Chapter 567: Chapter 567: The Future’s Advises.

"...Idiot."

But then a faint, self-mocking voice answered from ahead.

"I really am an idiot, aren’t I?"

The original Li Feng was a bit surprised.

He had not expected the masked man in the memory to react as if he had actually heard his quiet remark.

Peng Jianwei slowly stood back up.

With that, he put the peculiar mask back into place, covering the face that Zi Yuanling had just seen.

A small smile tugged at the corner of his lips beneath the mask as he murmured,

"I shouldn’t develop any feelings for a pet."

"???"

The original Li Feng’s eyes widened at that remark.

Before he could fully process it, the memory around them began to change.

Scenes accelerated unnaturally, flowing forward like a disk spinning at high speed.

The quiet bamboo house, the forest path, and the lingering traces of that farewell blurred and raced ahead, compressing the passage of time into a rapid stream of shifting images.

Watching it all, the original Li Feng was left speechless for a moment before he spat out angrily.

"Damn that bastard! To think I even felt a bit bad for him."

Beside him, the future Li Feng finally spoke in a calm, distant voice.

"There is no need to try to understand that Peng Jianwei."

His empty eyes remained fixed on the fast-forwarding memory.

"His viewpoint and thoughts were always twisted. Till the end... I never knew whether he was a good person, a bad person, or simply a man who only sought a more enjoyable life."

The original Li Feng let out an exaggerated sigh at that answer.

Beside him, the future Li Feng suddenly went silent.

The black-cloaked figure remained still for a moment longer than usual, empty eyes fixed on his younger self as if quietly deciding something.

The intensity of that gaze gradually became impossible to ignore.

Feeling the stare, the original Li Feng turned his head and frowned slightly.

"...What? What’s wrong?"

He met those empty eyes directly, confusion clear on his face.

"Why are you staring at me like that?"

The future Li Feng did not answer the question directly.

Instead, his empty eyes grew sharper as he spoke in a low, serious voice.

"Listen carefully. We don’t have much time left."

He then raised one finger.

"First. After this, Fen Ziyan will still undergo her Nirvana. If you want her to complete the process faster... make sure to take Fen Ling’s virginity."

The original Li Feng’s eyes widened slightly in surprise, but before he could ask for any explanation, the future version cut him off and raised a second finger.

"Second. If you want to easily defeat the Third World Cancer Segment, gather as many Star Apostles as you can. That is its weakness. I even hope you focus solely on this task rather than increasing your personal strength after this."

A third finger rose.

"Third. Do not use [Age of the Stars] for the sake of others. Keep it only for situations that truly concern your life and death. Treat it like a nuclear weapon... something meant to serve as deterrence. And never, ever use it simply because the opportunity seems perfect... because it is a trap."

Then a fourth.

"Fourth. If you can, try to make that Peng Jianwei your follower. His abilities will be quite useful in the future. But if not... make sure you kill him at all costs."

Finally, the future Li Feng’s gaze grew even heavier.

"...And lastly."

The original Li Feng’s expression turned completely serious under that stare.

"Always... and always... doubt Lin Yu."

The final warning settled heavily in the quiet space of the memory.

The original Li Feng’s expression looked a bit confused at the last warning.

"...Senior Brother Lin Yu?"

He tried to picture that senior brother of his... the one who had first helped him and guided him in Cloudveil City, the person whose presence in his early days had been steady, reliable, and almost reassuring.

Even though he was kind of annoying and strangely obsessed with making him walk the normal path of cultivation... it shouldn’t warrant a warning like this from his future self.

The warning from his future self clashed sharply against that image, leaving a clear sense of dissonance in his mind.

Before he could ask anything more, the future Li Feng’s figure flickered slightly.

A faint instability passed through the dark cloak and empty eyes, as if the connection sustaining this existence was already beginning to thin.

"That’s all I can advise you,"

His voice was calm again.

"The rest... you will have to walk it yourself."

Before the original Li Feng could say another word, the future version raised one hand and gave a light wave.

"Wai—!"

The younger figure’s voice was cut off mid-shout as his form rapidly faded, vanishing from the white-tinged memory space without resistance.

In the span of a breath, only the black-cloaked future Li Feng remained.

"..."

He stood alone in silence.

For a moment, nothing moved.

The lingering fragments of Zi Yuanling’s memory continued to blur around him, until without warning the entire space shattered like fragile glass.

CRACK!

The soft white void collapsed.

In its place, absolute pitch-black darkness spread in every direction.

There was no ground, no sky, no remaining trace of the bamboo forest or the quiet house.

There was only an endless black expanse.

And within that darkness, one thing stood out.

...A mass of bright red flesh.

It hung in the void like a grotesque heart, pulsing with a slow, heavy rhythm.

Each beat sent a faint, sickening ripple through the surrounding blackness, as if the very space itself were responding to its existence.

The future Li Feng’s empty eyes locked onto it.

"...Found you."

The moment those quiet words left his lips, the beating red flesh seemed to react.

Its pulse quickened violently, the surface of the grotesque mass twitching and swelling as if filled with sudden rage.

In the next instant, it launched itself forward through the pitch-black void, a distorted mass of living flesh surging toward him with clear killing intent.

And yet—

Time seemed to slow.

The future Li Feng remained still, empty eyes calmly watching the oncoming mass of grotesque red flesh as his thoughts quietly unfolded.

Under normal circumstances, it was nearly impossible to sever those who had been blessed by the World Cancer.

Their lives, fates and souls were already connected... bound so deeply that cutting one often meant dragging the other down as well.

That was precisely why, in the past, he had been forced to kill... Yue Lan.

There had been no clean separation even with [Sever], no better option left to him at the time.

And after that day, like a madman, he had been searching...

Across years, across battlefields, across every path available to him, he looked for a method that could truly separate such entangled existences... so that the same tragedy would never have to repeat itself.

And the answer he eventually reached... was Golden Severance.

"I never thought I’d get the chance to use it... here."

BOOM!

In the next instant, the pitch-black void suddenly brightened.

From high above, a colossal blade of intertwined gold and darkness descended without a sound.

Its edge carried both the sovereign radiance of pure stellar authority and the absolute finality of [Sever], the two forces fused into a single, overwhelming existence.

The moment it appeared, the surrounding blackness split apart as if it could not bear to remain in the blade’s presence.

Light flooded the void.

The grotesque red flesh, still surging forward in its furious charge, was fully illuminated beneath that falling golden-dark edge, its twisted form exposed with nowhere left to hide as the blade continued its silent descent.

The future Li Feng’s empty eyes remained calm as he quietly spoke.

"...This time, I will separate you properly."

The Golden Severance fell.

There was no resistance capable of stopping it.

The absolute blade of intertwined gold and darkness cut straight through the beating mass of red flesh, carving it apart with a single, perfect stroke.

ZING!

In the next instant, the grotesque heart-like existence violently exploded, scattering fragments of corrupted flesh and dark-red light across the void.

From within the collapsing remains, two figures were thrown free.

One was Zi Yuanling.

The other was Fen Ziyan.

Both of them fell through the fading darkness, separated at last from the tangled mass that had bound them together.

And with that, the space trembled.

The soul space fractured and receded like a tide being pulled away.

_

_

_

In the next moment, the future Li Feng’s eyes opened once more in the real world.

The scene that greeted him was no longer one of raging flame and collapse.

The fires that had consumed the capital were now gone.

In their place was a strange, heavy silence.

Fine ash and pale snow-like particles drifted slowly through the air, falling without sound across the ruined land.

Everywhere he looked seemed to have turned a ashen gray.

The atmosphere itself felt muted and sorrowful, as though the world was mourning what had been lost.

Broken structures stood half-buried beneath the drifting ash, and the once-chaotic battlefield had settled into an eerie stillness.

"..."

Li Feng stood amid that quiet devastation and looked around.

For a moment, it truly felt as if he were the only person left alive in the world.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.