My Arms Can Turn into Blades-Chapter 96 - 89: So... He Really Is Their God

"... May I ask, who are you?"

The moment he saw Chen Lusi.

Sun Rensheng’s heartbeat accelerated instantly, his fists clenched, his entire body tense, his expression rigid beyond belief.

But he forced himself to remain calm, still pretending to know nothing, and asked a question.

He can’t recognize me!

He definitely can’t recognize me!

I don’t have a single speck of Spirit on me... Although I don’t know how he found me, he certainly doesn’t know who I am!

"Are you feeling afraid?"

Chen Lusi stepped forward, leaving the railing, looking at Sun Rensheng’s stiff expression, he whispered, "Then why can you calmly make the deceased repeatedly experience what they feared and regretted the most? Your fear is fear, but theirs isn’t?"

"What exactly are you talking about? I don’t know what you’re saying!"

Sun Rensheng could already hear his heartbeat like a drum.

"A young girl in bloom wanting to trade lives with others, a middle-aged man hiding from a future he can’t see, a mother who can’t start over, a pair of mother and child burdened with mutual guilt."

Chen Lusi looked at Sun Rensheng and continued, "This place is quite close to the crematorium, you should hear quite a bit of crying, right? Even so, you can calmly use their pain to construct the Anomaly Realm?

Despite knowing you’d be afraid yourself, why can you ignore those cries, ignore that pain, ignore those fears?

Just because of a slogan? To gain freedom? Achieving freedom by insulting the deceased?"

"... I don’t know what you’re talking about!"

Sun Rensheng, almost seething with anger, suddenly swung his arm, suppressing his trembling, turning to leave: "Where did this lunatic come from!"

He didn’t even close the door, looking ahead down the corridor, ready to stride away.

"You think those threads disappear when they get cut? The threads of those dead have always been above your head... you didn’t know?"

Chen Lusi’s voice came again.

Along with Chen Lusi’s footsteps.

Like a death knell.

"... How could it be!!!!"

Upon hearing these words, Sun Rensheng finally broke down, suddenly turning around, roaring as he raised his right hand, releasing Authority at Chen Lusi, while his other hand reached into his pocket for two gem-like blue Stones, attempting to stuff them into his mouth.

Thin threads appeared on his right arm, extending forward.

But the next second.

Swish—

The blade cut through the air, the threads snapped directly.

Sun Rensheng’s eyes widened, watching Chen Lusi, who closed the distance, side-step and swing the blade, slightly parted his lips, frozen in place.

This scene truly unfolded before his eyes... more shocking than expected.

And before he could react, a large hand suddenly gripped his other hand.

Sun Rensheng immediately reacted, trying to forcefully shove the Stones into his mouth.

But Chen Lusi gripped his hand tightly, even though he used all his might, he couldn’t move his hand even a millimeter.

"..."

Sun Rensheng looked into Chen Lusi’s sapphire-colored eyes, showing a look of despair.

Regretting he hadn’t cultivated properly for the first time.

"Answer me, do you think you can achieve freedom by insulting the deceased?"

Chen Lusi held Sun Rensheng’s hand with his left while his right hand, twisted with flesh and blood, returned to normal, becoming a regular palm.

He grasped Sun Rensheng’s neck, slowly lifting him, asking again.

"Ho—"

Sun Rensheng shifted his gaze, looking at the Stones so close to him, his left hand trembling violently from exertion.

As long as he swallows them!

As long as he swallows them, he can escape!

Chen Lusi also shifted his gaze, glimpsing at the objects resembling blue gems in Sun Rensheng’s hand, recalling briefly seeing Stones before, probably guessing what they were.

He gripped Sun Rensheng’s wrist, gradually applying pressure, then suddenly yanked to the side.

Crack—

The sound of bone breaking resonated, causing teeth to ache.

"Ah—"

Sun Rensheng’s mouth opened wide, the flesh on his face quivering, his eyes bulging, staring at Chen Lusi.

Then.

Clink.

His hand fell limply, unable to hold anything, the two Stones dropped to the ground.

The two Stones emitted a clear clinking sound, as if announcing the toll of death.

Sun Rensheng gazed at the last hope on the ground, utterly despairing.

He looked at the expressionless Chen Lusi, for the first time feeling himself so close to death.

Death.

A word that once seemed commonplace to him now filled him with dread.

He doesn’t want to die!

He doesn’t want to die!!

Suddenly, Sun Rensheng struggled violently, kicking his legs, his still movable hand desperately slapping Chen Lusi’s hand clutching his neck.

His Authority was to command the dead! Not become one himself! He was the master of the dead! How could he possibly die!

How could he possibly die!!!

"Those who make others seem like helpless wastrels in their weakest moments, end up like wastrels themselves at their weakest moments before death."

Chen Lusi’s right arm remained motionless, gradually exerting pressure, softly speaking, "And those who violate the deceased with impunity, who show no respect for death... yet eventually fear death."

"You people are truly disgraceful."

"Did you never consider that one day you’d meet the same fate?"

"Perhaps you never thought... You’ve always placed yourselves in higher positions."

"Well, now please go and experience it."

"Feel what it’s like to be the dead."

Chen Lusi’s grip on Sun Rensheng’s neck tightened.

The intense sensation of suffocation gradually ceased Sun Rensheng’s struggling.

He was devoid of Spirit.

Just a few seconds, he could no longer endure.

Sun Rensheng’s face turned purple, groaning hoarsely, finally looking at Chen Lusi.

Sunlight shone upon Chen Lusi.

He stood with his back to the sunshine, the light elongating his shadow.

As dust floated.

In his daze, Sun Rensheng seemed to see more than one shadow on the ground.

A blooming young girl, a middle-aged man with a black umbrella, a woman in red holding a baby, a mother and child.

They suddenly appeared behind Chen Lusi, faces devoid of resentment, calmly watching him.

Each of them had a thin thread atop their heads, and the other end of the thread attached to Chen Lusi’s wrist...

Sun Rensheng slowly widened his eyes, suddenly recalling the dreamlike scene.

The silhouette seemingly divine, relentlessly clutching his throat.

No matter how he struggled, he couldn’t break free.

... Just like now. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

He took one last look at Chen Lusi standing against the sun, tears and snot streaming forth.

Great terror emerged on his face.

He should’ve realized earlier...

He should’ve left earlier...

He would definitely find him...

So that’s it.

Turns out... he truly is their God.

Turns out, he is the master of death.

Why... why didn’t he realize sooner.

Sun Rensheng’s eyes rolled white, one final thought surfaced, followed by his body stiffening... and he breathed his last.

Not strangled to death... but scared to death.