He was just leaving?
The instant Youli vanished into the deep pool, Wang Xian remembered that the fellow was a black snake who had cultivated for a thousand years.
Diving into the deep pool to heal was naturally the best—and safest—place to go.
Still, he hadn't expected Youli to actually give him the Heart-of-Earth Jade Mother.
It seemed he really would have to fulfill his agreement with Wuyue in this secret realm.
After all that had taken out of him, he stared blankly at the pool before him, keeping watch over a pile of blazing firewood as he brooded over his own thoughts. He sat there in a daze, unable to say a word.
Young Master Yan Hui of Sunset City and Youli had fought to the death over the Heart-of-Earth Jade Mother.
To that end, Yan Hui had even stooped to devouring Youli, swallowing half of Youli's demon core... Yet in the end, the Heart-of-Earth Jade Mother had fallen into Wang Xian's hands.
He had secured Wuyue's chance to reshape her body.
Above him, a vast slab of rock shielded him from the blizzard.
He sat there until he seemed to become a rock himself.
Firelight shone over him. Demonic markings flickered in and out across the stone. Had Wuyue woken at that moment, she would have seen the youth who had been hunted by a band of women from Phoenix City.
He sat on the ground and became a demon.
The flames danced in silence, stretching Wang Xian's shadow before crushing it into fragments across the jagged rock wall behind him.
The massive rock overhead kept the blizzard at bay. Only its mournful wail lingered, making this corner of the deep pool feel like a world apart.
A different power, more primitive and more violent, was awakening in