When Granny Hua witnessed the power of that spear, greed consumed her heart.
But when she killed Qin Siyang and the spear vanished of its own will, she was utterly dumbfounded.
Ever since leaving the Eighth Domain, it felt as though her mind had flown away with the spear.
Whenever she was awake, the scene of the spear escaping kept appearing before her eyes.
Every time she thought of it, regret gnawed at her. Why hadn't she used every last trump card to withstand the natives' combined attack, then tried to seize that spear?
Even in her sleep, the spear kept piercing its way into her dreams.
Appearing alongside it was the Third Domain's true Domain Master, the real Pushpa.
Pushpa, whose bones had already been crushed and ashes scattered, suddenly rose from the ashes within her heart.
More than sixty years of life after the Domain Merge suddenly coalesced into unbearable pain and regret, weighing so heavily on this woman in her eighties that she could barely breathe.
In moments of private sorrow, as she tossed and turned.
She could never stop herself from wondering: what would have happened if she had possessed this spear back then?
But the past could not be changed.
She could only change the future.
As the Bamboo Kingdom's saying went: it was never too late to mend your ways.
If she obtained that spear now, she could still try to overthrow the First Domain!
She was the master of a domain!
She was the only female general to have fought her way through the ranks of men!!
She was a prodigy who had comprehended the Path of Self-Verification on her own!!
How could she possibly resign herself to bowing and scraping for the rest of her life?!!
She had done everything she could