Outside the city.
The setting sun cast its lingering glow, withered grass strewn in disarray.
Su Yi walked on by himself.
The tavernkeeper carried a black wooden sword and silently followed behind.
"That's enough."
Su Yi quietly halted and turned around.
Hua Hongzhen, appearing as the tavernkeeper of Fuxiang Tavern, stopped as well. "I do not regret what happened back then."
His voice was resolute, each word striking the ground like a nail.
Su Yi gave an oh. "Whether you regret it or not is none of my concern."
Hua Hongzhen's expression was complicated. With a sigh, he said, "You may not care, but I have to say it. Otherwise, even if I die, I will never rest in peace!"
Su Yi said indifferently, "Then say it, while the sun has yet to set and night has yet to fall."
Hua Hongzhen took a deep breath. "In my heart, the matter of you and my senior sister Yu Xinyao becoming Dao Companions was wrong from the very beginning!"
"You were the one who harmed her!"
"You nearly harmed my Azure Firmament God Court as well!"
"The reason I cooperated with Burning Lamp Buddha, Ancient Flower Immortal, and the others to deal with you back then was to save my senior sister's life and save the entire Azure Firmament God Court!"
"In your eyes, I betrayed you and Senior Sister and became an utterly heinous traitor. But in my eyes, if I had not done that back then, not only would Senior Sister have died, the Azure Firmament God Court would have suffered a calamity of annihilation!"
His sonorous voice echoed through the mountain wind at dusk.
Su Yi looked calmly at Hua Hongzhen. It was obvious that these words had been bottled up in his heart for a very, very