It was hard to believe that such resolve could exist within a fallen corpse.
Lin Zhongxiaowu frowned slightly, a chill running down his spine.
Even though he did not know the Crowned One before him, he knew Yuan Yuan well enough.
Under the Yuan family's madmen and Valkyrie's Guixing Spear, there could never be any such thing as not being completely dead. The moment one was pierced by the Guixing Spear, the soul would already have been utterly torn apart.
And according to Lin Zhongxiaowu's understanding, the Mountain Lord's sword-drawn beheading had merely been the most reliable "full stop."
A complete end.
Yet no one had expected such a development at the end of the movement.
The shattered corpse had actually carried the head used as a wager and returned it across such a long distance.
As though it had accepted the loss of the bet.
At the moment death arrived, what drove the body was not the hope of life, but the desire for a particular death...
It had to salvage its final chance.
It absolutely could not let the lord it served be disgraced because of it!
After those hollow eyes closed, the final thing left upon that blood-soaked face was an incomparably open and composed smile.
"Huai Shi, what do you think of my subordinate?" Fenkuzhu asked.
"Truly magnificent."
Huai Shi replied, "Admirable."
"And it cuts me to the heart... I even regret it."
Fenkuzhu suddenly asked, "Would you change your mind? I am willing to exchange the treasures in my treasury for it. Choose whatever you wish."
Huai Shi shook his head. "If I had not proposed the wager, then naturally none of this would matter.
"But now that the result is clear, if I went back on my word, would I not betray his determination