Chapter 599: Soul, Return—Danling... Walks the World Once More and Honors the Heavenly Emperor
[Black Python bit down on a golden branch of the Diwu Tree and drove it savagely into White Python's body.]
[White Python's golden blood could normally heal her wounds in moments, but now the Diwu Tree's branch drank it all. She did not struggle. She simply let her life drain away, bit by bit.]
[Black Python watched, a rare flicker of guilt rising in his slit pupils. "I... have failed you."]
[His voice was low. "If the Heavenly Gate still stood, I would never have come to this... But this age is no longer the same."]
["If there truly is another life," Black Python paused, "I will take you as my servant again."]
[White Python seemed not to hear. At death's door, she spent her last strength inching toward him.]
[Black Python instinctively moved to avoid her, but hesitated for an instant and allowed her cooling body to rest against his.]
[White Python breathed her last. Her body turned brilliant gold, then vanished as the Diwu Tree absorbed her completely.]
[Black Python's gaze gradually calmed. He coiled around the Diwu Tree and breathed out a haunting chant: "I climb Mount Kunlun and eat its jade blossoms; I live as long as heaven and earth, shine as bright as sun and moon. Soul, return."]
["If the Yellow Springs promise me deathlessness, I fear the years will not wait for me..."]
[Black Python's body faded into a phantom, while his incantation grew deeper, as though it had come from time immemorial.]
[Drawn by the curse, the Primordial Spirits of those lying unconscious pulled free of their bodies, one after another.]
[Like people whose souls had gone missing, they stared blankly and walked stiffly toward Black Python.]
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