Giant Country.
Snowy mountains.
The snow-white peaks resembled colossal pillars, piercing the dim, gray heavens. Scattered snowflakes howled through the world with the gale, sweeping everything in their path.
This was the northernmost border of Giant Country, and also the outermost edge of all Asgard.
Palm-sized snowflakes swirled down from the sky, burying every sound. In the deathly silent snowfield, two figures suddenly condensed from dispersed black threads.
Leng Xuan staggered half a step forward, his legs buried up to the knees in the thick snow. He looked around blankly, his gaze falling on the black-haired girl struggling to rise from the snow not far away...
"Xiao Nan!"
Leng Xuan pulled his legs free and walked to Si Xiaonan's side. He helped her up from the snow.
"Xiao Nan, are you all right?"
"I'm fine..." Si Xiaonan shook her pale face, pointed to her palm, and smiled weakly. "Back in Kunlun Void, Queen Mother gave me a thread of true qi to sustain my Remnant Soul. Even if Loki's soul scattered completely, my soul wouldn't immediately collapse... With this thread of true qi, my soul can last another half hour.
This thread of true qi was originally meant to prevent Loki from directly using the Soul Contract to erase my life, but now Loki is dead...
I want to use this final half hour to do something else."
As though realizing something, Leng Xuan froze where he stood.
"Go home..." Si Xiaonan looked into his eyes and smiled weakly.
She smiled happily, like a child. Raising her scar-covered hand, she pointed somewhere in the distance.
"Leng Xuan, Loki is dead! We're free... We... can finally go back to Cangnan."
Before she could finish that last sentence, two scorching tears slid down Si Xiaonan's smiling cheeks and fell into the snow.