Saving Situ Hao Yue!

"We've been hiding here for almost twenty years."

"But there's no spiritual energy here, no pills, nothing to treat his wounds."

"My brother's injuries kept getting worse. In recent years, he's spent less and less time awake. Sometimes he sleeps for months."

"All I could do was keep patching the barrier and search nearby for Spirit Crystal Fragments to stop this place from collapsing. But I'm too weak. I couldn't do anything else..."

At last, her voice broke.

She covered her face and cried without a sound. Her shoulders shook violently, but no sound came out.

She had said everything she could. All that remained was despair with nowhere to hide.

She crouched beside her brother's stone bed and rubbed desperately at her eyes with both hands. But the more she wiped, the more tears came, until they covered her face.

The little girl you remembered—always smiling, always chattering, always pestering you to perform spells—was curled up beside the stone bed now, trembling all over as she cried.

You listened in silence to every word she said.

Then you placed a hand on her head and pressed gently.

"You did well."

That was what you said.

She looked up at you through blurred, tear-filled eyes.

She froze. She had thought you would thank her for all her effort, or say you had come too late.

But you had said she did well.

She remained frozen for a long time.

"If you hadn't kept patching the barrier, this place would have collapsed long ago."

"If you hadn't kept giving Haoyue your spiritual energy, he wouldn't have lasted until now."

You looked at her. Your voice was calm, but every word landed heavily in her heart.

"You've done everything you could."

"You held on alone in the Chaos Void for all these