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

Chapter 77

The blood in Xing Zhi's mouth kept gushing out. He covered his mouth and wanted to push Shen Li away, but his hands were so weak that before he could push her away, he fell over sideways, lying on the ground, vomiting big mouthfuls of blood. 

In this moment, his spotless white clothes, his slender fingers that were always clean, and his face that always wore an indifferent smile were all stained with blood.

"Xing Zhi..." 

In a daze, Shen Li called out to him. Emotions she never had before, fear and panic, gripped her heart. 

She practically knelt down next to Xing Zhi's side, holding him in her lap. Her fingertips and lips were trembling more than Xing Zhi was, 

"Why..." 

She reached her hand out to wipe the blood from Xing Zhi's lips, but immediately thereafter, blood gushed out, staining her sleeves red with wetness, 

"Aren't we already out?" 

Her voice trembled beyond recognition, 

"He took my place and got buried in the Ruins of Heavenly Poles... He..." 

Shen Li choked with emotions, 

"Why are you still like this?"

As her ice-cold hands gripped him tightly, Xing Zhi's eyes looked calmly at Shen Li. 

Those calm unwavering black eyes seemed to contain the power to calm people down. Even as he swallowed the fishy-smelling blood that was surging up in his throat. 

Even though his breathing was weak, there was no weakness in his expression.

"Deities... Have no reason to exist anymore."

With the disappearance of the Ruins of Heavenly Poles, the Outer Bounds of Heaven would disappear along with it. 

There would no longer be anything that could threaten the survival of the Three Realms. There would no longer be a need for a power that could oppose the Heavenly Laws to exist between heaven and earth. It was time for deities to step down from this position formed by heaven.

"Even if deities have no reason to exist anymore, so what?!" 

Shen Li held his hand tightly, her voice cracking, as if it was being squeezed out of her throat, 

"Xing Zhi has a reason to exist! Not as a deity, just you, just Xing Zhi. 

You still have so many reasons to live..."

"If it's possible..." 

Xing Zhi smiled, 

"The only reason for me to live is you, Shen Li."

As the Ruins of Heavenly Poles trembled violently in the sky, the scope of darkness gradually narrowed. No matter how hard Xing Zhi gritted his teeth, the blood still overflowed from the corners of his lips. 

He felt Shen Li's hands trembling non-stop, completely flustered unlike her usual majestic self.

"Shen Li, you're this thing that doesn't know how to take care of yourself... 

That doesn't know how to love yourself..." 

Xing Zhi coughed, 

"If it's possible, I want to take care of you for you, and love you for you..."

Shen Li's heart ached sharply, as if her blood vessels had been crushed into pieces.

"Then why don't you do what you promised?!"