Chapter 2186: I Will Never Accept a World Like This
Youming's eyes widened, veins bulging on his forehead. Clearly, Yakeli had hit a sore spot!
His surging spiritual power instantly exploded, flooding in through the observation window and crushing down heavily on Yakeli!
The sound of Yakeli's crystalline muscles cracking could even be heard; his formidable physical constitution was no match for Youming!
Both his body and soul were wracked with heart-wrenching agony. Even Yakeli couldn't help but roar in pain!
Yet he suddenly burst into manic laughter!
"Hahaha! What else can you do besides this to me? You think I'm afraid of death? Kill me then! Come on!"
"That should be easy for you, right? As simple as crushing an ant!"
Youming narrowed his eyes and pressed his palm heavily against the iron cocoon, immediately leaving a handprint on it.
"Since you're so eager to die and have no attachment to this world, why don't you kill yourself? Why not self-destruct?"
Yakeli narrowed his eyes and stared directly into Youming's.
"I will never commit suicide! My life was given to me by my mother! It's the only gift she left me! I may fail anyone, but I will never fail her!"
Even though she's no longer in this world!
Youming gritted his teeth. Yakeli's life force was already very weak; if he kept pressing, he might not survive.
Left with no choice, Youming withdrew his power.
"I'm trying to save you! Don't you understand? Being locked up here until the end of your life? What's the point?"
"Is this what would make your mother proud? What's so hard to understand? Go out and become a great clan's sword, become a Star Devourer. There may be constraints, but a Star Devourer is still a Star Devourer!"
"An existence at the peak of the Starry Sky—how many can control you? Now, on the eve of the Sequence War, you know the value of a Star Devourer!"
Yakeli let out a scornful laugh, his eyes full of disdain.
"Bullshit! Bow to the great clans, plant a slave mark on my body, and become a dog that bites?"
"Even if I die, Yakeli will never become someone else's tool, never become a slave breed! Even if my mother's spirit in heaven knew, she would understand me!"
"I don't hate you—I hate this damn world! This disgusting slave breed system! I loathe the coldness of people's hearts!"
"What right do you have! What right do you have to decide the fate of other races! To trample on their dignity! Life is born free!"
Youming's heart was struck hard again, because he remembered that Jiangnan had said the same thing.
Youming gritted his teeth and said, "Face reality! You live in such a world—rules aren't dictated by any single person!"
"Don't you want to change this world? Then fight for it! Become a Star Devourer, reach the peak—you'll have greater influence and a chance to change the rules!"
"Otherwise, you're just standing still! Just..."
Yakeli sneered, "Don't speak such disgusting words from your filthy mouth! You're a Star Devourer! What have you changed?"
"Who doesn't want to become stronger? But I can't lose myself! Branded as a slave breed, becoming a Star Devourer? Do my master's bidding? Be a good little dog? Would I still be me?"
"My ability is limited! I can't change this damn world! I can only demand of myself not to be changed by this world!"
Youming gritted his teeth. Can you stop stabbing me?
"Why can't you still get it? Becoming a Star Devourer—even if branded with a slave mark, so what? As long as you have value, they won't casually discard you, and they won't force you to do what you don't want to do!"
"They just need you to stand up and hold the line when necessary. Isn't that better than being locked up here to rot?"
Yakeli's eyes were full of hatred: "Do you know how I came to be? I was born in a silicon-based life lab. My mother was of the Ji Yue Clan, from the Star Ruins development, turned into a slave breed!"
"Because the Ji Yue Clan's genes have high compatibility and variability—traits other races don't have—they made good experimental material, so the Silicon Clan bought them for life experiments!"
"Natural breeding, artificial breeding—forced every day to accept genes from all kinds of races, with no dignity at all. Parasitic Species, Crystal Clan, Metal Clan, Jing Clan, Hidden Spirit Clan, Insect Race..."
"Countless Ji Yue Clan members couldn't bear the humiliation and died unnatural deaths. The experiments failed countless times, but there were also successful cases—like my mother! 166081—she didn't even have a name!"
Youming frowned deeply. Although he knew Yakeli possessed multiple abilities, he didn't know how he was actually born!
He didn't belong to any race. Youming had assumed he was a product of Silicon Clan gene experiments, a stitched-up freak!
But he hadn't expected his original race to be the Ji Yue Clan!
Youming hadn't even heard of that race's name, but that was normal—there were too many slave breeds for everyone to remember their names.
Yakeli seemed to sink into memories.
"And so a mongrel was born—a biological weapon carefully crafted by the Silicon Clan, bearing the excellent genes of 49 races, perfectly fused. There is no other like him in this entire starry sky!"
"That mongrel is me!"
The Silicon Clan wasn't satisfied with a single case; they wanted to mass-produce biological weapons as excellent as Yakeli!
Even though 166081 gave birth to Yakeli for the Silicon Clan, she still had to endure endless experiments and accept genes!
She eventually died in the experiments. Even in death, she was treated as a sample for analysis and experimentation—squeezed dry of her last remaining value!
More like an object, a tool—such was the fate of a slave breed!
And Yakeli was the only completed product of the Silicon Clan's biological weapon program!
When Yakeli was young, his mother told him about the Ji Yue Clan's former world—a beautiful world before it was developed into a Star Ruins!
In the center of the world stood a divine tree, symbolizing life and hope. Every year, the Ji Yue Clan would go to worship under the divine tree, praying for a smooth and safe year ahead!
Every night, the divine tree would emit a soft glow, and countless sparks flew about, blessing the Ji Yue Clan!
Yakeli remembered that when his mother spoke of this, there was a smile on her face!
He also wanted to see how beautiful the world his mother had described to him really was!
And the name of that divine tree was Yakeli...
If only there were no slave breeds in this world, if only everyone could live happily in their own original worlds—how wonderful that would be!
"I didn't inherit my mother's slave mark. The Silicon Clan seemed to underestimate my abilities, and I escaped..."
"The days of flight were hard—changing my appearance, hiding, struggling to cultivate—but I gradually came to understand the truth of this Starry Sky World!"
"I once fantasized about changing the rules of this world, but I couldn't do it..."
Yakeli had once returned to the Star Ruins belonging to the Ji Yue Clan, but things had long changed beyond recognition!
The world was desolate; the divine tree called Yakeli had long been burned to charcoal!
The beautiful world his mother had described, Yakeli ultimately never saw with his own eyes...
When Yakeli saw Ji Yue Clan members sold to flower streets, sent to mine, used as larval beds by the Insect Race, used as experimental tools!
Treated as playthings by big shots, even giving up dignity and personality to survive, posturing provocatively...
Yakeli's heart died completely. And there were tens of thousands of slave breeds like the Ji Yue Clan, countless Star Ruins!
This seemingly brilliant starry sky, dazzling and prosperous, is it not built upon the bones of countless slave breeds?
Who hears the cries of the slave breeds? Why should the weak be bullied, bought and sold, turned into slave breeds to be butchered at will?
The Starry Sky Races accept all this with clear consciences. No one thinks it's wrong. People's hearts are cold and numb!
Such rules have persisted for over two billion years since the Cosmic War!
Yakeli had challenged the rules before, but he failed! How could he fight? He was touching the interests of the Starry Sky Races!
It was the cake of the Starry Sky overlord—the Bose Race, the cake of the Sacred Law Council!
The power of one person is as insignificant as dust. No one hears Yakeli's cry!
Yakeli had never for a moment accepted this world. He was crazy, yet not crazy...
Tears slid from the corners of Yakeli's eyes, yet he chuckled grimly.
"You know? There's not a single Ji Yue Clan member left in this starry sky. They've been exterminated—I killed them all across the stars!"
"I don't have the power to save them, I don't have the power to change the rules, but I have the power to set them free, to no longer be bound by the fate of slave breeds, struggling in misery!"
"I will never accept this world! Everyone is guilty! So! Those who stand in my way die! As long as I live one more day, as long as I'm not dead yet!"
"I will kill endlessly! Since I can't turn this world into what I want it to be, then let it all be damned destroyed! Die! Hahaha!"
Yakeli's laughter was full of madness and unruliness!
Youming knew he couldn't persuade him. Yakeli was both crazy and not crazy.
Because he dared to challenge the rules of the Starry Sky and acted on it, but he was too extreme.
The unrealistic ideals in his heart far exceeded his own capabilities.
Youming turned around and slammed the cell door shut.
"When you've figured it out and are ready to accept, call me to see you again!"
Yakeli laughed maniacally: "Then it seems you and I will never meet again in this life! Fine! I'll enjoy the peace!"
Youming said nothing and left the place. The rumbling in the Death Prison continued.
Yet Youming couldn't care less. Even a madman dared to take action in pursuit of the freedom in his heart!
Then... what about himself?
The fate of slave breeds was indeed tragic. Jiangnan dared to be as ruthless as necessary, to do things as cruel as possible, just to prevent humans from becoming slave breeds!
And now the Youming Clan, though not bearing slave marks, was not much better off than slave breeds...
PS: Only one chapter tonight. I had some errands during the day—renewing my driver's license—and didn't have enough time when I got home to finish. You guys will understand, right?
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