Nalan Yanran's face was as pale as a sheet of paper. Her arms hung limp at her sides, and her body, like a withered blossom, fell helplessly straight toward the ground with the wind.
At that moment, the entire arena fell silent!
Every gaze was fixed on the graceful figure plummeting from midair. The faces of the Misty Cloud Sect disciples were all filled with utter disbelief.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for witnessing the famous scene of the 'Three-Year Pact.' Reward: divine skill, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones. Note: At the Minor Cultivation Achievement stage, the two manifested clones possess half the original body's cultivation. Only upon reaching the Major Cultivation Achievement stage can they possess the same cultivation as the original body."
Upon hearing the system's voice, Xiao Yao was immediately delighted. This was the kind of joy only men understood. Heh heh, if he encountered powerful opponents in the future, he could just make it three against one.
Watching that scene, Nalan Jie's expression grew much dimmer. His once-straight body seemed to hunch slightly as he let out a long sigh.
That sigh was filled with bitterness too deep to dispel.
Xiao Yan could originally have become his most outstanding grandson-in-law, one enviable to anyone. This had been clear since they were children. Yet when Xiao Yan's strength declined, he had never imagined that his granddaughter would go to the Xiao Clan to break off the engagement without his consent. By the time he learned of it, there was no way to undo it. Perhaps everything had been destined from the start.
Nalan Jie's sigh drew sympathetic looks from Jia Xing Tian, Hai Bo Dong, and the others beside him. After all, such an exceptional young man had nearly become his grandson-in-law.
At that moment,