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She shuddered violently and uttered incoherently, “The Grand… Grand Master?”

The one appearing in this place to end all things at this moment was actually the Grand Master of Kongsang!

This man was the Enlightener of the Master Shi Ying, and is also the Grand Master of Yunhuang Magical Arts title today, so why would he suddenly come here with Chongming? Did he… know this was going to happen and wanted to hurry to stop it, but was a step too late after all?

Upon seeing Shi Ying lying in a pool of blood, the Grand Master’s pale face twitched slightly and he instantly bent down to cast a quick spell in an attempt to redeem the newly fallen one.

In that moment, Zhu Yan’s eyes lit up and her dead heart actually skipped a beat – yes, the Grand Master was here! If this old man could intervene, he might be able to save the Master!

She waited with baited breath, feeling that there has never been a longer moment in her life than this one. However, after more than half an hour passed, the Grand Master finally let go of his hand in dismay.

“It’s useless…” muttered Da Si Ming, “it’s too late.”

In an instant, Zhu Yan was like struck by lightning, the blood drained from her face, and she felt a chill all over her body – even the Great Master said it was too late, then no one else in this world could save the Master!

The old man raised his eyes to stare at her and suddenly burst out in a roar, “Damn you! It was you who killed Shi Ying!”

In the midst of his roar, the Grand Master lifted his hand and grabbed Zhu Yan by the neck in one swift motion. In that instant, huge sharp claws condensed in the air and gripped down upon her like a fierce beast!

However, Zhu Yan only turned her head up and stared blankly, without dodging and without feeling frightened.

Just as the sharp claws snapped around her head, a bolt of lightning suddenly struck!

Only a clang was heard as the lightning struck upwards, piercing through the sharp claws of nothingness, shattering into a thousand pieces in an instant like an acorn piercing ice. In the same instant, the Grand Master’s body swayed slightly and took a step backwards, revealing an extremely surprised expression.

“Shi Ying!” The Grand Master glanced at the dead Great Priest on the ground and exclaimed in disbelief, “Is that you?”

Shi Ying did not reply. His eyes were silently closed, his pale face surfacing in the cold spring of the underground, calm and bright as a clear autumn day. All the while, above his head, the bolt of lightning was hovering in the sky, flowing out a stream of light – it was the Jade Bone. It swirled in the void, circling round and round, wrapping itself around Zhu Yan, and not moving even an inch.

“Shi Ying… you…” whispered the Grand Master incredulously, “even after death, you still want to protect her?”

As the Grand Master of Kongsang, he understood the situation of the moment at a glance: before dying, Shi Ying had injected his spiritual power into the Jade Bone, allowing it to guard the young girl who had caused a great deal of trouble. At this moment, once he sensed that the Grand Master was about to turn against her, the Jade Bone swept out like a bolt of lightning!

“How stupid… Shi Ying.” Da Siming murmured, a cold light suddenly sweeping across his eyes, sternly, “Do you think you can still protect her now that things have come to this?”

Before the words left his mouth, the Grand Master raised his hand instantly and a fierce light burst out between his fingers, weaving a net in the void and trapping the Jade Bone in an instant – the Jade Bone dashed left and right within the net, leaping fiercely, but after all, it was only the last wisp of spiritual energy left in the world, and could not break free from the control of the Yunhuang Master of Magic Arts for the time being.

“Pay with your life!” The Grand Master stretched out his other hand and pressed it towards the top of Zhu Yan’s head. In that instant, an extremely cold aura poured straight down from the top of her head, almost freezing her! Although Zhu Yan knew that her death was imminent, she still made no attempt to dodge, and only silently closed her eyes.

However, despite not trying to resist, her years of hard training instincts came to surface in that moment of life and death situation and the second the Grand Master struck, a surge of spiritual energy erupted from her Soul Channel simultaneously, transforming into a formation above her head and swiftly resisting the Grand Master’s descending hand!

That power was so bright and pure that for a moment it made even the Yunhuang Magic Grandmaster flinch – this girl was really worthy of being Shi Ying’s only personal disciple, at such a young age, her cultivation had reached such a high level!

The Grand Master’s eyes shifted and turned, and suddenly withdrew his hand.

The killing intent above her head instantly dispersed, and Zhu Yan stared blankly for a moment, opening her eyes.

The old man’s gaze was complicated as he examined Zhu Yan from head to toe, whose face was ashen and bent on seeking death, as if pondering over something, indecisively.

“To die is, in fact, the easiest thing to do. How can I let you just die like that?” The Grand Master gazed at the pale Zhu Yan and shook his head, “No, you are still useful to me. You cannot be allowed to die here now – not only for the sake of respecting Shi Ying’s heart’s desire, but also for the sake of the future destiny of Kongsang.”

What? She failed to understand what he meant and stared at the old man in bewilderment.

“Things are bad, but not without room for redemption.” The Grand Master looked up at the sky overhead, “Fortunately, Chongming notified me in time so that I could get here first – so far, only you and I know exactly what happened here.”

Chongming’s eyes were filled with hatred and hostility, glaring at Zhu Yan as if he were about to drip blood. The Grand Master’s hand gently swept over the divine bird’s feathers, soothing it and saying, “I will try my best to get this matter sorted out.”

Zhu Yan froze for a moment, her lips twitching slightly: solving the problem? How could this be resolved? She had already killed her Master, how else could it be solved? Da Siming… What exactly does he want?

“In fact, I really want to kill you now,” the old man spoke as if he had insight into her mind and raised a withered finger, pointing it towards her forehead, with an icy murderous aura in his voice, “You are an ominous calamity who doesn’t know the heavens above, and should never have appeared in Shi Ying’s Fate in the first place!”

But in that very instant, the Jade Bone that was pulsating in the void finally broke free from the Grand Master’s restraint and leapt up with a defiant swish, flashing out with a dazzling light and straddling in front of Zhu Yan!

“Shi Ying oh Shi Ying…” The Grand Master couldn’t help but smile bitterly in that moment, “Well, for your sake, I’ll give her one more chance…”

The Grand Master tightened the bitter smile on his lips and bent down in the morning sun, tapping his finger to the young girl’s forehead, “Well, you come back with me first – let me see if there is any room for this matter to come full circle.”

There was no murderous aura in that finger. For once, the Jade Bone did not try to block it.

The moment she was nudged in the forehead, Zhu Yan only felt an overwhelming darkness instantly crushing in, the light in front of her eyes slowly disappearing, and her whole body fell down into the water, merely feeling that she was constantly sinking, wallowing, as if she was falling into an abyss.

The last thing that came to her consciousness was the slight sensation of cold raindrops falling on her face.

It was as subtle and dense as tears.

Zhu Yan had no idea how she had left that place, nor did she know how long she had slept for. For a while, she even felt that she had died, leaving only a wisp of soul wandering in a boundless dark night, looking around for someone who was dead.

Where is Yuan? Where is the Master? Where were they? Had they gone one step ahead of her and she could no longer catch up with them?

She ran wildly through the darkness, but could never find a single person.

The nightmare swirled with all sorts of noises, distant and near.

“I’m not a good teacher – it’s going to be hard work following my teaching method.”

“I’m not afraid of hard work! I could live in a cave with you!”

“It would be lonely too.”

“No, it won’t! Before, there were only dead people in the valley, so of course you were alone – but from now on, you’ll have me with you!”

“If you don’t behave, you’ll be beaten! Don’t cry and whine when the time comes.”

” Okay!”

These conversations from long ago suddenly echoed in the memory, word by word.

Master… Master! She couldn’t help but sob out loud, trembling, trying to cover her ears, yet she couldn’t stop the voices that were surfacing one after another from the depths of her memories.

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