Blazing azure fire buried the entire southwestern floating island.
First, to cut off future trouble forever; second, to see Fox Woman Little Four off.
Su Changsheng simply stood at the island's edge, watching quietly.
He remained there a long time, without a word.
"What a wretched world!"
"One day, I'll bury it with my own hands."
His heart would not quiet; his thoughts would not settle.
Although his pursuit of longevity had long frozen his heart, leaving his seven emotions unmoved and his six desires absent, danger and death coexisted in the Wilds, after all. Repeated suffering and partings in life and death had long become commonplace.
Yet Fox Woman Little Four's death still left him struggling to let go.
It was neither sympathy nor saintliness. Perhaps, just as Fox Woman Little Four had yearned for, those simple days in the Black Mountain Yao Market had also been a tender spot in his heart. But now the Fox Woman was dead, and Little Snake Girl Bai Su and Hei Maozhou were nowhere to be found. Those few beautiful memories hidden in his heart were gone forever.
From this point onward, the long road to longevity would belong to solitude alone.
"In your next life, don't come here again!"
Watching the floating island disappear into the azure fire, Su Changsheng murmured.
Then, lingering no longer, he took advantage of the open Safe Passage to return to his own island. He neither began cultivating immediately nor examined the gains from his advancement, instead quietly adjusting his state of mind.
Although the Nine Fox King's power was greatly nourishing, he naturally understood that too much was as bad as too little, and that an unstable foundation was dangerous. An unsettled mind was one sign of being too weak to absorb nourishment; he had