Slowly waking, Mu Bai still stood before the portrait in the hall. What had seemed like a lifetime had been no more than an instant.
"Ask the heavens, what is life? Look upon the world, where love fixes on one alone!"
He turned around. A lovely woman walked gracefully into the room, dressed in gray, her hair gray as well, yet her bearing was dignified and her presence extraordinary.
Mu Bai knew that she was no illusion. She ought to be a great demon who had already undergone Form Transformation, with cultivation at least above that of a sixth-tier demonic beast—the most formidable being he had encountered to date.
"Have you come seeking this Moon Sea Pearl, young master?"
The gray-clad woman held a deep blue pearl, shimmering with light, as though a boundless ocean surged within.
"To bring a worldly bond to an end-you, too, are someone destined for this Moon Sea Pearl. Keeping it serves me no purpose. I shall give it to you."
"Senior, are you Ruohua?"
"It was only an illusory dream, but the pain was real. Have you heard the saying that clam tears nurture pearls? Wrapped within a clam's tears is the very thing that pains its heart. Once I give it to you, I shall forget this pain as well..."
"I do not know... how I can repay you."
Faced with this woman who was a stranger yet felt close to him, Mu Bai's heart filled with a hundred conflicting feelings, not merely the joy of obtaining the Moon Sea Pearl. Even if she had asked him to pledge himself to her, at that instant, he might have agreed.
"I ask for nothing. If you encounter that person on your path of cultivation, ask him whether he still remembers the Moon Mirage Clam