Invisible Security Guard
Chapter 865 - 864: A Lonely Night

Chapter 865: Chapter 864: A Lonely Night

Life sometimes really is like a dream, where one can laugh out loud in their sleep, and other times be startled awake by a nightmare.

Yusuf Zuck was awoken by a nightmare—a weeping awaken, to be precise. He tried to grab the Green Bead from the chicken roost cave but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t grasp it.

Suddenly, he woke up.

However, upon waking, all he could see, feel, and hear was a buzzing whistling sound.

Darkness was all he could see before his eyes, his world was shrouded in darkness; aside from the roaring wind and the endless darkness, he had no other senses.

He had no idea where he was or what had happened. Just that... just that... when he turned his attention inward, to his horror, he found that his body no longer existed, leaving only a blood-soaked head that had been battered and broken by the wind!

Indeed, at that moment, all he could see was a head that seemed about to be shattered by the wind.

It was terrifying, and even when he saw himself, there was a ghostly feeling, as if he himself was the ghost, because... because apart from a ghost, what else could have a head that lived on its own?

Yusuf Zuck was inexplicably panicked, then he also shockingly found that his head appeared as if it were about to be shattered as well, the reason it hadn’t happened before was because the Purple Blood Beads were within, holding his soul together.

And now, the Soul Bead deep in his mind was also dim and dull, the phantom of himself within was on the verge of collapse.

Furthermore, it seemed the Soul Bead was subconsciously trying to repair his physical body; however, the storm in the night was too powerful. As soon as the Soul Bead repaired something, the storm would immediately shatter it.

Therefore, after such a continuous cycle, the spiritual power inside the Soul Bead was nearly depleted.

Yusuf Zuck shuddered at the thought. He could imagine that once the last remnants of spiritual power in the Soul Bead were drained, his head would also be blown to pieces.

This was a Time-Space Storm, a Dark Storm, a tempest that could shatter everything!

"Go in!" After Yusuf Zuck calmed a bit, with a fierce thought-driven by telekinesis, his battered head entered into the Soul Bead in an instant.

The darkness receded, the storm stopped, and his head rolled inside the Soul Bead, once again facing the passageway with the door at its end. Also, he saw his own phantom standing opposite him, looking at him with a blank, unknowing stare.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle~" Without the storm, his body finally began to regenerate. Starting from the neck down, transparent tissue grew with blood coursing and bones snaking through it. The body then solidified more and more, with a purple glow constantly flowing and rippling out in concentric circles.

Yusuf Zuck took a deep breath. As long as the head remained, as long as the Blood Beads were intact, he was a man of a hundred lives!

But making use of this respite, he also began to sense inward!

Gone was the ring from his hand, the Green Bead, the Dantian, the Purple Light Sword, the Divine Bow, and the Horse-cutting Saber. Even the star points from the soul contracts with the great demons deep in his soul had vanished.

What remained were only the Blood Beads in the depths of his mind and... and the Book of Earth.

"Green Bead..." Yusuf Zuck trembled with weakness, his body curling into a ball, tears rolling down ceaselessly.

He remembered, the last thought he had, the last image he saw before the storm tore his body apart, saw the Dantian being ripped to shreds, saw the Green Bead flying out, and even saw a flash of sword light!

After that, he knew nothing anymore.

"Am I dead? Am I dead?" Yusuf Zuck started sobbing painfully; under those circumstances, his body had been torn apart, so how could the Green Bead possibly remain? And with the great demons losing the connection of the soul contracts with him, what did that imply?

It implies that the great demons either died or had their master-servant bonds dissolved.

"Ahhh..." Yusuf Zuck’s agonized roar echoed, his screams piercing the air. A sense of despair he had never known before, a wish for death stronger than any desire to live!!!

Indeed, at that moment, he wished to die because death meant no thoughts, nothing at all; he wouldn’t know anything, and thus there would be no more pain!

But he was still alive, so that excruciating, life-worse-than-death sensation made him long for death.

"If all of you are dead, then what am I still alive for?" Tears soaked his eyes as Yusuf Zuck struggled to his feet. Now, with his cultivation level gone and his spiritual power nearly exhausted, he was extremely weak!

Of course, what mattered most was that his spirit was broken, his vitality drained.

He glanced at the phantom standing before him and managed a wry smile, then took a step out of the Soul Bead.

He was sure his family had died and, even if they hadn’t, they probably couldn’t survive, because he couldn’t bear to imagine what would happen to his loved ones in the hands of others!

Moreover, the Soul Contracts with the great demons had vanished, so this was the best proof. Hence, his thoughts turned to dust, feeling no zest for life.

Suicide is the behavior of the incapable, and although he harbored hatred and unwillingness in his heart, what point was there in meekly surviving if his loved ones were all dead?

What is life? What is happiness? What is it to be alive? Without everything, life is worse than death!

As he cast one last glance at his own phantom, he stepped out of the Soul Bead, intent on letting the storm completely extinguish him!

However, it seemed that the old saying was indeed true: good people don’t live long, while calamities last a thousand years.

Just as he stepped out of the Soul Bead, the storm ceased to be, the howling winds were no more, what remained was only a silent darkness.

Indeed, pitch black, unable to see anything, nothing at all; not in the sky nor on the earth, with no sense of direction or gravity, nothing at all!

Standing in the darkness, he was stunned for a second, then suddenly fell to his knees.

He couldn’t even die when he wanted to, suddenly feeling an extreme sense of powerlessness. Without the storm, he seemed to have no way to kill himself, because the damn Purple Blood Beads were still there, and so was the Soul Bead. Even if he beheaded himself, he could still grow a new head, so he actually couldn’t commit suicide!

Not sure whether to feel joy or sorrow, Yusuf Zuck sat down abruptly, helplessly embracing his legs.

This place was the void, not solid ground, since it was like sitting in the air. He was certain he was suspended in this gravity-less, empty Dark World.

He buried his head beneath his knees and bowed deeply, tears rolling down once more...

A world of black, a sky of black, everything black.

Here, it seemed there was no time, no space, no wind, no light, nothing at all, not even the slightest sound existed.

Maybe after experiencing death, and the rise and fall of this life, he no longer felt fear or fright, and the only thing he had left was perhaps missing his loved ones and the towering hatred!

A lonely night, a lonely void, a lonely him.

He didn’t know how much time had passed, maybe a second, maybe a day, or perhaps even a year. Suddenly, he wiped his long-dried eyes and stood up with a jolt, "Since heaven will not destroy me, then I will destroy heaven!"