"B-Brother Xu... I think... I remember now."
On the cold, deserted street, A Zhu stared straight at Xu Taiping, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"I... I am what you're looking for, the Great General's Life-Bound Item."
A Zhu's voice trembled as she spoke, her eyes filled with attachment and reluctance to part.
Xu Taiping had been happy to have found the Great General's Life-Bound Item and a way to help the people of Tianhai Town resolve their immediate predicament, but at the look in A Zhu's eyes, his heart suddenly lurched.
"I was a Life-bound Item Great General Zhang Tianze refined after breaking through to the Transformation Realm, both to withstand its Heavenly Tribulation and to serve as a formation node for the Sea Incineration Formation."
"To keep the demonic beasts from discovering my existence, I took human form and was sent to Tianhai Town, where the Great General's former subordinates helped raise me."
"From the moment I took human form, all my memories of the Great General were sealed by a Dao Seal."
"Because the Great General and I are linked in mind and spirit, until I undo the Dao Seal, he too will remember nothing connected to me."
"This method of Tribulation Transcendence was derived from the art of rebirth through Liberation by Violence."
A Zhu wiped the tears from her face and explained through Voice Transmission.
"Your tears were the key to undoing the seal?"
Xu Taiping asked, astonished.
"Not tears, but a compassionate heart. When the Great General refined me, he gave me that wisp of his Divine Sense that held his compassionate heart."
A Zhu shook her head, her expression growing calm again.
But Xu Taiping noticed that her skin was gradually turning white.
Boom!
Just as Xu Taiping was about to ask what was