Abandoning Illusions

Abandon illusions... People always had them. The more desperate their situation, the more they pinned their hopes on fantasy.

Many in the Azure Cloud Li Family, for instance, hoped the Human Race Imperial Dynasty would lend them a hand, that the dynasty's factions would see the error of their ways. All they needed was one life-saving straw to seize with everything they had, until they climbed out of the bottomless Abyss and bathed in sunlight.

Li Xiang was searching for that life-saving straw. So was the Lineage.

They gave it everything they had.

Li Xinnian had caught hold of that straw. He followed Su Chen, who was living as a mortal, to Peerless Hall. He watched Su Chen kill one person with every step, watched Celestial Venerable Xuan'er of sixty thousand years ago return to his peak. He waited to go back to Azure Cloud Prefecture with his elder brother, to confront Min Tiange and the immortals, and pull Nangong Qingya from the whirlpool of Fate.

Then... he finally climbed out of the Abyss, only to find himself in another.

[Special Event—Child of Destiny]

The Child of Destiny had been reborn sixty thousand years later. None of it was a coincidence.

The moment Li Xinnian entered Peerless Hall and saw Mu Xueqing sitting cross-legged at the far end of a hidden space, he sank completely into the dark Abyss.

Su Chen had finally seen Mu Xueqing.

He had dreamed of killing Min Tiange and Mu Xueqing, that wretched pair.

But when Su Chen truly faced Mu Xueqing, he was frighteningly quiet. She did not become hysterical either. She was as gentle as she had always been over the tens of thousands of years, still as a statue, though her eyes seemed to hold the deepest tenderness and