One Person Suppressed the Demon God Continent!

Dong Qian... was gone?

And she had said they would never see each other again.

For a moment, Ji Yuan could not quite process it. Or perhaps he simply did not dare believe it.

Dong Qian had shown signs of leaving before, but Ji Yuan had assumed she was going on a long trip, like this time, when she had been away for a whole year.

Most likely, she had private business to attend to, just as she had at the Ancient Battlefield Ruins.

Without a word to anyone, she had prepared to dig up the tomb of a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

She had even planned to orchestrate a battle on her own, a battle against Demonic Cultivators.

But Ji Yuan had never imagined that Dong Qian's departure... meant this.

And then there was what she had called him.

Ji-lang... In this world, she was the first woman to call Ji Yuan that. She was also the only one with whom he had shared such intimacy.

But now...

Only after a long while did Ji Yuan hear Dong Qian's voice again.

Perhaps she had taken some time to steady herself. She was no longer crying, though her voice still caught in her throat.

"Ji-lang, you must have wondered why I refused to become your Dao companion. The truth is, I wanted to. I wanted to so badly that I even dreamed of it. But I... I couldn't do that."

"Because I knew from the beginning that I had to leave. I couldn't stay by your side forever, and I couldn't bring you even more pain.

But... why does it still hurt this much?"

"Ji-lang, I'm really leaving. I'm going somewhere very, very far away."

"You used to ask whether we of the Heavenly Fox Clan came from another continent. I