200: Are you leaving again?

"No, what are you doing? Don't mess around!"

As Shen Lian approached, Xu Feifei was so frightened that she hurriedly retreated.

Now she regretted it. Why didn't she run away immediately just now? Why did she stay behind and end up in such a predicament?

She looked back at the immortal boat behind her once more.

"Want to run away?"

As soon as she made a move, Shen Lian's cold voice rang out.

"Xu Feifei, a bitch like you who speaks with a forked tongue deserves to be skinned and have your tendons pulled out. Stand still obediently now, and I might consider giving you a quick death."

"No, Senior Brother, I don't want to die, I really don't want to die. Please, spare me, okay?"

Xu Feifei was truly panicked. Four people had died in a single day, and Shen Lian's strength was terrifying to such an extent; this was something she had never anticipated.

Now, she could only beg for mercy, begging continuously, hoping that Shen Lian would suddenly have a change of heart and let her go.

However, how could she know that the original Shen Lian had long since died?

Standing before her was a crazed god of death who refused to suffer the slightest grievance.

"Fine, I forgive you!"

Shen Lian smiled mockingly, yet it rekindled the desire for survival in Xu Feifei's eyes.

"Really? Senior Brother, are you really willing to forgive me? You're not joking, are you?"

"No, I never make such jokes."

Shen Lian took a step forward.

"Anyway, you're about to die, so what meaning does forgiveness have?"

Hearing this, Xu Feifei was struck by lightning: "You still want to kill me?"

"What does forgiving you have to do with killing you?"

Shen Lian raised his hand.

"Alright, you can consider that I've already forgiven you, and then die with your regrets!"

"No!"

Xu Feifei let out a heart-wrenching scream.

Just as Shen Lian's palm was about to descend, the calm sea surface split into two.

"Hmm?"

An extremely powerful force was rushing in from the end of the sea.

Shen Lian let out a sound of confusion and decisively withdrew his palm, looking towards the sea.

He saw a massive golden handprint on the sea surface, carrying an earth-shattering Aura, approaching majestically.

"Void Concealment · Force Neutralization!"

Without any hesitation, Shen Lian decisively unleashed Void Concealment.

As his hands flipped, the Yin and Yang Qi flowed together and condensed on his arms.

Boom—

The moment he took the blow, even with his Indestructible Dao Body, Shen Lian was still forced back by this solid palm print, leaving two furrows on the beach.

"It's Senior Brother!"

Having escaped the jaws of death, Xu Feifei had no time to celebrate before she was grabbed by the arm by Tang Jue, who had appeared from the shadows.

"Junior Sister, let's go quickly."

After speaking, the two instantly transformed into light and entered the immortal boat.

On the other side, the sudden golden handprint, containing the most rigid and extreme Pure Yang power, forcibly pushed Shen Lian back, forcing him ten zhang away before showing signs of running out of steam.

"Taiji Seal · Qi Shifting and Extreme Neutralization!"

Seeing that Void Concealment could not neutralize this palm force, Shen Lian decisively changed moves. Using the Taiji Seal to shift Qi and control movement, he deflected the golden handprint onto a nearby mountain peak.

Boom—

With a loud noise, the entire mountain peak collapsed instantly.

"Limit-Breaking Realm!"

Watching the departing immortal boat, Shen Lian did not pursue. Instead, he recalled the palm force he had just received.

"A palm strike that spans three hundred li... South Sea Penglai Island actually has such an expert. This is getting more and more interesting."

He conjured his Folding Fan and pointed with his finger.

Instantly, the Water Spirit Formation was withdrawn, revealing Shen Chuyun's figure once again.

"Hmph."

Seeing she was unharmed, Shen Lian let out a cold snort and turned to leave.

"Shen Lian, are you going to abandon me and leave alone again?"

Shen Chuyun's clear and beautiful voice rang out from behind him.

Shen Lian stopped, his brows tightly locked: "Don't say it so ambiguously. Since your body is fine now, just leave."

Shen Chuyun stood up and said: "Am I so disgusting to you? Why are you unwilling to accept me? Do you know how painful I have been during this time!"

"What does your pain have to do with me?" Shen Lian replied coldly, "I cannot stop my forward progress because of your pain."

Shen Chuyun stumbled forward a few steps, wanting to grab the hem of Shen Lian's robe.

"Shen Lian, please don't abandon me, okay? Really, I won't become a hindrance to you. Can you let me stay by your side?"

"No need. Shen Lian has never needed anyone's company; that would only damage my Dao Heart and cause me to miss the time to pursue the Dao!"

Shen Chuyun clutched her chest and said: "I don't believe you would be so heartless. If you didn't care about me, why would you have saved me today?"

Shen Lian turned around abruptly: "That is because I wanted to kill Xu Feifei; saving you was just a matter of convenience."

Shen Chuyun gave a bitter smile: "Why do you have to find such a lame excuse for yourself? Actually, you have me in your heart, don't you? I don't believe that you couldn't feel anything at all during those seven years."

"That's because I had amnesia. If it weren't for the amnesia, there would never have been any connection between you and me!"

"Yes, you have a thousand and ten thousand reasons to absolve yourself, but there is one fact you cannot deny: that you and I were once Dao Companions the world envied."

"Enough!"

Shen Lian could no longer bear it.

"Even if it is a fact, it is already in the past. The Shen Lian with amnesia and the current Shen Lian are simply not the same person. Do not waste your thoughts on me; you and I are simply two people who are impossible together. Even our meeting was just a mistake!"

"I don't believe it!"

Shen Chuyun lost her footing and knelt directly on the beach.

Fragments suddenly flashed through Shen Lian's mind, and he instinctively wanted to help her up.

But after regaining his senses, he immediately withdrew his hand and turned away.

"Enough, I will say it again: there is absolutely no possibility between you and me. You had better stop wasting your time on me."

"But I have already wasted over five hundred years in this lifetime, and is this the result I waited for?"

Shen Chuyun cried out miserably, tears flooding down and wetting her delicate face.

"I am not reconciled, I am really not reconciled. We could have been together, so why did you have to abandon all of this?"

"Even if the path you face is a dead end, I will still accompany you to walk it without hesitation."

"If you want to act in a Heaven-Defying way, I will accompany you to defy the heavens. If you want to fight against fate, I can also guard your side."

"I know you don't want to involve me, but I am willing! When you made that decision, did you ever consider me? That Su Luoyan who accompanied you for seven years—how desperate and lonely she must have been for the rest of her life!"

Shen Lian opened his mouth, wanting to refute something.

But he, who always retorted against heaven, earth, and even the air, was now, in the face of Shen Chuyun's accusations, rarely at a loss for how to answer.

"Shen Lian, in this lifetime, I guarded your body for over five hundred years just to wait for your return. Now that I have given so much, do you really not know how to respond to me?"

Shen Lian: "I already said when we were at the Monster Beast Mountain Range that I would grant you whatever reward you wanted."

Shen Chuyun, upon hearing this, became instantly emotional: "Then give me your heart. Give me back the Shen Lian who had nothing but me in his heart and eyes. This is the reward I want. Give it to me! Give it to me!"

"You, you are truly hopeless!"

"I am hopeless, because this is what you owe me and must repay. I have already been driven mad by you; how can you bear to abandon me like this!"

Shen Lian, hearing this, felt his anger flare up: "Stop making a scene! Other than this, I will agree to any condition you propose!"

"I only want this condition. In this lifetime, you absolutely cannot abandon me..."

After finishing the last sentence, Shen Chuyun felt a sharp pain in her Dao Heart, and her body immediately went limp as she fainted.

The moment her jade body fell onto the beach, Shen Lian's figure flashed, and he leaned over to gently scoop her into his arms.

Looking at the beautiful woman lying in his arms with tear-stained cheeks, Shen Lian couldn't help but clench his fists.

"Women, they truly are troublesome creatures."

"Sigh."

With a helpless sigh, Shen Lian scooped Shen Chuyun up into his arms and gradually disappeared from the beach.