Dragon-Marked War God

Helian Rong Er was completely dumbfounded. Those two people had been suppressed by Dongfang Lianshuo because they had saved her. If something really happened to them, how could she face it? She had thought that if she told the elders the whole story, they would surely help. But now it seemed she had been far too naive.

“Great Elder, how can you stand by and watch them die?”

Helian Rong Er pleaded bitterly. She even wished she could exchange her own life for theirs, the master and disciple. If she just stayed in the Helian Family like this, they might not forget her even in death, thinking she had run away. Helian Rong Er’s heart was filled with despair and unwillingness.

“Hmph, nonsense. We’re putting the family’s interests first. How could you understand? Do you want to be as stubborn as Yue Er? But even Yue Er has now mended her ways and entered the Gate of Heaven’s Will. Old Fifth, take her down and lock her up. Thirty years of facing the wall, and she’s not allowed out. Teach her the family rules of our Helian Family properly.”

The Great Elder swept his sleeve and left, his face dark. This Helian Rong Er showing up at this time absolutely could not be allowed to disrupt their plan. As for the people she spoke of, what did their life or death have to do with them? It was not that they were heartless and unjust, but that for the sake of the bigger picture, some people were destined to die. Those two unrelated people could only be considered unlucky.

“No! Please don’t, Great Elder! They’ll die! They’ll be killed by Dongfang Lianshuo! No——”

Helian Rong Er’s delicate body kept trembling. She looked in the direction Aunt Yue had gone, her heart filled with despair. She had thought the Great Elder and the others were merciful, thought they understood righteousness, thought they were virtuous and respected, thought they would lend a helping hand, thought…

All her guesses and hopes had turned into the pain of despair. Her young heart was also deeply wounded at this moment. Her inner world almost collapsed. Since she was little, her parents and elders had taught her to be charitable and kind, to repay kindness, that the cycle of heaven is just and retribution never fails. But in the end, they had completely changed how she saw this world. Their towering image in her heart collapsed completely at this moment.

Helian Rong Er simply hoped that the man who saved her life could be rescued. She only wanted to do her small part to turn around this despairing life-and-death battle. But the Great Elder and the others were far too cold. In their eyes, it seemed that apart from the family’s interests, nothing else was worth their sympathy or pursuit.

“Great Elder, I’ve always remembered our ancestral teaching: ‘Do good and heaven nurtures you, do evil and heaven punishes you! With a clear conscience, heaven’s mandate is vast!’”

Helian Rong Er’s words, delicate as her voice was, made the Great Elder and the others all shake!

Do good and heaven nurtures you, do evil and heaven punishes you! With a clear conscience, heaven’s mandate is vast! This was the ancestral teaching of their Helian Family. But did they still remember now the idea they had drilled into the Helian Family’s people since childhood, that human nature is good at birth?

Perhaps all of this had ceased to exist from the moment they took their high positions. What they thought about was no longer simply living as long as heaven and enduring as long as the earth, but how to scheme against one another, how to climb step by step to the peak of power. Their humanity had gradually faded away through the cycles of the countless years they had lived.

At the Heaven’s Will Mountain, before the Gate of Heaven’s Will, Helian Yue Er waved her hand and looked into the distance. In the void, a familiar figure seemed to ripple into view, like Big Brother’s voice and smiling face. But she had no more time. Everything could only end at this moment.

Reincarnation was far too cruel for Helian Yue Er. But she had no choice. Like life walking from its beginning to its end, from the moment she stepped into the Gate of Heaven’s Will, it was destined that Helian Yue Er would be dead. There would never again be any word of her between heaven and earth.

“I’m sorry, Big Brother. I can’t see you one last time. I’m sorry. Yue Er misses you. I’m sorry… I’ve never forgotten you. Big Brother, promise me you won’t forget me, okay?”

Helian Yue Er gazed into the distance and murmured.

“I know you’ll definitely come. It’s just that I can’t wait until that day. Big Brother, was there ever a place for me in your heart? Did you… ever like me?”

“But none of it matters anymore. From this moment, Yue Er is going to enter the Gate of Heaven’s Will. After entering the Gate of Heaven’s Will, I won’t be me anymore. All the memories in my soul will be erased. At that moment, I’m afraid. I’m afraid of forgetting you. I’m afraid I’ll never see Big Brother again. I’m afraid I’ll cry!”

Helian Yue Er fell to her knees, her face streaked with tears. Her heart was so bitter, so bitter. No one knew how sour that feeling was. She had kept putting off entering the Gate of Heaven’s Will just to see Big Brother one last time. She wanted to go in, wanted to look for traces of her father, but she knew that once she went, it would be a parting forever at the ends of the earth. She would never have the chance to see Big Brother again. In her memory there would only be the ancient legacy memories of the Helian Family. Every bit of her past years would be erased.

“Sister Ling, Big Brother, Yue Er misses you. Grandpa, I so wish I were with you. If I were with you, would Yue Er not have to go through all this? Could I have dreamed forever, followed Big Brother forever?”

Helian Yue Er was already sobbing so hard she could not speak. But she had no room to choose. The moment she stepped into the Gate of Heaven’s Will, everything would return to zero. Everything would start anew.

When she was young, she loved to chase dreams and only wanted to fly forward! But Helian Yue Er knew that everything she did was in vain. When she became the family’s only hope, when she set foot on this road of no return, she had already understood this truth. But by the time she wanted to turn back, it was already too late.

Life became fragile at this moment. She was not afraid of death. She was afraid of never seeing Big Brother again. She was not afraid of dissipating between heaven and earth. She was only afraid that Big Brother would no longer exist in her memories. How would she live then?

Helian Yue Er’s eyes were full of tears. Staggering, she walked step by step toward the Gate of Heaven’s Will. Her inner world had long since collapsed completely. In her heart there was neither joy nor sorrow. In the moment she turned her head back, she was already no longer herself.

At this moment, Jiang Chen suddenly looked up into the void, toward the direction of the Helian Family. For some reason, at that moment, his heart hurt so much, so much, as if he had lost the thing he loved most.

“Yue Er, are you still there? Are you waiting for me?”

Jiang Chen murmured, his heart extremely complicated. But in the next moment, Dongfang Lianshuo’s sword was already coming at him!