“I truly don’t remember.”

Xuanwu said softly: “If only I had always remembered.”

What an incredibly long period of time…?

No, perhaps it wasn’t long at all, because every time Xuanwu looked back at this road, she discovered there was nothing behind her.

Even the Bodhisattva in her heart had already disappeared on the road she came from.

Fortunately, she had preserved the last memory in her heart.

That was from before coming to this place, the days hiding on the mountainside.

“People can die, but memories cannot.” Xuanwu slowly extended her hand. “If even the only remaining memories in my heart are destroyed, I will be completely disintegrated.”

The next second, an eyeball appeared at Xuanwu’s fingertip.

“This eyeball is clearly on my back… yet now no one can obtain it. Take it and kill me, but do not disintegrate me.”

She gently flicked the eyeball away. Song Qi reached out and grasped it in his palm.

Turning his hand over to look, that eyeball was clean and clear, lying there quietly like an exquisite glass product.

Su Shan also walked down from the rooftop to the ground at this moment, coming behind Song Qi.

She looked at Song Qi’s palm, where pure ‘Immortality’ ripples were undulating.

Xuanwu said nothing more, only lowering her head. She picked up her previously severed arm from the ground, then walked step by step to the wall of a low building and slowly sat down.

“Big Brother Hu.” Xuanwu called out.

“What is it?” Baihu answered.

“I lost the Bodhisattva.”

After hearing this, Baihu was slightly moved, then also came to Xuanwu’s side, bending down and slowly sitting.

Just like the first time they met that year.

“Silly child… what are you saying?” Baihu shook his head. “Even if the Bodhisattva is no longer in your heart, he has always been in the hearts of others.”

“Yes…” Xuanwu kept her head down. “I hope the Bodhisattva can forgive me… forgive me who is burdened with sin and stubbornly unrepentant.”

“He will.” Baihu nodded. “He definitely will.”

Song Qi had wanted to directly use ‘Combustion’ on the eyeball in his hand, but after staring at Xuanwu for a long time, a trace of pity flashed through him. He turned and passed it to Bai Jiu instead.

Bai Jiu understood tacitly, nodded and received the eyeball, then gently rotated it in her hand. That eyeball gradually turned into turbid liquid.

Several drops of liquid slid from Bai Jiu’s fingertips, brushed past her skin, fell to the ground, and seeped into the soil.

This way… Xuanwu wouldn’t suffer too much, right?

Looking back again, the black on Xuanwu’s body began to change. She didn’t recover her skin’s appearance, but instead began turning into charcoal starting from both feet.

The charcoal spread across Xuanwu’s body like a plague. She instinctively hugged her severed arm.

“Big Brother Hu, I heard that after people die, they must keep their corpse intact.” Xuanwu said with a sob. “That way they can be reincarnated and find a new mother. Otherwise, if the soul is incomplete, they can only wander in hell day and night.”

“Is that so…” Baihu said in a daze. “Xuanzi, hold your arm tightly. From now on you won’t need to suffer anymore… You’ll find new parents, they will…”

“But Big Brother Hu…” Xuanwu’s crying became increasingly sorrowful. “I can only go to the next hell…”

“How could that be…” Baihu was startled. “Xuanzi, you’ve already found your arm. You’ll be reincarnated completely intact.”

The black carbonization began covering Xuanwu’s legs and abdomen, finally reaching her chest.

Her entire body was fixed in place, unable to move even slightly. Only ethereal sobbing sounds transmitted illusorily from another space.

That voice was too distant, as if thousands and millions of people in this world were crying, as if thousands and millions of worlds were crying.

“Big Brother Hu…” Xuanwu said despairingly. “But I haven’t found my heart back… My heart is lost.”

“What…”

Baihu stared blankly around him, discovering that there were indeed many carbonizing fragments on the ground around them.

Xuanwu’s heart seemed to have already fallen in various places, unable to be pieced back together to its original form.

“Xuanzi… you go…” Baihu said. “I’ll help you find your heart back, not a single piece missing, all of it found.”

Xuanwu hugged her own arm and slowly lowered her head.

“But that heart of mine…”

The charcoal covered Xuanwu’s chest, finally reaching her neck.

“It was lost long ago.”

Xuanwu’s cheeks also completely turned pitch black, her features remaining impossible to distinguish. She quietly curled up in the corner, the long hair on her head covering her body, stopping all movement like stone.

She merged with the dark red background.

No one could find Xuanwu anymore, and no one could see her appearance clearly.

She remained quietly by the wall like a stone Bodhisattva statue, becoming part of the ‘Land of Finality.’

“Ha…” Jiang Shi slowly landed on the ground, then half-knelt, lightly coughing twice and saying, “Difficult, difficult, difficult, the Dao is mysterious, cannot… speak to those who don’t understand…”

“Little Jiang Shi!” Bai Jiu came to Jiang Shi’s side, wanting to reach out to help him up, but one left hand grabbed his arm while the other right hand fell into the empty space of the arm.

“To those who understand, speak a few words, to those who don’t understand… waste breath in vain…”

Before everyone could help Jiang Shi up, Luo Shiyi in the distance stumbled a few times, then immediately fell to the ground.

It seemed that wanting to collectively ‘Forget Worry’ for such a large area of Jiang Shi’s pain was also not an easy matter.

When Luo Shiyi lost consciousness, Jiang Shi instantly burst out with a miserable scream. The tremendous pain caused his pitch-black body to roll madly on the ground.

“Little Jiang Shi…” Bai Jiu stood to the side not knowing what to do, anxious tears about to fall.

All members of the ‘Cat’ team rushed forward to surround Jiang Shi, while Song Qi’s expression turned cold as he walked out from the crowd, heading straight before Baihu.

Before dealing with Little Jiang Shi, there were more important problems that needed solving.

Baihu raised a pair of bloodshot, sorrowful eyes to look at Song Qi.

“Baihu, are you prepared to make a move against us?” Song Qi asked.

Baihu didn’t answer, only shaking his head.

After watching Xuanwu die quietly, he had recovered some of his lost rationality.

He knew his enemies had never been the participants.

“Are you going to make a move against me?” Baihu asked in return.

“This assassination plan doesn’t include Baihu.” Song Qi said.

“Then please, do as you wish.”

Song Qi nodded with slight relief, didn’t say much more, and turned back to look at Jiang Shi.

Jiang Shi’s miserable screams echoed in this small plaza. Amid the screams, he continuously shouted one phrase—

“Don’t let me die alone.”

“Don’t worry… Little Jiang Shi…” Bai Jiu said at the side. “Everyone is here accompanying you. You won’t die alone.”

But he couldn’t hear anything, only screaming madly, only crying out in agony.

Many people around quietly watched him, until large areas of burn marks appeared on his body, until he completely lost all movement.

When Jiang Shi, billowing with smoke, stopped on the ground, all the Cat team members lowered their heads in respect.

Xuanwu assassination successful.

‘Cat’ team—three deaths, several serious injuries.

Song Qi had not a moment’s hesitation. He turned back to give orders to everyone. The remaining people decisively divided into seven squads and stood ready, preparing without stopping to proceed to the second ring mission.

Seeing everyone’s appearance, Baihu sighed slightly and said: “So… are you going to move against Zhu Que?”

Song Qi turned his head back, undid the braid on his head, his hair scattering messily over his forehead and around his cheeks. The hair tie in his hand was sparking with flames at this moment.

“May we?” he asked.

Seeing Song Qi’s right hand, Baihu suddenly found it interesting: “How will you kill her? Just using your ‘Combustion’?”