The wind suddenly stopped.

The three of them stood on the beach, each falling silent.

Within a few breaths, the dark clouds dispersed, and the earth stopped trembling.

The sun came out, shining through the thin black mist and forming a rainbow. Birds returned to the spot, skimming across the sea as if the catastrophe had never happened.

Lin Che frowned, a bitter smile appearing on his pale face. He considered his words carefully, hesitated, and finally gave a faint reply.

"good."

Although Zhao Xi wanted to resist the awakening and didn't recall her past, and although Rongrong was described as so captivating by Hoshino, Zhao Xi could sense it.

Rongrong is not a good person.

If she really thought like Zhao Xi, she would have been able to bring Xingye back on the right track in her previous life.

It's simply because Hoshino isn't a bad person.

He was simply blinded by something, which made him forget the right choice.

Zhao Xi wanted to step into the seawater, stand on tiptoe and hug him tightly, saying in the gentlest voice, "Lin Che, it's better to forget each other in the vast world than to cling to each other in hardship. You are the ruler of water, you must understand this principle."

"good."

"By the way, since you fish have children and they're raised by the sea anyway, I'll take the little mermaid with me. You don't need to worry about her; just think of her as a little maidservant for me. I'm leaving the Hundred Beasts Garden to you; I'm leaving with nothing."

“…Okay.” Lin Che lowered his head and touched her face.

"Please apologize to the tiger for me. The lava from the abyss volcano burned all my spirit pets and beloved pets to death. I only found out later that they were my own people."

Lin Che's tone was as gentle as usual. He smiled slightly upon hearing this, as if the matter Zhao Xi had wanted to bring up had never happened: "It's okay, he won't mind."

Zhao Xi listened intently to Lin Che's heartbeat, then hugged him for a while: "Let's meet again when spring arrives and the war is over. You didn't give me a wedding, and a divorce doesn't need a ceremony. We can pretend this never happened, right?"

"Yes."

"Was this what you originally thought?"

Lin Che smiled wryly, sighed, and admitted, "Yes. I didn't have good intentions from the beginning."

"Men really are all big pigs." Zhao Xi blinked, let go of him, waved goodbye, and said.

She turned and walked toward Hoshino.

Lin Che stood still and did not follow.

*

Zhao Xi wanted to refuse to sit in the teleportation array.

Hoshino Mitsurugi wanted to take Zhao Xi back to the Star Gate.

It will take quite a while to fly there.

Zhao Xi wanted to tear off Xingye's cloak and wrap it around herself. The cold wind whistling through the air made her nose almost runny, but that scumbag Xingye had no chivalry at all and insisted on sitting next to her so he could observe the expression on her face.

She blew her nose and glared angrily at Hoshino: "Look where you're going! Why are you looking at me? Is there a path on my face?!"

Hoshino frowned, his hawk-like eyes seeming to read her thoughts: "Zhao Xi thinks this must be one of your schemes. What are you up to now?!"

Zhao Xi wanted to retort angrily, "I'm here with you, and the child is here with you too. The Spirit Fire Pearl will merge with me in a while. What else do you want?"

Hoshino guessed, glaring at her: "You're angry with me."

Zhao Xi thought, "Of course."

"Because I broke you up with him. You still like him after all!" Hoshino gritted his teeth, almost throwing Zhao Xi off the spirit sword.

Zhao Xi tried to grab the sword hilt and punched him hard: "I'm angry because you corrupted Lin Che. If you hadn't made him fall into demonic possession, why would he be in this state?"

"It wasn't me. You're the one who led him astray."

"..." Zhao Xi paused for a moment, then asked, "Was it Rongrong who made him fall into demonic possession?"

Hoshino nodded, about to bring up the past, when Zhao Xi suddenly stuck her frozen hand into the back of his neck.

"Ah, it's so warm."

"Headmistress..." Hoshino was also afraid of the cold, so she leaned back and almost fell off the spirit sword. "Don't come any closer!"

I didn't mishear the cry before he fainted; deep down, he still called her "headmistress sister."

Zhao Xi wanted to hug him from behind, shivering from the cold: "It's really cold. Can't you fly a little lower? I'm a mortal now. Don't you know how to be gentle with women? I think you've grown taller, but your head is still that of a little kid."

"You're saying I was just a little kid before?!"

"You think you can be appeased with just a vegetable dumpling? What else could you be but a little kid?"

“Zhao Xi wants to!” Hoshino yelled at her in a cute but fierce way.

*

She's going to die!

To conserve its demonic energy, the bean sprout transformed into its original form as a small bird. While resting on a tree, it was swallowed whole by a snake.

She cut open the snake's belly and escaped, only to find herself back in the abyss volcano.

The monsters in this abyssal volcano are very strange. They always have a faint aura about them, which is very similar to demonic energy, and they are all black in color.

But bean sprouts don't eat.

Hoshino used to tell her to learn his skills properly so she could absorb other people's demonic energy, but she didn't learn them properly. She just wanted to snuggle in Hoshino's arms and wait for him to feed her.

The monster is incredibly powerful.

The bean sprout's remaining demonic energy was far from enough; it couldn't even defeat a single stone demon.

Within a single day, he went from life to death several times, only to escape death again, and now it was finally coming to an end.

The bean sprout closed its eyes and quietly awaited death.

But the Rolling Stones did not come as expected.

A boy with a face as white as paper stood before her. The stone demon that had attacked her was gone, and a clump of lime lay on the ground, which was blown away by the wind.

How can there be wind in this deep-sea volcano?

"Who?!" Bean Sprout opened her eyes, only to find that she had actually returned to human form from her bird form.

"Do you hate her?" The boy was clearly short, but when he looked down at her, he had a condescending air about him.

Bean Sprout was a little flustered and only nodded after he asked her twice.

She hated it, of course she hated it!

She hated Hoshino for abandoning her.

She hated Zhao Xi even more. If it weren't for her, Xingye wouldn't have abandoned her. If it weren't for her, she would still be happily living in the mountains with her mother.

Her mother was a powerful demon with an endless supply of vermilion fruits in the forest, so why did she die in this godforsaken, desolate abyss volcano?!

"You're powerful, can you avenge me?!"

“No,” the boy refused, his pale face forcing a stiff smile that was quite chilling. “I can give you the power to kill the people you hate with your own hands.”

"Give me the power, I will kill them!"

"Go down, through the lava, to the end of the abyss. Then... you will become the supreme god of the celestial realm!"

*

"Alliance Leader, where are you?"

"At the Stargate."

"Isn't Star Gate the demon's territory?!" "Alliance Leader, you've really been captured by the demon?!" "The Water God didn't protect you, and you're actually in the Demon Sect! Are you still our Alliance Leader?"

The crowd was full of doubts and chatter.

Zhao Xi imagined sitting in front of a giant mirror, kneading dough in her hands, gazing at the dozens of small windows opposite, marveling at their beauty.