Time Is Running Out

This kind of love did not specifically mean romantic love. It could be friendship or familial love. As long as a certain emotion reached its extreme, her ability could activate.

The previous person September had substituted death for was the Ninth Floor Master, who had died for familial love;

The one before that was Hualuan, who had died for friendship;

The one before that... She could not quite remember.

September secretly helped the High Priest with her affairs, using her ability most frequently. That was why the blackness spread the fastest.

If she had not possessed the ability to substitute death, she would have left this world long ago.

Vermilion Bird remembered what the High Priest had said: Do not become too close to September.

September was a liar. Once you truly fell in love with her, you became her substitute for death.

The Ninth Floor Master's blackness had already spread to his heart, and he would not live much longer. Thus, while substituting his death for September's, he had put on an act to help her scheme out her next substitute.

The High Priest wanted to send the Heart of Black Flame to Tingfeng City, so the incident of September betraying everyone for love had come about.

At first, she had thought September had truly betrayed everyone.

But later, after seeing September secretly sending messages to the High Priest, she knew she had been mistaken.

September was still the same September—the selfish, cunning September.

Everything was nothing more than a scheme to kill two birds with one stone.

The High Priest plotted against Tingfeng City.

September plotted against Gu Mingshi's life.

"High Priest, will Gu Mingshi really become a substitute for death? He looks very cautious and wary. He won't trust others that easily."

"He will. No one can