Su Jiu could not help recalling the days when she had first learned that she could not use her innate talent freely. It had been almost like a blade grinding against her mind.
Only later, as she slowly licked her own wounds, had she forced herself to stand again.
So, was this the purpose of the man behind it all?
But why? What had she done to make him want to destroy her utterly?
Su Jiu's gaze flickered, confusion passing through it now and then, but after that confusion came the light of dawn. She could not simply resign herself to fate! She still had forty years, and forty years was enough for her to accomplish a great deal!
She had clawed her way through so many hardships in this life. This was merely another setback.
Even with his profound cultivation, in Su Jiu's eyes, that man was nothing more than a rat hiding in the shadows, spying on her.
She would not let him have his way. She would drag him out, strip him bare, and throw him before the public, exposing everything he had done.
Just like the words that voice had spoken when she faced her Golden Core Stage tribulation lightning: he was neither the Heavenly Dao nor its laws. What right did that rat in the shadows have to decide her fate?
Chu Luohen was a little worried about Su Jiu. He was just about to speak when she stretched out her arm, sweeping her long sleeve directly across his path.
"I'm only fifty this year. Forty years is surely enough for me to reach the Spirit Transformation Stage!" As she finished, her eyes shone brighter than ever before.
Qi Song and the female cultivator had yet to grasp what she meant.
Chu Luohen froze on