"If you hope he will honor any affection or promises, you might as well hope this Star Sea turns into a rain of spirit stones and a wind of immortal herbs tomorrow."
Zhao Ningyi did not argue.
But Huo Lifei suddenly frowned at Blood Fiend. "Now that we're out of the Nanhua Realm, you've started throwing your weight around?"
Blood Fiend slowly rose.
The wound on his chest gradually closed, and his aura strengthened little by little.
"Huo Lifei, I traveled with you because we each needed something when we left the Nanhua Realm."
Huo Lifei's gaze darkened. "What do you mean?"
Blood Fiend raised his hand, and a jade pendant appeared in his palm. Its color was soft and lustrous, its design unostentatious.
Yet as he looked at the jade pendant, his face held neither his usual mockery nor the sinister ruthlessness common to blood path demonic cultivators.
There was only tenderness. It was the last wisp of his younger sister's remnant soul.
He clasped the jade pendant and said calmly, "Those who follow different paths cannot make plans together."
Huo Lifei's expression turned utterly cold. "You're leaving?"
"That's right." Blood Fiend glanced at the vast Star Sea in the distance, then at the tattered blood banner.
"Whether you return to the Immortal-Locking Stars or seek whatever fortuitous opportunity you're after has nothing to do with me. I have my own affairs to attend to."
Huo Lifei said coldly, "Don't forget, this isn't the Nanhua Realm. Without my guidance, you're merely an unregistered outsider in the Shiyuan Immortal Star Sea. You won't be able to take a single step."
Blood Fiend laughed, his smile carrying even a hint of bloodiness. "With these bandit cultivators' resources and jade slips, what do I have to fear? Here, too, I will climb