The Guguga Mountains.
Ye Gu stared in disbelief at the figure that had appeared in the sky.
"X-Xiao Xi, why are you here?"
Xiao Xi took in the astonishment, shock, and confusion on Duke Night Ancient's face.
She felt utterly vindicated.
She watched Duke Night Ancient quietly, her voice indifferent.
"Why else... but to send you to your grave!"
"What!" Ye Gu had already guessed her intentions the moment he saw her.
But hearing Xiao Xi say it aloud still left him utterly shocked.
Then his expression turned mocking, and he looked at Xiao Xi as though she were a fool recklessly courting death.
"Idiot. Gulrad valued you, so I didn't want to create unnecessary complications. But since you're asking to die... I'll grant your wish."
He immediately connected to the Bloodline River, releasing his might as a Venerable Ancestor to suppress Xiao Xi.
Yet the instant he connected to the Bloodline River, the mocking smile on his face turned to astonishment once again.
He could no longer sense the bloodline connection between himself and Xiao Xi.
How was that possible?
As his descendant, Xiao Xi's bloodline connection to him could never be severed unless one of them died.
It was absolutely imposs—
Suddenly, Ye Gu remembered what had happened earlier.
The bloodline upheaval, the deaths of his clansmen, the theft of the Bloodline River...
And now Xiao Xi had appeared before him.
Ye Gu understood.
He pointed at Xiao Xi in disbelief, his finger trembling slightly.
"You... you were the one who stole the Bloodline River?"
"No... impossible!" Ye Gu's expression became chillingly sinister.
Xiao Xi said nothing. She simply watched Ye Gu, whose expressions changed as quickly as pages turning in a book.
All the anger and humiliation his suspicions had stirred in her somehow gave way to