Those words rang out with conviction.
From that moment on, enemies became master and disciple.
The seeds of tangled grudges were thus sown.
Once Chi Yuan's figure had receded into the distance.
Kiana and Bronya immediately withdrew from the room.
They moved as fast as lightning.
They had to find more clues.
The sky outside had changed.
It was no longer dusk; the sun now blazed overhead.
But that feather still lay quietly where it had been.
Its position had not shifted in the slightest.
Kiana took a deep breath and strode closer.
Her fingertips had barely touched the edge of the glow.
A blurry female apparition swayed gently.
"Hello."
Her voice was ethereal, as though it came from another dimension.
The next second.
The apparition seemed to realize something.
Immense terror and bewilderment surfaced on her previously calm face.
"This is just... a memory?"
"Really?"
"I'm already dead..."
"I was already well and truly dead..."
Bronya pressed her urgently, "What exactly happened? Please tell us!"
Suyi did not respond.
She simply kept repeating those words like a broken record.
"I'm already dead..."
As her murmurs grew fainter.
Her figure became transparent, until it vanished completely.
The feather in her palm lost all its luster.
It became a lifeless heap of ash.
Bronya's fingertips paused briefly, her brows tightly furrowed.
That floating feather had changed.
Its once sharp, fierce aura had actually become gentle and meek.
Thinking back to their first exploration of this place.
Those so-called ""-every one of them had glared viciously, itching to tear them apart and devour them.
But now?
There was no hostility whatsoever.
One could even say there was an eerie calm about them.
The two exchanged a glance and turned toward the next set of coordinates in unspoken agreement.
Their feet had barely