At that moment, as they watched Xiao, battered and barely able to stand, still fighting resolutely against the demons...
Grief welled up in the hearts of countless people of Liyue.
He was the great adeptus who had protected Liyue for thousands of years, shouldering endless karmic debt and curses, enduring a life worse than death every day.
He was the Conqueror of Demons!
After Rex Lapis, another great adeptus was about to die before their eyes-and he would die fighting to protect them.
How could their hearts not ache?
Faced with such a sight, in such an atmosphere, even the most despicable person would have been moved.
Sobs sounded through the streets like falling rain.
Countless people could not hold back their tears, while some of the elderly wept too hard to speak.
Before the City Gate Bridgehead.
Xiao cleaved an evil creature in two with his spear, but a wave of weakness made him falter.
A beast-shaped evil creature seized the opening, pouncing and sinking its teeth into his spear arm.
Meanwhile, an evil creature that had taken the form of a massive Hilichurl Berserker swung its enormous axe straight at his face!
Drained of strength, he could barely raise his spear across his body to block!
Crash!
Something shattered.
The battered Primordial Jade Winged-Spear, which had accompanied Xiao for thousands of years and weathered countless battles, met its end after blocking one final blow for its master.
The dull green spear shattered, its fragments scattering before Xiao.
Utterly exhausted, Xiao was also sent flying by the blow, tumbling across the ground several times.
His spear was broken, and he could no longer rise.
"Has this day... finally... come?"
He had imagined his own death countless times.
He had always thought he had no attachments, that death would