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Zhu Yan understood, but she didn’t budge, just gritted her teeth and went to get the page, saying with a sigh, “Alright then! I’ll just go and learn it myself.”

“Wait a moment.” Da Si Ming, however, snapped his fingers and took back the Star Soul Blood Oath, speaking coldly, “There is a price to pay for my help: in addition to surrendering half of your life, you have to promise me two conditions.”

“Two conditions?” Zhu Yan froze for a moment.

Doesn’t the Grand Master also want to save her Shifu? Why should he still impose conditions on her at this point? However, she was so eager to save him that she blurted out, “I’ll do anything to save Master!”

“Alright then, listen to me.” The Grand Master stared at her, “First of all, if you can’t save Shi Ying, I will definitely kill you!”

“Well, of course.” She didn’t even think about it, “You can just kill me.”

The Grand Master glanced at her and continued, “And second, when everything has been restored to its original state, I would want you to return the Jade Bone to Shi Ying and then walk out from his life to never appear in front of him again.”

“What?” Zhu Yan stared blankly and remained speechless for a moment.

“Do you refuse?” The Grand Master grimaced.

“But why?” She took a deep breath and murmured with a sinking feeling, “It’s not something that I alone can decide! What if… if Master still wanting to see me?”

“That is also not allowed,” the Grand Master’s voice was calm as he spoke one word at a time, “If he still wants to see you, you tell him that you can never forgive him because of Yuan’s death…”

Saying this, the old man let out a faint grin, “For someone as proud as Shi Ying, he will never come to see you again once he hears you utter these words.”

What? Zhu Yan stared up at the old man in shock as her face turned pale, unable to speak – at that moment, the light in the eyes of the immortal old man was so cold.

“Just one sentence will be enough.” The Grand Master’s voice was soft but cold, “Will you promise?”

“Why?” She just couldn’t help herself, “Why on earth would you want to do that?”

“Because you are a calamity and should have never appeared in his Palace of Fate in the first place!” Da Si Ming’s eyes were ashy and chilling as he stared at her like a poisonous snake, “Shi Ying’s entire life, a life destined to become the emperor of Khongsang and the leader of Yunhuang, how could it be disrupted by your mere appearance?!”

“What?” Zhu Yan was dumbstruck, “The Master I know never cared about mundane fame and fortune! There’s no way that he would go to become the Emperor of Khongsang! Even if he comes back to life, he will choose to remain in the Valley of the Kings for the rest of his life as a Great Divine Priest!”

“You don’t know him well enough.” The Grand Master sneered, “A Cultivator whose earthly heart has been moved by love is no longer fit to wear the Divine Robe – Shi Ying is extremely rigorous with himself, how could he not have this self-knowledge and self-consideration?”

“I…” Zhu Yan opened her mouth but before she could say anything, Da Si Ming interrupted her with a stern tone, “You already killed him once! Now, while there is still a chance of turning things around, you must be gone completely – otherwise, sooner or later, Shi Ying will still be entangled by you again and perish at your hands.”

“It will not!” Zhu Yan shuddered in fright and raised her head, refusing to believe such words, “I… I’ll be very obedient from now on! Really, I will never mess around again!”

“I don’t believe in your promises,” the Grand Master’s tone was icy as he stared at the young girl, “Trust me: his life will be better without you, and so will the entire Yunhuang – you’ve already killed him once, do you want it to happen twice? Don’t you want him to have a good ending fate?”

A good ending fate? Zhu Yan shuddered and stared at this old man who was known as the Sovereign of the Yunhuang Magic Arts, displaying a sense of awe – as the Master of the Yunhuang Magic Arts, was the Great Sovereign able to see the past and the future, and therefore uttering such statements at this moment?

“Without me, Shifu… his life will become better?” She mumbled and whispered, her whole body gradually starting to tremble as the tragic events in the underground of Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion flashed before her eyes, ” Is this… your prophecy?”

“Yes.” The Grand Master’s tone was strained, “You don’t believe it? Do you still want to risk his life in order to see if it’s true?”

“No… no! I just want my Master to be alive and well!” Zhu Yan shuddered and suddenly became discouraged, nodding dejectedly, “Alright, I promise you everything.”

“Very well.” A smile finally swept across the grey and cold eyes of the Grand Master as he looked at her, “This is a vow you have made willingly, and if you break it, you will inevitably pay a great price. Understand?”

“I understand.” Zhu Yan nodded and suddenly choked up, raising the back of her hand to wipe the corners of her eyes, “Don’t worry, I don’t want to get him killed a second time either…”

“Good if you understand that.” The Grand Master nodded, holding the thin page between his fingers and reaching it out to her, his tone flat, “Take this – I hope you can redeem yourself from all this with the Star Soul Blood Oath within seventy-seven days.”

Zhu Yan gritted her teeth, “Don’t worry, I will do it!”

“While you were unconscious, I have asked Chongming to send both Shi Ying’s body and his soul directly back to Jiuyi.” The Grand Master exhorted in a deep voice, “This matter is extremely secret and must not be made known to any outsiders – I have ordered the divine cultivators there to clear the hall, light the Seven Stars Lamp, and empty the entire Jiuyi Temple of the Gods from any uninvited people.”

Zhu Yan gripped the page tightly and stood up abruptly, “I will rush there immediately.”

“Go ahead.” The Grand Master turned and pushed open the gate of the temple, “And if you fail, don’t even dare to come back!”

The wind howled and swirled from the ten-thousand-feet peak of the mountain, blowing up the sleeves of the old man’s robe along with his long hair. The Grand Master stepped out and gently clapped his hands, and a snow-white downpour of feathers fell from the breeze, obscuring the stars.

“Four-eyed bird!” Zhu Yan blurted out in that instant.

The Chongming Divine Bird appeared beneath the starry sky, its four vermilion eyes staring coldly at her with an unfathomable complex expression, full of hostility and anger, holding its huge sharp beak like a razor-sharp knife above her head.

“Chongming!” The Grand Master scolded him in a muffled voice, admonishing, “Didn’t we agree? If she’s willing to redeem herself, you’ll have to help her properly – for now there are still opportunities for things to turn around.”

A growl escaped from the divine bird’s throat and suddenly he lowered his head and picked her up by the waist with one swift movement!

“Chongming!” The Grand Master shouted sternly, raising the jade slip in his hand.

However, the divine bird did not harm Zhu Yan, just flipped its neck and threw her into the air and onto its saddle, rolled its four vermillion eyes over and glared at the Grand Master as he spread his wings and flew off.

“Go with Chongming.” The Grand Master looked at the young girl on the back of the white bird and flicked his sleeve pointing to the far north, “I will watch your progress from the Imperial Capital – within these Seventy-Seven Days, if the trajectory of the stars changes, I will know that you have succeeded.”

Zhu Yan was a bit puzzled, “You… won’t come with me?”

“I have some urgent business to attend to in the Imperial Capital at the moment, and I cannot leave now. Besides, there is nothing I can do to help you in this matter, so you can only rely upon yourself – now go and behave.”

Zhu Yan finally nodded and soared away atop of Chongming.

After the Divine Bird had whistled away, Da Si Ming let out a long sigh and walked up onto the stargazing platform at the top of the tower, all alone with his arms crossed against the turbulent winds of the celestial sky. For the past few days, because of the hectic and anxious situation, he had not had the time to take a good look at the firmament properly for a long time.

The infernal star Gui Heng still stood motionless and orbited silently beneath the firmament, while the field of stars above its skyline changed slowly, as it had done for thousands of nights. Once, many thousands of days and nights ago, he had promised to a woman that he would devote his life to guarding the lonely child who had been banished from the world – and yet, to this day, such a calamity had eventually occurred after all!

Ah-Yan… Ah-Yan, will you blame me?

The Grand Master could not help but sigh and look up at the stars, yet after looking up for only a moment, he suddenly shuddered and his face changed dramatically.

“Impossible!” The old man blurted out, lunging in front of the astrolabe and holding up the speculum with trembling hands, disoriented as he looked at the night sky overhead. What he saw through the peephole, however, still shocked him.

Although Shi Ying has already killed the leader of the Restoration Army, that piece of Returning Evil, which emerged from the Blue Sea, unexpectedly remained in its original position! And behind the Returning Evil, the Radiant Light rose, and the Heavenly Wolf derailed, casting a larger and deeper shadow.

Nothing has changed, in fact, everything is further worsened compared to what it was previously seen!

The Grand Master staggered as he stared at the sky above him for half a day. However, the stars in the sky continued to shine as cold and bright as if from ancient times, unaltered by the human existence.

Da Si Ming was stunned for a long time and suddenly burst into a prolonged laugh, muttering in a dispirited manner, “Shi Ying, oh Shi Ying… this time, you have died in vain.”

Yes, surprisingly, nothing has changed!

Even though Shi Ying had made such a great sacrifice by killing the shark he thought would lead to calamity at any cost, all the ominous harbingers had not disappeared, and the fate of Kongsang remained unchanged!

What will that proud man be thinking when he opens his eyes and beholds the result of all this? He has given up his life and severed his deepest attachments, but he has still not won against fate!

Shi Ying, will you regret it?

Ultimately, the human power is too insignificant to compete with the will of Heaven.

He carried the blood of an emperor, and although he was banished from the Imperial Capital since childhood, far from the center of power, in the end he still sacrificed for such vain posthumous matters – and what about himself, as the Supreme Commander, who also carries the bloodline of the Xingzun Emperor? Was he just going to stand by and do nothing?

“If all of us are like the rest of the people, and only enjoy the glory of the moment, then what is the use of having us, the Divine Cultivators, coming into this world?”

Suddenly, the words Shi Ying used to say echoed harsh and cold into his mind. People who do things they know they cannot do. Perhaps that’s why people like them exist, right?

The Grand Master gazed steadily at that particular Imperial Star for a long time, his expression changing several times: at times sad, at times angry, sometimes generous and fierce, bright and uncertain, quickly fading away, leaving only a void in the end.

“Perhaps… things have come to a point where I can only solve all this according to my methods?” For a long, long time, the Grand Master exhaled a turbid breath of wine and muttered, “This old bone, maybe I can still put it together for a little use.”

“Grand Master!” Right at this moment, footsteps suddenly rushed from the bottom of the White Tower, their voices bearing panic: “The Chief Steward asks you to go to the Hall of the Purple Pavilion immediately! The Emperor’s… condition is getting worse!”

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