With Silver Snow in tow, Su Jiu weathered several more ambushes from the gray-clothed man. Silver Snow could feel her aura growing weaker.
Su Jiu herself also felt a faint ache in her head, a sign that she had overused her divine sense.
That was hardly surprising. She had been relying on her divine sense to anticipate the gray-clothed man's position, so excessive depletion was only to be expected.
During this time, Silver Snow also tried to break through their constraints and change their situation, but only now did he realize just how difficult that was.
Once, hoping to force a breakthrough even at the risk of mutual injury, Silver Snow deliberately left the area Su Jiu had marked out for him. He nearly died at the gray-clothed man's hands, while the man remained entirely unscathed.
Silver Snow had come straight here after fighting the Grand Elder. With no time to rest, he had little spiritual qi left, though his condition was still somewhat better than Su Jiu's. He looked deeply at the person beside him and chuckled softly. "Little Jiu, I think we're going to die here together."
Keeping a wary eye on their surroundings, Su Jiu said evenly, "We won't die."
Though their situation looked bleak, Su Jiu believed there had to be a way...
Silver Snow gazed tenderly at the young woman beside him, his lips curving involuntarily. Even now, simply looking at her seemed to dispel every dark feeling. She always stood before everyone else, bearing a radiance and hope ordinary people could not understand.
Even trapped in desperate straits, even with nothing but darkness ahead, she never spoke of giving up, as though those words had never existed in her life.
What a pity...
Then Silver Snow said, "Before coming here, I asked Hong Zizhuo