My gorgeous wife Chapter 2352 - 2320: The Tail on the Path Forward

Hearing the sound coming from outside the window, there wasn’t a ripple on Li Chen’s face.

Or rather, there were very few who could now affect his state of mind.

"A good name, very fitting for the melody." Li Chen looked naturally towards the woman playing the zither on the rooftop opposite him and said softly.

"Your state of mind and the melody are in harmony, young master. You must have profound insights into zither music." The woman faced away from the bright moon, making her features hard to discern. However, just judging by the outlines, it was obvious she was an exceptionally stunning woman.

"I haven’t studied it." Li Chen shook his head: "Nor do I have the time to study it."

Zither?

Perhaps when he was not yet a martial artist in the lower realm, Li Chen had ample time to study and research music.

But after becoming a martial artist, the paths Li Chen had walked were entirely bloodshed and deception, where was there time to study music deeply?

The so-called music was just another kind of law.

The more perfect the music, the more it conformed to the laws.

Back then, Li Chen possessed the sea of laws, capable of evolving into any law. Thus, mastering the aspects of music came naturally to him.

As for now, though he had lost his cultivation, he retained the aspects of memory that he had not lost.

"Young master is too modest."

The woman stepped out from the moonlight, standing on the rooftop, facing Li Chen. The moonlight illuminated her exquisite features, making her seem like a fairy stepped out from the moon, untouched by earthly smoke.

However, Li Chen indifferently waved his hand: "Alright, I said I haven’t studied, so I haven’t studied."

Glancing at the woman, Li Chen spoke in a mild voice: "Whatever thoughts or intentions you have, I neither know nor care to know, so long as you don’t plan on targeting me."

Looking seriously at the woman, Li Chen’s voice was not in jest: "Otherwise, you will die."

With a "bang," Li Chen closed the window.

Seeing the closed window, the woman couldn’t help but be dazed.

This was her first time facing such treatment from a stranger.

Her zither music carried a unique rhythm. Since practicing the zither, everyone she met, no matter how high their cultivation or how guarded their mind, would unwittingly show a flaw under her melody.

At such times, whatever she wanted to know, she could almost easily ask.

Yet this white-haired man, whose age was indiscernible, shut the window without giving her even the opportunity to inquire.

Did her zither melody fail?

The woman was momentarily stunned and then let out a bitter laugh, shaking her head as she left.

The next day, Li Chen got up early, coughed twice, and looked at himself in the copper mirror of the inn, noticing that his complexion was even paler than yesterday, shaking his head involuntarily.

"The time left for me is running out."

"Master, I think this bizarre power is forcing you to make a choice." At this moment, Red Moon spoke.

"Make a choice?"

"Yes! This black qi evidently has developed its own intention. Besides, although the cause is unknown, the intention of the black qi evidently was born from the master’s body and seems to share a similar character with the master." Red Moon judged.

At the time when Li Chen killed Shang, control of his body had already been completely taken over by the black qi.

And after leaving the starry universe, the black qi inexplicably flew to the Universe of the Yu Clan, ultimately destroying the entire universe.

Red Moon had seen all of this.

Thus, the current judgment was made.

"Hearing you say this, he’s forcing me to accept him?" Li Chen said.

"That’s right, to some extent, he is also a part of you, master. Though his intention might have formed from the negative emotions of you, the master, he, in some sense, is also you." Red Moon said.

Li Chen paused silently for a moment and shook his head.

"This thing is too dangerous, I don’t trust handing my body over to him." Li Chen’s face revealed a look of fatigue.

If possible, he wouldn’t want to persist any longer.

Tired.

Truly too tired.

Not to mention these eighty million years of cultivation, from until now, although Li Chen seemed unparalleled, the truth was he was already physically and mentally exhausted, truly wishing... wishing to rest.

Just to lie down and sleep, then never have to mind other affairs again.

But he knew more clearly... he couldn’t fall, and there was no time to rest.

Just as the Seven Realms Tome said, besides his deceased parents, he still had other relatives.

Moreover, the starry universe had a great calamity to face.

He still had more friends and family, people who needed him.

Thus, for Li Chen, no matter how weary, he must stand firm.

Only he could stand firm.

Because knowing just how tired Li Chen was, even the Seven Realms Tome couldn’t bear to further criticize this already scarred man.

"Let’s set off."

Arriving outside Desolation City, Li Chen looked at the large pack on his back, letting out a bitter smile.

The space ring had long since been destroyed in the battle with Shang.

Even if he had one, for him now, most items in a space ring would hold little use.

Hence, he could only leave Desolation City just like an ordinary traveler, carrying a large pack.

In contrast, an ordinary traveler, when leaving Desolation City, would head to other towns.

Yet the direction he was headed was, for most creatures of the Wildland Continent, the Far West Land of Dead Silence, a place of no return.

Walking some distance, Li Chen suddenly frowned, looking behind him.

"If you dare follow me again, bear the consequences yourself!"

The air slightly twisted, revealing a pretty woman, her face shocked.

This was none other than the woman playing the zither on the rooftop last night for some unknown purpose.

Ignoring the woman’s shock, Li Chen turned his head and continued forward.

True to his words, after being scolded by Li Chen, the woman did not get close to him. She kept following him from a distance of nearly a mile, her eyes filled with deep curiosity when she looked at Li Chen.

She followed him for nearly a thousand miles in this way.

Li Chen rested, she rested; Li Chen advanced, she advanced.

But she consistently maintained a mile distance, not nearing nor distancing herself further.

After another day of walking, Li Chen finally stopped helplessly, looking at the woman from a mile away: "What exactly do you want?"

He could sense that she indeed harbored no malice; otherwise, he would have long ago sent a mental sweep and directly obliterated the opponent’s soul.

Upon hearing his question, the woman gently moved her lips and flashed to Li Chen’s front.

"Young master, I wish... to go with you to the Far West Land."

"How do you know I’m going to the Far West Land?" Li Chen raised an eyebrow.

"After young master entered Desolation City, you have been collecting information about the Far West Land, which isn’t hard to find out." She replied.

"Then what are you going to do in the Far West Land?" Li Chen asked with a frown.

"It’s said... the Populus Euphratica Divine Tree has a miraculous power to bring back the dead, and I wish to use that power... to save my brother!"

The woman bit her lip and said.