"Feel... rather than capture?"
Gu Yue floated in the pitch-black Void, her purple eyes half closed as she forcibly suppressed her impatience.
She no longer charged forward recklessly as before. Instead, she slowly extended a finger, weaving her spiritual power into the gentlest of threads and cautiously reaching toward a drifting black-and-purple speck of light nearby.
"I want to... feel you."
She repeated the words silently in her heart.
The instant her spiritual power touched the edge of the light—
Boom!
The once-silent Void shattered. Black-and-purple light became towering waves that brutally swallowed Gu Yue's consciousness.
The scene shifted, and Gu Yue found herself standing on Scorched Earth.
The sky was blood-red, the earth wailed, and a nauseating smell of sulfur filled the air.
"Wulin?"
Gu Yue cried out in alarm.
Before her, Tang Wulin was drenched in blood. His golden dragon scales lay shattered, and the Golden Dragon Spear in his hand had snapped.
He knelt on the ground, a pitch-black blade piercing his chest.
"Gu Yue... I'm sorry... I can't hold on anymore..."
Tang Wulin struggled to lift his head, his eyes filled with love and reluctance to part. Then his warm hand fell limply, and the golden light in his eyes went out completely.
"No!!!"
Gu Yue rushed toward him like a madwoman, desperate to hold him, desperate to heal him with elemental power.
But her hands passed through Tang Wulin's body.
It was only an illusion!
"Wulin! Don't die! Please, don't die!"
Gu Yue knelt on the ground, her cries tearing her heart apart.
Yet Tang Wulin's body began turning into motes of golden light, scattering on the wind.
"Aaah—!"
Gu Yue's eyes snapped open. She gasped for breath, her clothes soaked with cold sweat.
She found herself still in the Void. The black-and-purple speck of