Chapter 154: Mister is the World’s Best Fool

The celestial moon is distant; the moon in the water ripples gently.

The moon resides in the chamber of the heart.

The heart rests within the body of the moon.

Empty water, by reflecting the bright moon in the sky, can possess the same pure radiance.

However.

If the moon in the sky vanishes, the already illusory moon in the water, having lost its reference, would return to empty nothingness once more.

Wu Yingxue could not accept the disappearance of the moon.

She could not sit idly by as that fool risked his life once again.

She wanted the moon—that bright, full moon—to continue hanging in its rightful night sky, rather than being silenced forever in these unknown mountains.

“Sorry for the trouble, everyone. Please, take Mister and leave quickly.”

“I will go to face the enemy next.”

“This time… I truly thank you all for helping me stop Mister.”

Gripping her long spear.

Walking with unsteady steps.

Wearing tattered red and white martial attire.

The young girl urged the commoners to leave, but their eyes were filled with reluctance, unwilling to let Little Master Wu face the demons alone.

The girl simply shook her head, using the one thing everyone cared about most to stop them: Xu Xi's safety.

“Go quickly, the further the better. You won't be able to help.”

“Take Mister and leave the Hundred Thousand Mountains.”

“That way, Mister won't be able to do something as stupid as throwing his life away.”

The sound of sobbing rose.

Torches were lit, held aloft by emaciated arms, illuminating countless faces choked with tears.

They cried out, “Little Master Wu!”

Protecting Grand Master Xu as they left.

Protecting the world's biggest fool.

“That's good…” Wu Yingxue watched the Qiuhuo Army recede, seeing the lit torches connect into a long fire dragon within the pitch-black Hundred Thousand Mountains.

It was a fire of farewell, a fire racing toward new life.

At the same time.

It was also a fire bidding farewell to the big fool.

“Mister, you must live on well…”

Under the curtain of night, amidst the wandering silence, Wu Yingxue showed a rare soft expression as she watched the 'fire dragon' drift further away.

Then, she turned around, holding her spear alone, and approached that terrifying and overbearing aura.

Her body moved forward.

But her heart flew far away.

As her soles stepped on the rough sand and stones, the sparse rustling sounds traced Xu Xi's face in the dark night.

“Mister really is a big idiot, a big fool.”

The girl evaluated him thus.

…

If anyone asked who the smartest person in the Qiuhuo Army was, the commoners of the Qiuhuo Army would quickly answer in unison.

They would say “Grand Master Xu.”

And if the question was reversed—who was the stupidest, most foolish person in the Qiuhuo Army?

The commoners would still answer “Grand Master Xu.”

It was common knowledge.

Xu Xi was the most foolish of all, a senseless kind of foolishness, foolish beyond redemption.

“Xi-geer is amazing! He can kill a hundred masters with one punch!”

“Exactly, exactly! Xi-geer can lead us to eat meat!”

The commoners of the Qiuhuo Army often praised Xu Xi’s extraordinary nature to Wu Yingxue with strange and colorful words.

It was as if they were intentionally trying to play matchmaker.

Only occasionally.

Wu Yingxue would also hear the commoners scolding him with both tears and laughter.

Scolding Xu Xi for being too foolish—he could clearly live a stable life alone, yet he insisted on caring for so many 'Mud-legs'.

Scolding Xu Xi for being too stupid—he could clearly be like those masters and order others around, yet he refused.

That man was the biggest fool in the world.

He risked his life to slay demons, yet the reward he asked for was only two or three vegetable buns. He was often covered in wounds, yet he would only smile and say it was nothing.

Everyone in the Qiuhuo Army had been injured.

Wu Yingxue had also suffered many injuries.

But those injuries, compared to what Xu Xi endured, were completely not worth mentioning.

His body had been ravaged hundreds and thousands of times, the Qi and blood in his body squeezed dry countless times. At some point, the once gently smiling Grand Master Xu had begun to exude a sense of being shattered.

As if he might collapse in the next second.

Bidding a permanent, infinite farewell before everyone's eyes.

Wu Yingxue knew that Xu Xi had activated the Fools Art too many times, causing his body to undergo irreversible self-consumption.

“Mister is truly foolish.”

Walking through the pitch-black forest.

The girl's steps paused slightly.

She looked up at the sky, and through the gaps in the dense leaves, she managed to spot that bright, pure moon that had been obscured.

Xu Xi was too foolish, Grand Master Xu was too foolish—so foolish that he never considered himself.

In truth, when she drugged the meat soup tonight.

The girl hadn't expected to succeed.

Xu Xi was in the Xiantian Third Realm, infinitely close to being a true Human Immortal. Such a powerhouse would not be easily affected by drugs.

But the facts were right before Wu Yingxue's eyes.

Xu Xi had collapsed under the drug's effects after only a moment.

This showed that Xu Xi's body had long since broken down, losing even the most basic resistance, which allowed Wu Yingxue to succeed.

“A body like this.”

“A Mister like this.”

“How could I possibly feel at ease…”

Wu Yingxue moved forward again.

Her steps were staggering, her gait strange; the wound on her ankle throbbed with pain, affecting her every second.

But this physical pain could not compare to the pain in her chest.

It was a raspy, tearing pain.

A pain as if her heart were being carved open.

That fool, the world's biggest fool, the world's best fool—even with his body in such a state, his mind was still thinking of others.

Not long ago at sunset.

Despite his own pale complexion, Xu Xi had bandaged the girl's wound.

Truly…

Truly.

Truly a super fool!!!

Her lips trembled as her grip on the spear tightened.

A few strands of soft moonlight fell gently on the girl's shoulders, yet they could not soothe her in the slightest.

Wu Yingxue could not accept it; just thinking about it made her nose sting. She could not watch such a weakened Mister go alone to face the most terrifying demon.

That kind of result, that kind of ending.

Was something the girl could not accept no matter what.

The fool who would wish her a Happy New Year on New Year's Eve.

The fool who would accompany her to count stars during starry nights.

The fool who would teach her to fold paper flowers in the quiet courtyard.

She couldn't accept it.

She couldn't accept his final farewell.

“Mister, you are always thinking of others' safety, yet you forgot that your own safety is just as important.”

Xu Xi never considered himself.

He thought of others in everything he did.

This time, Wu Yingxue wanted to switch roles, changing from the [Protected] to the [Protector], to guard the world's best fool.

“It seems I've also become a fool like Mister.”

“It's a truly strange feeling…”

Wu Yingxue suddenly looked down.

She looked at her injured ankle.

The clean white cloth, after being stained by the blood from the wound, had become faintly red, like a red string tied around her foot.

But with Mister's personality.

He probably didn't think that much when he bandaged it, right?

After all.

He is the world's biggest fool.

The girl's lips curled up slightly as she stopped walking. She held her spear and pointed it fearlessly straight ahead.

Pointing directly at the demon of Great Gan.