He saw the end. He saw the door!
There was not a single pattern on that door. It seemed to be nothing more than the simplest of stone doors.
Yet there were probably very few people in this world who could actually reach it...
That moment of relief nearly made Chu Luohen pass out, but he still remembered that the person most important to him was on his back.
With a rare smile on his face, he pushed open the stone door. Golden radiance shimmered within its frame.
"Once we go through this door, we can go back!"
The Hongsheng Heavenly Road had been connected.
Though Su Jiu had only a mortal body, she still sensed the wondrous changes in the laws, as though they were something that had long since seeped into her bones.
Chu Luohen staggered toward the doorway, failing to see the complicated look Su Jiu directed at his back.
He felt the warmth behind him hug him tightly, then heard a soft murmur beside his ear. "Junior Granduncle, thank you. Goodbye."
Then he felt that warmth instantly leave his back. A pair of hands shoved him hard from behind, sending him tumbling straight through the doorway.
Before he vanished completely, Su Jiu saw him turn around. A host of complicated emotions flashed through his eyes: shock, an aching pain, sorrow, reluctance to part...
Yet Su Jiu smiled. "So Junior Granduncle can make so many different expressions, too." She did not know whether she was saying it to him, who had already vanished, or to herself.
Without Chu Luohen to support her, Su Jiu's entire body slammed heavily onto the stone platform. She heard the bones in her feet crack again...
She dragged herself forward a little with both arms and tentatively touched the golden radiance.
Unexpectedly,