Chapter 507

Seeing Combrona's relieved expression, Sui Xiong smiled as well.

"Very good. You made a wise choice," he said. "How things were in the past doesn't matter in the slightest. After all, people cannot live in the past. The present and the future are what matter most."

Combrona nodded. "Then we should be taking our leave as well."

"Don't be in such a hurry to leave," Sui Xiong said. "Since I said I'd help you solve the problem, I ought to follow through—don't assume there's only one way to solve it. I've got plenty of tricks up my sleeve!"

As he spoke, he waved his tentacles. The colossal divine tree stirred without wind, every branch and leaf rustling and trembling. Green radiance fell like raindrops, flooding the entire area in an instant.

Within the green light, a black-handled dagger with an emerald-green sheath slowly emerged from the trunk and floated before Combrona and Jane.

"What is this?" Combrona asked.

"Something to treat your wife's amnesia," Sui Xiong replied with a smile.

Combrona froze for a moment, then saw his wife reach out and grasp the dagger.

Her left hand held the sheath, her right hand the hilt—a standard reverse-grip drawing stance.

Yet the dagger seemed frozen inside its sheath and would not come out.

She paused, looking at the dagger in confusion.

Then her body suddenly jolted, and her eyes filled with bewilderment.

After a while, the bewilderment faded. Her gaze became clear; the dazed feeling from before vanished completely, and she was fully awake once more.

"I think I had a dream..." She raised her head, watching the green light still fall like a fine drizzle. "A very, very long dream."

"No matter how long a dream is, one must wake from it eventually," Sui Xiong said. "Now, it is