Who hid My Corpse! Chapter 221 – Chapter 221: Sixty

Chapter 221: Sixty-five Rest in Peace_2

“Why did you want to escape from there?”

Yong Xin's smile suddenly froze.

“You were born from death, yet you desperately flee from death, pursuing rebirth,” Gerard looked up at Yong Xin and said gently, “What you fear most is returning there, but we are different, just as you said. That place is a land of death to us, but we are not afraid to go there. However, that doesn't mean we are not afraid of death, it's just that, for us, there are things more important than death.”

After Gerard finished speaking, the chainsaw sword in his hand was also regaining power, its rumbling noise growing louder.

Gerard looked at Yong Xin, whose face had lost much of its smile.

“And these things, you cannot understand. You were born from Ian's body, possessing all of his memories, but you lack the most crucial thing. Therefore, you can never be my son, you will always just be one of those monsters wandering in the muck, even if clothed in human skin, I can smell the stench on you.”

After Gerard had spoken, the little smile that remained on Yong Xin's face disappeared completely.

He was like someone stripped of all disguise, flayed and deboned, nothing more than a writhing pollutant.

“You really dare to say it.”

Yong Xin spoke softly, still trying to maintain his calm, but the anger beneath that calm seemed ready to erupt at any moment.

“I originally wanted to spare your life, considering you are my father, but since you do not need it, then forget it.” Yong Xin's tone grew heavier, his body undergoing transformations, his flying bones cracking and then turning into sharp bone spikes, blooming like flowers, “After you die, I will bring your head to Ina, and then… well, it's pointless, I might as well send her to join you in Hell, then you can all discuss together what things are more important than death.”

Gerard could feel Yong Xin's ferocity, but he did not care, he hardly even looked at him, instead focusing on Yong Xin's right hand.

Yong Xin clearly noticed this and sneered, then his right hand exploded with a “Plop,” impaled from the inside by bone spikes.

In that blooming blood mist, Yong Xin pushed his struggling right arm toward Gerard.

“Since you care so much about your son,” Yong Xin said lightly, “then go die with him.”

Facing the right arm that was moving closer to him, Gerard bowed his head and said softly, “I'm sorry, Ian.”

Just when the right hand was about to touch Gerard, Yong Xin suddenly heard the sound of the wind.

…Wind?

He felt bewildered.

Because it was pouring rain outside at the moment, with fierce winds howling in through the window.

But Yong Xin felt that the wind he heard now was not from the storm.

Instead, it was from a more gentle, lighter breeze.

The breeze blew through a decaying giant tree, lightly shaking its branches as if calling for something.

Wait… calling?

Yong Xin suddenly realized something and his eyes widened in shock.

His body uncontrollably slipped into disarray, the flesh floating in the air trembling fiercely, small pieces even falling to the ground and quickly rotting as if some force was draining the “vitality” from within them!

No, to be precise, what was being drained was not “vitality” but [Domination].

It happened again!

Indeed it was happening again!

Yong Xin backed away in alarm.

This wasn't his first experience with this; there had already been two previous instances.

But this time, he was certain that Gerard was behind it!

Yong Xin desperately tried to maintain his body's condition, then grabbed his right hand that had just flown away and with the last of his strength attacked Gerard.

However, this hasty attack was clearly useless against Gerard, who easily chopped down the bone spikes.

And the fallen bone spikes did not reassemble as before, but quickly decayed, turning into the muck commonly seen in the Polluted Lands.

Gerard looked up, seeing Yong Xin, who was barely holding his human shape, beginning to flee.

He didn't hesitate and immediately chased after him.

“Damn it! What in the world is that power?!”

Yong Xin cursed inwardly as he fled.

As far as he knew, no part of the body, neither the eyes nor the fingers, possessed such power.

Even considering the whole “Taboo Book,” Yong Xin could not recall any similar power or rule.

But it didn't matter.

If it had been the first time encountering this situation, Yong Xin indeed might not know how to respond, but this wasn't his first time, and he had already devised a way to deal with it.

And the countermeasure was exactly within this Sky Tower.

Because this Sky Tower is the closest place to Lyra.

Thus, naturally, it was also the closest to the new god.

Here, Yong Xin could directly summon the new god's power and enter a state similar to Rhein's Divine Blessing!

Even more powerful than Rhein's Divine Blessing, since Rhein's god was in the Divine Country, while his new god was right beneath their feet!

So, the closer one got to the core of the Sky Tower, the more they could…

Bang!

The ground under Yong Xin's feet suddenly cracked open; he barely lowered his head when Gerard and his Chainsaw Sword crashed into him.

Arising from below, Gerard pinned Yong Xin against the wall with his Chainsaw Sword, and the roaring blade immediately shredded Yong Xin's still dispersing body into mud.

“You can't escape,” Gerard said coldly.

Yong Xin struggled intensely, but now, barely able to maintain his Domination, he couldn't break free and could only watch powerlessly as his body dissolved in the sharp saw teeth.

For the first time in ten years, he felt death was so close.

“You think you've won?!” Yong Xin roared at Gerard, “Do you think you know where you are?! Do you think, just with that eye, you can defy the great Lord?! I tell you, it's impossible! Absolutely impossible!”

With a “snap”.

Yong Xin crossed his hands, fire seemingly burning in his eyes.

After he finished speaking, both Gerard and Bai Wei sensed something in the depths of the Sky Tower responding to him.

Bai Wei immediately furrowed Gerard's brows.

The power of Domination was close to being retracted completely; it would be troublesome if Yong Xin managed to wield the new god's power at this time.

After all, Divine Descent wasn't something you could cancel with a finger, and the eye needed more preparation time.

Could it be…

“Pfft”!

At that moment, Yong Xin's crossed hands suddenly parted.

His right hand was resolutely pressing on the palm of his left hand.

Both Yong Xin and Gerard's eyes widened.

“Impossible!” Yong Xin exclaimed in shock, “How can you still have so much strength?! This cannot… ugh…”

Before he could finish his sentence, Yong Xin's expression twisted suddenly.

Under Gerard's gaze, Yong Xin's expression underwent turbulent changes as if he was undergoing a harsh struggle.

Then, he once again raised his head to look at Gerard.

Although it was the same face, Gerard's body suddenly shuddered.

“Father…” Ian softly spoke.

In that moment, Bai Wei could feel Gerard's hand holding the sword trembling.

“…Ian?” His voice was hoarse.

Ian opened his mouth as if he had a lot to say to Gerard, but his expression once again became one of struggle; clearly, he was trying hard to suppress Yong Xin.

“Make your move, father,” Ian said, “There's no time, I also can't… hold on much longer.”

Seemingly to prove his point, his left hand tremulously shook violently then grabbed his right hand again, and that distant response became clear again.

“It's okay, Gerard.” Bai Wei's voice also sounded at this moment, “Now you can only say one sentence, just one.”

Gerard looked up, staring at Ian's face.

Scenes engraved in the memories surfaced at that moment: from the boy protecting his sister in the orphanage to the young man eager to join the Night Star, and then to the warrior who kept him going.

And now.

Staring at this familiar face, Gerard had too many words he wanted to say.

But at this moment, the only thing he could say was–

“Rest in peace, Ian.”

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