"Xiao Zhi... wh-where is this... what's going on?" Huo Xuan's eyes were filled with unfamiliarity toward everything around him, as though he had no idea how he had ended up here.
The gentleness in his tone was wholly Huo Xuan's manner. That voice made Huo Zhi feel as if her heart had been tightly clenched.
Xiao Yan remained silent at this moment. Anything he did now would be superfluous. Deep down, he trusted Huo Zhi. He knew that such a decision was cruel no matter who had to make it, but he also could not interfere and do it for her.
Even faster than Xiao Yan had expected, Huo Zhi's hand paused for only three breaths. Once "Huo Xuan" had finished speaking, Huo Zhi did not even give him an unnecessary reply.
Huo Zhi gritted her teeth and swiftly, steadily swung her raised hand. The blood-colored blade was incomparably decisive—one strike severed his head!
After enduring multiple impacts, Huo Xuan's body had already been on the verge of collapse. Faced with Huo Zhi's decisive strike, he naturally had no chance of blocking it.
As the expression in Huo Xuan's eyes swiftly faded, clear tears slid down Huo Zhi's cheeks. As Huo Xuan's body fell, countless scenes flashed through her mind once more.
She had been the Flame Clan's favored daughter. At the age of ten, the bloodline of a Dou Di descendant within her had completely awakened. She had been confirmed as the next wielder of the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, and the clan's regard for her underwent a drastic transformation in a short time.
When she had been placed under protection, Huo Zhi learned that before her, there had been another young member of the Flame Clan like herself. That person was Huo Xuan. It was then that Huo