Xuanwu was solidly struck across her entire body by lightning descending from the sky.

She slowly raised her head, standing in place like a withered tree, only the whites of her eyes remaining, her lips trembling slightly.

After a moment, thick plumes of smoke rose from her body, and after opening her mouth, she spewed out a dense cloud of black mist.

Her originally gray-white skin had now become pitch-black, as if her entire body had been burned, yet suppressed by the domineering “Immortality.”

But Qi Xia knew that even “Immortality” had to have limits.

Being struck on the head by a bolt of lightning—the massive electric current would flow through the entire body in an instant. At that moment, the nerves, muscles, and internal organs the current passed through would all be severely burned.

When the current passed through the heart, it would also cause atrial fibrillation, producing a huge impact on consciousness.

This wasn’t something that could be dealt with by the two words “Immortality.”

Qinglong laughed madly, even his eyes reddening somewhat, then he raised his finger and pointed at Xuanwu again.

He seemingly didn’t intend to stop, but rather wanted to press his advantage.

Xuanwu appeared to have completely lost consciousness. In the next second, all her hair slowly rose up with thick smoke, and crackling electrical sparks continuously flashed across her body.

Qi Xia held his breath, hiding at the doorway and not daring to make a sound.

He knew that for Xuanwu to kill Qinglong would be as difficult as ascending to heaven, but the reverse situation was the same.

For Qinglong to completely destroy an “Immortal” naturally required extremely strong conviction.

Qi Xia knew that Xuanwu was probably the peak of all the “Divine Beasts'” combat power aside from Qinglong—after all, the vast majority of tasks to kill Earth-level “Zodiacs” were entrusted to her.

But what about for Xuanwu herself…?

All of Xuanwu’s long hair pointed toward the sky, seemingly already dominated by static electricity, locked onto the next round of attack.

“You can crawl here pitch-black all over,” Qinglong said with a smile.

As soon as the words fell, a massive beam of light descended again, making the entire ground shake.

“BOOM!!”

Before Xuanwu could recover consciousness, she suffered another devastating blow.

Just as Qinglong had said, Xuanwu was now standing in place, pitch-black all over.

Her skin, burned across her entire body, triggered the effect of “Immortality” at this moment. Though her body appeared intact, all her skin had turned pitch-black, covered with points of starlight.

As if standing here was not Xuanwu at all, but the entire universe.

Seeing that Xuanwu had completely lost consciousness, Qinglong swung out massive palm wind to knock her to the ground, then with bloodshot eyes activated “Transition” and suddenly disappeared from this place.

After waiting more than ten seconds and confirming that Qinglong had completely left, Qi Xia hurriedly went forward to check on Xuanwu’s condition.

Facing Xuanwu, Qi Xia’s feelings were very complex.

She was no different from all the people wandering in the “Land of Finality”—merely an unfortunate person subject to the rules.

She shouldn’t have been a “Divine Beast” either, yet carrying the identity of a “Divine Beast,” she had lived to become this way.

But she also had great differences from the people of the “Land of Finality”—she had always wanted to die.

Perhaps killing other “Divine Beasts” was to escape, but killing “Xuanwu” merely fulfilled a wish of hers.

Xuanwu’s hair spread across the ground, almost filling the entire “Cangjie Chess” venue, revealing her body.

But just as Qi Xia had seen before, her entire body was like a brilliant human-shaped universe—one could only see points of starlight beneath the pitch-blackness, completely unable to see any trace of flesh.

Qi Xia remembered that he had once taken a knife and left countless wounds on Xuanwu’s body. At that time, every wound had displayed a pitch-black color, just like the vast universe at this moment.

“Xuanwu…” Qi Xia called softly.

“Kill me.”

From within the vastness, an ethereal voice transmitted from inside Xuanwu’s body, like the stars speaking, like the sound of the Milky Way.

She no longer had a mouth, yet could still emit sound.

Hearing these three words, Qi Xia looked Xuanwu over from head to toe, then shook his head. “I can’t kill you.”

Someone who could continue speaking even after being attacked with full force by Qinglong… how could she be killed bare-handed?

“You can.”

Xuanwu’s ethereal voice came again, echoing beside Qi Xia’s ears like distant singing.

“I beg you, kill me.”

“I’m truly sorry…” Qi Xia’s gaze dimmed. “I can find a way to let you ‘live,’ but I have no way to let you ‘die.'”

“Why…” Xuanwu’s mournful voice came from all directions. “I clearly remember… I remember you killed me.”

“Perhaps you remember incorrectly,” Qi Xia said.

“What?”

“The one who killed you wasn’t me, but someone else.” Qi Xia looked at Xuanwu’s boundless face like the universe and said, “They’re still looking for an opportunity to kill you now. Do you want to go see them?”

“Kill me… killing me would be good… come kill me.”

“But… will you admit defeat?” Qi Xia asked pointedly. “Since you’ve always wanted to die so much, why don’t you willingly surrender without resistance…?”

“I…”

“As long as you continue to resist, those who kill you will also suffer countless deaths and injuries,” Qi Xia said again. “You could clearly proactively expose your weak point.”

“I want to die… but participants cannot defy Divine Beasts.” Xuanwu’s voice was full of contradiction. “So if they want to kill me, I can only kill them.”

Qi Xia sighed lightly. The deeply rooted “rules” had already sprouted in Xuanwu’s mind—even she herself had no way to resist them.

“But I gave every person who wanted to kill me a chance…!!” Xuanwu said. “I let every person try countless times… but I can’t die… why can’t I die…”

“Perhaps try a different approach,” Qi Xia said. “Not ‘giving them opportunities,’ but ‘telling them your weak point.'”

“My weak point…” Xuanwu paused. “Divine Beasts cannot expose weak points.”

“Is it still the same now?” Qi Xia asked.

After hearing this, Xuanwu’s entire body trembled, and she slowly sat up from the ground.

The hair on the ground was also pulled by her, once again covering her back.

She extended her remaining left hand behind her head and slowly lifted the hair on her back.

“My weak point… is here.” Xuanwu said. “Qinglong always told me to protect my back.”

Qi Xia stared at Xuanwu’s back with a grave expression.

What a bizarre situation this was.

Not a single eye could be seen on that back—one could only see the vast starry sky.

If he could have persuaded Xuanwu earlier, before the effect of “Immortality” manifested, to blind the eyes on her back, things wouldn’t have fallen to this state.

But without experiencing this battle, how could Xuanwu willingly expose her own weak point?

In her subconscious, she had always had one thought—the reason she couldn’t die was so that one day she could use all her abilities to kill Qinglong.

Now she had waited for the opportunity and had also forever lost this opportunity.

She knew she could never kill Qinglong again, so she could only choose to die herself.

This was her worst choice, and also her best choice at this moment.

Qi Xia felt deep despair from Xuanwu.

“Xuanwu, if you had to choose for yourself, would you choose to go out… or die here?” he asked solemnly.

“I absolutely must die here.”