The Path of Suffering

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Boom! After Gu Youlian died, the dark domain Zhang Sanxian stood within twisted and shook, then rapidly collapsed and disintegrated like a receding tide, vanishing utterly into nothingness.

Zhang Sanxian himself abruptly reappeared amid that desolate ancient city.

Upon returning, he discovered that the faintly sinister sensation once lingering here had now completely disappeared, leaving behind only an icy, deathly stillness. Yet at the same time, the people who had been hiding in the half-collapsed houses had also vanished without a trace.

No, they were still here—only, every last one of them had become a pile of bones, skeletons that had been dead for a very long time.

At the sight, Zhang Sanxian, who had already received all of Gu Youlian's power, understood at once:

"So that's how it is. The people I saw earlier were Gu Youlian—or rather, the embodiment of her dream of breaking free.

"This emotion, brimming with hope, distorted reality and blurred life and death, making the ancient city 'forget' the fact that these dead people had died.

"And so they were able to continue existing here in the ancient city in the bewildered guise of living people, living on in Gu Youlian's stead."

Thinking of this, he could not help but let out a soft sigh.

"Alas... even if it was only an illusory hope, Gu Youlian still did not dare hope for anything greater.

"Was it because she had been imprisoned here her entire life, knowing nothing of the outside world and unable even to imagine it?

"Perhaps that was the reason."

Then Zhang Sanxian raised his head, removed the black cloth, opened those deathly pale eyes, and fixed his