Fortunately, although Du Xing was beneath the lake, he could still observe what was happening above the water through the formation.
Especially after the bridge over the lake also fell under Du Xing's management, he turned the Coiled Dragon Cudgel he had always used into the key to the Iron Chain Bridge.
This way, anyone holding the Coiled Dragon Cudgel could open the Iron Chain Bridge.
From then on, Du Xing began guarding the sect gate, like a guard of the Supreme Sect Gate.
Of course, Du Xing had no need—and no intention—to go ashore. The Love Tribulation Gu poison inside his body remained there at all times. Without the lake water constantly washing over him, it could erupt at any moment.
In truth, every day at the lake bottom, Du Xing reminisced about his past. Naturally, Song Wanxi was still the person who appeared most often in his memories. Through those recollections, he even realized that the days he had spent with Song Wanxi had been some of the rarest happy days of his life.
This woman occupied the vast majority of his memories. Especially the days he had spent with Song Wanxi—they seemed to have been the sweetest days of his entire life.
From Song Wanxi's letter, he could also see how much she had loved him.
Song Wanxi had personally written that from the moment she went on missions with him, gradually drew him in, and then took revenge after their night of passion, it had all been carefully arranged by her. Yet she had never expected that she, a woman who had been with countless men, had only ever thought that she would never fall in love with any man during her future operations.
But she had never expected that, at the very end, she would