Chapter 1087

Chapter 1087

Empty-Handed

“I wanted to give you another chance to live for yourself,” Mu Yu conveyed in a raspy voice.

“... Everyone has their own way of living,” responded Ku Mu.

“And your way is to sacrifice yourself for others over and over? You’re an alchemy prodigy, yet you chose to learn poison and left Pill Cauldron Sect so that Uncle Yundan could succeed the patriarch seat, resulting in people disparaging. You’re the owner of Revealing Cauldron, yet you left it behind. You like Shiniang, yet you stepped away. You saved my shifu for her. You lost your life in the end for me. What do you get in return? Nobody knows the real you. You have nothing! Nothing!”

“Says who? I have a son.”

“I have a son,” extinguished Mu Yu’s flame and replaced it with warmth comparable to sunlight in winter. His vision was suddenly shrouded in fog.

“Who cares what they think of me? As long as my son knows the real me, then I’m satisfied.”

Mu Yu pretended his attention was on the text littered across Revealing Cauldron. Life did not necessarily flow through the body as blood or qi. The words of another could also supply one with life. Nonetheless, Ku Mu left Mu Yu questioning, “What is the purpose of life? What makes it different to death? How do the dead live? Are those who live without principles dead?”

Living for oneself was called living. Living for the sake of others was also considered living.

“Why must it be me who protects this world?”

“Because Sword Shadow Dust Gale entrusted it to you.”

Mu Yu sat up irritably. “I don’t want to protect this world; I’m sick of it. My shifu might want to protect those idiotic cowards who will turn on you at the drop of a hat, but I have no desire to. I can’t sacrifice myself for others as he or you do. The only people I’m risking my life for is my family and the honourable, brave innocents.”

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