Death and Resurrection

"Ah."

Turning back in unconscious puzzlement, the instant her gaze met his eyes, Li Junwu felt as though an invisible hand had fiercely clenched her heart.

What she saw was a pair of black eyes without whites, wisps of smoky vapor leaking from them with an ominous air—identical to Mu Nuo's eyes she had once seen.

A chill shot up her spine. Li Junwu's red lips parted, but before she could speak, Xu Yuan had already seized her wrist and hurled her violently toward the government offices below!

Whoosh—

The sudden immense force left Li Junwu momentarily stunned. Wind howled past her ears. As she watched his figure in the sky grow ever more distant, disbelief gradually filled her eyes.

"Changtian..."

Within her sight, his body began to break apart at a speed visible to the naked eye, his limbs dissolving into a bloody mist.

Perhaps because of the agonizing pain brought by his body's disintegration, his narrow phoenix eyes involuntarily narrowed.

But this was only the beginning.

His limbs vanished in an instant, followed by his torso, and finally, his head.

Before he disappeared completely, Li Junwu suddenly realized that those pitch-black eyes were looking at her. His voice rang in her heart, seeming both an instruction and a command:

"Remember, the wager is not yet decided."

As the words fell, the last wisp of Xu Yuan's flesh and blood shattered.

In its place, a cloud of blood mist lingered where he had been, proving that he had once existed.

The armored woman crashed to the ground with a thunderous boom, kicking up clouds of dust within the government offices. Other than that, there was no further sound.

A silent, murderous stillness instantly spread through the city.

Tianye silently watched the process of his disintegration and death, neither speaking