Deep within the emerald bamboo sea, Xuanyuan Xue, who had been playing the zither, seemed to sense something and stopped.
A veil of blue gauze covered her face, yet she was no longer the peerless beauty of old!
Skin like a chicken's, hair like a crane's!
Bent and decrepit with age!
Moreover, Xuanyuan Xue's aura was terribly weakened, her cultivation having fallen to the Mystic Immortal Realm...
The sight made Chen Xuan's heart twist as though wrung apart!
"Human Emperor? You... you've come?"
The young woman brewing tea in the distance cried out. Her beautiful eyes shimmered with astonishment—it was none other than Xuanyuan Xue's sole disciple, Luo Li.
"Snow Sister, how did you become like this? And no one even reported it to me!"
Chen Xuan said heartbrokenly as he strode forward.
Whoosh!
Xuanyuan Xue drifted away, trying to keep her distance, yet Chen Xuan still drew her into his embrace.
Filled with guilt, he said, "Snow Sister, did this happen because you forcibly passed the Human Emperor Dao inheritance to me, suffering backlash? Back then, the damage you sustained was more than just losing your Heavenly Melody Eyes, wasn't it?"
"Don't worry. Three petals of the Eternal Life Lotus within me have already bloomed. I came today to help you recover completely!"
With his discerning eye, Chen Xuan immediately saw the source of Xuanyuan Xue's illness!
Countless curse-like black threads, resembling spiderwebs, coiled within her body. Strange and sinister, they had completely locked down Xuanyuan Xue's physique and Immortal Soul!
These black threads were exceedingly troublesome, similar to the Fallen Divine Curse.
Yet Xuanyuan Xue shook her head and said bitterly, "Younger Brother Xuan, leave! I have been afflicted with Dao Poison; even you can do nothing about it! Dao Poison has no cure. Not even the Eternal