The Awakening of Gu Yue's Memories!

Qian Renxue stared coldly at Gu Yuena, her eyes filled with chilling killing intent.

She was almost certain that Su Ling's current state had everything to do with this woman!

Unforgivable.

Absolutely unforgivable.

I will kill her!

Gu Yuena paid no mind to the killing intent radiating from Qian Renxue, which had become almost tangible.

She merely gazed blankly at Su Ling.

The man who was once cold and ruthless, the man who had plunged a longsword into her heart on their wedding night.

At this moment, he was weeping bitterly, like a child abandoned by the entire world.

She had never seen Su Ling like this before.

In her memories, he was always looking down upon everything with indifference.

Even when faced with life-or-death desperation, he had never shown a shred of weakness.

Yet, this figure before her, completely broken and with a soul trembling to its core, caused her to feel a strange and sharp heartache.

Subconsciously, she turned her head to look at Ye Wanqing, who was weeping uncontrollably and overcome with grief beside them.

That familiar face, those heart-wrenching cries, were like an invisible key, suddenly prying open the lock of memories she had deliberately forgotten and forcibly sealed away.

BOOM—!

A torrent of memories, not belonging to this world, violently breached the cold defenses she had barely managed to maintain.

It exploded within the vast expanse of her consciousness!

Heaven Dou City was engulfed in raging flames, thick smoke blotting out the sun.

Large sections of the city walls had collapsed, and the once-prosperous streets had long since turned into a purgatory.

Terrified crowds wailed and shoved, desperately surging toward the city gates that had not yet been fully sealed.

Ye Wanqing stumbled against the flow of the crowd, her face streaked with tears and soot, yet her eyes were stubborn to the point of madness.

She pushed past people fleeing for their lives, calling out hoarsely, her voice shattered yet bone-piercing: "Ling'er... where are you? Answer Mother, Ling'er!"

She grabbed everyone she could, questioning them, from fleeing soldiers to refugees.

All she received in return was a terrified shake of the head and a rough shove.

She even grabbed a young officer whose face was covered in blood, her nails digging into his arm as she begged mournfully, "Please! Help me find my son! He is the young master of the Su Family—Su Ling!"

The officer shook her off with a numb expression and shouted hoarsely, "Su Ling? He's been missing for years; he's long dead!"

"Wake up, Madam Ye! King Zhenyuan has fallen in battle, and Tian Jin Douluo has perished—the Su Family is finished! Save yourself!"

Having said that, he plunged into the crowd without looking back.

Ye Wanqing shuddered as if struck by lightning, yet she did not collapse.

No... impossible! My Ling'er cannot be dead! He must still be alive... he is waiting for me...

She shook off a woman who tried to pull her to safety and rushed even more desperately toward the Imperial Palace, the direction where the roars of the soul beasts were most intense!

The plaza in front of the Imperial Palace had turned into an Asura field.

Huge claw marks tore through the ground, and several hundred-thousand-year-old fierce beasts were circling a tiny figure, letting out playful and cruel roars.

The air was filled with a suffocating pressure.

The Gravity Domain of the Titan Giant Ape.

Ye Wanqing was pinned firmly to the ground, her palace gown already soaked through with blood.

Yet, she still stared fixedly into the depths of the palace.

Toward the direction of that faint life force that pulled at her very soul.

"Ling'er... Mother is here... don't be afraid..."

She whispered, her voice weak but filled with a heartbreaking obsession.

"Tsk tsk, so this is the woman of Su Zhantian?" the King of Ten Thousand Demons sneered coldly.

"The Su Family... has killed quite a few of our kin."

King Chi's three heads swayed, the middle one exhaling a sulfurous breath, its voice sounding like a broken gong.

"Don't kill her too quickly. Humans have oppressed us for ten thousand years; today, it is time they taste true despair."

Di Tian's cold, golden dragon pupils swept over Ye Wanqing, looking down at her like an ant, devoid of any emotion.

His gaze seemed to drift past the depths of the palace, landing on the shadow of an inconspicuous corner.

The corners of his mouth curled into a faint, yet bone-chilling arc.

At the very edge of Di Tian's gaze.

In the shadow of a half-collapsed palace wall, a figure was pressed tightly against the masonry.

Su Ling wore a black robe, his face obscured by a hood, almost blending into the darkness.

His muscles were coiled to their limit, his teeth clenched so hard that blood seeped from his lips.

He watched with his own eyes as his mother was lashed by the poisonous vines of the King of Ten Thousand Demons, watching as the Titan Giant Ape's Gravity Domain crushed the life out of her, inch by inch.

He heard those fierce beasts describe the "manner of death" of his father and grandfather using the most vicious language imaginable.

A monstrous hatred and heart-rending pain threatened to burst from his chest!

[Host, hold back! Gu Yue and Di Tian are watching you; you must not be exposed.]

The system's cold, mechanical voice carried a rare hint of urgency.

[The number of save reloads has been exhausted. If this mission fails again, everything will be beyond redemption.]

[Time cannot be reversed. Your father, grandfather, Qian Renxue, Ye Lingling... they will all have died in vain.]

"Shut up! You never told me... why healing Gu Yuena's injuries would lead to an ending like this!"

Su Ling roared frantically in his mind, his fingernails digging deep into his palms. Blood dripped down between his fingers, but he was completely oblivious to it.

He regretted it.

He regretted it all.

Why had he saved Gu Yuena in the first place!

He was not Tang Wulin; he possessed no Golden Dragon King bloodline, nor did he have a God King for a father to back him up.

Faced with Gu Yuena's choices, he didn't even have the standing to dissuade her.

Even if he knelt and begged, it would only earn him a cold, retreating back.

He could only watch helplessly as the human empire collapsed under the revenge of the soul beasts, his closest kin falling one by one.

"Ling... er..."

Within the Gravity Domain, Ye Wanqing's consciousness was gradually fading.

Her life was slipping away rapidly.

She struggled to turn the only eye she could move, scanning this hellish scene in vain.

Her voice was as faint as a sigh: "Mother... is coming to find you..."

"Don't be afraid... Mother... is here..."

"Cold... so cold... Ling'er... hold me..."

Before the words could even fade, the Titan Giant Ape, unable to restrain itself any longer, erupted!

"You noisy insects! Die!"

It let out a violent roar, its massive palm suddenly rising.

It didn't strike down directly; instead, it aimed at the space where Ye Wanqing stood and pressed down fiercely!

"ROAR--!"

Gravity Control: Hundredfold Gravity!

Crack! Crack-crack--!

The scalp-numbing sound of bones shattering rang out in rapid succession!

Under that suddenly descending, invisible force—as heavy as a collapsing mountain—Ye Wanqing's body...

Like a ragdoll gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand, it instantly twisted and deformed!

A mist of blood sprayed wildly from every pore of her body and every split wound!

Scarlet rain, mixed with shattered bone fragments and pieces of internal organs.

Under the compression of the Titan Giant Ape's Gravity Domain, it suddenly exploded into a blinding, nauseating flower of crimson!

That figure, once vibrant, once loving him with her entire life...

Right before Su Ling's eyes.

In the most tragic, most unbearable way.

Completely transformed into a blurred puddle of flesh and gore.

Not even a complete corpse remained!

Only those eyes, wide open even in death, stubbornly staring in his direction.