Yet no matter how furious or unwilling he was.
It was of no use against the situation before him.
Death seemed to be the only possible outcome. In his daze, Su Shi'er seemed to see the Grim Reaper rushing toward him, scythe raised.
Despair swept over him like an endless night, impossible to evade and with nowhere to hide.
With all hope reduced to ashes, once despair reached its utmost limit, a strange calm settled in instead.
From a mere mortal in a small mountain village long ago, he had walked all the way to this day while everyone had looked down on him. Whether before others or himself, Su Shi'er dared to say that he had already done everything in his power.
Even if regrets remained, he had no cause for shame.
"Is this what death feels like?"
"Then the hatred of this life can only be repaid in the next! If... there truly is a next life!"
Su Shi'er murmured silently in his heart.
Yet just as that thought crossed his mind and he prepared himself to face death.
A sudden change occurred.
Beneath the ice-stone seal, a faint glow appeared between Su Shi'er's brows, outlining a pale Sun Seal.
The faint light of the Sun Seal flowed. Within a breath, a blazing radiance emerged at its center.
The flames leaped, unleashing an incomparably scorching wave of energy.
The assault of the freezing current threatened not only Su Shi'er's life, but also made the Southern Bright Leaving Fire sealed within the Sun Seal sense danger.
Within this ice cavern at the bottom of the deep pool, if Su Shi'er perished, the Southern Bright Leaving Fire would not fare much better.
Under the ceaseless scouring of the frigid qi, even the mature Southern Bright Leaving Fire would sooner or