Nian Junxin was dead, the World-Ending Blade had vanished, and even the altar had begun to break apart. It would soon stop functioning.
Just as Chen Changan had said, their plan had failed. They had already lost.
Bao Dating seemed remarkably calm, as if he and Chen Changan were still the friends they had always been.
"However carefully you plan, Heaven has the final say. No, in the end, we still lost to human schemes."
"No one would have thought that you had such a suit of armor hidden away."
"Chen Changan, do you know that without this armor, you would have been doomed today?"
Doomed?
Hearing Bao Dating's words, Chen Changan smiled. "You're underestimating me far too much."
"I admit, the World-Ending Blade is terrifying, and it poses a threat to me."
"But the user is no good. He can't unleash the World-Ending Blade's full power."
"Although you chose to sacrifice living beings, you didn't manage to sacrifice every living being in the Nine Profound Domain."
"Even without the Crimson Demon, I wouldn't have died from that last strike. But I certainly wouldn't have brushed it off as casually as I usually do."
"I would have been injured, but you still wouldn't have been able to kill me."
"And even injured, I'd still have been strong enough to kill Nian Junxin."
"But none of that matters anymore."
"Someone took over Nian Junxin's body. What about you?"
"What's your situation?"
"I didn't see any sign that your body had been taken over."
"What grudge do we have between us? What exactly was your relationship with Nian Junxin?"
"Was Nian Junxin, after her body was taken over, just one of your subordinates?" Chen Changan asked with a frown.
Nian Junxin was dead. The soul that had taken over her body had