Once everything was done.
Zhang Yuan brought up the [Heaven's Sight] panel. Seeing that the third future had changed and his certain death had been rewritten, he felt the great stone weighing on his heart finally fall away.
[Heaven's Sight] [3. Faced with the Karmic Curse-Killing Art unleashed by Lu Qingwu, your master, with her peerless comprehension, devises the Karmic Causality-Transference Art on the spot. In the end, Li Zhongshuang of the Eastern Bian Li Clan takes on your karma in your stead. You remain unharmed, while Li Zhongshuang dies under the curse, her life and cultivation extinguished.]
Huh?
Zhang Yuan froze, staring blankly at the last sentence of the newly revealed third future.
Li Zhongshuang would die under the curse, her life and cultivation extinguished?
Hadn't she said she was protected by a True Lord and wouldn't die?
Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood that Li Zhongshuang had lied to him. Yet confusion followed, filling his heart with unanswered questions.
I should have realized sooner. Which of the lords of the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm didn't regard lower cultivators as ants? Even if Li Zhongshuang was the Eastern Bian Li Clan's only prospective Golden Core cultivator, Golden Core True Lords endured forever. Why would they care about such a little stretch of time?
If Li Zhongshuang died, then she died. At worst, they could wait for the next generation. How could they violate the heavenly laws forbidding True Lords from intervening and personally save Li Zhongshuang...
But why would Li Zhongshuang do this?
Was she really willing to throw away her life over a mere marriage contract? Could someone so foolish truly exist in this world?
Zhang Yuan felt utterly lost. Suddenly, Xiao Yuanjun's voice reached his ears:
"Zhang Yuan, what's wrong? Why