Chapter 354: Cutting Off All Retreat
At that very moment, his spirit body gone and only the faintest wisp of consciousness remaining, Bi Fan stared blankly at the vast darkness before him and the stars twinkling with a cold, faint light in the far distance. His feelings were too complicated to put into words.
Beneath the storm, he fought alone.
The old man's divine sense had vanished, and the last glimmer of light had faded from Xiao Lian's dragon scales. The hope in his heart was like a few candle flames, wavering and flickering in the wind and rain before slowly dimming.
In that moment, he thought he was truly going to die.
As death drew near, he saw the few figures he could never stop worrying about. Then his consciousness faded, and he thought everything was over. When he woke again, he should have been in one of his clones somewhere in the Endless Starfield.
But things had not gone as he imagined. When he opened his eyes, he was still surrounded by that cold darkness. All around him stretched the same vast, indifferent nebulae.
Only then did he realize he wasn't dead.
The first thought that came to mind was: could this actually be a stroke of luck?
If he had been alone, if Xiao Lian hadn't given so much for him, if the old man had never appeared, if he hadn't been carrying those scales, perhaps everything would have ended long ago.
Though he would have lost a great deal, starting over might not have been such a bad choice. It was no exaggeration to say that beginning again from scratch would be easier than getting out of this place.
Before the Space Storm, he had still been confident and determined enough to battle the lightning, which