Chapter 1403: A Callous Person (IV)

Vitality, the power of time, death qi... Life, death, and time!

Everything had to do with resurrection!

Li Hao had gathered a lot of energy in his final moments, including the last vestiges from Bone Eclipse. He coalesced everything into dao stars to perfect his dao of the 360 dao stars.

But had that been a worthwhile effort in those moments?

Everything was destroyed in the end!

And yet, he seemed to have succeeded as well.

So what did that mean?

Lin Hongyu looked at the void, then at the world. She struggled with a mix of complicated emotions.

Are you... placing all of your hopes for resurrection on me? Then why didn’t you say so earlier?

Life and death, time, the world, great dao, 360 dao stars... Everything seemed to have been completed unintentionally. But at the same time, they all spoke to a certain hope, a kind of hope that only she would know.

If you conceal what you know... you’ll be the only one who can rule Silver Moon since you bear the might of cutting down an exalted emperor and the status of being my fiancé. Everyone will support you!

“Li Hao... you petty little bastard!” Lin Hongyu grumbled to herself.

Petty brat! Completely shameless! Are you testing me with your life?!

She completely understood everything in this moment, that there really was a chance for Li Hao to come back to life, but he’d left it in her hands.

You have to do your best if you want to resurrect me. If you don’t, then the last trace of time in this world is in your hands. You can extinguish it or do something else with it. No one will know anything if you don’t speak of it!

Silver Moon would be yours.

This petty little brat still wanted to test human nature in his final moments of life. How ridiculous and callous!

That's right, Li Hao was callous!

Lin Hongyu had realized the young man’s intentions the moment everyone supported her rule, when all voices said that she could replace Li Hao, when hope to resurrect Li Hao was in her hands... She understood!

There was still a chance for Li Hao to return, and she was the only one who was aware of it or could accomplish it.

That bastard!

The tiny bit of time that remained unnoticed by the chaos tribulation was because I was filled with so much death qi then that I counted as having died. Why would a tribulation pay attention to the dead?

My death qi obscured the tiny bit of time.

If Li Hao had thought of everything and put it all into motion in that final moment, Lin Hongyu could only say that the bastard saw with full clarity even when he was about to die!

He was unafraid of death and even played hide and seek with the chaos tribulation. It was like life and death were a game to him, a convenient chance to test people’s hearts.

I’m having fun!

Look at me being moved by his sacrifice. That damned bastard!

He gave me vitality and the power of time for his own plots. And the Firmament Sword!

Lin Hongyu looked at the sword in her hand... It seemed to have collected all of Li Hao’s stars in the final possible moment, before she killed the exalted emperor with one stroke. Those stars were the ones that Li Hao had coalesced before.

Had that infernal brat really accounted for everything ahead of time?

The sword contains his dao stars, I have the power of time and life and death inside of me... All of this is saying that I can resurrect him!

And only I know this—Celestial Pole didn’t see anything because that moment was too fleeting.

“Hmph!” Lin Hongyu suddenly snorted coldly. Everyone jerked with surprise. Was something wrong?

Hong Yitang furrowed his brows. Had his declaration that he wouldn’t give up the dao universe unless it was for reviving Li Hao angered her? Or was she... warning someone?

“There’s a very high chance of resurrecting him.” Lin Hongyu looked coldly at those assembled. “But I need everyone’s help, including a temporary combination of the corporeal and immaterial dao universe. I need to stimulate the dimmed star of time and guide it to produce the power of time again.

“Of course, this is a very difficult undertaking!” She looked at Celestial Pole. “I’ll be frank since the senior is not interested in fighting for Silver Moon. Please stand guard for me—this will count as Li Hao owing you a favor!”

Celestial Pole blinked.

Li Hao will owe me a favor so easily? Why?

Lin Hongyu suddenly laughed, a coquettish smile appearing on her face filled with death qi and a solemn killing intent. “If we resurrect Li Hao, he’ll owe all of us a favor! He’ll pay us back one by one!”

Indeed, he’d owe them all!

You want to test me, is it? Then I’ll let you test me!

I’ll have you owe everyone a favor. Let’s see if you’ll dare to be so callous next time!

You want to remain cool and aloof from everything, but I won’t let you have your way! I’m going to make you regret that you gave me this opportunity in the moment of your death.

I’m going to resurrect you to the tune of owing favors to a ton of people. I’m going to make sure you never dare die that easily again!

Li Hao had been so calm when facing the end, as if death meant nothing to him. This kind of mindset terrified Lin Hongyu and made her despair.

How can you be this way? Is there nothing or no one in this world that you care about?

“I also need the help of the people,” she said loudly. “We will need to gather the world’s strength and the power of a myriad daos! All Silver Moon denizens will work wholeheartedly with me to revive the Silver Moon marquis!

“Our world will prosper eternally without decline if the marquis returns to us! He has many grand plans that he is yet to realize. He wishes to turn Silver Moon into a major world and bring all of its citizens in the Mountain and Sea or Sun and Moon level. This world gave birth and nurtured him, so I think that the marquis will not forsake us. Therefore, we should not forsake him either!”

Lin Hongyu smiled radiantly, looking very much like Li Hao!

Some grew lost in thought, wondering for a split second if Li Hao had taken possession of Lin Hongyu. Why did her smile resemble Li Hao’s, having both real and fake notes to it?

Even Hong Yitang was briefly confused and looked at her. This was... quite a meaningful smile.

No one held out hope that Li Hao could return to them; they were just shoving unease and fear deep into their hearts. But somehow, Lin Hongyu seemed to be very confident. Not only that, but she was having him suddenly owe so many favors.

This was a person who detested owing others. Now what, did they really need participation from the general population?

Hong Yitang didn’t know!

But he did know that if Li Hao could come back to life, he might have a mental breakdown upon learning that he suddenly had to pay back so many people.

As people were lost in thought, the dazed cat abruptly looked around with more awareness. It looked at the crowd, at Lin Hongyu. Its “meow” raised everyone’s attention.

It’d been so quiet earlier that almost everyone had nearly forgotten its existence. It was so inconspicuous!

And it seemed to have awakened only just now, was that too slow?

The cat meowed again at Lin Hongyu. It was just a sound in the ears of others, but it was speech to the woman. A young, slightly befuddled voice rang in her ears, “Meow meow... The thunder and lightning will come again if that person comes back to life...”

Lin Hongyu’s expression changed drastically!

Again??

“Only if he creates an inner world and isolates the world from the chaos can he avoid it...”

Lin Hongyu blinked. The cat... seemed to know a lot.

“He should’ve already known when he transformed the great dao into the stars earlier and the three Saints isolated the world,” Number Two meowed again. “The great dao is hidden within the sword and he utilized the eight heritage weapons to isolate the chaos. That is how he wrestled life from the jaws of death. He’s very smart!”

The cat was quite appreciative of Li Hao’s effort. This was such a smart person that it took the cat until now to understand what he’d done, but the young man had thought through everything early on!

He was as smart as War! [1]

If it wasn’t for that heavy cover, the young man would’ve been dead without a doubt. The chaos tribulation would not rest until it smote him to death. It would never stop until it severed all hope for resurrection.

But Li Hao had made a lot of plans in a split second. Or rather, he’d been making these plans all along. How impressive!

“Senior, what should I do?” A shaken Lin Hongyu transmitted back to the cat.

“You!”

“Me?”

“That’s right, you’re so weird since you’re half alive and half dead. You’re a bit outside the confines of this world and the chaos. You can fill the world with death qi and obscure the firmament, that should hide a thing or two. Once he’s alive, he should be able to take care of everything himself. That person is very smart!”

Lin Hongyu quirked a brow, so this was the case!

Screw you, Li Hao! Why didn’t you say anything?? Why must we all guess what you meant?

If I hadn’t thought of this or seen it clearly, then wouldn’t you attract the chaos tribulation the second you were alive again and be split to death?

Or if I was a bit dumber, wouldn’t I be unable to carry out your plans?

“Meow... If you can’t hide his resurrection and end up summoning the thunder and lightning... I can swallow some... If you want this cat to help... I can help you some...” Number Two mumbled, “But he might have other ideas of his own... You should ask him yourself when he’s alive again!”

“Thank you, senior!” transmitted a shocked Lin Hongyu. Did that callous brute include even the cat in his schemes?

He’s such a lil fucker!

Damn it!

You probably wouldn’t care if I didn’t resurrect you either, would you?

The more she thought over the situation, the more resigned she was.

As expected, the more capable a man was, the more heartless he was. But... why did she increasingly find that only such a man was attractive?

Lin Hongyu, you’re just as ridiculous. You should make use of this opportunity to become Silver Moon’s queen!

1. This is a reference to the War Sovereign that the cat spent many years with. ☜