Seventh Soul Ring!

Gu Yuena leaned back against her chair again, crossed her legs, and resumed that cold, aloof posture.

Lin Ciyan did not answer immediately. He looked at Bi Ji for a long time—so long that her eyelashes trembled slightly. Then, seriously and slowly, he nodded.

The motion was slight, yet it carried immense weight.

Watching him nod, the corner of Bi Ji's lips slowly curved into the faintest, nearly imperceptible arc. It was not a smile, but the relief of finally setting her mind at ease.

Gu Yuena took it all in. She looked at Bi Ji's profile, at that trace of relief at the corner of her lips, then slowly raised her eyes. Her silver-purple gaze settled on Lin Ciyan.

"Bi Ji has already agreed. Human, remember your promise."

Lin Ciyan stepped forward and stood between them. He looked at Bi Ji, then at Gu Yuena upon her throne on the raised platform, before nodding to them both.

"Rest assured, our enemies are the same. On the road ahead, you and I will walk together..."

He extended his right hand, spreading his fingers with his palm facing upward.

"We will carve out a brand-new world."

Bi Ji looked at his open palm, drew a deep breath, and extended her left hand. It was slender and graceful, its fingertips glowing with an exceedingly faint green radiance. Fine leaf-vein patterns covered her wrist—the mark of the Jade Swan's true form.

Her fingers lightly settled into his palm, warm and smooth as jade.

Lin Ciyan closed his fingers around her hand.

Boom!

A fierce aura of life exploded from between their clasped hands within the small world. Jade-green light swept through the entire space like a tsunami, churning the nebulae overhead into faster rotations as the seven-colored bands of light twisted into spirals