the sky from which rain was still pouring onto him.

The light of life in his eye became duller and then gradually disappeared as it turned glassy and hollow.

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