Chapter 1887 - 1479: This City Lord Has Not Much Time Left!

Gu Changsheng also didn’t know why she asked this question, but deep down, she sensed that Shi Wujue’s meaning was definitely not what she thought it to be!

"What do you mean, Shi Wujue, what do you mean by what you just said?" Gu Changsheng wasn’t someone who liked to force others, especially at this moment, with Shi Wujue’s back looking so desolate, but for some reason, she just wanted an answer.

It seemed that this answer was of vital importance to her!

Under the footsteps of Gu Changsheng and Zhou Mu as they followed, and under Gu Changsheng’s repeated questioning, Shi Wujue, who was walking ahead, came to a halt.

Gu Changsheng and Zhou Mu also stopped moving forward upon seeing this.

Shi Wujue, having stopped, slightly raised his head to look at the top of the Fifth Level of the Star Innate Tower, where the mottled stars shimmered with faint glory, illuminating his snow-white hair, indescribably dreamlike...

"Because, this City Lord absolutely won’t become an obstacle to you, nor will it make you two feel troubled because of me! Haha..." At this point, Shi Wujue let out a light laugh, continued with an unerring desolation, his voice pale and powerless, "because my days as City Lord are numbered!"

"What?!" The moment Gu Changsheng heard these words, she staggered backward, falling onto Zhou Mu.

Zhou Mu, whose face resembled that of the God Emperor, was also full of shock as he looked at Shi Wujue’s eyes, filled with disbelief, but still managed to support Gu Changsheng’s unstable form!

At that moment, Gu Changsheng suddenly felt that perhaps she had heard wrong!

The Sinful Sea Flower was as flamboyant as fire, burning her eyes.

Maybe, she really was under the influence of the Sinful Sea Flower, falling into some unimaginable state...

Because... my days as City Lord... are numbered...

"Evildoer, I heard a joke... haha..." Gu Changsheng didn’t dare turn her head, didn’t dare look at Shi Wujue even once more, woodenly grabbing Zhou Mu’s sleeve, looking up, and speaking with no lack of sorrow, "I heard, Shi Wujue said he’s going to die soon..."

"..." Zhou Mu watched Shi Wujue’s fading silhouette until it disappeared into the depths of the Sinful Sea Flower, a flash of grief finally crossing his God Emperor-like face, he lowered his eyes to look at the little woman in his arms who refused to believe this reality...

"Evildoer, isn’t it said that evil people live for a thousand years? But Shi Wujue told me his days are numbered, he’s going to die soon, evildoer, he must be lying to me, right? A man like him, how could he die so easily? He must be alright, right?"

Gu Changsheng shook Zhou Mu’s clothing, anxiously asking, her Phoenix Eyes already moist, yet stubbornly refusing to let the tears fall!

Shi Wujue, his days are numbered.

Before this moment, Gu Changsheng never contemplated that a man like Shi Wujue, so wildly unscrupulous, would be associated with words like his days are numbered and death!

However, at this moment, the truth came so cruelly!

Just like the Sinful Sea Flower Field at the end of love’s road, flamboyantly suffocating, breathtakingly unreal!

"Changsheng!" Zhou Mu called out in a deep, low voice to the little woman on the brink of madness before him.

"I don’t want to hear it! Don’t speak! Nothing you say is true! How could Shi Wujue die? A man so exceptionally stunning, how could he die? You must be lying to me! I want to ask him! I want to ask him myself!" Gu Changsheng said as she broke free from Zhou Mu’s hand, staggering as she chased in the direction Shi Wujue had left.

Was it the pollen of the Sinful Sea Flower, too glaring and pungent, or the fragrance, suffocatingly overwhelming, that made Gu Changsheng’s eyes and nose feel a pang of sourness, and tears uncontrollably fell...

The branches and leaves of the Sinful Sea Flower bore sharp thorns, akin to the unspoken pain surrounding beautiful love, Gu Changsheng’s red skirt swept through the Sinful Sea Flower Field, thorns piercing her skin, a bitter pain, but at this moment, she could not care!

In her heart, there was only one thought that couldn’t be dismissed!

That is, Shi Wujue, his days are numbered...

This couldn’t be true!

Zhou Mu watched Gu Changsheng stumbling as she chased after Shi Wujue’s departure, a face like a Divine Residence, full of sorrow...

Shi Wujue, as proud as himself, they were both extraordinary figures...

But, indeed, he was happier than him.

No matter the origin, or anything else, just the fact that he had Gu Changsheng was enough to make Shi Wujue envious...

But, even with that envy, even under the influence of the Sinful Sea Flower, he reached out to him, and when he awoke, he was broad-minded...

Shi Wujue was the only person Zhou Mu treated as a friend and the only man whom he acknowledged!

Yet, he told them, his days are numbered...

With long legs lifted, Zhou Mu stepped by step followed in the direction that Shi Wujue and Gu Changsheng had departed...

The branches and leaves of the Sinful Sea Flower brushed past his trouser legs, causing a raw pain, as if Zhou Mu remained oblivious...

Upon hearing Shi Wujue say that his days were numbered, Zhou Mu’s heart felt a mix of shock, regret, and heartache, along with a faint sense of timid relief...

A man whose days are numbered is destined to only be a passerby in the lives of Changsheng and him, and not eternal!

"Shi Wujue, it turns out, I am also a selfish person..." Walking slowly, stepping heavily on the Sinful Sea Flower, Zhou Mu murmured absently...

Even in deciding to fulfill Shi Wujue, even wanting to avoid making his woman feel troubled, no one’s love is unselfish!

Even Zhou Mu, akin to a Divine Residence, cannot be exempt!

He felt ashamed and ironic for his slight relief upon learning that Shi Wujue’s days are numbered...

Who can truly put aside their deep-rooted pride? Who can truly give away their love willingly?

Zhou Mu, too, is but an ordinary man, after all, not a god!

The sound of flowing water came from ahead; within the Fifth Level of the Star Innate Tower, a stream had appeared...

An existence as though in a dream, yet the feeling it gave was incredibly real!

"Shi Wujue..."

Gu Changsheng looked at the solitary figure standing by the stream, at the snow-white long hair fluttering behind him, and with difficulty opened her mouth to call softly, but ultimately did not dare to take a step closer...

"Gu Changsheng, do you know where this is?"

Shi Wujue’s faint voice reached her, causing Gu Changsheng’s figure to stiffen. After thinking for a moment, she still opened her mouth, "The environment created by the Fifth Level of the Star Innate Tower, the Sinful Sea Flower Field."

"Then do you know the origin of the Sinful Sea Flower?" Shi Wujue’s voice came again.

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s phoenix eyes flashed with a peculiar color, and she shook her head, truthfully saying, "I don’t know. I only heard the Medicine Immortal Old Man mention once that there is a kind of flower, extraordinarily seductive, it blooms brilliantly one moment, and withers at its most beautiful instant... It’s the ultimate destination of strong love, the Bone-Eroding Flower of broken feelings..."

At this moment, Gu Changsheng suddenly dared not ask Shi Wujue whether his days were truly numbered!

Because she was afraid!

She was afraid of receiving a definite answer...

That was an answer she refused to accept.

"Yes, flowers bloom brilliantly, love reaching its end, the Bone-Eroding Flower of broken feelings represents the Sinful Sea! Yet, most people are foolish, often knowing only one aspect and assuming they know the whole truth. But the fact is, it’s not like that..." As he spoke, Shi Wujue, standing by the stream, slowly squatted. His black robe lay scattered among the countless Sinful Sea Flowers; Shi Wujue reached out a hand, gently brushing a Sinful Sea Flower, bowed his head to sniff it, and pondered, "Once, it had a beautiful name, known as the Love Flower..."

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s eyebrows immediately furrowed slightly, her eyes filled with doubt, but ultimately she did not interrupt Shi Wujue, who seemed lost in reminiscing...

"It is said that in the past, the sole True Goddess of the Ancient Wilderness was the Divine Residence presiding over the bright moon. This Goddess, representing the sole light and hope in the darkness, fell in love with a mortal man. For him, she willingly became a Fallen God, descending from the Divine Altar to the mortal world, to stay with the man she loved. And that man loved her deeply, building the most beautiful Divine Residence in this world for her, and within it, planted countless Love Flowers..."

"He said, in this world, only Love Flowers that bloom brilliantly could be seen by the Moon God, without desecrating her gaze..."

"But the love between a Human God and mortal man is destined to be futile; that man died..."

"Why?" Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but ask as she heard this. "Why did that man die?"

The love between a Human God and a mortal man?

Does it mean that love crossing species is doomed to end poorly?

A woman who became a Fallen God for a man, and a man who planted Love Flowers for a woman, are they destined only for the outcome of a separation between gods and ghosts?

"Because that man had a family and nation to protect. He went to battle for his homeland and was buried on the battlefield... Legend has it that the Tears of the Goddess, representing the entirety of the Goddess’s life essence, were shed when she could not find the man’s remains amidst a land of devastation... The Tears of the Goddess could revive the dead and regenerate flesh and bones, yet in the end, the Goddess’s love turned into tears, but she never found the man’s remains..."

"It is said that on the day the Goddess shed tears, within the Divine Residence built for her by the man, the Love Flower bloomed, its beauty suffocatingly enchanting... The Goddess sniffed the fragrance and said only one thing, ’Love reaches its end, the Sinful Sea Flower at the end of the road...’"

"And then?" Gu Changsheng stepped forward and asked.

"And then, there was no ’then’; the Moon God vanished, the Tears of the Goddess were nowhere to be found, leaving only the flower from Love Flower transformed into Sinful Sea Flower, enduring through time, unyielding in bloom..."

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng was momentarily at a loss for words!

She sympathized with that Goddess, but to Gu Changsheng, it was only a legend...