Chapter 1 The Hospital Room

Inside the hospital room.

A pale face slowly opened its eyes.

Song Ci’s vision was filled with a swaying ceiling. He waited a long time, but his vision remained blurry.

He turned his head slightly, trying to make out his surroundings.

This… seems to be… a hospital room?

Song Ci tried to identify his surroundings. He saw figures in the room… more than one.

[“What happened?”]

His thoughts were blank.

He wanted to speak, but felt a burning pain in his throat, as if all the blood in his body had been dried up.

“Brother Song, you’re awake.”

A calm, peaceful voice rang in his ears, like a spring breeze caressing his face.

Song Ci’s scattered gaze slowly moved upward. It was a face he was meeting for the first time, yet felt strangely familiar… He remembered, the life-and-death battle with the Apostle in the old city district. Did they win?

“Using the relic for the first time, you mobilized divine power on such a large scale. It’s practically courting death… What’s more, this relic contains the extremely blazing ‘Sun God’s power’. 60% of the blood in your body was burned away. This is an injury that no normal person could survive.” Gu Nanfeng hugged his wooden sword, sitting by the window. His voice condensed into a line, compressed to the extreme by Lanqie, and transmitted extremely gently to Song Ci’s ears.

The hospital room remained quiet.

Gu Nanfeng said softly, “Your retinas have also suffered severe burn damage… It’s estimated that it will take at least three to five days before you can see. Don’t bother trying to look, you won’t be able to see anything.”

It was clearly the first time meeting Gu Nanfeng.

But this guy gave him a strange sense of security.

Song Ci actually closed his eyes… If it were his original personality, once he woke up, he would definitely make a fuss and cause some commotion.

The power granted by the relic was indeed very strong.

And the injuries after overdrawing it were indeed severe.

From the day he left the old city district and officially began extraordinary cultivation, Song Ci realized… that he was an extremely talented fighter. In the Chengxin Society, when he had conflicts with people, after a fight, he would get injured, but he only needed to sleep to recover as good as new. And those slightly lighter skin abrasions would scab over and fall off before he even went to the hospital, repairing themselves completely.

He once thought that this was a gift from God. With this immortal body, even the most hopeless life could blossom from the bottom of Da Du.

So he began to be more and more courageous.

Just charge forward without thinking!

Whether he could win or not, he didn’t care… He would just fight first!

But later, Song Ci discovered… that it wasn’t like that. There was no such thing as a gift in this world. His highly regenerative body also had its limits. Those injuries that could heal completely were only because they weren’t severe enough. For example, the shattered arm bones from the Ziyin bullets took months to barely heal, and left a scar that couldn’t be erased.

If that bullet had pierced his heart… even an immortal would have been killed.

This time.

The pain all over his body was even more intense than being hit by a Ziyin bullet.

Song Ci felt like he was being roasted on a fire. Every second, every minute, his bones and blood were being evaporated by the high temperature. The self-healing power that burst out with every heartbeat was constantly fighting against the burning sensation. As they consumed each other, the speed of his body’s recovery became incredibly slow… But he was already very content.

Being alive under such injuries was a miracle.

Song Ci’s lips moved slightly.

He wanted to say, “Can I still live?”

He didn’t expect Gu Nanfeng to understand.

But the wind of Lanqie sounded in his ear.

“Yes. Of course you can.” Gu Nanfeng smiled and said, “Not only can you live, but you can live lively and kicking… you just need a little time.”

That’s good… Song Ci breathed a long sigh of relief.

“Rest well during this time, don’t mess around, and you’ll recover as soon as possible… You should have felt the power of the relic. This was the first time you used it, and your ‘undying’ body can still withstand the consequences of misuse. You must be very careful when using it in the future.”

Gu Nanfeng said lightly, “You can review the battle with the two Apostles in your mind… Most of the divine power in the relic was wasted by you, and not fully utilized on the blade.”

Song Ci frowned slightly.

The scene of the battle with Tie Wu and Qin Ye… appeared in his mind.

Indeed.

He wasted a lot of divine power… Perhaps it was because he had just mastered the relic, he felt as if he possessed an endless sea, and naturally became bold and unrestrained when using it. In fact, every drop of water in this sea required him to pay the price afterwards. On the other hand, the two Apostles from the Source Tower were extremely economical, even when fighting him to the death, they were unwilling to waste a single bit of divine power.

“What… happened to those two?”

His lips moved again.

“They’re dead. They’re both dead.” Gu Nanfeng said, “Tie Wu died on the spot… Qin Ye was detained and committed suicide out of fear of punishment.”

Hearing this news.

Song Ci felt seven parts of loss in his heart.

He couldn’t see, and he didn’t open his eyes, but just lay there silently.

He had no thoughts about Tie Wu… he died and that was it.

Qin Ye committed suicide out of fear of punishment?

When he fell in the sky above the old city district, a trace of his consciousness remained, and he vaguely heard Lu Nanjin’s angry voice… Before his consciousness dissipated, he had wanted to use the relic again to kill the murderer in Lion Lane who had killed Lao Lu ten years ago.

In the end, he was unable to rise again because he had overdrawn his divine power.

But now… hearing the news of Qin Ye’s death, he didn’t feel the joy of revenge.

He died, he really got off easy.

“How… did Tie Wu die? What exactly happened that night?” Song Ci asked the biggest question in his mind.

After using the relic.

His memory seemed to have been drained.

This feeling… was like having a blackout after drinking too much Lion Awakes.

“God Advent.” Gu Nanfeng said concisely, “The Wine God Seat of the Source Tower descended on Da Du using the Apostle’s body, and Mr. Gu Changzhi… also chose God Advent. The Wine God Seat was defeated, and Tie Wu’s body couldn’t bear the Fire Seed divine power, so it exploded.”

Mr. Gu Changzhi…

Song Ci felt inexplicably excited in his heart. He felt a little dreamy. Hearing Gu Nanfeng say that, Mr. Gu Changzhi was really still alive, and had chosen him to be his Apostle?

“Actually… that’s why I’m waiting for you to wake up in the hospital.”

“There’s something I need to tell you.”

Gu Nanfeng slowly opened his mouth, the flowing wind wrapped around his voice, carrying three parts of apology: “This is a secret that you and I need to keep together…”

Song Ci, who had originally decided not to look anymore, subconsciously hummed after hearing this, widened his eyes, and looked at the blurry shadow sitting sideways by the window holding a knife.

“This relic is not Mr. Gu Changzhi’s relic… I asked for it from the City of Light.”

“So, you are not the Apostle chosen by Mr. Gu Changzhi, but the Apostle of the Light God Seat.”