She opened her hand, and a blood-red Gu Insect appeared in her pale palm. It was the Red Dust Gu.
The Red Dust Gu had previously been pink, constantly radiating a rich Red Dust Aura, its power boundless.
But now, the Gu Insect looked terribly weak and sickly, as though it might die the very next moment.
"Thank you for waking me up, and thank you for supporting me just now."
Lian Yue murmured to herself, smiling brilliantly even as she bled, her fair face covered in blood.
The pink Gu Insect likewise let out mournful cries, gazing sorrowfully at its master.
It was barely clinging to life.
A gentle breeze stirred. Beneath the clear moonlight, Lian Yue struggled to her feet and gazed at the azure glass bead in her palm for a long, long time.
"Eldest Senior Sister, thank you. I know this bead is everything you have. It is a sacred healing medicine, and can even raise an ordinary person by an entire realm. But it cannot heal my injuries. I am already beyond saving..."
She smiled bitterly, her heart cut as though by knives, her peach-blossom eyes fixed on the sky, on the bright moon hanging above.
Lian Yue.
Her body was like a peach blossom, one that had long since withered, destined to fall. That her master could let her die at her most radiant already brought her immense joy.
Because...
This was her fate!
A fate that could not be reversed!
Second Senior Sister had once mentioned it to her, and had even poured everything into searching for a way to break it, risking death in the process. Yet after searching for so long, she had found nothing.
The path of her destiny had always been severed.
Just as she had lost her parents