Chapter 721: Love and Hate
Be born, grow old, and die...
Baili Zhu stared at the void. It had returned once again to that vast expanse of pale nothingness.
The truth hit Baili Zhu like a devastating blow, causing her mind to go blank.
She wasn't alone. Fang Chunyang, Lie Qingqing, Shi Keqing, and Xu Anping had followed Li Pin on his journey and watched how he broke through the Void Divine Treasure World. They all felt the same way.
The great Void Emperor was a man who was seen as invincible, surrounded by countless halos of glory. But it turned out that what he truly longed for was simply to lead an ordinary life. To live in peace like any common man, to grow old naturally, and to pass away quietly in his sleep without regrets.
But what had they done instead? She, Shi Yiyi, Baili Changkong—everyone he had once called family or friend—had pushed him forward, step by step, until he sat on that distant, unreachable throne. They had shaped him into the very image they wanted him to be.
They took pride in it, celebrated it, and even moved themselves with the belief that all their sacrifices had helped him ascend as the Void Emperor. They gave everything, held nothing back, and paid any price to raise him to the divine pedestal.
However, in the end... all they did was push him further from the path he truly longed for. They crushed the very intention he had started with.
Baili Zhu whispered, "My hatred..."
Did she hate Baili Qingfeng? She had destroyed an entire world for him, yet he locked her away for a lifetime. Even in death, he never let her go.
And in his eyes? Again and again, he gave in. Again and again, he compromised. Just when he thought that, despite losing everything, he could still build and protect a peaceful world... she destroyed it. Baili Zhu destroyed it all.
The world she claimed to have ruined for his sake had, in truth, wiped out everything he ever wanted, and everything that made him human.