Guo Chunfeng nodded. "That's what I thought, too. But even though I knew that it was some sort of secret art, I still couldn't resist it. It was like a barrier that had been deeply etched into my soul. It was a natural-born instinct that was hard to get rid of.
"In the days that followed, I was in a trance. As soon as I fell asleep, even if I only closed my eyes for a moment, the dream and Elder Nether Spring's voice would appear again!
"I felt that I had been cut into halves by the truth. One side was a human being, the other was a demon, and the other was reconnected.
"Be it a human being or a demon, I did not want my wife and my daughter to be hurt. I did not want to see the home that I had lived in for decades to be destroyed, either! But with just my strength, how can I resolve all of this? "
"Also, after the dreams appeared again and again, something deep inside my soul gradually woke up and made me think from the perspective of demons. I began to feel that it was not a big mistake to wage a war against the Tian Yuan Realm on the Blood Demon Sector's side. I also felt that, since I could not resist Elder Nether Spring, I might as well cooperate with him. Perhaps, I would be able to save my wife and my daughter.
"It was a despicable thought, but what else could I have thought?
"I was so anxious that I hated myself and Elder Nether Spring's guts. I couldn't wait to die together with Elder Nether Spring when he came!"
"Before we die together, I want to see my wife and my daughter again, but I don't know how to face them. My dilemma is somewhat similar to that of the demonized remnant soldiers who returned to the federation today, but it is a hundred times more intense!"
"Because at least they can stand in front of everyone openly, but I can't see the light of day!"
"So," Li Yao said, "you didn't go back to see your wife and your daughter in the end."
"No."
Guo Chunfeng smiled and said, "I did go back in secret and peeped at them from afar outside of my daughter's school and my wife's workplace. I even took photos of them."
Li Yao was silent, not knowing what to say.
Guo Chunfeng suddenly sighed in relief and said, "I can't imagine what the outcome would have been if Elder Nether Spring had shown up in front of me.
"Am I capable of dying together with him, or will I completely awaken my identity as a demon under his control and become the real Demon King of Abyss?"
"It's hard to say, it's really hard to say!"
"All in all, every day felt like a year to me. I struggled for a few days, but one day, I somehow felt that the shackle deep inside my brain was loosened!
"Let's put it this way. It was as if there was a rope around my neck, making me see stars and unable to breathe! Although the rope wasn't broken, the person who was holding it was … dead or unconscious! Therefore, the rope was also loosened! "
Li Yao thought quickly and realized what was going on. "I understand it now. Seeing that the Eye of Blood Demon was destroyed and Jin Tuyi was too powerful for him to compete with him in the Blood Demon Sector, Elder Nether Spring activated the 'backup plan' and fled to the Tian Yuan Realm to make a gamble!
"In the backup plan, you, as Abyss, were naturally the most important part. Therefore, he manipulated a certain Child of the Nether World lurking in the Tian Yuan Realm in advance and released the 'activation beetle' that he had prepared in advance.
"The Child of the Nether World didn't know what the beetle was for. He only received Elder Nether Spring's instruction to release the demonic insect at a certain time and place!
"Then, the demonic insect activated you, and Elder Nether Spring fled to the Tian Yuan Realm. If everything went well, he would've joined you in a few days. Then, he would've manipulated more than a hundred Children of the Nether World lurking in various industries to launch a desperate counterattack!
"As expected of Elder Nether Spring. He is only slightly weaker than Jin Tuyi. The Spore Stratagem that he has been working on for decades is indeed not so easy to be killed. He has such a dangerous backup plan!
"However, Elder Nether Spring could never have foreseen that there was a Patriots Partnership, which was a hundred times more sordid and enormous than the Children of the Nether World, in the Tian Yuan Realm. Soon after he arrived in the Tian Yuan Realm, he was captured by the Patriots Partnership!
"The moment you sensed that the barriers deep inside your soul were loosened, it was probably the moment when Elder Nether Spring was heavily wounded by the Patriots Partnership and imprisoned!"
Guo Chunfeng smiled and drank another mouthful of spring water. "Yes. Now that I think about it in retrospect, that must've been what happened back then! But at that time, how could I have known? I only knew that I was Abyss, and Elder Nether Spring said that he would come to me soon. He also had a very sordid plan that required my cooperation! But as it turned out, he didn't show up at all!
"On one hand, I was secretly relieved and hoped that he would never show up so that I could live a peaceful life with my wife and children as Guo Chunfeng forever.
"But on the other hand, I was very clear that it was absolutely impossible! Elder Nether Spring might've run into some trouble, but he would never disappear just like that! Therefore, I was hoping that he would jump out sooner and settle everything once and for all!
"After more than a month of suffering, I heard the news about Blood Devil Li Yao from Lu Zui. I was also told that Blood Devil Li Yao had conspired with the giants of the Blood Demon Sector such as Elder Nether Spring and was probably planning a great scheme with a batch of spies of the demon race named 'Children of the Nether World'!"
Li Yao could not help but laugh. "Lu Zui was truly unlucky. His supposedly flawless lie turned out to be the truth!"
Guo Chunfeng smiled, too. "Yes. Although I was quite confused at that time, I vaguely felt that something was not right. The Children of the Nether World were obviously a weakened version of Abyss. By logic, as Abyss, I should be the person in charge of all the Children of the Nether World. Elder Nether Spring wouldn't have entrusted such a job to an outsider in any case. What was this Blood Devil Li Yao all about?
"However, the information I knew at that time was still too little to infer the whole thing. I thought that you were indeed one of Elder Nether Spring's chess pieces. Therefore, I tried my best to capture you and elicit more information from you, including Elder Nether Spring's whereabouts."
Li Yao nodded. "That explains a lot. No wonder Brother Guo was so desperate at that time. I was almost caught by you many times!"
Guo Chunfeng smiled. "Are you flattering me, or are you flattering yourself that your escape methods are better? All in all, I failed to catch you despite my best efforts. In the end, the Speaker was assassinated and the great explosion in the square of the Federation Square happened!
"After the incident, Lu Zui publicized the existence of the Children of the Nether World to the leadership of the Cultivators. He even told me about Abyss!
"What he said, in the ears of those who don't know the truth, may sound perfect and flawless, but in my opinion, it is full of loopholes and self-contradiction!"
"Most importantly of all, if nothing happened to Elder Nether Spring and he was really plotting everything behind the curtain, why didn't he come to me and even loosen his control over me?
"If something happened to him and he didn't come to me, it would have been impossible for him to activate everything in the square of the Federation Square without me, the key player!
"Besides, Elder Nether Spring had been working on the plan for decades. He even changed his son's appearance and sent him to the Tian Yuan Realm decades ago, just to steal Burning Prairie, the strongest warship of the three Sectors? How could Elder Nether Spring have known the existence of Burning Prairie decades ago? "
Li Yao nodded quickly. "Very reasonable. It doesn't make sense at all!"
"From that moment on," Guo Chunfeng said, "I grew deeply suspicious of Lu Zui and changed my opinion about you. I believed that you were probably wronged and a chess piece in Lu Zui's scheme!
"However, just like you said, it was extremely difficult to investigate Lu Zui!
"He had worked in the secret frontline for two hundred years. His methods were definitely much better than mine. He would've seen through any of my anomalies!
"If I had been honest and upright, I would've been able to have a head-on battle with him.
"But I had such a major weakness. If I really fought with him, I would've been caught by him. What would my wife and my son do then?
"Hehe. The trouble with Elder Nether Spring was not over yet, and I was caught in a new dilemma. At that moment, I felt that my head was about to explode, and I didn't know what to do!
"It was not until I saw my daughter soaked in the medical cabin in the ward, covered in wounds and in great pain that the messy conflicts were completely burned away by the overwhelming fury!
"At this moment, I've finally made up my mind. Be it Elder Nether Spring or Lu Zui, I will not let go of whoever did this to my daughter! Even if my reputation is ruined and I die without a burial place, I will make him pay a painful price! "
When he talked about his daughter's wounds in the explosion in the square of the Federation of the Federation, Guo Chunfeng's face was full of aggression again. Even Li Yao found it hard to bear and backed off a little.
Taking a deep breath, Guo Chunfeng calmed himself down and said, "Then, I began to investigate Lu Zui in secret. However, one day when the investigation just began, I suddenly had a … very dizzy feeling. I seemed to have sensed clearly that Elder Nether Spring was already dead!
"It was a mysterious feeling. An electric current seemed to have crawled into my brain, bringing the most complicated information. In my trance, I 'saw' and 'heard' more truths!"
"Father and son are connected," Li Yao said. "Elder Nether Spring practiced secret arts. Maybe, before his death, he could send part of his telepathic thoughts into your brain through a certain mysterious art."
Guo Chunfeng nodded slowly. "Maybe. You know everything that happened later. It was because I knew so many things in advance that I was able to confirm your innocence and cooperate with you deeply.
"In the end, I charged into Hidden Star without caring about my own safety and had a head-on confrontation with Lu Zui …
"Hehe. Little brother, do you believe it? When I made the decision, I did not think about the Federation, my country, my compatriots, or anything like that at all!
"I'm not doing this to help you, nor to save the federation."
"There was only one reason why I dealt with Lu Zui on Hidden Star. It was simple. I wanted revenge!
"Half of it was to avenge my father's death, and the other half was to avenge the fact that he almost killed my daughter!
"The murderer of my father is absolutely irreconcilable, and the murderer of my daughter is even more unforgivable! As a son and as a father, even if I have to die, I will drag him down with me! "
The answer dazed Li Yao for a long time.
Then, he burst into laughter. Holding his stomach, he burst into laughter in the sunlight!
Guo Chunfeng looked at him in confusion. "Little brother, what are you laughing at?"
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