Chapter 806: I’m Sorry, Wait for Me

The violent black High-Dimensional Laws, like a greedy fierce beast, ran wildly amok in the underground ruins of Simon City.

"Ahhh——"

Chun's miserable screams echoed through the empty ruins, a sound filled with the agony of her Soul being torn apart.

However, mere seconds later, those shrill cries uncontrollably grew weak.

On her originally translucent skin, the green fluorescent light of life was being stripped away in large gulps, transforming into the purest data garbled code and surging into Mr. Duan's body.

But just in the next second, contrary to everyone's expectations,

Mr. Duan's left hand, which had been tightly choking Chun's neck, abruptly loosened.

Following that, before Chun's battered and about-to-fall Physical Body completely collapsed, he reached out with both hands, his movements gentle to the extreme, and softly pulled her into his embrace.

This embrace carried no murderous intent whatsoever, even exuding a deep fondness that spanned endless epochs.

"Chun…"

Mr. Duan gently rested his chin upon Chun's already lusterless green long hair, his voice low, hoarse, and even carrying a trace of imperceptible trembling.

"Do you still remember when we first met?"

He ignored the surrounding ruin space collapsing due to the Law's devouring. Those deep eyes, which always revealed absolute rationality and calculation, rippled with a trace of tenderness at this moment, as if piercing through the scorched earth before him to see the distant past.

Chun in his arms, due to the loss of her Origin, no longer even had the strength to push him away.

She could only limp against the chest of this man who had personally pushed her into the abyss, panting heavily.

"The First World back then did not yet have this damned Heavenly Dao System, no so-called mana values, and no cold Rank upper limit."

Mr. Duan closed his eyes, the smile at the corners of his mouth becoming incomparably sincere, "At that time, I was merely a wanderer who lost his direction in the dimensional storm."

"I didn't understand what a Law was, nor did I understand what a Transcendent was."

"I was sucked into the spatial turbulence, covered in blood as I fell onto that primitive meadow."

"I thought I would die there, becoming rations for those ancient giant beasts."

His hand gently stroked Chun's back, "It was you who saved me."

"You used the purest drop of water of origin from the origin sacred tree to heal all my wounds."

"I still remember that you back then were as innocent as a child who had never seen blood."

"Every day, you would use those huge colorful flowers to weave flower crowns for me."

"You told me that life is the most precious miracle in this world, and you would absolutely not watch helplessly as a life faded away before your eyes."

Mr. Duan hugged Chun even tighter, as if fearing she would disappear right then and there.

"During those days when I was recovering from my injuries in that sea of flowers, you accompanied me every day."

"Together, we watched the First World's two huge colorful stars rise and fall."

"I have experienced countless years, witnessed the rise and fall of countless civilizations, and even I have almost forgotten how long I have actually lived."

"However, I still feel to this day that that period of time was my happiest time."

"Drip…"

A crystal-clear tear silently slid down from the corner of Chun's bloodless eyes, smashing onto Mr. Duan's exquisite black formalwear, staining a small dark patch of water marks.

Her pair of emerald eyes, once full of vitality and arrogance, were now dim and devoid of light, leaving only endless desolation.

"You… you fellow…"

Chun's voice was so weak as if a gust of wind could blow it away. She said intermittently, her tone no longer containing the anger and malice from just moments before, leaving only a deep sense of helplessness and sorrow.

"I really don't know… which of the things you said are true and which are false…"

"In the past… when you swore oaths facing the stars all over the sky in the sea of flowers… you even said you would always protect me and never let anyone hurt me…"

The corners of Chun's mouth forced out a wretched smile that was uglier than crying, "Yet what was the result… Every time I was killed, it just happened to be you…"

"Back during the Great Purge, in order to survive, you pierced my heart from behind and snatched away the core of the origin sacred tree… Now, for your absurd god-creation plan, you are going to suck dry even the last shred of my residual Soul…"

"Duan, do you actually love me, or… are you just using me?"

Hearing this questioning dripping with blood in every word, Mr. Duan's body stiffened slightly.

He did not refute, only hugging Chun even tighter, so tightly as if he wanted to knead her into his own bones and blood.

"Every word I said to you came from my true heart, whether you believe it or not."

Mr. Duan's voice remained gentle, but the devouring speed of those black High-Dimensional Laws did not slow down at all.

He was like an extremely contradictory combination, on one hand displaying the most affectionate fondness, while on the other executing the most ruthless slaughter.

"The Great Purge of the Heavenly Dao System is a dead end destined to destroy everything."

"If we do not resist, those beautiful memories, including you and me, will all become erased data trash."

He lowered his head, gently placing a kiss upon that withered green long hair, "Give me a little more time, and I will soon fulfill my original promise."

"As long as I completely replace the Heavenly Dao and establish a new era without Ranks and without System restrictions, I can reshape everything."

"I will let you be reborn in the new world, and we can still return to that sea of flowers…"

"I… don't believe it…"

Chun shook her head incessantly, the tears at the corners of her eyes becoming denser and denser.

She looked at the man before her whom she both loved and hated, the final vitality in her eyes scattering.

"You've gone mad… Duan… You are long no longer that youth in the sea of flowers… who smiled at me…"

"I…"

Her voice grew weaker and weaker. Before the very last word could even be fully uttered, the arm hanging powerlessly at Mr. Duan's waist silently slipped down.

"Hum——"

A dazzling green pillar of light soared up into the sky from within Chun's body, and then, as if attracted by a black hole, completely plunged into Mr. Duan's chest.

Until the very last bit of Origin life energy within her entire Physical Body was completely absorbed by Mr. Duan's overbearing High-Dimensional Laws.

Having lost the support of her Origin, Chun's originally peerlessly beautiful face slowly aged at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Her smooth skin became covered with deep ravines, and her head of green long hair transformed into grayish-white withered grass.

In merely a few breaths of time, that aloof Goddess of Nature of the First World turned into a shriveled, withered old woman's husk.

Mr. Duan did not let go.

He still tightly hugged Chun like this, holding this battered Physical Body that had completely lost its breath of life, resembling a solidified statue in the collapsing ruins and debris.

"Drip…"

A scalding tear slid down from Mr. Duan's forever placid face, smashing onto Chun's shriveled cheek.

This Transcendent who had personally created countless slaughters and dared to plot against the will of heaven seemed to have all his strength drained away at this moment.

He gently closed his eyes, murmuring in a voice only he could hear within this dead-silent space.

"I'm sorry, wait for me."