Catherine gazed deeply at Chen Rui, as though she wanted to carve this shadow completely into her heart. From the moment he had deliberately revealed the Nirvana Fire, she had known he would not change his mind.
Though he wore a cheerful smile, his eyes held an unshakable resolve. This was not the first time she had seen that look.
When he had desperately teleported away with Bai Luo in the Gloomy Night Wetland, when he had crushed his own heart in Crystal Valley.
It had been the very same look.
"If your persistence is to protect everyone, then my persistence now is simply to protect you."
A persistence that had never changed.
Scene after scene from the past slowly surfaced in her mind, though outside, only an instant had passed like a flash of lightning.
Catherine suddenly smiled, calmly and faintly, but the black eyes misted with vapor had long since lost their tranquility.
"I still don't know the name of that piece."
The moment she spoke those inexplicable words, she activated the Shadow Cloak and vanished from the spot.
Just as that "play" had said, staying here would only mean dying together. Only by fleeing swiftly could they draw Lei Chan into pursuit.
Lei Chan had long been prepared. The power of his Kingdom erupted in full, repeating the same old trick in order to use a wide-range attack to expose the Shadow Cloak's location. Suddenly, a massive black hole appeared before him, and the power of the Kingdom surged toward it like a tide, swiftly swallowed up.
Yet compared to the entire Kingdom, whether it was the Star Domain or the black hole, they affected only a small area. Lei Chan had already spotted that blurry figure in the distance. Purple light flared over his fist as