"Clang~~~!!!"
The blade slid into its sheath, its piercing ring reverberating through her soul. Asharaya felt as though her eardrums were about to burst. She shuddered all over and abruptly opened her eyes.
"This...!"
Exhaustion swept through every limb and bone. Yet merely standing up left her drenched in sweat, soaking all her clothes. Her dark green, silky dress clung tightly to her snow-white body, tracing her perfect curves.
"Phew~~" Asharaya exhaled a stale breath, her physical condition barely recovering a little.
Looking down, she found that Yi Zhisha, who had been lying quietly in the blue-leaf crystal coffin, had actually vanished!
Utterly shocked, Asharaya looked around. Apart from the unconscious Bluegold Hall Master, there was nothing-not even a single blade of grass or tree had been damaged!
Yet in her memory, Yi Zhisha had clearly still been lying intact in the coffin before she lost consciousness.
Asharaya racked her brains, carefully searching through every detail and possibility.
Either Yi Zhisha had left the coffin herself while Asharaya was unconscious.
Or...
Right, why had she lost consciousness again?
Asharaya kept feeling something very familiar, but no matter how hard she tried, she could not remember.
"Forget it. I'll go back first."
After thinking for a while without remembering anything, she simply left along the amethyst-paved corridor.
She had not gone far before she saw a familiar man sitting on the steps, holding a pitch-black Stone Staff, his face pale and his body listless.
"Why are you here?" Asharaya asked, shocked and baffled.
This was the Parthenon Temple's Goddess Peak, heavily guarded. Even with the Parthenon Temple in chaos, ordinary people could never get here.
How had that bastard Zhou Sining found his way here???
"Perfect timing. Sit." Zhou Sining patted the step beside him.
He was visibly very weak.
"You