"I..."
Death came in an instant.
At some moment in life, the end suddenly came into view. The life that had seemed so long suddenly wove itself into its conclusion.
And so she understood that nothing could be saved.
Born into eminence, flawless throughout her life. She studied the Dao in her youth, cultivating all three lineages in tandem. She attained truth at a hundred, drawing widely from every school of law. After the Myriad Monster Sect, she had conquered cities; across the forty-nine prefectures, her immortal traces were known. For Great Jing of the Central Saha World, for the Ji Imperial Dynasty, she had exhausted her entire life...
Such a noble, such a proud Current Era True Lord.
Everything that had come before was but clouds and smoke!
Then who... had killed me?
Someone like me...
"I, Ji Yanyue..."
At the final moment, as her Dao body withered and she fell backward, Ji Yanyue's eyes flew wide open. She let out an angry, drawn-out cry: "I am Ji Yanyue of Great Jing's imperial clan! How can I die by the hand of some petty wretch?!"
She was of Great Jing's imperial clan. She possessed the courage to perish alongside her enemy.
King Qinguang was certainly doomed. Not one of Hell's Gate's Yamas would escape.
But from beginning to end, she had never known just who that King Biancheng, who had interfered with the battle, truly was. Her failure to see through him, her failure to grasp him, meant that any subsequent pursuit by the Mirror World Terrace or Central Heavenly Prison might also come to nothing.
How could there be a True Lord in this world who could commit such vile deeds, raise a ferocious Yan Xiao, and yet remain unknown to the Mirror World Terrace? Even if the