"Only, when the time comes to deal with Venerable Tianyu, I will still have to do it myself."
"But that is fine too. Venerable Tianyu—that sanctimonious scoundrel—has harmed me so terribly. This blood-deep enmity, if I cannot settle it with my own hands, would truly be one of life's greatest regrets.
"Now I am in the dark while he is in the light... with the willing calculating against the unwary, I refuse to believe I cannot find a chance to make him perish, body and soul."
The woman unfolded the folding fan in her hand and gently waved it as she murmured softly.
As her words fell, the folding fan snapped shut, and a gust of sinister wind suddenly rose.
"Lady Tianyun is dead. The me of today is a lonely, homeless ghost. My name... is Wuyi!"
When she spoke again, Lady Tianyun's figure gradually turned insubstantial until she completely merged with the sinister wind, vanishing with it into the wilderness.
Su Shi'er naturally knew nothing of what had happened near Heavenly Capital.
As far as he was concerned, Lady Tianyun had been slain by his own hand, dying before his very eyes, body and soul extinguished.
As for whether she had left behind any other arrangements before her death, he was not an omniscient, omnipotent god. Naturally, there was no way he could know.
The power Lady Tianyun left behind at death had nearly helped him break through his current cultivation bottleneck.
Unfortunately, in the end, he had fallen short at the final hurdle, lacking only one step.
And beyond helping him break through his realm, that power still contained the seductive force left behind by Lady Tianyun's many years of cultivating charm arts.
Under normal circumstances, this power should have been obtained through dual cultivation, and the