Today's fourth update: Chapter 3324! 4/4!
How would she face this most absolute Storm of Destruction, born from the deepest depths of her soul?
For her, what pain could surpass all the previous death illusions and become the ultimate agony?
Outside, energy surged wildly from this ultimate strike, and the situation turned treacherous. Yet Shen-bao, trapped within the very core of the soul illusion, had endured countless repetitions of Xu Kun dying before her eyes in all manner of tragic ways. Then, the scene before her suddenly shattered and vanished.
What replaced it was not an even bloodier, crueler scene, but a stretch of... boundless, impenetrably dense white mist.
The mist flowed silently, obscuring everything and swallowing all sound and color. It was utterly dead and empty, even carrying a strange kind of peace.
"Th-this is..." Shen-bao's remaining consciousness sent out a faint ripple, filled with incredulous shock.
How could she possibly fail to recognize this place?
Within the Boundless Sea of the Haotian Pagoda, she had waited over two hundred years for that Fated Person.
But those two hundred years only referred to the single month each year when the Haotian Pagoda welcomed new trial-takers of the myriad races, allowing her to appear.
During all the other long years, when the pagoda's rules did not permit her to manifest, her true body had remained in deep slumber within the ancestral land of the Undying Mirage Clan—a place long since dried up and destroyed, steeped in the blood and curses of her clansmen.
That place was the Lost Mist Realm, regarded by the myriad races as an absolute forbidden ground from which none returned, where legend claimed only the legendary explorer Ezreal had ever been fortunate enough to survive!
How had she been brought back here?
This filled her