The Legend of Shen Li (English Translation of Yu Feng Xing 与凤行)

Chapter 73

When Shen Li's gaze touched upon Mo Fang's eyes, she was stunned. For a short while, a myriad of sad emotions filled her heart. 

However, by the time she sorted out her emotions, a tapered tongue abruptly shot out from the center of the tongue that Mo Fang had hacked off; the tip of the tongue was like a sword. As a "ding" sounded, the sharp-edged tongue shattered the long sword that Mo Fang was using to block. When the blade broke, the tip of the tongue simultaneously penetrated Mo Fang's heart. Then like a broken puppet, it threw him away.

While behind him, his hot blood splattered all over Shen Li's face. When Shen Li's eyes went wide, the scene appeared to move in slow motion within her sight. As she looked at the figure that was thrown away, many scattered images flashed through her mind's eyes. The scenes were of them, either fighting on the battlefield together, or returning from victory together, or toasting and laughing together after singing and dancing. 

She even remembered the time when she left the Demon Realm to escape from the arranged marriage. Back then, Mo Fang injured her severely and made her revert back to her true form, letting her escape to the Mortal Realm, so that people in the Demon Realm could not find her.

Thinking about it now, at that time, Fu Sheng had hoped that she would marry into the Heaven Realm, so that they could execute their plans in the Ruins of Heavenly Poles. However, Mo Fang let her go. Therefore, he had already planned to disobey Fu Sheng.

This person... Had harmed the Demon Realm, but towards Shen Li, he was never willing to harm her.

This kind of person...

When a howling whistle was heard coming from inside the Ruins of Heavenly Poles, the sharp-edged tongue swung forward, trying to wrap around Shen Li. 

Suddenly, Shen Li's entire body emitted an aura of death. 

As her eyes turned red, the sharp-edged tongue had not even veered in front of Shen Li yet, she already threw her silver spear and the tip of the spear nailed that tongue into the ground. A startled scream was heard coming from a demon beast inside the gate. 

Shen Li was not in the mood to bother with it, instead she quickly rushed straight to Mo Fang's side, seeing his entire body soaked in blood, drenching the ground black. As Shen Li crouched down, the light in her eyes dimmed. She stretched out her hand but was unsure whether to touch him or not.

"Now, finally, there will no longer be any dilemmas." 

He uttered hoarsely. 

His eyes stared at Shen Li calmy, while his expression stayed indifferent, as if there was no joy or sorrow, "Your Majesty, can you please forgive me..."

Shen Li's lips trembled.

"I won't forgive you. Get back up. After this matter, you still have to atone for your betrayal."

The corners of Mo Fang's lips quirked up.

"I'm afraid I can't anymore."

Shen Li bluntly interrupted him.

"Get up for this king! Even a calamity fire can't burn you to your death, right?! With such minor injuries, don't think that you can deceive this king to sympathize with you!" 

Despite having said this, Shen Li still clenched her fists in reluctance. She had seen too many deaths. She was all too familiar with this kind of death, the moments before dying.

"I had a heart defect since I was a child, so I wouldn't have been able to live for long. However, for an entire three hundred years, every day, Fu Sheng fed me his blood, so that I, like him, have the ability to come back to life, but... There is no power that will not be exhausted in this world. Fu Sheng's power is about to be exhausted, and I... Won't be able to continue to live anymore."