"Heh, it seems you've finished your last words. In that case, I'll send you on your way!"
Commerce Continent, the Four Seas Commerce Association headquarters.
As Xiao Tian Ce spoke, the clouds above the entire Four Seas Commerce Association began churning again in an instant, carrying an exceedingly violent force of wind and lightning. Thunderbolts thicker than a person's body flashed almost everywhere.
Below, the tenderness in Tong Sihai's eyes gradually faded, replaced by boundless venom. He could not accept it-could not accept that he would die without seeing the woman he loved most one last time.
He could not accept that the Four Seas Commerce Association, into which he had poured years of blood and sweat, would vanish like smoke.
He could not accept that, despite giving everything he had, one tiny mistake had brought him into conflict with a supreme powerhouse like Xiao Tian Ce, bringing his life to its end.
He desperately wanted to resist, to defy heaven and change his fate, to hold his beloved woman in his arms. More than anything, he wanted to make the Fire Spirit Clan regret it, to give those responsible for keeping two lovers worlds apart the punishment they deserved.
Yet, faced with Xiao Tian Ce's overwhelming heavenly might, that pressure that almost robbed him of breath, that deadly threat that made his hair stand on end, he could no longer muster any resistance.
Thud!
Tong Sihai, who had been kneeling on one knee, lowered his other knee to the ground.
"Hmm? What's going on?"
Above him, Xiao Tian Ce needed only to lower his hand to bring down the lightning overhead and reduce everything below to silence and nothingness.
But when he saw Tong Sihai's actions, he stopped and asked gravely, "Tong Sihai, what do you mean by this?"