Night soon fell over Chang'an City.
Standing atop the wall of a Marketplace somewhere in Chang'an City, Gu Xi looked at Sisi beside him and said with some resignation, "Go on, then. You spent the whole afternoon doing this and that. What exactly are you trying to do?"
"I want to destroy this city."
Sisi said it with a completely serious face.
"There's no longer any place for our Saint Sect in this city.
"And those people in the Saint Sect are still thinking about making peace with them.
"They don't even look around. In the Chang'an City of today, where is there anywhere they can survive?"
At this point, Sisi's eyes shifted, and she leaned her body against Gu Xi. "You're different.
"At first, I only wanted to ask where you sent that woman Shi Houren.
"But later I realized that you truly don't care about Chang'an City.
"In your eyes, this is just a dead city.
"That's very rare.
"At first, I really did want to help you escape.
"But now I want to join your plan and destroy the city before us. What do you think?"
Gu Xi glanced at Sisi, then finally asked one question.
"You're on the same level as Shi Houren?"
"Of course. Back then, even though I lost, it wasn't because my strength was inferior to hers. It was because she was best at putting on a front and persuaded many helpers to aid her. If it had really been one-on-one..."
Before Sisi could finish speaking, the scene before her changed, and she and Gu Xi appeared in a stretch of void.
There were only five floor tiles in the void.
Shi Houren, whom Sisi had been talking about all this time, was sitting on one of the floor tiles, bored and staring