"Wu...yang...?"
That soft call was like dawn piercing eternal night, carrying bewilderment, confirmation, and an indescribably complex emotion that had crossed through endless ages. It rang over the shattered immortal boat. Time seemed to freeze at that instant.
As Li Wuyang fell, his consciousness had already sunk into boundless darkness. Only the emptiness left in his heart after the spiritual radiance of Xuan Nü's embryo had dissipated brought a faint, warm throb, as though he had returned to the womb. He could not hear that call, yet deep within his soul, something quietly became whole by a fraction.
But everyone else was scared out of their wits by those two simple words!
The Annihilation Mystic Maiden! An incarnation of the ancient Great Dao, a supreme existence who had once fought alongside the Dao Venerable of the Starry Sky and merged with annihilation to stop the World Destruction Great Tribulation, nearly dissolving into the Dao! She... had truly been awakened by a mere Golden Immortal junior in such a resolute manner?! Even if only part of her consciousness had awakened, its implications alone were enough to overturn the balance of the starry sea!
Xuan Nü's gaze swept across the battlefield. Annihilation filled her left eye, while starfire burned in her right. Wherever she looked, all things seemed to undergo Life and Death Reincarnation. She saw the shattered immortal boat, the horrified Demon Lord and Star Law Officer, and the complicated expression on the inspector's face. At last, her gaze returned to the young man in green robes, whose life force was like a candle flickering in the wind as Master of Qingwei Temple and Yue Liuli desperately caught him.
The frost that had endured for ages in her eyes melted for an instant when it touched Li Wuyang. A trace of