"Impossible! What Charm Empress? You're lying to me!"
The first to erupt was Evil Alchemist Qi Wei. As he watched Great Prince transform from face to figure into the white moonlight of his past, he trembled with excitement, even unable to resist touching his temples, afraid his white hair would frighten an old acquaintance.
But the instant "Great Prince" personally admitted to being the Charm Empress, his heart died completely.
Qi Wei knelt before "Great Prince." "Shu Nu, you never liked joking around. Don't... don't..."
"Qi Wei, you truly are a sentimental fool."
"Great Prince's" tone and manner were incomparably similar to the Shu Nu in his memories, yet the feeling that had once made his heart race was gone. She was not that person.
Evil Alchemist Qi Wei wept where he stood. Without another word, he turned and lunged forward, smashing his skull to pieces against the Star Copper Medicine Furnace.
His determination to die was absolute, without the slightest hesitation. Even his neck had snapped.
The Evil Alchemist who had once committed every kind of wickedness, the chief culprit behind the chaos across Putuo Prefecture, had actually died just like that.
A voice rang out. "Only today did I learn that when a heart dies, no medicine can save it."
"He once used his ruthless biological father to force Great Prince to die. Now that retribution has fallen upon him, it can be considered karma coming full circle!"
A calm voice sounded. It came from Chaluo Zha, the Eastern Heavenly King of the God of Release Cult.
Chaluo Zha, the strongest of the Five Halls Heavenly Kings, carried a severed head in his left hand and tossed it to the ground. It rolled wildly, drenched in blood.
The head struck Zhou Mou's shin and flipped face-up. It was...