Chapter 181 - A Call That Arrived Too Late (1/2)

There was once an enormous family that obtained the rarest mystical art underneath the heavens.

It was just that it was impossible for one person to complete cultivating this mystical art at the beginning. The mystical art needed two people to cultivate separately, with each person cultivating half of it.

It was best for the cultivators to be two brothers.

When the time was appropriate, one person would transfuse his internal art to the other person’s body, combining together to form the complete cultivation technique.

And so, one of the two would become the other person’s human cauldron.

Only one cultivator would know of this matter out of the two. The little brother that acted as the human cauldron from the very beginning wouldn’t know.

The family’s influence was far too great. The older brother knew that it was impossible to openly resist his family. He knew that if he were to tell his little brother of this matter, then his little brother would immediately become his sacrificial victim.

To protect his little brother, to make it so that his little brother could escape from his lamentable fate, the older brother made a decision. He would carry everything on his own shoulders! As long as his little brother could still live, then it was all worth it even if he was hated by his little brother.

By being ignored and provoked, the little brother strove to increase his own strength. What the older brother saw made him quite happy in his heart, though he still expressed ruthless emotions that caused him to be hated.

He didn’t care even if all the people under the heavens misunderstood his actions. As long as his little brother could continue to live, it was all worth it.

This lasted all the way until this mission. In this mission, the older brother expressed a contest over meritorious service on the surface in order to save his little brother, inflicting heavy injuries to his own little brother.

Not a single person knew that his despicable sneak attack let his little brother avoid a bullet from piercing his heart. It was this palm strike and its true energy that instantly protected his little brother’s heart.

Then he quickly flew to block another bullet, a bullet that should have shot his little brother dead.

Then he used his own blood and his true energy and transfused them to his little brother. This way his little brother could have the Phaseless Water Bird Art and the Seven Stars of Immortal Thunder Art form together into the complete….

After the story was told, Qin Fen silently looked at Du Peng.

Du Peng sat blankly on his bed. He looked at Qin Fen in a daze. His neck began to turn bit by bit. “It can’t be… it can’t be… it can’t be… it can’t be…. it has to be fake… fake….”

His many years of understanding were completely toppled in this instant. Du Peng instantly collapsed. He knew just how sincerely Qin Fen spoke these words. He knew what the possibility of all these words being true could be, but he was incapable of accepting that it was all true.

To ignore Du Peng, to suppress Du Peng for so many years, to be hated for so many years by Du Peng, Du Zhanpeng actually… actually….

Qin Fen took the metal box, which Du Peng had tossed aside like trash, back into his hands. He quietly placed it before Du Peng. “I think this is a gift he was going to give you, not something that would hurt you.”

“It can’t be… it can’t be… Du Zhanpeng is not this kind of person… not only does he speak insults to me, he often orders my mother about. He never truly looked me in the eyes… it can’t be…” It was as if Du Peng had lost his remaining strand of self-control. He raised the hand to knock away the metal box in Qin Fen’s hand. “It can’t be… it can’t be….”

“There are a few more words that he said as he lost consciousness. I will repeat them to you right now. Thinking about it, he probably really wanted to tell you with his own mouth, but he no longer has the chance.” Qin Fen’s words carried a bit of grief. “Little brother. Big brother has always been mean to you every time in the past. I am sorry. Big brother apologizes to you. Please forgive your big brother.”

“Shut up! I will not listen to this! Shut up!” Du Peng’s two hands covered his ears with force as he shouted loudly, “Shut up! I will not listen!”

“Stupid kid. There is no big brother in this world that hates his own little brother. I can only do this much for you. Please don’t blame your big brother. Do you know? In all my life, the greatest desire this big brother has is to hear you call out to me and say…”

“It can’t be… It can’t be…. Du Peng stared straight at Qin Fen. His body was shivering endlessly. His two legs had already fallen to the ground at some unknown time.

Thud….

He kneeled on the ground, his two hands flailing about like crazy without end. As soon as he touched the box with the biochemical beast, he simply held it in his hands.

He shuddered as he took out the biochemical beast egg from the box. “This… this has to be to hurt me….”

Qin Fen took the red metal box from Du Peng’s hands. He carefully turned the metal box, before propping up the black foam that held the biochemical beast egg. He pushed the metal box before Du Peng once again.

“Happy birthday.”

The words were simple, and they were engraved at the bottom of the box.

Words could carry the emotions of a person at the time. These two words seeped with a sort of happiness and delight.

Du Zhanpeng was a difficult man. He was also a careful man. He was good at hiding his own emotions. He could even trick the Viper King. However, he was an older brother in the end.

As an older brother, he still needed to express his emotions. He knew that Du Peng would certainly not go looking around this metal box. Therefore, he engraved these words beneath the black foam of the metal box.

“Happy birthday… happy birthday….”

Du Peng stared at the metal box in his hands. He was dazed. Today really was his birthday of eighteen years old.

“It can’t be… it can’t be….” Du Peng continued to shake his head. He stared ferociously at Qin Fen. “Where is Du Zhanpeng? I want to hear him tell these lies to me himself, I won’t be played around! I won’t believe this! Bring me to see him! Bring me to see him!”

“Do you want to see him?” Xing Wuyi stood at the open door to the room. His entire face was filled with tear marks as he said, “That’s good too. Follow me. I will bring you to him. I will bring you to him.”

“Okay!” Du Peng pulled the IV tubes off the back of his hand. His footsteps were bit staggered as he quickly followed behind. “Bring me to see him.”

“Patient, right now you can’t….”

“Get lost!”

Du Peng roared, pushing the nurse onto to the ground.

The nurse sat on the ground, staring blankly at Du Peng’s back. It wasn’t too long ago that this man had a face that carried a hint of tenderness and a smile. How did he turn so terrifying so quickly?

Qin Fen gently supported the nurse and helped her up. “Apologies, my friend’s mood is very unstable. I will bring him back in a bit.”

“Okay… Okay….” The nurse was given quite a fright from the sinister face of Du Peng. “His body is still extremely weak. The injury to his chest as yet to completely heal as well….”

Before the nurse could finish with her warning, Qin Fen had already chased after Du Peng and Xing Wuyi.

The funeral hall….

Du Zhanpeng’s body was covered with the flag of the Federation. He lay silently in the crystal coffin that was filled to the brim with flowers. There was a hint of a delighted smile on his lips; it hadn’t faded.

He was very serene, as if he had died in his sleep.

People wearing black clothes came before the coffin one by one. They quietly bowed, and they quietly left. The entire funeral hall was filled with a stifling grief.

Standing to the two sides were the relatives of the Du Family.

Grief, more or less, could be seen on the faces of these people.

Among the crowd were two young men who looked somewhat similar to Du Peng and Du Zhanpeng. Their faces carried grief but they were unable to suppress their secret delight in their eyes.

A wave of hurried footsteps broke the silence of the funeral hall. Everyone raise their heads to look in puzzlement.

Who dared make a racket today during this time? Could it be that they weren’t scared of offending the Du Family?

Xing Wuyi was the first to appear in the line of sight of the crowd. He quietly stood at the entrance to the funeral hall. He looked at Du Peng, who followed closely behind. “You see him yet? Young Master Du is lying there.”

Everyone’s line of sight immediately focused on Du Peng, who was wearing the clothes of the patient.

Du Yu’s eyes were filled with astonishment. How was it possible for Du Peng to appear here? What did he come here for? Did he want to cause chaos in the funeral hall?

“Du Zhanpeng….” Du Peng crossed into the funeral hall with the step. His eyes pulsated with a complicated light as he walked with large strides to the crystal coffin.

“Halt.”

Two people had shouted from within the crowd. The two young men, whose appearances were similar to that of Du Peng, leaped out, blocking Du Peng’s path.

“You should not be in this place. Get lost.”

“You are not welcome here. You killed Du Zhanpeng. How do you have the face to come here?”

Du Peng’s footsteps stopped. Cold disdain floated to the surface of his eyes. “Du Chaoqun and Du Chaopeng. I am not in a good mood today. You guys can get lost for me.”

The two young men’s faces were immediately covered with a layer of cold ice.

Everyone knew that Du Zhanpeng was the object of daily grooming of the Du Family.