"Rumble!"
When Xiao Mo revealed his identity, the laws of the Great Dao sensed it. A bolt of lightning gathered relentlessly, intent on erasing this soul that had strayed from the laws of reincarnation.
"I'm not leaving!"
Bai Ruxue held the man in her arms even tighter, shaking her head over and over.
"I'm not leaving! I won't leave! Xiao Mo, you'll be all right!"
"We haven't even gotten married yet!"
"You promised me you'd stay with me for the rest of my life!"
"Silly girl, you really were my whole lifetime."
Xiao Mo spoke with a smile, his eyes growing steadily vacant as he looked at Bai Ruxue.
"Ruxue, keep walking forward, and never look back."
"Boom!"
The instant Xiao Mo's words fell.
Lightning struck from the heavens.
Bai Ruxue's pupils contracted.
In a mere instant, the tribulation lightning struck Xiao Mo's body squarely.
Xiao Mo's body dissolved into motes of spiritual energy, drifting out of Bai Ruxue's arms like fireflies.
"Xiao Mo! No, Xiao Mo!"
Bai Ruxue reached out, grasping wildly, but the motes of spiritual energy kept escaping her embrace, scattering through her fingertips.
No matter what spells she exhausted, she could not make them stay.
The silver-haired woman kneeling on the ground raised her head toward the heavens she loathed. The blue motes slowly rose, returning to the Great Dao.
This time, the Great Dao did not even give her a chance to use a soul-gathering formation.
Her tears no longer fell. She could feel no emotion, not even her own existence.
She only stared blankly, as though she had become a statue.
It was as though she, too, had died.
Anxiang City.
Shang Jiuli's brush abruptly stopped as she wrote documents in the city lord's hall.
Shang Jiuli raised her head and looked out the