"You're such a phony!"
Xu Yi was drenched in sweat. This was the first time anyone had ever described him that way. He, Xu, had always acted according to his heart—when had he ever been opaque?
He quietly set the accusation aside and hurried to change the subject. "Back then, when Zimo vanished from the Small World, was that also your doing? May I ask whether Lian Yunshang, whom I met once back then, was Zimo? Your cultivation seems to be at least at the Peak Transformation Stage. How, then, did someone place a restriction on you? Who was behind it...?"
Xia Xingguang smiled faintly, about to speak, when her brow suddenly furrowed. She gazed up at the sky and let out a deep sigh. "So be it. Though Heaven has brought me endless suffering, it has still let me meet you before I go. I have nothing left to complain about. I have three things..."
Before she could finish, a beam of mysterious light pierced through everything. The hidden chamber deep underground, along with the thick layers of earth above it, vanished beneath that light like dew. Xia Xingguang disappeared as well, leaving behind only a golden bead floating in the sky. The terrifying light seemed to clash with the bead, the two forces locked together for an unknown length of time. At last, the light withdrew, leaving the golden bead still suspended in the air.
From the moment the mysterious light descended until it vanished, roughly the time it takes an incense stick to burn had passed.
Yet Xu Yi hadn't felt time passing at all. His thoughts had stopped along with it.
The terrifying power of that mysterious light surpassed every attack Xu Yi had ever witnessed. He could feel the pressure of Heaven and Earth in