Gu Yuena: He... He left me again...

Dugu Bo's face was frozen in an expression of utter horror and disbelief.

His entire body turned into a lifelike ice sculpture, emanating a terrifying cold aura, and plummeted straight down from the sky.

With a "boom," he smashed onto the ground, ice shards scattering everywhere.

Instant kill!

"Gu Yue" didn't even spare another glance at the frozen Dugu Bo.

She frowned slightly, sensing the limits of this Split Soul body and the resistance from Gu Yuena's Split Soul.

Time was running out; she had to catch up to him!

Her gaze once again fell upon the direction Su Ling had disappeared.

Deep within those cold purple eyes, complex emotions churned, emotions she herself couldn't fully comprehend.

Yet, her face maintained its mask of cold emptiness.

Shengyan... this time... you won't escape again!

She lingered no longer, her figure transforming into a silver lightning bolt tearing through the night sky as she pursued.

The night was as black as ink, the cold seeping into the deserted streets of Heaven Dou City.

The shattered stone slabs gleamed faintly under the weak, flickering light of the Soul Guiding Lamps.

Su Ling finally stopped.

It wasn't that he wanted to stop, but his body had completely reached its limit of Collapse.

The Destruction God Armor had long since exhausted its last reserves of power, silently dissipating and returning to the Sea of Consciousness within his Soul Depths.

At this moment, he had shed all pretense.

Revealing a young face, yet pale as paper and covered in Bloodstains.

He could still stand purely by a powerful, monstrous Mental Power forcing him to endure.

Every inch of his muscles was screaming in agony.

Every bone was covered in tiny cracks.

The crushing pain of shattered internal organs surged like a tide, washing over his almost dispersed consciousness.

Blood continuously overflowed from the corner of his mouth, dripping onto the ground and spreading into a small, dark red wet patch.

His vision began to blur, everything in front of him covered in a layer of bloody mist.

Only the slender figure outlined by the moonlight not far ahead was clearly imprinted in his chaotic mind.

Gu Yuena... or rather, Gu Yue, the divine ruler who controlled this shell, stood quietly a few yards away.

Moonlight pierced through the sparse clouds, stingily casting a few wisps of pale light, illuminating her pale profile.

Those Violet Eyes, once filled with humble pleas, now held only endless coldness.

Her silver hair, moving without wind, cascaded behind her, exuding a pressure that did not belong to the mortal realm.

"Shengyan..."

Gu Yue spoke.

It was no longer Gu Yuena's hoarse, broken tone, but an ethereal, cold voice that vibrated directly on the soul level.

Carrying a hint of twisted sweetness, like honey laced with deadly poison.

"Why did you do this to me?! Tell me!"

She took a step forward, and the bluestone slabs beneath her feet silently turned to dust, leaving clear footprints.

"You said... you would spend every day and night with me..."

She chewed on those distant, sweet lies, word by word.

"Watch the stars fall, the sea of clouds surge... all things born and dying..."

"You said... heaven and earth would eventually grow old, but only you and I would be together, life and death inseparable."

Gu Yue suddenly raised her hand, her slender fingers pointing directly at Su Ling's heart.

That hand trembled violently from the extreme, suppressed rage.

"But in the end..."

"You used the Sword of Destruction... from here... to pierce my heart!"

"For your damned Godhood of Destruction?! Just for your ridiculous divine authority?!"

Her voice grew sharper, almost hysterical.

"Fine! You're ruthless! You're so ruthless! Then I admit defeat! The winner takes all, the Lord of Soul Beasts dying under the Destruction God King's sword is not unjust!"

She stopped abruptly.

Her icy Purple Eyes locked onto Su Ling's face.

That gaze seemed to want to flay every inch of flesh from his face and examine it closely.

"But why?!"

Her body trembled slightly from intense emotion.

A crack appeared on the Divinity Mask, revealing the churning Fire of Jealousy beneath, enough to burn everything.

"Why did you Split Soul... that trash who carried all my weakness, all my filth, whom I abandoned with my own hands! Why can you show that kind of look to her?!"

"That kind of Guilt..."

"That... damn tenderness!"

"That look... you've never given it to me! Not even once!!"

She almost screamed it out.

The icy Dragon Might erupted uncontrollably, crushing outwards like an invisible tsunami.

The ruins on both sides of the street groaned under the unbearable pressure.

"Am I not as pretty as her?! Am I not as weak and helpless to earn your pity?! Shengyan! Speak to me--!"

The questions, like tangible sound waves, slammed hard against Su Ling's battered body.

He grunted, and a winding stream of black blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth again, dripping down his jaw.

His vision swam.

Gu Yue's small face, distorted by anger and jealousy, wavered and split in his sight.

The strength supporting his body was rapidly draining away.

Can't fall... at least not until I'm completely free of her...

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in the depths of Su Ling's dormant eyes.

"Heh..."

He pulled at the corner of his mouth, revealing an extremely difficult curve, a mixture of Pain and mockery.

"Such a clingy woman..."

His voice was hoarse, like sandpaper rubbing.

"But... not very likable..."

The moment his voice fell, he tapped his finger.

A spark, imbued with Destruction Divine Power, shot towards Gu Yue's brow!

Gu Yue dared not be careless and quickly dodged to the side.

But as the spark was about to touch her face, it strangely dissipated into nothingness.

Su Ling's body simultaneously exploded, turning into countless tiny sparks that instantly merged with the night wind and disappeared.

Gu Yue's body froze in mid-air.

The ferocity, anger, and questioning on her face, all expressions, solidified at this moment.

For the first time, her cold, empty Purple Eyes clearly reflected an emotion called "shock."

"...You lied to me again..."

A broken syllable, as if squeezed from the deepest abyss, escaped her pale lips.

Her voice was no longer ethereal, only the hollowness and disbelief of utter exhaustion remained.

"...You always... lie to me like this..."

The moonlight fell on her, casting a cold silver edge on her slender figure.

But it couldn't dispel the thick, unresolvable despair that permeated her.

Her body trembled almost imperceptibly.

A faint trace of Gu Yuena's own fear and despair, like silt at the bottom of water, surged uncontrollably.

It instantly broke through the suppression of her divine will.

"Wuu..."

A very faint whimper, like a Young Beast on the verge of death, escaped from the depths of her throat.

This immense, instinctual fear struck her like an electric current.

"...He... he left me again..."

A clear and desperate thought exploded in the depths of Gu Yue's consciousness.

"Just like last time... on our wedding night..."

"No!!!"

Gu Yue suddenly clutched her head, letting out a piercing shriek that was not human!

Her Silver Long Hair flew wildly, like a furious swarm of snakes!

Divinity and humanity, two completely different consciousnesses fiercely struggled and clashed within her Soul Depths!