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Blood kept dripping from his wings as the divine bird recklessly lifted the young girl on his back and carried her as close to the stars as possible.

Nearly there… Nearly there!

When all the stars dotting the firmament were close in sight, Zhu Yan’s vision went blank for a moment, but at the risk of losing her vital essence, she pushed forward desperately with all her spiritual energy to trespass the other side of the barrier, finally feeling the linkage quietly being established – having crossed that last bit of distance, she reached upon that one particular bright Star of Fate! For a moment there, Zhu Yan clenched her teeth so hard that fresh blood seeped out from the tip of her tongue.

Raising her hand, she painted her fingertips with the blood of her spiritual saplings and quickly traced out intricate charms while simultaneously whispering long incantations from between her bleeding lips.

The sky swirled with the stars in front of her eyes, gradually incorporating them into her sphere of power. She opened both hands and offered her blood to the heavens with the Supreme Forbidden Spell, infusing it into the Star of Fate belonging to her Master. That was the moment when the Star Soul Blood Oath started to be initiated!

Beneath the astral firmament, the magnificent Star that belonged to herself suddenly shone brightly, emitting a crimson glow that illuminated heaven and earth. With that particular Star as the center, the surrounding constellations began to sway slightly and converge towards her.

It moves… It moves!

The stars in the sky are moving because of her!

She finally felt the powerful force of “the five elements aligning and the six harmonies echoing” that Master had spoken of, coming like surging ocean waves from all directions and pouring into her body – she manipulated this tremendous force through her own spiritual essence, causing her own Star of Fate to glow with a gigantic radiance, connecting crossways with the great Purple Star of Destiny belonging to her Master!

The two stars suddenly shifted their orbits, pulling the falling dark star out of its original trajectory in one single sweep! The entire starfield was completely reshaped in an instant.

A roaring sound erupted from the heavens in that moment. The sky sprang up as bright as lightning then suddenly went eerily dark.

The entire firmament was shaking, as if the Heavenly Gate was about to crumble and fall. In the midst of the dazzling light and dark shadows, Zhu Yan could no longer withstand the tremendous effort, and when she released her fingers from the spell, she unexpectedly collapsed straight down from the back of Chongming – at the same time, the Divine Bird no longer had the strength to keep flying, and one of its wings turned completely black; amidst the encircling golden beams of lightning, folding its wings, the Bird plummeted down from the Ninth Heaven!

Both she and Chongming, descended from the heights, like fallen meteors.

Zhu Yan gradually drifted into unconsciousness in the midst of her fall. The last thing she saw in her vision was countless stardust swirling and flying in front of her eyes, as if there were countless shooting star drizzling through the air. She knew that they were imaginary shadows – the ghost images of the dead stars after their orbits had been altered, lingering only for a moment before disappearing into space and time.

During the moment of falling from the Ninth Heaven, Zhu Yan forgot the fear of death and looked up with the brilliant starry sky reflected in her pupils, having only one last wish in her heart – Yes! Master… I’ve finally succeeded!

Inside the Temple of Jiuyi, the Seven Star Lamp suddenly shone brightly, bursting into a blinding explosion of flashing lights. Impelled by an unseen force, the seven spirits emerged from the extinguishing lamp and ascended swiftly upwards, coalescing with the three souls into the night sky, rejoining the newly brightened Purple Star of Fate.

The Starfield has changed and the Heavenly Order has been reshaped. From then on, everything between heaven and earth will be no longer the same!

As the astrological diagram over Jiuyi Mountain changed, a pair of deep, grey eyes inside the temple on top of the White Pagoda of Jialan were gazing at the scene and could no longer contain the mixture of delight and astonishment.

“It really worked!” The Grand Master glanced at the Heavenly Emperor, a little incredulous, his face ecstatically filled with joy, and exclaimed in a whisper, “It only took thirty-two days… This little girl, she’s really something!”

Behind him, a voice asked in a feeble voice, “What… worked?”

The Grand Master turned back haughtily and looked at the sickly Bei Mian Emperor, with an unconcealed jubilation in his eyes, then suddenly waved his hand and said, “Well, now that Shi Ying is safe, you can go and die already!”

The Grand Master waved his hand and instantly dismissed the life-renewal spell that was shrouding the emperor’s body. In that moment, the sickly old man collapsed, trembling violently in the pile of brocade, his soul wandering away from his decaying shell, squirming and crumbling, ready to collapse.

“When the time is up, I won’t use any more spiritual energy to gather your soul with my magic – if you’re lucky, you’ll probably live for another ten days.” After prolonging the emperor’s life for several dozen days, Da Si Ming also appeared to be extremely tired, “Ah-Jun, our brotherly fate in this life has nearly come to an end.”

The emperor’s eyes were filled with a dying cloudiness as he stared at the Grand Master, but there was an infinite amount of disbelief and anxiety as he struggled to make a sound: “Ah-Jue, exactly what are you… trying to do?”

“You wouldn’t understand even if I told you.” The Grand Master was, however, disdainful.

Watching Da Si Ming whipping his sleeves and turning away ready to leave, the emperor could not help but ask, “Where are you… going?” The dying man reached out from his deathbed, his withered fingers flexing slightly, as if trying to retain this only sibling: “Wait just one moment!”

“What, are you afraid to be left here alone to die?” The Grand Master stopped in response and looked back at his brother with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, “Don’t worry, Consort Qing will come to keep you company on your final journey – she doesn’t know you have already dismantled her spell and still thinks of feeding you the last bowl of medicine!”

The Bei Mian Emperor’s entire body shook as he murmured, “Concubine Qing… she…”

“You’ve already witnessed it with your own eyes, are you still in denial?” The Grand Master laughed coldly, “This is not the first time she has done this kind of thing – wasn’t this exactly what she did to Yan back then?”

“What?” The emperor’s body jolted, “It is true?”

Ah-Yan. This name, even in the face of death, still carried a thrilling power.

“Of course is the truth. How could you even believe that it was Ah-Yan to put that slave girl of yours to death back then?” Da Si Ming laughed coldly, his eyes reflecting bone-chilling hatred, “You didn’t even bother to think and investigate over it, how could Ah-Yan, with her kind temperament, do such a vicious thing?… You have fallen for Consort Qing’s scheme.”

“No…” The Bei Mian Emperor gasped violently and shook his head sluggishly, “It can’t be…”

“How is that impossible?” The Grand Master sneered, “Is it impossible for you to have been fooled? Or is it impossible for Concubine Qing to commit murder? Have you forgotten what the ‘soul-restoring tonic soup’ sent by Concubine Qing looks like? That was a subduing compulsion from the Middle Kingdom’s Seedling Forest, which can control one’s mind, a rarity in the Yunhuang Wasteland.”

After a pause, he added coldly, “Now that you understand this, it should be clear how that shark girl of yours died back then.”

“No! It was clearly… clearly… Ah-Yan who killed… killed Autumn Water.” The emperor gasped violently, his voice feeble but not moved in the slightest, “What does it have to do with Consort Qing…?”

The Grand Master cynically laughed, “That’s why I have always called you stupid, brother!”

“No… it can’t be.” Bei Mian Emperor appeared to have used up all his remaining strength, contemplating on that one long time remote deep palace suspicious case, his eyes slowly changed and his body gradually shivered, “Autumn Water… Before she died, Autumn Water personally told me… that it was the Empress who killed her! It was her own mouth to say these words!”

The Grand Master grimaced, “She was not telling you the truth.”

“Impossible! Autumn Water she… she wouldn’t lie to me!” The emperor faltered, with a hateful glare in his eyes, “She… has had her eyes gouged out! On that day, I have interrogated all the servants, except for the Empress, no one else had entered her room!”

“Yes, you doted on her so much, so naturally you would believe what that shark girl would say to you.” The Grand Master’s voice was chilling as he cut open the dusty past of years ago to unveil the truth, “If I said that the Autumn Water songstress’ eyes were gouged out by herself, would you believe me?”

With a jolt, Bei Mian Emperor snapped and exclaimed, “Impossible!”

“You see, even if I were to tell you this, you wouldn’t have believed it,” the Grand Master said coldly, glancing at his dying brother, “so naturally you wouldn’t have believed it even more if it were Ah-Yan to tell you this in the first place.”

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