As Zhang Tie stepped out of the tents of the Demon Slaying Valley knights, Pandora's beautiful face from the last time he had seen her surfaced in his mind for no reason at all.
Only after tasting the bitterness of loss did one understand how precious it was to possess something.
Thinking back carefully, the youthful dream he had once had—lying on a pile of gold coins with several beauties in his arms—now seemed like a black joke to him. From Black Flame City all the way to the present, he had grown stronger, more famous, and wealthier, but at the same time, as he grew, the things he lost had also multiplied.
The first person he had lost was Alice. What Alice needed was all of him; she did not want to share him with anyone else. He had respected Alice's choice.
After that, the girls of the Rose Society, whether passively or by their own choice—some had bid him eternal farewell, separated from him by the divide between yin and yang, while others had chosen to leave him.
Then, he lost Teacher Dai Na.
Finally, just two months ago, he had lost Lan Yunxi as well.
Zhang Tie did not know whether this counted as the price of growing up. Some losses had been beautiful blessings in life, while others had become life's greatest regrets, forever impossible to mend.
This world was too damn fucked up. So many beautiful and simple things no longer suited this fucked-up world.
Thinking of that rainy night, and the scene of him and Pandora pledging themselves to each other at the station, Zhang Tie felt an inexplicable melancholy well up within him...
"Ah, I heard this is an incredibly powerful Celestial Phenomena Gate. It will only open by itself when both moons