"Even if I die, I'll drag someone down with me, and that someone is your wife, Shui Ruoli.
"Don't think your natal yin pearl is so powerful. Forty years ago, when Shui Ruoli was only a few years old, I had already hidden inside her body.
"By now, we've become one. I am in her, and she is in me.
"Otherwise, how could she have reached the seven-star Martial Venerable realm before the age of fifty?
"Now she has even soared into the one-star Martial Immortal realm. Half the credit belongs to me!" the woman screamed like a madwoman as the natal pearl drew out wisps of green mist.
"Don't you want to live?" Tang Wen asked, his head beginning to ache.
Although the Nangong Palace Master's natal pearl was powerful, forcibly separating them would leave Shui Ruoli insane, if it did not kill her.
After all, that woman had occupied Shui Ruoli's body for far too long.
Moreover, she was powerful and patient. She had remained silent, hiding quietly and waiting for an opportunity.
As a result, the two had almost completely merged.
"My heart died long ago. It died centuries ago," the woman snorted, her voice chilling the bones and piercing the heart.
Tang Wen's telekinesis finally caught her image. She, too, was a woman of peerless beauty.
And Shui Ruoli's popularity little figure had actually merged with hers, bearing both her features and Shui Ruoli's. Now they really were inextricably entwined.
"You inadvertently made Shui Ruoli's cultivation talent what it is, while Shui Ruoli enabled your rapid growth," Tang Wen said.
"I won't deny that. We both possess the heavenly yin body, something scarcely found in one person out of a hundred million. With the two combined, we naturally displayed extraordinary cultivation talent. That is how I