Nian Qiuyan had finally waited for Yu Sui to leave Moon Mountain, only for the incident with Luo Fu to happen. They had agreed to talk tonight, but he hadn't expected Yu Sui to bring someone else along.
Yu Sui's clothes were neat, and not a single ornament in the hairpin on her head was damaged. There wasn't even a speck of blood on her. Who could have guessed what had happened inside the Dragon Ladder?
A light rain fell at night, and thunder rumbled overhead, sometimes near, sometimes far.
Yu Sui looked up at the sky for a while. The drizzle soon dampened her hair and clothes, which displeased her. Nian Qiuyan held an umbrella. Guessing that Yu Sui hadn't brought one, he handed her the spare umbrella he was carrying.
Only after Yu Sui took the umbrella did Nian Qiuyan head for the Dragon Ladder's entrance.
Yu Sui and Zhang Xiangyun had destroyed every Moonlight Pearl, leaving the Dragon Ladder pitch-black. Nian Qiuyan could hear a man's pained, labored breathing from inside. Just listening to it made the man sound utterly wretched.
He stopped at the entrance without showing what he was thinking, then lit Skyfire to illuminate everything before him.
The firelight revealed blood splattered throughout the Dragon Ladder. A scene of brutal beauty entered Nian Qiuyan's eyes: shattered Moonlight Pearls littered the floor like fragments of extinguished stars.
The Divine Wood Sign lodged in the Dragon Ladder's wall looked vaguely familiar. Nian Qiuyan's eyelid twitched. No way.
His gaze moved from the Divine Wood Sign to the man leaning against the wall of the Dragon Ladder. The man had clearly lost the ability to move. His clothes were stained with blood, and his hands were twisted at unnatural angles. His mouth, usually so adept at snide