Thick smoke blanketed the sky, and the raging fire had burned the mountain range to ash.
Within the mountain range before her, she could no longer sense the slightest trace of life.
That meant not a single living creature remained in these mountains.
"Grandfather."
For a moment, Yun Xi knelt on the ground in utter despair, tears streaming down her cheeks before finally dripping onto the earth.
She stared at the scene before her in boundless hopelessness.
Her grandfather had finally been granted a second life, and she had finally been able to live together with him.
Their good life had only just begun.
Yet at this moment, it was gone. Everything was gone. All of it had been shattered.
That good life was simply gone.
Everything that had happened before now seemed like nothing more than a dream.
"Why? Why? Why?"
Yun Xi shouted as she knelt on the ground.
Her fury turned her eyes blood-red, while an incomparably terrifying aura gradually emanated from her body.
A multicolored lotus mark also appeared between her brows.
"It was them. It had to be them. They killed Grandfather."
"I'll have my revenge. I'll have my revenge. Anyone who killed my grandfather must die."
Suddenly, Yun Xi rose to her feet as though she had gone mad, a glint of madness flashing through her eyes.
This inferno had surely been the work of cultivators.
And the most obvious culprits were those three. Those three had come to ask her about the whereabouts of the Everlasting Fruit, and when she refused to tell them, they had nursed a grudge against her.
That explained everything.
Other than that, there could be no second possibility.
"You three, die for me! Die!"
Yun Xi stared at the blazing fire before her for a long while, then