"Damn it! It actually recovered!?" Tang Guo bared her little tiger fangs in fury, golden light blazing in her eyes like fire as she prepared to unleash a second slash.
"Wait."
Tang Guo froze and looked at Bai Ye in confusion. "What is it?"
"Cut off my Forbidden Link first." Bai Ye's voice suddenly became ethereal, as if he were being pulled away from the world.
Tang Guo's expression changed drastically. She knew Bai Ye's Forbidden Disease had flared up again.
Anxiety covered her little face. "I'll do it right—"
Her voice abruptly stopped. Her entire body stiffened as though struck by lightning, and she stared blankly at the top of Bai Ye's head.
There was... not a single Forbidden Link there.
"How could this be..."
Bai Ye frowned slightly. "What's wrong?"
His condition was extremely poor. A phantom image of that dark deep sea had already appeared before his eyes, while the familiar sound of a spinning vortex rang in his ears.
He guessed that using the Calamity Eye earlier had triggered the episode.
Tang Guo's little face had gone bloodless. Trembling, she grabbed Bai Ye's hand as shattered terror spread through her golden eyes.
"You... you don't have a Forbidden Link!"
"No Forbidden Link!?" Bai Ye's eyes widened abruptly as this despairing news crashed into his mind without warning.
Only at this moment did he realize that he had been mistaken all along.
He had thought that as long as he dealt with the Forbidden Link and ended the era of Transcendent Turmoil according to history, he could save himself and escape the Forbidden Domain. He had thought those two matters were connected.
But the truth was that his fall into the Forbidden Domain had nothing to do with the Forbidden Link.
That meant that even if Tang