The deepest affection in Gu Long's world

Chapter 201 The Death of Long Xiaoyun

Although Fang Yunhua often makes surprising remarks that cause him pain, this time Fang's comments still pushed the limits of his understanding.

The pained expression was almost impossible to maintain.

Li Xunhuan really wanted to curse.

But as a cultured and refined person, he managed to suppress the impulse. After all, he wasn't about to completely let loose like Lin Shiyin, instantly turning into a professional troll.

Therefore, he can only express his dissatisfaction with his eyes now.

After staring at Fang Yunhua for five seconds and confirming that his gaze had no harmful effect, he reluctantly picked up the wine glass on the table and gulped it down.

As he put down his wine glass, he noticed that Sun Baifa, who had been in high spirits, suddenly became listless.

"Grandpa~" Sun Xiaohong released Fang Yunhua's hand and thoughtfully moved closer to Sun Baifa.

Sun Baifa continued to stare at his most familiar and beloved granddaughter with a complicated expression.

He could tell at a glance that his granddaughter and Fang Yunhua had gotten together. Even though he had expected this, the shock of the fact still left him speechless with mixed feelings.

"You two seem to be having a great chat!"

Fang Yunhua didn't stand on ceremony and sat down in the empty seat, his gaze frequently darting between Li Xunhuan and Sun Baifa.

The former hesitated to speak, but judging from his expression, he was clearly not very happy.

The latter hesitated to speak. He thought he was very happy with his relationship with Li Xunhuan, but after seeing the changes in Sun Xiaohong, he was no longer happy.

Fang Yunhua had plenty of experience with this, so he grabbed Sun Xiaohong and pulled her onto his lap.

Adding more excitement or stimulation will gradually get parents used to this scene.

This is the self-awareness of someone with blond hair!
Such intimate behavior immediately made Sun Baifa's eyes widen. When they traveled south together before, Sun Xiaohong and Fang Yunhua had never openly displayed such affectionate behavior.

Seeing that his granddaughter didn't even instinctively resist, and even took the initiative to get closer to him, made Old Sun's expression even more complicated.

"Hey"

He picked up his pipe and took a deep drag.

This increasingly silent demeanor contrasted sharply with her earlier chatter.

Lao Li then began to drink one cup after another. He believed that he had let go of his relationship with Long Xiaoyun and no longer owed him anything. However, the outrageous remarks made by Sun Baifa and especially Fang Yunhua just now made him feel an indescribable melancholy.

Perhaps, possibly, in his heart, Lin Shiyin's status was far inferior to that of Long Xiaoyun.

Otherwise, it's inexplicable that after seeing Long Xiaoyun fall ill, he didn't think about it for long before making a decisive decision. On the contrary, when faced with Lin Shiyin's pained expression, he was able to drag things out for two years, torturing her until she chose to give up on herself.

Could it be that.
"Brother Yunhua! Long Xiaoyun is dead!"

Um.
Ok? ? ?
Um! ! !
"What did you say!" Li Xunhuan suddenly stood up and looked at Lin Xian'er, who had just entered the tavern.

Fang Yunhua's gaze also fell on the sleeping beauty who had been stubbornly refusing to get out of bed. She must have just received the news and was therefore in a hurry to tell him.

Is it really okay to be so flamboyant?

The moment their eyes met, a private chat room was successfully established between the two.

Fang Yunhua: Was the aftermath handled cleanly? Did it leave no trace?

Lin Xian'er: What?! You think I did it?
Fang Yunhua: Didn't you send Supreme Treasure to follow the other party and then decisively deal with him once he was out of sight of everyone?
Lin Xian'er: Yes! That was indeed my plan! But he's been making frequent public appearances lately, so there hasn't been a suitable opportunity to strike!

……

In the past few days, Long Xiaoyun, who has not left Hebei, has indeed become a well-known joke.

His plot to harm Li Xunhuan in collusion with Zhao Zhengyi and others was exposed on the spot.

However, because Li Xunhuan revealed his sinister intention of treating his sworn brother like a toy for more than ten years in order to protect him, Lao Long gained a lot of sympathy.

However, his reckless act of framing Lao Li as the leader of the Plum Blossom Bandits, which nearly allowed the real leader to escape, escalated the matter from a personal grudge into a scourge that could poison the entire martial arts world.

In short, Long Xiaoyun's reputation is completely ruined.

It wouldn't have mattered if he had a bad reputation. After all, if he couldn't make it on the righteous path, he could go to the evil path. With his exposed schemes and tricks, he could at least make a name for himself in the evil path.

The key point is that he became the toy that Li Xunhuan had been paying attention to.

This makes even those from evil sects unwilling to associate with him, because they are also wary of ruthless individuals like Li Xunhuan who can remain unfaithful for over a decade and even enjoy the pain.

Such a powerful figure, even in a madman's concentration camp like the heretical sect, would be at the top of the food chain.

This led Long Xiaoyun to discover that in this vast martial arts world, there was no place for him to belong.

He wanted to get revenge on Li Xunhuan! He wanted to ruthlessly shed the label of being a toy!
However, once it became public knowledge that Li Xunhuan had become a guest elder of Tianji Tower, no one would dare to provoke such a ruthless person without a reason.

Nowadays, in the eyes of most people in the martial arts world, Li Xunhuan is a madman, a cunning old man who has been playing games for more than ten years, a psychopath who has become completely obsessed with learning martial arts, and, more importantly, he has the background of the Tianji Tower.

And they also have plenty of patience, because a decent person wouldn't scheme to torment their opponent for over a decade, while simultaneously tormenting themselves.

Moreover, as the third strongest on the Weapon Ranking, his martial prowess is terrifying. In particular, during his previous immersive acting performance, he deliberately released his sword aura, and the vastness of his spiritual power directly enveloped the thousands of people at the Demon Extermination Assembly.

This gave martial arts practitioners a clearer understanding of the strength of the top experts on the Weapon Ranking.

In short, Li Xunhuan is now invincible.

There's absolutely no flaw in it!

Even if you think you've found Li Xunhuan's weakness and want to use some tricks, it's very likely that this weakness, while exacerbating his suffering, will also make him stronger. So you're still in Li Xunhuan's game!

If you want to fight Li Xunhuan, then you'll have to see if you can withstand the Little Li Flying Dagger, which has been honed through such pain.

Innocence is unsolvable!

This is naturally the predicament that Long Xiaoyun is facing!

He realized that if he sought revenge against Li Xunhuan, he might be playing into the other man's hands.

But if he didn't retaliate, he would only continue to suffer in silence, and might even witness his wife and children being taken by the other party in the future. Long Xiaoyun was in great pain!

But he's not Li Xunhuan, who can become stronger by suffering!

So he made a decision!
……

Fang Yunhua: Suicide?!
Lin Xian'er: Yes, he left two suicide notes. One said that although the way he got Shiyin more than ten years ago was not fair and square, he still loved her, including before he died. Perhaps dying like this was a better way to give Shiyin an explanation than to divorce her.

Then, I asked Xiaoyun to take good care of Shiyin, and also mentioned that Shiyin should maintain her relationship with me.

The second will was addressed to Hu Bugui, who was currently ranked eighth on the Weapon Ranking. He owed Long Xiaoyun a favor, but Long Xiaoyun had been unable to find him. Furthermore, Long Xiaoyun believed that even if he asked Hu Bugui to take revenge on Li Xunhuan, he would likely find it difficult to persuade him.

So he deliberately used his own death to leave a shadow in Hu Bugui's heart.

That's why the suicide note only contained four words.

Avenge me.

It's hard to say how Hu Bugui understood the scope of this revenge. Li Xunhuan was definitely included, but if Hu Bugui were even more insane, he might have dragged you into it as well, since you were the one who exposed Long Xiaoyun's conspiracy.

Fang Yunhua: If he comes, he'll really be courting death.

……

Fang Yunhua really didn't care much about Hu Bugui. In the original work, Sun Baifa commented that there were two people whose martial arts skills he couldn't fathom: one was Li Xunhuan, and the other was Hu Bugui.

But in the end, Old Sun died at the hands of Shangguan Jin Hong, who thought he knew his own strength and weakness.

This shows that the other party's evaluation is highly exaggerated. Moreover, the camp around him is now terrifyingly strong. Lao Li is not like Lao Chu, who still adheres to the principle of not killing. He is very decisive in his actions, and his flying knives are thrown one by one without hesitation.

After a private conversation with Lin Xian'er, she told Li Xunhuan and the others the truth, without hiding the sinister intentions of Long Xiaoyun.

"So... I drove him to his death?" Lao Li's way of thinking was different from ordinary people.

For example, if Fang Yunhua had a grudge against someone, he would tell the other person to look for the reason in himself first. After all, if someone could not get along with someone as kind as himself, it must be because the other person had a bad personality, which would be a just cause for death!

Lao Li, on the other hand, first looked for his own problems. It was because of this that he was able to choose self-examination and self-consolation when Fang Yunhua repeatedly berated him, and he did not become depressed and vomit blood.

“You could understand it that way,” Fang Yunhua replied affirmatively. “He realized that no matter what he did, he couldn’t kill you, so he could only force Hu Bugui to make a final stand by committing suicide.”

Fang Yunhua wasn't too surprised by this result, because in the original storyline, after Long Xiaoyun had a change of heart, he resolutely went to find Shangguan Jin Hong and sacrificed himself to win a chance for Li Xunhuan to survive.

Deep down, he is a ruthless person who is not lacking in courage to face death.

When he is truly in a desperate situation, he is also determined to fight to the death.

This clearly portrays Li as the main villain.

However, considering that Li deliberately slashed his cheek with a throwing knife at the demon-slaying conference and then licked the blood with his tongue, it was indeed very perverted!

"So what are you going to do? Commit suicide with your good brother?" Fang Yunhua looked at Lao Li and clearly caught him rolling his eyes.

Clearly, Li was no longer as honest at this point.

It's possible that Fang Yunhua just pointed out that the reason the other side lost a wave of enemies was to try and exchange one for one with Lao Li. Naturally, this wouldn't make him feel guilty, but only a kind of inexplicable melancholy.

"I don't understand. How did things get to this point between me, Da, and Long Xiaoyun?"

"This is actually Shion-nee's fault too."

Upon hearing Fang Yunhua's remarks, everyone in the tavern cast puzzled glances at him.

"If Sister Shiyin is skilled, then you and Laolong can follow the example of Ehuang and Nüying, and then you will naturally not have these troubles."

Li Xunhuan was once again shocked by Fang Yunhua's outrageous remarks.

Is this even a solution a human could come up with?!
Although it seemed to make some sense, just thinking about that scene made Lao Li feel unable to accept it, which made him less saddened by Long Xiaoyun's death.

Even if he severed ties with him, as a crybaby, he could still squeeze out a few tears.

However, with Fang Yunhua's two sentences, the first sentence made it clear that Long Xiaoyun wanted to take him with him even in death, and the second sentence was Lin Shiyin holding Laolong with one hand and waving to him with the other, saying, "You've come at just the right time."

He felt that the current reality wasn't so incomprehensible that it was already quite good.
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Lin Shiyin and Long Xiaoyun also quickly learned the truth.

This left both of them with mixed feelings.

Long Xiaoyun, in particular, felt a deep hatred for his father, but knowing that his father had ended his life in this way, he felt very sad. He also remembered the test that Fang Yunhua had mentioned to him when he was in Jiujiang Prefecture.

In retrospect, he considers himself to have failed this test.

Because the result was not perfect, although it seemed to have made every effort to salvage Xingyun Manor's reputation, it was actually just a case of him using his adoptive father and uncle's influence to bully others.

He believes he could do better if given another chance, but time cannot be reversed, and he can only accept the outcome.

Lin Shiyin, on the other hand, had a good cry. Now she lived a very carefree life, laughing when she wanted to laugh and crying when she wanted to cry. Even though she hated Long Xiaoyun, he was still the person she had lived with for more than ten years, and there was still affection between them even if there was no romantic love.

After crying, that's it.

Neither of them felt that Li Xunhuan could really be blamed for Long Xiaoyun's death. After the Demon Extermination Conference, Fang Yunhua had already explained Li Xunhuan's good intentions to them.

Lin Shiyin truly understood Li Xunhuan's choice. Although Long Xiaoyun believed that Li might be enjoying this feeling, she also understood that he was actually protecting Long Xiaoyun.

Long Xiaoyun died without hesitation, and even showed an attitude of wanting to entangle himself with Lao Li to the very end, which left the two of them at a loss for words.

Perhaps this is true love.

Regardless, as the former head of Xingyun Manor, Long Xiaoyun welcomed back his father's body and gave him a grand funeral, which can be considered as giving him a dignified ending.

On the first day after the funeral, Old Sun left Baoding Prefecture with Sun Tuozi. Before leaving, he earnestly instructed Fang Yunhua to exercise restraint!

On the third day after the funeral, Afei began his patrol, embarking on his own journey through the martial world with only his sword.

Six days after the funeral, Lin Xian'er, who had been fighting Fang Yunhua for three days and was almost stuffed, chose to follow up on the plan against the Nangong family. She was an ambitious woman who couldn't sit still and was very interested in such scheming and intrigue.

Ten days after the funeral, Fang Yunhua received a letter inviting him to witness a duel between two great swordsmen.

(End of this chapter)