Black Hole and White Hole

"Sisi, I still don't think this is safe enough. Why don't you swallow a Contract Gem and hide in the Storage Contract for now?"

Zhang Ping could hear the wind. The Time Wind was sweeping toward them at incredible speed.

He felt uneasy, afraid Liu Sishan would turn to dry bones in the wind.

"Give it here!"

Liu Sishan held out her hand.

"Oh, right."

Zhang Ping hadn't expected Liu Sishan to agree so readily. He froze for a moment, then hurriedly formed a Contract Gem containing just one contract.

"There's only one contract in the Contract Gem: you must not enter the Lost State or sink into despair!" Zhang Ping handed the Contract Gem to Liu Sishan.

Liu Sishan nodded, closed her eyes, and swallowed the gem.

In an instant, she felt as though she had been given a new life. She quietly let go of many things she had clung to in the past. Slowly, she opened her eyes. Tears spilled down her cheeks and turned to ice crystals in the blink of an eye.

"Sisi, are you all right?" Zhang Ping asked worriedly.

Liu Sishan shook her head, wiped away her tears, and smiled. "I'm fine. I've just come to understand a lot of things. Thank you."

"Don't mention it. The Time Wind is almost here. Hide in the Storage Contract first!" Zhang Ping said quickly.

He took out the Storage Contract. Once Liu Sishan had entered it, he transformed into his Pure Water Body and waited for the Time Wind.

Aboveground, the Time Wind came rolling in. Wherever it passed, bones crumbled to powder and drifted away on the wind.

Although Zhang Ping and Liu Sishan were hiding underground, with a wall formed from Contract Gems blocking the Time Wind, a faint breeze still slipped through