Holding the girl tightly in his arms, Shen Qian sighed slightly.

He had already made a rough assessment and found that Youling's life force had long been exhausted. She was only still breathing because her spiritual core had not been completely corroded, but it was too late to save her.

Even as the two embraced, Youling remained somewhat cautious, as if afraid of contaminating Shenqian with the poison on her body.

Youling's entire face was almost completely covered by the gray lines. She tried to open her dull and lifeless eyes, as if she was afraid that she would fall asleep completely.

"Shenqian, do you believe me?"

He spoke as if in a ghostly murmur.

"Of course I believe it."

"That……"

Youling suddenly raised her arms with difficulty and tried to touch Chenqian's hands with her own, but her movements were extremely slow.

Sensing that the other person seemed to want to do something, Shen Qian directly took her hand, and the two intertwined their fingers.

"I'm so scared, scared that I'll really just disappear like this, and that none of you will remember me..."

Shen Qian didn't speak, but simply tightened his grip on the girl's hand.

Suddenly, the girl tilted her head back and gently kissed Shen Qian's chest with her already cracked lips.

Shen Qian was startled at first, because he sensed some mysterious power surging within him, but he quickly calmed down.

He believed that Youling would not harm him. Even if she really wanted to pass on the Gu poison to him at this moment, so what?

It was because of him that Youling was poisoned!

Before long, Youling moved her head away and leaned it against Chenqian's shoulder again.

Shen Qian looked down and, as expected, there were no signs of decay on his body. Only at the spot where You Ling had kissed him, a fleeting red lip print, almost like an illusion, could be vaguely seen through his clothes.

My mother died when I was very young.

Youling's consciousness was beginning to blur, but she was still babbling incoherently.

"Before she died, she taught me a spell. She told me not to be sad, because lovers will always meet again, and even the river of time, which can annihilate each other, cannot stop them..."

"I don't know if my mother is lying..."

"Because Father always walks in the underworld, but he can no longer find Mother..."

"The name of this spell is the Three Lives Spell..."

"Three Lives" is such a beautiful song...

Youling's voice grew softer and softer until it fell completely silent.

Throughout this process, Shen Qian remained in a kneeling and embracing position until his arms were completely empty, at which point he looked down.

The girl's figure had long since vanished, leaving not a trace, not even her spiritual core.

Only the lingering warmth in my arms seemed to be telling a story.

"The Three Lives Curse..."

He muttered it to himself before sinking down.

He didn't tell the girl that the spell might be real, because by then her ears had already melted away, and she could no longer hear what Shen Qian was saying.

Even knowing that this might not be a real farewell, Shen Qian still felt a little melancholy.

He sat there for a long time before finally calming down. He took a deep breath, stood up, and suddenly waved his hand.

As the Yuan energy surged, it plucked many more true god bones from the nearby statue of the fire god.

Then, using the skeleton as a framework, he collected a lot of rubble from the ground and started working on the spot.

About an hour later, when Chen Qian, unusually flustered, finally stopped working, a life-sized stone statue of a young girl had appeared where You Ling had just disappeared.

The stone statue is not very exquisite, and you could even say it's a bit ugly, but fortunately, the features that were carefully sculpted before it was sunk still have some of the charm of a young girl.

Even now, it's hard to tell whether the image resembles You Ling or Huo Ling'er more.

The girl stretched out her arms, a bright smile on her face, as if she were embracing something.

"A trip to the ancient times is a way to leave behind a memory."

He muttered to himself before sinking into the air, then leaped up and circled the Temple of Fire.

Using his knowledge of formations and some remaining treasures in the Vulcan Temple's treasury that could be used as formation plates, Shen Qian not only restored the original restrictions of the Vulcan Temple as much as possible, but also left behind a large number of protective formations.

After doing all this, Shen Qian was still not satisfied. He left the Temple of Fire and wandered around the surrounding area for hundreds of miles with his full divine sense.

There were very few people who could ascend to the Ninth Heaven, and almost all of the rest were killed by Shen Qian. It could be said that the only living person left in the Ninth Heaven was Shen Qian, so he didn't have any scruples.

When he returned after sinking an hour later, he had already attracted hundreds of seven-colored giants to chase after him.

Having lured all seven giants into the Temple of Fire, Shen Qian closed the outer gate and nodded in satisfaction.

"With so many seven-colored giants approaching the peak of the Mountain and Sea realms, plus a restrictive formation powerful enough to cause the Mountain and Sea realms to fall, ordinary people should not be able to enter the Fire God Temple."

He murmured before sinking down.

Finally, he added a concealment array, causing the Fire God Temple to disappear from sight, before turning and leaving.

The main materials for refining the King-level clone have all been collected, and all the top geniuses of the younger generation of the myriad races have been slaughtered by him. It may not be apparent in the short term, but it is foreseeable that this will be a devastating blow to other races besides humans.

The aftermath of this event, and how humanity will fare in the future, are things that Shen Qian could not predict.

For him, he had done everything he needed to do, and it was time for him to "go home".

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