Chapter 876: Corporeal Zone
Li Qiye replied with a grin: âSo, you will never reveal the location of the Corporeal Zone.â
âThatâs right, I will never tell you its whereabouts, so donât even think about obtaining it. Let go of this thought!â Bloodhand spoke.
Li Qiye pondered for a bit before calmly replying: âYou are making it difficult for me.â
âDo your worst. If I even groan once, I will be a useless cur.â Bloodhand let out a perverted laughter: âWhat kind of torture do you want to try this time? Split open my skull or use an Immortal Emperor to read my sea of memories? Perhaps incinerate me with an aberrant flame?â
âI know that your memories have been protected and sealed many times. Tearing it apart would only destroy your memories, plus I wouldnât get the information I wanted anyway.â Li Qiye chuckled: âOf course, I wonât force you if you donât want to tell me! I have always been a kind person who has never wanted you to dieâ¦
âIf I wished for your demise, then I wouldnât have changed locations so many times for you to live on. You need to be aware that keeping a dead man alive like you for one generation after another is a very difficult task. It took so much effort from me!â
Bloodhand grinned after hearing this: âThen I should be thanking you for capturing me and crippling my cultivation, destroying my flesh, torturing me for millions of years on top of keeping me alive for generations. What an altruistic act!â
âNo need to thank me. Wait until I release you, then you can say that again. I am such a kind person.â Li Qiye said with a smile.
âRelease me?â Even an existence like Bloodhand was taken aback after hearing this.
Li Qiye smiled: âThereâs no need to be shocked. This time, I came to let you go. My conscience has been in agony after so many years of forcing you to experience a fate worse than death. Now, you are on the verge of death anyway, so Iâll let you go in hopes that you can live well for the remaining years.â
âDark Crow, go ahead and use your demonic means, but your trickery wonât do!â Bloodhand sneered.
âThereâs nothing I can do if you donât believe me.â Li Qiye gently shook his head: âFor millions of years with endless killing and bloodbaths, Iâve become tired as well. In the end, I still have a conscience after torturing you for so many years. I will let you live your last remaining years well. A living being will always gain some sympathy eventually, right? Now, Iâve grown merciful and no longer wish to kill day after day.â
âHahahaha!â Bloodhand couldnât help but burst out in laughter after hearing this as if this was the funniest joke he had ever heard in his life: âConscience, sympathy, mercy? Hahaha, Dark Crow, do you take me for a three year old child? You have a conscience? You showing sympathy? Hahaha, Iâm going to die from laughter. For millions of years now, how many people have you slaughtered? Tell me, tens of millions from my race died because of you. And during that last battle of our era, how many people from the other races of the nine worlds died in your hands? Haha, you destroyed countless sects and murdered numerous countries then slaughtered an untold amount of clansâ¦â
âHahaha, a butcher like you having a conscience and showing mercy, hahaha, Iâm dying⦠this is a tiger telling a rabbit that it has become a vegetarian⦠hahahaâ¦â Bloodhand laughed hysterically.
âYouâre right. I have killed countless people, but I have never denied my hands being stained with blood. In the last battle, I indeed annihilated every single lineage that conspired with you Ancient Ming.â Li Qiye smiled: âHowever, Bloodhand, I donât need to prove my conscience to you. I only know that if I donât release you from this place devoid of sunlight, I will feel guilty in the future on my deathbed.â
He paused for a bit before continuing: âIn short, Iâm letting you go this time. It is up to you to believe it or not.â
Bloodhand mused it through. Such a thing was too sudden. He definitely didnât believe a brute like the Dark Crow releasing him without a reason!
âHue hue hueâ¦â Eventually, he smirked and said: âDark Crow, others might not know you, but I know exactly just what kind of person you are. Youâre someone who will never give up before reaching your goal. Iâm living very well right now, completely worry-free with no fear of death. This is quite a nice situation, so I think I would rather be imprisoned for another million years.â
âEven if you donât want to leave, Iâll release you anyway.â Li Qiye chuckled on his carriage: âAs for whether you leave or not, it is your business and has nothing to do with me.â
âHue hue hueâ¦â Bloodhand laughed: âAh, Dark Crow, you just want to pull a snake from its nest, letting me go so that I will lead you straight to the Corporeal Zone. Unfortunately, it is just your wishful thinking. After millions of years, I no longer know the locations of the Ancient Ming and definitely not the location of the Corporeal Zone. Even if you let me go, you wonât be able to gain anything from it, it is just a waste of thoughts.â
âBloodhand, you think too much of this. I donât necessarily need the Corporeal Zone in this generation. After so many moons, I remained invincible and capable of suppressing the nine heavens and ten earths. I can do as I please, even without the Corporeal Zone.â Li Qiye smilingly shook his head.
Bloodhand laughed and stated: âHuehuehue, my Dark Crow, your ambition only stops there? For you, sweeping across the nine heavens and suppressing the myriad realms are nothing. You even had the chance to beat the Immortal Demon Grotto, but you chose not to do so! Hahaha, just reveal your true intentions.â
âBloodhand, you think so little of me.â Li Qiye flatly said: âYes, I indeed had the chance to do so, but I would never let so many souls die there just for my own vendetta! If it takes blood to regain freedom and innocent lives for my own gain⦠I would never resort to such a thing. In fact, I look down on it. Otherwise, I could have made Immortal Emperor Min Ren recklessly attack the grotto during his era.â
âHue hue hueâ¦â Bloodhand smiled: âThe murderer Dark Crow is spewing such benevolent words, not wishing for the innocent to die⦠This joke isnât funny at allâ¦â
âBloodhand, it seems like Iâve thought too highly of you. To think that you could understand me.â Li Qiye shook his head: âThatâs right, I am a mass murderer whose hands are covered in blood! But for millions of years until now, I can swear by my life that I have never used innocent blood in exchange for my freedom! My life is full of bloodshed along with letting many people down, but I have a clear conscience in this matter! This applies to the past, present, and the future!â
Li Qiye smiled at this point: âBloodhand, we have known each other for so long as enemies, but it seems like you really donât know me. I suppose I can tell you that for humans and the nine worlds, I can slaughter all things because this world has things worthy for me to remember. However, to sacrifice others in order to escape the grotto⦠this is something I will never do! I shall carry out my vendetta myself!â
Bloodhand grew quiet once more before continuing with his strange laughter: âHue hue hue, Dark Crow, even if you are right, do you deny the fact that you were using the Immortal Demon Grotto? Outside of not sacrificing the innocent, your choice of not destroying the grotto is because you want to use it for eternal life, correct? Hahaha, donât tell me you do not miss the sensation of being indestructible and everlasting!â
âHekhekhekâ¦â Bloodhand laughed loudly: âEven the villainous heavens cannot deal with your type of indestructibility. Destruction and suppression, neither can annihilate you. It must be a great feeling that caused even Immortal Emperors to drool. Do you dare to tell me that you donât miss that feeling?â
âMy Bloodhand.â Li Qiye shook his head: âYou truly have grown old. Although you have lived for a very long time while hiding behind the Ancient Ming and obtaining glory for your race, you are now old. You have sealed yourself for too long and lost sight of the world. Your ideas and knowledge are no longer relevant. There are too many things and secrets unknown to you.â
âHue hue hue⦠Perhaps I really am old now, but I know one thing for certain. Dark Crow, you will never give up on the Corporeal Zone! Trust me, I know you are just like me, hahaha! You wish for the day of reversal, a day for a counterattack, hahaha, so you need the Corporeal Zone!â Bloodhand responded.
âPerhaps.â Li Qiye chuckled: âI wonât deny that. One day, I will stand above the nine firmaments; one day, I will become eternity itself; one day, the things that people of the past couldnât accomplish and people of the future will continue to fail at shall be achieved by my hands!â
âHowever, if you think I need the Corporeal Zone for the counterattack, then you are gravely mistaken.â Li Qiye continued: âNothing would be better than having the Corporeal Zone. However, if this is not meant to be, I trust that I can find a backup plan, something else to replace the zone! You should know that since the very beginning, the things that I could not manage are too few and far in between.â