Han Yang understood Yunxi's meaning at once. She wanted Sheng Xia to fall directly. He nodded and said,
"When does True Venerable think it would be appropriate for me to act?"
Yunxi parted her red lips and spoke two words:
"Now."
"Now?"
Han Yang had not expected Yunxi to be so decisive. He repeated the question, and after receiving an affirmative answer, he sighed and communicated with the Cicada King within his Dantian, issuing an order through it to the little Ice Soul Cicada that had merged into Sheng Xia's soul body.
A quarter of an hour later, Han Yang withdrew his divine sense, looked up at Yunxi, and said,
"Sheng Xia has already fallen. Her Soul Lamp should be extinguished by now."
At the Su family ancestral grounds, tens of thousands of miles away, Sheng Xia had fallen without a sound. Only Su Jing, who held her Soul Lamp, knew that his beloved had left him forever. He was overcome with grief, turned back to the Su family, and sent word to summon Su Zisheng, who had been guarding Chuyue City, back to the family.
Only then did Yunxi nod in satisfaction and say,
"You've worked hard. You lost another Ice Soul Cicada because of this."
Han Yang shook his head and said,
"When I sent Little Cicada into its host's body, I had already expected this day would come. I originally thought you would use Little Cicada to restrain Su Jing. I did not expect you to send Sheng Xia on her way."
Only after Yunxi pushed the jade slip Han Yang had given her back to him did she reply,
"Back then, I only reluctantly made a deal with the Su family in order to help my mother escape. Did they really think I had forgotten the