“Get up, the ground is cold.”

I had finally reclaimed my body.

In a place I never imagined, in a form I hadn’t anticipated, once again, I entered this physical form of mine.

Blood and spiritual energy flowed through my four limbs and hundred bones in the way I was familiar with.

I opened my eyes to the familiar Kunlun.

It appeared before me in an unfamiliar form.

In Kunlun’s sky, formations that normally wouldn’t be activated were lit up, and outside the formations was evil energy gathered like a black snake, frantically attacking the barrier.

On Kunlun’s ground, there was chaos, with threads of evil energy weaving through the fleeing crowds.

And one stream charged directly at me!

I mobilized my body’s soul power, waved my hand to cut through the evil energy, and the sounds around me began to become clear.

Clamor, chaos, screams, incessant.

The sounds, the images, made everything feel real.

After a brief moment of confusion, I finally confirmed that this wasn’t a dream. After drifting for thousands of years, I had finally achieved my goal!

And just then, suddenly, Kunlun’s formation in the sky flickered violently.

Everyone exclaimed at this moment: “Is the barrier breaking?!”

“Someone has taken Pangu Fu!”

“Look at Kunlun’s peak!”

I looked in the direction of the flickering light of the barrier, and sure enough, at Kunlun’s peak, I saw a familiar black mist.

Xie Zhuo, you wouldn’t be trying to go back five hundred years to cut that damn marriage bond in a situation like this, would you?

Or… was he truly controlled by evil energy now? After all, when I left his body just now, there was quite a bit of evil energy clinging to him.

I cursed inwardly but didn’t rashly rush over.

Going to Kunlun’s peak alone now, whether it was Xie Zhuo using Pangu Fu or not, would definitely be the worst strategy.

After pondering for a moment, I decided to find Xi Wang Mu first.

When I reached the great hall, Xi Wang Mu wasn’t there. All of Kunlun’s immortals had been drawn to Kunlun’s peak, and the hall was empty.

Outside, though I couldn’t see Xi Wang Mu, with such a commotion, she couldn’t not know about it, and she certainly wouldn’t hide.

I could think of only one place…

I looked at Xi Wang Mu’s main seat, without hesitation, I immediately stepped onto the dais and directly touched the back of the throne.

In the next moment, a flash of light.

When I entered this secret space, I heard someone saying: “His sudden commotion in Kunlun must be part of a scheme.”

I looked closely and, sure enough, in Kunlun’s stone mirror, nine silhouettes floated, all shadows of the main deities!

And Xi Wang Mu now stood alone outside the stone mirror.

Seeing me arrive, Xi Wang Mu’s eyebrows slightly moved: “Jiu Xia?”

“I know it’s a bit strange for me to suddenly come to this place, but Xi Wang Mu, I don’t have time to explain the whole story clearly.” I told Xi Wang Mu, “You must believe me, this time, the evil deity is truly unprepared, has no scheme, his only thought now is to kill me.”

Xi Wang Mu frowned.

I didn’t know if the evil energy would follow me here, so I had to continue quickly:

“The evil deity’s return was when the Snow Wolf Tribe leader, using the entire land of Mingjing Forest as a sacrifice, extracted all the impure energy from that land, allowing a strand of his soul to emerge. The only way to kill the evil deity is to return all the evil energy in the world to that land! Only Xie Zhuo can do this!”

Upon hearing this, all the main deities were stunned.

Xi Wang Mu looked at me in astonishment: “How do you…”

From the stone mirror, one main deity immediately said: “Kunlun is now troubled by evil energy, beware, she has been possessed. Previously, your Kunlun’s plant immortal Jing Nanshou is a cautionary example.”

I glanced at that main deity: “I understand your concerns.”

I scanned the stone mirror and saw the silhouette of the main deity, Ji. Although his appearance now was completely different from the main deity Ji before.

“Deity Ji, on the night the City of the Unmoving Dead was established, I stood before you, with Kunlun’s heart method, in soul form, entering the body of a young soldier from Magpie Mountain. You should remember me.”

Main deity Ji started: “You…”

I bowed deeply: “I implore all deity lords to believe me!” I straightened up, looking at Xi Wang Mu, earnestly speaking.

“Xie Zhuo is now at Kunlun’s peak, about to use Pangu Fu. If he’s not trying to take me back five hundred years to cut our marriage bond, then he’s truly been controlled by evil energy, wanting to destroy Kunlun’s formation. Xi Wang Mu, now, only you can help me! We must awaken Xie Zhuo.”

Xi Wang Mu was silent for a moment: “How can I help you?”

“Help me draw out the evil energy from Xie Zhuo’s body.”

The deities in the mirror clamored, but only the main deity, Ji, remained still.

“Not using you to draw it out!”

I knew they had misunderstood, immediately saying, “My soul has drifted in the world for thousands of years, I know that flowers and stones can also carry souls. This evil deity’s energy is very similar to soul power. Xi Wang Mu, you only need to help me draw some of the evil energy from Xie Zhuo’s body into Kunlun’s stones. As long as Xie Zhuo can regain some consciousness, I firmly believe that I can bring him back on track, or rather…”

I looked at Xi Wang Mu with intense eyes: “He can bring himself back on track.”

All the main deities fell silent.

Xi Wang Mu pondered for a moment, then turned to look at main deity Ji in the stone mirror.

So all the main deities’ gazes fell upon the main deity, Ji.

Main deity Ji looked at me, and after just a brief assessment, nodded: “I believe her.”

I felt relief.

Main deity Ji continued: “What you say, though I can find evidence for everywhere, I still find it astonishing. If this matter is resolved, I hope, young lady, that you can give all the deities an explanation.”

“No problem!”

Not daring to delay, I risked taking Xi Wang Mu’s hand: “We really can’t delay, Xi Wang Mu, let’s hurry!”

In matters of magical arts, with Xi Wang Mu leading me, it was incredibly fast. We arrived at Kunlun’s peak in an instant.

Now, at Kunlun’s peak, there was no barrier from Xie Zhuo, only swirling black energy.

As I had expected, Kunlun’s immortals were no match for Xie Zhuo, and now they all lay unconscious on the ground in disarray.

When Xi Wang Mu and I landed, at the center of the black energy vortex, Xie Zhuo in tattered clothes had his left hand on Kunlun’s divine weapon, Pangu Fu.

No time for sentiment, seeing Xie Zhuo again with my own eyes, in my heart was only one cheer and shout!

He hadn’t taken the axe yet!

“Xie Zhuo!” I called his name loudly, testing his level of consciousness.

He looked at me but didn’t speak, didn’t answer me at all.

“Last time,” when Xie Zhuo split open five hundred years of space and time, he still had rationality, could communicate, would converse, though filled with resentment, but not like now.

The current Xie Zhuo…

He was affected much more by Kunlun’s evil energy.

Both his eyes had already turned black.

The evil deity was also desperately pouring all his evil energy into Xie Zhuo’s body.

Perhaps the evil deity also knew that today’s battle was a last stand.

If Xie Zhuo became clear-headed and turned to deal with him, he would truly be finished.

Xi Wang Mu, seeing Xie Zhuo in this state, was also clearly stunned.

She lowered her brows, formed hand seals, and the divine power of a main deity was poured into Pangu Fu from a distance.

This Pangu Fu was originally Kunlun’s divine weapon, and Xi Wang Mu was Kunlun’s main deity. The two complemented each other, divine power surged, instantly knocking Xie Zhuo away from Pangu Fu.

The abundant divine power also shot straight to the sky from Pangu Fu’s blade, not only reinforcing the formation in the sky but also instantly purging all the evil energy within Kunlun’s barrier.

Worthy of being a main deity!

How clever of me to find her!

I turned to glance at Xi Wang Mu, thinking, “last time” when Xie Zhuo split open space and time, was she also in a meeting with the other main deities, so she arrived late?

Fortunately, this time I went to get help first; otherwise, it would have been too late again…

“Xi Wang Mu, please stand by Pangu Fu,” I told her. “No matter what, don’t let Xie Zhuo touch the axe…”

Lest he damage our Kunlun barrier and have a chance to split open time and space.

Xi Wang Mu was certainly reliable.

Before I finished speaking, she flashed over there.

The noble goddess grabbed the world-creating axe in one swoop.

The scene was somewhat wild, but seeing it made me incredibly reassured.

This is right!

This is how it should be!

Before I could give my next instruction, Xi Wang Mu, most astutely, backed Pangu Fu behind her, formed hand seals with one hand, chanted incantations, and began drawing out the evil energy from Xie Zhuo’s body!

Worthy indeed of my Kunlun’s main deity!

I love it!

Xie Zhuo frowned, his body trembled slightly, and the evil energy was continuously drawn out from his body, entering the rocks of Kunlun’s peak.

The speed of this drawing out, the fierceness of the energy, was at a rate completely beyond what an immortal like me could achieve.

Seeing everything developing well, my heart was even more joyful.

However, at this moment, unexpectedly, those evil energies drawn by Xi Wang Mu into the rocks couldn’t stay in the rocks!

They ran wild everywhere, even began to gather, and started attacking Xi Wang Mu.

Only then did I realize that my soul entering flowers and plants was because I wanted to enter, so I would stay inside.

But these evil energies, following the evil deity’s consciousness, they completely didn’t want to stay in the rocks. Xi Wang Mu could draw them out from Xie Zhuo’s body, but couldn’t make them obediently stay in the stones.

However, these were just evil energies accumulated by the sealed evil deity in Kunlun over the years. I wasn’t concerned that they could harm Xi Wang Mu, but they did affect her continued drawing out of evil energy.

I looked at the blackness in Xie Zhuo’s eyes; one eye had already cleared, but the other was still as black as a beast’s.

I also looked at Xi Wang Mu, who was properly guarding Pangu Fu, on one hand drawing out evil energy, on the other hand fighting with it.

I thought, perhaps, it’s enough.

He can’t tear open space and time with his bare hands now.

So what am I afraid of?

I walked toward Xie Zhuo.

He remained in place, covering his still-black eye, his expression somewhat struggling.

Seeming to hear my approaching footsteps, he looked up at me with hostility and unwillingness in his eyes.

He didn’t want me to approach him, so with a wave of his hand, a sword appeared in his palm.

I had seen him use this sword before. In the City of the Unmoving Dead, he carried me on his back, breaking through the siege, using this sword to kill many who blocked our way.

“Jiu Xia! Step back!” Xi Wang Mu worried for me, sending a spell toward Xie Zhuo with a wave of her hand.

I raised my hand, using immortal power to block the main deity’s attack.

Xi Wang Mu was stunned, and Xie Zhuo in his confusion also seemed a bit dazed.

I continued walking toward Xie Zhuo, without a trace of fear.

If he hadn’t drawn his sword, it might have been somewhat difficult. Now that he had drawn his sword, I was even more fearless.

Why?

Because…

Our marriage bond hadn’t been cut yet, had it?

Shouldn’t our blood oath be most effective at this time?

I walked straight toward the tip of his sword, without any evasion, until his sword tip touched my chest.

“Xie Zhuo,” I called to him, also focusing intently on him, “the divorce was my fault.”

He stood in place, staring at me blankly. Both his clear eye and his confused eye were stunned.

“I now know your past, and I also know why you concealed it.”

He didn’t withdraw his sword, but I saw his lips trembling.

Taking advantage of his distraction, I suddenly stepped forward.

The sword tip immediately pierced through my clothes and skin, with a soft sound, and blood flowed from my flesh, staining my clothes red.

A painful trick…

I naturally felt pain, but I saw that he was in pain too.

He stepped back, withdrew the sword tip, his expression wavering, and the other half of his confused eye began to shake.

The blackness gradually receded, and emotions of sadness, pain, and disbelief all appeared in his increasingly clear eyes.

“Xie Zhuo, I love you very much.”

I took one step closer.

Xie Zhuo stumbled back a step. More shock appeared in his eyes.

His hand holding the sword dropped.

I almost pursued my advantage, taking three steps in two, directly striding to his front, and grabbed his left hand.

Because his right hand was broken…

I couldn’t bear to grab it.

Because I held his left hand, the sword in his left hand fell to the ground, then instantly disappeared.

“We won’t divorce,” I proposed, moving close to his face, asking him, “alright…”

Xie Zhuo was completely stunned. He stared at me, regardless of whether the evil energy over there was still entangled with Xi Wang Mu, or if the giant snake-like black energy outside Kunlun’s barrier was still banging on the “wall.”

He only gazed at me, his eyes clear, the black marks on his face and neck gradually contracting, receding.

“The red thread is cut,” his lips trembled for a long time, saying just these four words.

“We’ll reconnect it,” I said.

“Kunlun’s red thread, once cut, cannot be reconnected.”

“From today onwards, Kunlun’s red thread, once cut, must be able to be reconnected for me,” I said. “The rules, I’ll change them, Xi Wang Mu has approved.”

My soul, having accompanied him for such a long time, wasn’t going to be defeated by a red thread here.

“No more divorce,” I continued asking him, “alright?”

He just stared at me, as if he had lost his speech.

Looking at Xie Zhuo so close at hand, I didn’t want to say anything more. I grabbed his already torn collar, gently pulled his body forward, and did something I had wanted to do for many, many years—

I kissed his lips.

He didn’t resist either.

Seemingly too shocked to make any other reaction.

But I was thinking, after this is all over, I must tell Xie Zhuo that skin-to-skin intimacy should, of course, happen when both are fully conscious.

Not like him these past four hundred years, only secretly, silently, without even telling me.

I focused on kissing him, like savoring tea, wine, savoring the joy and beauty of this world.

In this instant, all the evil energy on Xie Zhuo’s body seemed to be driven away, quickly disappearing from his body.

Under the tattered clothes I was pulling, on his skin, those black marks of evil energy completely retreated into the scars on his body.

At Kunlun’s peak, the evil energy fighting with Xi Wang Mu also seemed to suddenly cease, vanishing without a trace.

The evil deity’s energy and Xie Zhuo’s inner emotions were interdependent. Now, with Xie Zhuo regaining clarity, the already sealed evil deity naturally couldn’t stir up trouble.

Outside Kunlun’s barrier, that huge black tentacle was also gradually broken under the formation’s attack.

Everything seemed to calm down.

And I, I was still kissing Xie Zhuo, not even minding deepening the kiss further in front of Xi Wang Mu…

Just then, I was suddenly pushed away by Xie Zhuo.

I was startled, not yet reacting, when Xie Zhuo turned the tables, his left hand seizing my wrist, pulling me, removing my hand that was grabbing his collar.

He pulled me, his clear gaze looking at me with complex emotions.

“You… have been possessed by evil energy?”

“Me?” I stared at him blankly: “I haven’t.” I said… “You were just possessed! I came to save you! How can you wipe your mouth and deny it!”

I felt shocked.

Xie Zhuo frowned, examining me.

I thought it made sense.

For me, I had walked thousands of years, journeying through mountains and waters on this emotional path.

But for Xie Zhuo, I was just a hot-tempered wife who was frantically calling for divorce a few days ago, and then suddenly became calm one night, even saying, “I love him.”

The connection was too close, somewhat too strange.

“Regardless…” Xi Wang Mu’s voice interjected from the other side, “Jiu Xia, you have many things that need explaining to us.”

I turned, glancing at Xi Wang Mu.

She had already been very cooperative in not interrupting me. Now, it was time for me to cooperate with them and clarify everything.

I grabbed Xie Zhuo’s hand.

“Wrap up your broken right hand,” I said. “This matter is very complex, I’ll only explain it once. Will you come to listen together?”

Xie Zhuo, of course, wouldn’t refuse.

After Xie Zhuo bandaged his hand, we went together to the secret space behind Xi Wang Mu’s throne.

In the stone mirror, the nine main deities’ silhouettes floated, already waiting for us.

At this moment, naturally, there was nothing that needed to be hidden anymore.

I openly shared the memories of my soul.

As I narrated, the scenes from my memories were also projected onto the stone mirror.

Each scene, as I described it, was both familiar and strange.

My divorce from Xie Zhuo, to traveling through five hundred years of space and time, the second crossing, to the City of the Unmoving Dead, experiencing Xie Zhuo’s death, Kunlun’s destruction, and then my return to thousands of years ago, arriving at Xie Zhuo’s childhood…

With each step, Xie Zhuo and the main deities’ expressions became more solemn.

When the mirror displayed images of me merging with ice and snow, candle flames, and summer flowers, Xie Zhuo beside me trembled slightly.

Up until the appearance and demise of the “little wolf,” I didn’t dare look at Xie Zhuo’s expression.

Recounting these things in front of him again in detail, I was a bit embarrassed.

I quickly skimmed over what happened after Magpie Mountain.

“And then, it’s now.”

After the speech, all ten main deities fell into silence.

After quite a while, it was Xi Wang Mu who came to my side and gently embraced me: “Jiu Xia, Kunlun and this primordial world, should all thank you.”

Held in her embrace, I didn’t speak, but over her shoulder, I saw Xie Zhuo, who had been standing silently behind.

His pitch-black eyes seemed to be looking at my eyes, yet also seemed to be gazing at my soul.

He didn’t speak, but I felt that at this moment, he had already said thousands of words.

I seemed to hear him speaking of love and hate, life and death, vows.

His words seemed to transcend time, mountains, and seas. From the past, speaking all the way to the present.

I patted Xi Wang Mu, and she released me.

I walked to Xie Zhuo’s side, hooking my forefinger with his little finger. I felt the trembling transmitted from his body to his fingertips.

He still silently held my hand completely.

“Xie Zhuo, the evil deity must be eliminated,” I opened this topic at this time, pulling him out of his emotions, “and now is the best time.”

Discussing this matter, the main deities’ expressions also became solemn.

“He caused such a commotion in Kunlun today, tried to control Xie Zhuo, but failed. In this battle, he must have expended greatly, severely damaging his vitality. Now is the best time to make his soul roll back to the abyss and be sealed.”

After I finished speaking, I saw the main deities nodding one after another.

Xi Wang Mu said: “We should not delay, not even give him a moment to breathe. Today, I will set out for Mingjing Forest.”

The deities also responded in succession.

I held Xie Zhuo’s hand: “Let’s go together. This time, with the main deities present, they can help you share the burden. You definitely won’t be like that time…”

“You cannot go,” Xie Zhuo interrupted me.

I was stunned: “Why…”

“To Mingjing Forest, apart from the main deities and me, no one else can go,” Xie Zhuo looked at me, his black pupils filled with my reflection, “We cannot give him any opportunity to take advantage.”

Just like Zhu Lian before…

Or rather, Xie Zhuo was still afraid that something like “little wolf” would happen again.

I was silent, unable to find any reason to refute.

In the stone mirror, the main deity Ji softly said, “General Jiu Xia, you now have specks of evil energy in your soul, which might not be suitable for this journey.”

Yes, this was produced when I seized the body and killed myself…

“Stay in Kunlun, and first clear the evil energy from your body,” Xi Wang Mu also persuaded me, “We will go and help you protect Xie Zhuo well.”

I unconsciously held Xie Zhuo’s hand tightly. Despite my unwillingness, I controlled all the emotions in my heart.

“Alright,” I nodded rationally, “you go…”

“We’ll depart now,” Xi Wang Mu said to the other main deities, and with a wave of her hand, the light of the stone mirror faded.

The secret room became dim, and she turned back, glancing at me and Xie Zhuo: “Xie Zhuo, I’ll wait for you outside. Jiu Xia, until we return, you stay here to calmly meditate. This place is safer than outside.”

I nodded…

Xi Wang Mu then turned and left, leaving the space to me and Xie Zhuo.

I turned my head, staring at Xie Zhuo.

I didn’t speak, and he didn’t speak either. Our eyes met, gazing at each other for a long time. He suddenly extended his hand, almost roughly, directly embracing me, holding me against his chest, his arms and chest tightly encircling me, seeming not to want to give me space to breathe.

“Fu Jiuxia,” his voice was hoarse, almost gritting his teeth as he murmured by my ear, “how did you get through these years?”

“Without words, without voice, unknown to anyone…”

“How did you…”

He seemed to be heartbroken, unable even to complete a sentence.

He held me tighter and tighter, as if wanting to knead me into his body.

Over many years past, in so much time, I had never seemed to think about the question he asked.

How did I get through these years?

Accompanying him, that’s how I got through.

Able to laugh and curse in crisis, and struggle in desperate situations.

Because…

“Wasn’t I accompanying you?”

“You only had me left.”

“The Snow Wolf Tribe, Magpie Mountain were all your past. Not understanding the cause and effect, I would also cut the red thread. So, before seeing you again, I couldn’t die. I had to live to see you, live to love you. I had to stand before you like now, I…”

Xie Zhuo’s hand cradled the back of my head, urgently, almost hysterically, kissing me.

Without restraint, without composure.

At this moment, Xie Zhuo was like wanting to devour me, emotions surging, turbulent.

I had never felt the bitterness of these years.

But it was Xie Zhuo’s fervent lips that made all my strength, at this moment, instantly crumble.

My tears kept falling from the corners of my eyes.

I had clearly explained everything, finally could honestly tell him how sincerely, fervently, I loved him, from before, until now.

But these tears simply wouldn’t stop.

I seemed, in this instant, to have turned out all the grievances, forbearance, the softest, most fragile emotions from the bottom of my heart, spreading them all out.

Thousands of years, so many ups and downs, hardships, drifting, to exchange for this moment of embrace.

But after this brief embrace, I knew he would again shoulder his fate, to make the final struggle.

“Xie Zhuo…” I said with a crying voice, pushing him away, “you must come back. The red thread hasn’t been reconnected yet, and our story isn’t finished yet.” I heavily punched his back, as if to leave a mark.

“You must come back!”

Finally, in the midst of panting, he said by my ear.

“I will definitely come back.”

As if afraid that staying longer would make it impossible to leave.

Xie Zhuo released me and left this secret space.

I watched his figure disappear, then sat cross-legged.

I chanted the Kunlun heart method.

It was like returning to the night before the City of the Unmoving Dead was established.

In the flow of the heart method, I didn’t know how quickly or slowly time passed. I didn’t know how long it had been when I suddenly felt that the strand of evil energy that had always been entangled in my soul suddenly began to flow outside my body.

I opened my eyes, watching the evil energy from my body float outside.

The evil energy floated and circled, beginning to flow out of the secret room.

Realizing what this was, I immediately chased after the evil energy out of the secret room.

Kunlun’s main hall was empty.

I chased to the main hall’s entrance, seeing my evil energy floating faster and faster towards the sky.

And at this time, in Kunlun’s sky, there was more evil energy floating and gathering, speed increasing, faster and faster, finally vanishing in an instant.

The world’s evil energy had disappeared…

Xie Zhuo and the others had succeeded?

I stood outside Kunlun’s main hall, not daring to move a step.

The evil energy had disappeared, but Xi Wang Mu and the others hadn’t returned.

Many immortals, seeing the anomaly, came to the main hall to report to Xi Wang Mu, but they only saw me. After asking a few strange questions and seeing that I didn’t respond to them, they each went back.

After all, the disappearance of evil energy wasn’t a bad thing.

Only I, still standing outside the main hall’s entrance, looking at the sky, waiting.

From daylight to sunset, then to starry skies, and finally back to daylight.

A day and a night, I didn’t move from my spot.

I knew the divine power of the main deities; if they wanted to return, they could do so in an instant.

But the evil energy had been gone for a day, and they still hadn’t returned, nor had Xie Zhuo.

Time passed bit by bit, and by the second night, Qin Shuyan came.

He looked at me, his expression very serious: “Jiu Xia, come with me to Mingjing Forest.”

On the way to Mingjing Forest.

Old Qin told me.

The main deities and Xie Zhuo had successfully arranged a formation in Mingjing Forest, attracting all the evil energy from heaven and earth. Xie Zhuo pressed at the formation’s eye, with the main deities helping him share the burden of the evil energy.

Then all the evil energy was guided into the earth of Mingjing Forest.

Mingjing Forest began to regain its colors.

The formation ended, all the evil energy disappeared.

But Xie Zhuo remained sitting at the formation’s eye, not waking up.

He seemed to be the final door on the formation’s eye, isolating the evil deity from this world.

The main deities said that he was now fighting with the evil deity inside his body, closing this last door. They had tried many methods but couldn’t help Xie Zhuo in the slightest.

When I arrived at Mingjing Forest, this homeland of Xie Zhuo’s childhood had already regained its original colors. The colorful summer flowers entering this forest from outside didn’t seem so brilliant anymore.

I followed the summer flowers to find Xie Zhuo sitting on the formation’s eye in the forest.

The main deities surrounded him, continuously infusing divine power into his body. Even though they didn’t know what was happening inside his body, even if there was only the slightest effect, they weren’t willing to give up.

“Xie Zhuo,” I softly called his name.

I didn’t expect a response, but in the next moment, I saw Xie Zhuo’s tightly closed eyelashes tremble slightly.

My heart jumped: “He moved…”

Old Qin, who had brought me, looked at me with sympathy: “He hasn’t moved for so many days, perhaps you’re seeing things? If he really woke up, then the evil troubles in this world would be completely controlled. It’s not that easy…”

“No, he moved!”

I said as I strode quickly toward Xie Zhuo.

“Jiu Xia!” Old Qin tried to stop me, but I shook off his hand, lifting my skirt, wrapped in the summer flowers and forest wind that floated past me, rushing toward Xie Zhuo.

I knew he had never lost to the evil deity, not before, and not now.

Moreover, he had promised me. He would definitely come back.

“Xie Zhuo!”

I called his name, disturbing the main deities who were feeding divine power to him.

Old Qin shouted from behind, but I didn’t hear his voice. I only saw that as I rushed forward, Xie Zhuo, sitting in place, slowly opened his eyes.

His black pupils captured my figure.

I brought the wind, brought the flowers, and plunged into his arms.

I held Xie Zhuo tightly.

But Xie Zhuo didn’t respond, as if my seeing him open his eyes just now was only my illusion…

And when I began to doubt myself, a warm hand gently touched my back, the palm so scorching.

It could warm from my back all the way to between my eyebrows, making my eyes redden.

“Jiu Xia,” he said, “get up, the ground is cold.”

At this moment, in the sunlight, in the breeze, hugging him, I began to laugh and cry.

“Let’s go back…” I said indistinctly by his ear, “remarry… have a feast, I want a hundred tables! Announce it to the world!”

Responding to me was Xie Zhuo’s serious reply.

“We don’t have that many friends, one table is enough.”

Actually, we don’t even need one table.

Having you is enough…