Heaven and earth stretched boundlessly, a crystalline white expanse filling his vision, like ten thousand miles of snowy mountains.
Like a solitary mountaineer, Lin Xiaosu climbed step by step across the endless snowy mountains.
At last, a snow lotus bloomed atop a peak, like a snow lotus of the Heavenly Mountains.
Lin Xiaosu gazed quietly at the snow lotus.
As though gazing at a lover long parted from him.
Through his Insight Eye, he saw with his own eyes that the Primordial Spirit from last year remained here, seated cross-legged. Spiritual energy rose beneath her and clung to her Primordial Spirit, layer upon layer, slowly becoming the snow lotus before him.
He gently extended a finger and touched the snow lotus.
Its petals parted layer by layer, like gauzy robes.
The first layer parted, and winds and clouds stirred.
The second layer parted, and the seasons changed.
The third layer parted, revealing a beautiful figure seated cross-legged with her back to him. One final veil remained upon her, so thin that the boundless beauty beneath shone through.
Lin Xiaosu was stunned.
Just a glimpse of her profile left him utterly stunned.
This body was no longer Catherine's.
Her beauty could topple cities and kingdoms, yet carried the transcendence of a goddess of the nine heavens. This was the true form of the Thousand-Spirit Saintess, whose name had resounded throughout the world a million years ago!
The Thousand-Spirit Saintess slowly turned around.
Her infinitely beautiful body appeared before him.
Her eyes slowly opened as well.
That gaze seemed to have weathered ten thousand years of wind and frost. Yet the instant she saw Lin Xiaosu, a spark of passion seemed to awaken in her eyes...
"You... you really came?" Her voice brimmed with delighted surprise.
"When we parted in the Desolate