As those words fell, Su Fuling felt as though something inside her was about to be torn out, but instead of crying out in pain, she revealed a trace of madness.
"I told you long ago, if I ever found out you had betrayed your master in any way, I'd fight you until the fish dies and the net breaks!!!"
Blood trickled from her mouth as Su Fuling delivered each word to the system.
At that very moment.
An immense thunderbolt suddenly split the clear sky, striking straight down at Su Fuling.
Sensing something amiss, Qing Qianxue swiftly retreated several steps.
He watched the purple lightning fall upon Su Fuling without scattering in the slightest.
The stallholder and the surrounding townspeople scattered in terror at the sight.
"Someone's been struck by lightning! Run!!!"
As the townspeople fled in all directions, Qing Qianxue spoke slowly into the darkness. "Evacuate the people. What happened tonight was merely an ordinary celestial phenomenon. Do not let it cause panic!"
A long while later.
The layer of lightning slowly dissipated.
Su Fuling lay on the ground, looking entirely uninjured.
"Qian Rui, take her into the palace. Qian Yan, go back and bring Ye Tianque here."
Qing Qianxue gave Su Fuling a long, searching look, then turned and walked toward the Imperial Palace, step by step.
For some reason, tonight's heavenly lightning suddenly reminded him of the muffled thunder that had sounded in a clear sky when Chu Haoze died.
And of the other worlds and systems Su Fuling had mentioned.
These things were far too strange, yet inexplicably, he felt that all of it was true.
But aside from Ningning, there was probably no one who could clear up all their questions.
As he walked on.
Qing Qianxue's back inexplicably stiffened.
He thought of the