My gorgeous wife Chapter 2306 - 2274: We All Lost

Blazing Space, a terrifying sea of fire, with temperatures that could almost incinerate the heavens and boil the seas.

This space seems to have only one meaning, and that is death.

No living being can traverse such a space of death.

Yet in this area heralding death, there is a person walking alone barefoot.

The soles of his feet touch the ground, which is even more terrifyingly hot than the surface of a star, yet suffer no harm. Even though his robe is burnt and somewhat tattered, it does not diminish his demeanor.

"Luckily, I put away the scarf beforehand, or else it would’ve been a disaster," said the barefoot figure with a face full of cleverness. "If Zhi Qiu knew her handmade scarf was burned, that would be a catastrophe."

Behind the barefoot man, a great sword floated up, and a phantom figure carrying the sword said disdainfully, "I say, Li, back then you were still someone called the God of Slaughter, and after arriving in the Heaven Realm, you got the title of Mad Heavenly King. Can’t you show a bit of manliness?"

Li Changcun looked with even greater disdain at the floating phantom figure holding the great sword upside down: "And you have the face to say that? Back then, I was nothing but an ordinary person, and wasn’t it you bastards from the Ancient Martial Arts World who forced me to become a martial artist? As for those titles like God of Slaughter and Mad Heavenly King, they were given by others! I never gave myself any titles or nicknames. I’m just called Li Changcun!"

"If it weren’t for you guys who were full and had nothing better to do, I might already be the eighteenth ancestor of the Li Family, so how would I not have seen my grandchildren by now?" Li Changcun retorted furiously to the soaring Lieu Zhanxiao.

"Indeed," sneered Lieu Zhanxiao, "if you hadn’t become a martial artist back then, you’d be the eighteenth ancestor of the Li Family by now, but the kind that’s hung on the wall."

Li Changcun replied without backing down, "Isn’t it you who is hung on the wall now? I reckon every time during the New Year or festivals, there are lots of people at the Holy Mountain going to your spiritual tablet to burn incense. Then they point at your tablet and say, ’Look, that’s our Holy Mountain’s ancestor Lieu Zhanxiao, who died quite tragically.’

Lieu Zhanxiao’s eye twitched. Dammit, it’s bad enough that I can’t beat this guy, but every time I lose a battle of words too. This life is unbearable.

However, the fact that they can still argue so vigorously clearly shows they are full of energy and do not face any danger.

Unable to outtalk him, Lieu Zhanxiao stopped responding to Li Changcun and floated around aimlessly in the air.

After a long while, Li Changcun asked impatiently, "Hey, Old Liu, do you know how long it takes to get through this place? It’s been years, hasn’t it? We’ve crossed seven or eight spaces and still not reached the end."

Lieu Zhanxiao was too lazy to bother with this bastard, saving himself from annoyance.

Well, in Lieu Zhanxiao’s view, except for that girl called Li Youxue, the whole Li Family were a bunch of scoundrels. Li Changcun was the old scoundrel, and that guy named Li Chen was the little scoundrel.

Anyway, none of them were any good!

Uh... at least none of the men in the Li Family were decent.

Seeing that Lieu Zhanxiao didn’t respond, Li Changcun didn’t mind. He glanced around, casually swatting a few strange creatures that crawled out of the magma, and sighed, "Old Liu, did you ever think that one day the two of us could fight side by side?"

"Not at all." Only then did Lieu Zhanxiao cast a sidelong glance at Li Changcun, "Back then, you were nothing but a loser. If Zhi Qiu hadn’t shown up and taken a fancy to you at first glance, someone like me, the Holy Mountain successor and a genius rarely seen in a century in the Ancient Martial Arts World, wouldn’t have even looked at you."

Li Changcun chuckled, "And then? Was it just because she glanced at me in the crowd?"

Lieu Zhanxiao’s face darkened. Even though this guy is old, he still has this rascal-like personality, making it impossible to continue the conversation.

Initially, Lieu Zhanxiao did look down on Li Changcun, but as Li Changcun entered the Ancient Martial Arts World and his cultivation progressed rapidly, Lieu Zhanxiao, who had a competitive nature, got repeatedly beaten by Li Changcun at first. Later, every time he saw Li Changcun, it was him who got beaten up.

Moreover, the most insidious part was that every time Li Changcun finished beating him, he would run to a certain woman with a ’seriously injured’ look, putting on an ’escaped by the skin of my teeth, seeking comfort’ demeanor.

Lieu Zhanxiao thought that the reason he failed back then was because he lost to this man’s thick skin.

Back when Li Changcun was just a little martial artist of Yellow Rank, his skin probably already had Palm Realm Rank defensive power!

"Zhi Qiu choosing you, I reckon it was the greatest mistake of her life," Lieu Zhanxiao snorted coldly.

At this moment, Li Changcun suddenly fell silent, and after a long while, he said, "Yes, choosing me might have been the only mistake of her life."

Seeing Li Changcun’s suddenly somewhat desolate expression, Lieu Zhanxiao didn’t continue to rub salt in the wound and also fell silent.

Ye Zhiqiu.

It was a beautiful name.

A leaf heralding autumn, and also a beautiful metaphor.

The one bearing this name was also an absolutely stunning beauty. In the hearts of both Li Changcun and Lieu Zhanxiao, she was unique and flawlessly perfect.

Her transcendental beauty was like an immortal fallen to the mortal world in the minds of the former Li Changcun and Lieu Zhanxiao.

Of course, the two later realized something... An immortal is just bull!

She rarely appeared in public, and even when she did appear in the Ancient Martial Arts World, she didn’t show any extraordinary power, but almost all the young talents who saw her back then were captivated by her.

This included the top three geniuses of the Ancient Martial Arts World at the time.

Li Changcun, Lieu Zhanxiao, and... Feng Yizhu.

But eventually, it was Li Changcun who had the last laugh.

Moreover, because of Li Changcun’s rising fame that shook the entire Ancient Martial Arts World, the name Ye Zhiqiu was overshadowed by Li Changcun’s brilliance.

Most of the young talents at the time lost heart because of this.

But two people continued to relentlessly pursue Li Changcun.

Lieu Zhanxiao and Feng Yizhu.

Actually, in the beginning, the three of them had a decent relationship. But somewhere along the line, their relationship started to sour.

Ye Zhiqiu was just a factor. Back then, the forces behind Feng Yizhu had also used all their power to ambush Li Changcun, which might have been another reason.

"This time, I’m only with you for Zhi Qiu. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have come to die with you," Lieu Zhanxiao suddenly said, seemingly to let Li Changcun hear but also as if convincing himself.

"I know." Li Changcun nodded, his expression showing no abnormalities.

After a while, Li Changcun continued forward in silence, "Let’s go."

He recalled the dashing young man with whom he once exchanged a knife and a sword before severing all ties.

He stabbed the other with a knife, and the other returned him a sword.

From when did their relationship become like this?

Once they were three, drinking and singing, laughing proudly at the ancient and modern, one died, and the other lost his physical body.

"Did I win?" Li Changcun asked himself.

"No, I lost too, we all, lost."