Watching Sikong Jing and Su Yuexian arrive, then suddenly vanish again, the Seal Sovereign Empire crowd, who had escaped death by a hair's breadth, were utterly baffled.
They looked again at Kuang Tunhai's self-destructed corpse, reduced to bloody fragments, then at Purple Bamboo, whose entire body shimmered with seven-colored streams of light. One by one, they blinked, sensing that something about Purple Bamboo seemed different.
"Auntie..."
At that moment, a cry rang out from somewhere within the Green Leaf Palace camp as Zi Jin and Zi Ya came hand in hand.
They stared at Purple Bamboo in overwhelming delight. Their auntie had returned alive.
Yet Purple Bamboo gazed at the two with dark, distant eyes and said lightly, "I am not your auntie. But don't worry—I will settle every lingering attachment of this life and avenge your father and master."
Her tone was calm and without ripples, but her words left Zi Jin and Zi Ya utterly stunned.
"Martial Aunt, what are you saying?" Zi Ya's face was filled with disbelief.
Purple Bamboo smiled indifferently and replied, "I am a reincarnator. I have already awakened."
"From the moment of awakening, one must sever everything from this life. You may still call me Auntie, but I am not your auntie. It is merely a casual form of address."
With that, Purple Bamboo ignored Zi Jin and the other and turned toward the people of the Green Leaf Palace camp.
She looked directly at A Yi and said, "Azure-Feather Divine Vulture, Sikong Jing and I are allies. Now, I will help you break this predicament before us."
With a swish...
Purple Bamboo flashed out, charging toward the Yin-Yang experts from the various Heaven Emperor and Quasi-Emperor Palaces who were besieging A Yi.
Her movements were incomparably strange. Rather than immediately wielding the