Taichu watched the scene before him quietly and nodded in approval.
"Rational, decisive, unburdened by hypocrisy or mercy."
This was precisely the answer he had wanted.
He had come here for Jiang Ling in the first place.
As for Si Shuo, he was merely an incidental extra.
In Taichu's eyes, only someone like Jiang Ling, who had personally endured the darkest depths of the old era and had her heart utterly broken by the mortal world, was qualified to pioneer his "new world."
"Jiang Ling..." Si Shuo clutched his bleeding thigh and stared blankly at her.
He had lived in this mortal world for decades, witnessing its evil as well as goodness like Jiang Ran's.
Just as Jiang Ran had said, "In the end, there are still more good people in this world."
That was precisely why he had chosen to fill the formation eye. Then Jiang Ling could choose the other path. She could live, and so could everyone in this world.
But he had never truly understood Jiang Ling.
Jiang Ling did not look at him, nor did she look at Taichu.
She simply gazed quietly at the golden orb in her hand.
Then she gently removed the hairpin fashioned from a spearhead from her hair.
Freed from the pin, her white hair spilled down in the wind.
"Ran."
She looked at the piece of iron in her hand and murmured, "Your aunt will turn this rotten world upside down for you."
Then she gripped the hairpin and drove it savagely into the golden orb in her palm!
Boom!!
As the orb shattered, heaven and earth let out a dying lament!
The earth began to shake violently, the endless mountain ranges began to collapse, and dark clouds blanketed the sky.
The seal at the very heart of this