"It was now."
"It really was now."
Chu Feiyan ignored Wang Jinquan, who was baring his fangs and brandishing his claws. All she could see was Shi Yuhui.
Her constantly trembling body suddenly stopped shaking.
Because she had made her decision.
"I originally wanted to make a fortune by breaking through on stream, but now the breach of contract fee alone is going to bleed me dry. So you have to survive, then send me money!" Chu Feiyan opened her mouth and let out a sharp screech. It could not pierce clouds or shatter stone, but it made everyone's souls tremble.
Wang Jinquan immediately collapsed.
"Take it! Take it all! Take everything!" Chu Feiyan completely unleashed her mind, like a supernova suddenly erupting. She opened every lock on her soul and said to the Demon Lord Shi Tiexin had planted within her, "Take my fear, my insights, my... freedom. Take it all!"
"I don't want potential. I don't want freedom. I don't want a future!"
"I only want power! The power to save her!!"
A huge, pitch-black, bottomless abyss opened toward Shi Tiexin.
That was Chu Feiyan's mind.
Shi Tiexin's Demon Seed fell, falling without end, quickly vanishing into boundless darkness.
Downward.
Downward.
An instant seemed like eternity.
A single thought seemed infinite.
Empty and drifting, with nowhere to settle, as though floating upon a lightless sea of darkness.
But at some unknown moment, a light suddenly flashed before him.
Shi Tiexin stopped falling. He found himself beneath a boundless black sky. On the vast earth stood a silver-white tree, its roots planted firmly in the ground. The tree was formed from three trunks, twisted together like braided dough, joining forces to rise upward and grow a lush, flourishing crown.
White light gleamed from the tree, with starlike motes sparkling