The voice was cold and indifferent, devoid of the slightest emotion, completely different from the scorching gaze from before. It was as though the person before him truly did not know him, and what had just happened had been nothing more than a fleeting dream...
"You don't know me... I'm Nie Yun!"
Nie Yun's entire body stiffened. He hurriedly stepped forward and cried out anxiously.
How could she possibly not know him?
Even setting aside the feelings from their past life and their bond in the Mortal Realm, when he had first arrived in the Spirit Realm, she had sent him a strand of soul qi. Wasn't that enough to explain everything?
"I truly do not know you. Today is an important day for me. Please leave at once!"
Tantai Lingyue shook her head.
"Do you have some unspeakable difficulty? We went through so much together..." He had never expected her to be so cold, to refuse to acknowledge knowing him. Nie Yun's blood and qi churned violently, and he could barely suppress the power within his body.
Ever since entering the Spirit Realm, his greatest goal and wish in cultivating had been to find her, to stand before her and shield her from wind and rain. Yet now she suddenly claimed not to know him. It struck like a bolt from the blue. He could not bear it; even his Dao heart was on the verge of collapse.
"I truly don't know you. Leave!"
Tantai Lingyue closed her eyes and did not look at him again.
"Impossible... impossible..." Nie Yun's nails dug into his flesh. His face flushed red, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
The goal he had clung to for so long had turned into nothing, leaving him internally injured.
Cultivators valued the heart and