Tears burst from the old woman's eyes.
At that moment, she forgot about resisting. Instead, she chose to embrace the person beside her and place her life entirely in Li Tianming's hands.
"I'm here."
The old man let out a crazed laugh and turned to hold her.
They had admitted defeat!
They made no final stand. There was no way they could stop the Sword Qi from the divine swords raining down across the sky!
The violent Sword Qi of the Sui Prison Tianyuan pierced their bodies along with the Eastern Emperor Sword. In an instant, both were riddled with holes and died on the spot!
Rrrip!
The Sword Qi of the Sui Prison Tianyuan exploded like fireworks in bloom.
"Ah..."
Still locked in each other's arms, they stared at one another until they fell together.
Blood sprayed everywhere.
Even in death, they could not be pulled apart.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
As the Sword Qi raged, the Stele of a Thousand Words of the Great Dao shattered with their deaths and vanished completely from the world.
The explosion made the starry sky more dazzling still.
Countless stone steles turned to ash and drifted down.
It was over!
All that remained were two corpses!
Perhaps no one would believe that the two Lords of Huanlan, once figures who had commanded the wind and clouds, had died in their old age in this deserted corner.
"You came for profit, and you died for profit. Who can you blame?"
From cities as small as Lihuo City to the vast starry sky of order, stories of "people dying for wealth and birds for food" played out everywhere.
People fought over resources and treasures because that was a law written into the world itself.
The weak were meat for the strong. Who didn't want to