Su Lang's flute fell silent.
He looked at the girl asleep on the cushioned couch.
Even in sleep, she seemed restless.
The girl's brows were slightly knitted, as though she had sunk deep into a dream.
What exactly was she dreaming about?
Su Lang walked over. Seeing her like this inevitably reminded him of Ning Xiang as a child. She had always looked this way whenever she had a nightmare.
"Junior Sister?" Su Lang called softly.
Ning Xiang did not hear him.
The thirty-seventh cycle had begun.
Unlike the previous thirty-six cycles, this time, the Heavenly Dao sensed that she had developed a will to resist, so it erased all her memories from the very beginning.
But she had never submitted to fate. Throughout those repeated cycles, she had tried to resist her predetermined ending. Finally, during the thirty-sixth cycle, before her nascent soul was dug out, she awakened a sliver of her own will. Concealing it from the Heavenly Dao, she swore an oath on her heart demon in exchange for a Time-Space Shuttle that could travel forward or backward through time twice.
When she was born once more, the Time-Space Shuttle lay hidden within Ning Xiang's soul.
At seven, when she first met Su Lang at the Nine Shao Gate, the Heavenly Dao sensed danger and tried to obliterate her. The Time-Space Shuttle forcibly tore open a rift and carried most of Ning Xiang's soul into the twenty-first century. This left the Ning Xiang in the Cultivation Realm muddled and dazed, her mind shrouded in chaos. Unable to sense Ning Xiang, the Heavenly Dao left her alone.
During the journey to the Eastern Sea six months later, Yu Zhengrong had not merely erased Ning Xiang's memories. Together with Ning Pingzhang, Jiang Miaomiao's father, and Qin Ge's father, he