Brothers Falling Out
At this moment, the entire passage fell into a dead silence.
"... Only when two people survive can Level Three be opened??" Tu Tian's pupils constricted slightly. "But..."
He turned his head to look at Fudi beside him, and then looked at the young girl behind him. For a time, it was as if he was struck by lightning!
"It seems my judgment was right." Seeing this, Fudi calmly pulled out the blood-stained rake from his back. "This woman is a burden... Only by killing her can we enter the final level."
"No... no! Wait a moment!"
Tu Tian subconsciously blocked in front of the young girl. "Perhaps there are other ways?"
Tu Tian had just finished saying he would protect this young girl to leave, he couldn't possibly watch helplessly as this young girl was hacked to death by Fudi with a rake... In fact, ever since Tu Tian saw this noticeboard until now, his brain was still bewildered. One was a companion known together with him as the Qiankun Twins, and the other was a girl he had agreed to protect to leave, but unfortunately out of the three of them, only two could leave alive.
Tu Tian felt that fate might be playing a joke on him.
"I see you are blinded by lust! What... by not killing her, do you plan to kill me, and then you go to the next level with this woman?!"
"I..."
"Do you still remember what Second Master and the others said before we set off?! You were protected too well in the Dragon-Strangling Warriors, but the outside world is too complex. They told you not to be blinded by the dazzling world and forget your own purpose! Now your judgment is actually swayed by a woman, are you worthy of Second Master and the others' cultivation?!" Fudi's voice was as cold as frost.
"I shouldn't be blinded? Then what about you?? Just now when you were hugging that woman and touching her, what was that?!"
"She actively came close to me herself, what does it have to do with me?! Besides, I have already personally killed her!! What about you?!" As if Tu Tian had poked his sore spot, Fudi's expression instantly became incomparably malevolent, using a manic voice to cover up his guilty conscience.
Tu Tian was rendered speechless.
"This woman, she affects your judgment and obstructs you from obtaining a [Heaven-Reaching Star Position]! She is your inner demon!!"
Fudi's voice was like thunder. He forcefully knocked the rake in his hand downward. The two iron nails on it instantly pierced through the young girl's hands, directly nailing her to that large door leading to the third level. The young girl's tragic screams instantly rang out.
At this moment, Tu Tian felt as if his heart had twitched!
"Your own inner demon needs to be broken by your own hands... otherwise, it will affect your entire life." Fudi drew a knife from behind his waist and stuffed it into the stiff Tu Tian's hand, his voice like coming from hell,
"Kill her, and we enter the final level together... the [Heaven-Reaching Star Positions] are destined to belong to us."
"No... but..."
"Do you want to disappoint Third Master's spirit in heaven and the others? Do you want us to return empty-handed? Do you want those three people who betrayed us to secretly mock us for a lifetime??"
Tu Tian opened his mouth. Many figures flashed through his mind, and finally, he still hoarsely spat out a few words:
"... I don't."
"Then do it."
Tu Tian clutched that knife, both hands trembling. He stared blankly at the young girl nailed to the wall, silently looking at him while enduring the pain. His heart felt as if it was going to be torn to pieces... On one side were the expectations from the elders, on one side was the pressure from his companion, and on one side was the promise he had just made...
Tu Tian had never been in such pain before. Even when he was beaten by the elders until his skin was torn and flesh gaped open as a child, it had never been like this, a pain that pierced his heart and bones.
"... Kill me." The young girl looked at him with tears in her eyes, speaking softly. "If killing me can make you feel better... I don't want to be your burden."
"I..."
"Kill her!! What are you still waiting for?! Kill her!!"
Tu Tian's eyes were bloodshot, and the blue veins on his neck bulged malevolently. He felt as if he was about to be torn in half... He let out a low growl, closed his eyes, and directly threw out the knife in his hand. With a whistle, it pierced through the young girl's neck, sinking deeply into the door!
There was no pain, a fatal blow.
The young girl's fresh blood dyed the door of the third level red. On that pale face, a faint sorrow still remained... Her eyeballs looked at Tu Tian, empty, yet seeming heartbroken.
As if losing all his strength, Tu Tian fell to his knees on the ground with a thump, motionless.
He felt as if something had shattered in his heart. Emptiness and guilt surged into his mind like a tide. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a smile finally curling up on Fudi's face, and an indescribable emotion filled his mind.
Rumble—
The large door that had nailed the young girl's corpse to death slowly opened amidst a roar.
"You're right, we are indeed favored by luck." Fudi stepped into the third level step by step, speaking leisurely. "A weak mechanism, a boring vote, and killing another weak girl... We actually easily arrived at the final level just like this. The [Privilege] is also close at hand."
Tu Tian's body trembled slightly. His empty eyes finally recovered a trace of sanity, his two eyes staring at Fudi in the center of the level.
In the next moment, a noticeboard hung down from above:
[Level Three:]
[When there is one and only one person surviving on this path, the door to the 'Privilege' will be opened; if the number of surviving people is greater than one after ten minutes, then all participants in the level will immediately be eliminated, losing the qualification to compete for the 'Heaven-Reaching Star Position'.]
Seeing this line of words, the smile on Fudi's face suddenly stiffened.
"This..." Fudi immediately hurled curses. "Who the fuck designed this broken rule?! Specifically targeting us?!!"
One must know, Tu Tian and Fudi were both aiming for the [Heaven-Reaching Star Position]. Their goal was to pocket both star positions, and the appearance of this rule meant that one of them had to die and be eliminated right now!
The key point was, they couldn't both give up the [Privilege] and exit the Dark Palace... After all, it was written in the rules that if neither of them died, they would both lose the qualification to continue the trial!
This rule was simply prepared specifically for the Qiankun Twins, the intent to target was too obvious!
Clang—
Tu Tian slowly pulled out the knife from the young girl's corpse. Scarlet fresh blood dripped onto the ground along the tip of the knife. In the silence, he walked towards Fudi step by step.
"... Like this." Fudi swallowed his saliva and continued speaking, "According to the plan at the very beginning, I was supposed to get the privilege, and then help you snatch a [Heaven-Reaching Star Position] together... Now only one of us can live, then let's first follow the arrangement of Second Master and the others before we came, and directly give the quota to me... Your share, after I go back, I will help you tell Second Master and the others, they will..."
"Shut up."
His words were coldly interrupted by Tu Tian, causing Fudi to be stunned. He frowned at the figure walking slowly and said in a deep voice:
"What do you mean? Are you really going to tear face with me??"
"For this bullshit privilege, I have already lost the elder brothers from the past, lost a girl who was sincerely good to me, lost my own principles and conscience... I have given up everything, and now, you want me to return empty-handed?"
Tu Tian held the knife in one hand and pulled out the long staff from his back with the other, an unprecedented chill flickering in his eyes,
"I have already given up so much, so what if I give up one more of you...?"