"This story is called Betrayal."
The Silent One spoke calmly and indifferently, but a trace of reminiscence seemed to surface in his eyes, fleeting to the point of being imperceptible.
"He watched as the friends of old all became creatures of darkness. Those old friends attacked him like mad..."
The Silent One smiled and said:
"It was a brutal battle. If he couldn't let go of their friendship, he would die."
Yunxi asked:
"So, did he kill all his friends?"
The Silent One rose to his feet and said:
"Let's go somewhere else, and I'll tell you how the story ends."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yunxi suddenly felt the space around her shift, the stars wheeling overhead. They were no longer in Gray Mist Continent, nor on that stretch of dark floating land.
She appeared high above a mountain forest very close to Small Mountain Village. From here, she could see a towering peak that pierced the clouds. A sea of shifting karmic mists churned at its foot, while a winding stream of time flowed along its middle slopes.
At the very summit stood only a withered old pine. Beneath it, two young women waited.
"Ziling, Bai Qian?"
Yunxi exclaimed in surprise.
The middle-aged man in white robes appeared beside Yunxi as well and said softly:
"Being transformed isn't frightening. But betrayal that turns people against one another can shatter the human heart."
At that moment.
In the dark world created by the End of Myriad Daos, Nan Feng, Long Zixuan, Xin Ning, and the others had all been transformed by Dark Li Fan.
Huo Ling'er, Mu Qianning, Mu Wanqing, Wu Xiaokun, the Three Traitors of the Nine Clans, Changsun Changqing, Divine Emperor Yang Chu, Yun Chen, and the others had not escaped this calamity either.
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