"This Shore is the Other Shore. The elder and I are upon the Ghost Gate's Altar..."
The Confucian Dao True Words took effect. Some consciousness in the unseen sought to erase this power of rules, only to be forcefully blocked...
Su Mo and the Strange Man's corpse vanished into thin air...
Upon the Altar, a dozen or so towering Giant Stone Statues stood with their heads against the heavens and their feet upon the earth, forming a circle.
Within the circle stood a Stone Stele, still engraved with those same words:
What is gained from all living beings shall be returned to all living beings...
A skeleton leaned against the Stone Stele, seemingly having gazed into the void within this desolate Ghost Gate for thousands of years.
Beside the skeleton was a slender figure in a white dress, sitting on the ground with her knees bent and leaning against the Stone Stele... likewise gazing into nothingness!
The woman in white stared into nothingness with lonely eyes. In this barren place called the Ghost Gate, the wind blowing onto the Altar made her feel a little cold, and she could not help drawing her clothes tighter...
She had come to this Divine Realm without telling Su Mo. This was the mission the Holy Sect had given her.
If she wanted to stay with Su Mo forever within this Reincarnation Mirror, she had to come... if she did not, everything would dissolve into a bubble beneath the Holy Sect's might.
It was just like outside the Reincarnation Mirror, except that the Ghost Gate had chosen Gu Yu to remain then, while this time it had chosen her...
Within the boundless Ghost Gate, she alone remained... just like that skeleton.
That sense of loneliness and despair assailed her constantly. She did not