An unprecedented intense sadness and fear suddenly rose from the depths of my soul, sweeping through my limbs and bones like a hurricane.

What is she afraid of?

The unavoidable answer became clearer and more certain, even resonating in my mind.

Afraid of never seeing him again.

What she feared was not death itself, but the irreversible loss. Just like when the crabapple flower that belonged to her withered, the crabapple flowers that bloomed all over the mountains next spring would not be hers.

There will never be another Jiang Mi in the world, and that unique, childlike love... no longer exists.

Yao Yue vaguely felt that something dormant in her chest was stirring, like a seed about to break through the soil, or a bamboo about to grow...

What does it feel like?

At this moment, she could barely even stand, but her frail body contained a terrifying, desperate courage, which turned into an extremely strong force supporting her spine and preventing her from falling down.

——This is hate.

The next second, a beam of red light shot up into the sky, and even the lightning and thunder stopped for a moment! The girl's black hair turned white, and her crimson robe was blown by the strong wind, as if she would fly away at any time.

The young man's eyes returned to blood red, and he suddenly smiled as he looked at her, as if he had discovered something interesting.

"Sword Intent of Breaking the Sky... Congratulations to the fairy for returning to the immortal realm."

When a thought arises, the six desires arise; when a thought ceases, the seven emotions cease.

Only after understanding love and hate can one comprehend the Heaven-breaking Sword Intent. What the former Sword Master said was true...but the second half of the sentence came true.

The void behind Yao Yue seemed to be burning with blazing flames, emitting a chilling murderous aura in the hurricane that connected the heavens and the earth. Her dark golden eyes were indifferent and cold, as if the bloody battlefield, the gloomy sky, and the countless swords and sabers in front of her had all faded away in her eyes and turned into distant starlight in the sky.

She held the Fu Shui sword with her left hand and slashed it, blood flowing from her palm along the sword. The blood seeped into the sword blade, creating a blinding flash, and then lightning flowed down the sword like a coiled dragon. With the Fu Shui sword as the center, a terrifying electric current several feet long instantly snaked through the air!

"You deserve to die."

She flipped her wrist in the spider-web-like tangled net, roared out, transformed into a dragon and rushed in front of him! Ji Yu had no choice but to pull out the Huangji Tianjian from his heart, and he didn't even have time to seal the acupuncture points of the wound, and blocked it with the sword -

clang!

The sword was like clear water, and the long rainbow was transformed. It seemed that only the lines of color and light and shadow were left between heaven and earth. Like the movement of the starry sky, the overturning of the Milky Way, wherever the light reached, wood and stone became colored glaze. This was a realm that mortals could not reach. Others might sigh that the artistic conception was divine, but only Ji Yu felt the pain. His skin had been cut by the sword energy with countless hair-thin wounds.

"You can't kill me..." A slight panic flashed across his blood-red phoenix eyes. His chest rose and fell violently, but his voice was strangely calm. "I am using blood magic to support this body now. If I die, Jiang Mi will really have nothing left..."

Hearing this, the girl's fingers tightened around the sword. The sharp tip of the knife pierced into her flesh so easily, but it seemed that she was not killing someone else, but killing herself bit by bit with her own hands.

"Get out—"

The first sword energy of Fu Shui stretched for dozens of feet, followed by the second and third swords, each of which was heavier than the previous one. Ji Yu could only try his best to retreat quickly, using the momentum of retreat to barely block the overwhelming Fu Shui. When the fourth sword was struck, lightning burst out from Fu Shui, and the surging lightning transferred from Fu Shui's sword to Huangji Tianjian, and then went down along the hilt, hitting half of Ji Yu's arm and making it bleed!

The man's eyes suddenly turned back to dark gold, staring at her straightly: "Yaoyue, are you willing to give it up?"

The fifth sword did not pause at all, and the sky was filled with brilliant lightning, as if a god created the world and sent down a heavenly punishment that could burn everything to ashes. Yao Yue's whole body was bathed in electricity, and she shouted sternly:

"Get out of his body!!!"

There was a loud clanging sound, and the tip of the sword danced like the inverted light of the sea of ​​stars. The battlefield of gods and demons fell silent at this moment. Ji Yu lost control of himself and spurted out a mouthful of blood. He staggered a few steps, and black air quietly emerged from his seven orifices.

The sixth sword, the spiritual power of the Fushui sword body surged exponentially, and every inch of green light contained the power to crush everything and cleanse everything. With one sword slash, the ghost figure was split in half, and the blazing sword light spread to the ghost figure's arms and body, instantly engulfing it completely!

It was silent, but everyone seemed to hear its eardrum-shattering scream! The ghost was cut into thousands of pieces by the Sky-breaking Sword Intent, and disappeared into thin air in the sharp whistling sound.

The next moment, clear and bright divine light shone from all directions, and the heavy calamity clouds that covered the sky and the sun were cleared, and the brilliant light of the sky was faintly revealed from the gaps. The sky gate in the sky slowly opened, leaking layers of clear light, completely covering Yao Yue. A majestic voice sounded in her mind -

"The karma has been eliminated, you can return home."

The girl's figure was lonely and thin, yet strangely solemn. She looked up at the sky, her voice soft but a little hoarse because of sobbing.

"My disciple just wants to know, does it still count if I convert one person to ascend to heaven?"

The sunlight shone through the mountains and forests, illuminating the ruins on the ground. Green smoke rose slowly from the charred beams and rubble.

"...It has to be him?"

The pair of dark golden eyes were like two clusters of golden flames, burning quietly and fiercely. Yao Yue stood there motionless, perhaps she herself could not even notice the terrifying light in her eyes at this moment, as if she was risking everything.

"Today and tomorrow, for thousands and thousands of years, I will only save him."

After a long silence, a long sigh finally came from the sky above.

"Go ahead."

***

His entire body seemed to be completely immersed in ice water, and the dark, cold fear silently penetrated his internal organs from the cracks between his bones. There seemed to be many people of all kinds around him whose faces he could not see clearly, and they were like a torrent, carrying him forward.

He didn't know where he was, where he was going, or even who he was.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, someone suddenly grabbed his hand.

He turned his head and looked over, only to see a girl in red smiling at him.

——That smile seemed like all the ice in winter melting away in an instant, so beautiful that one could not help but indulge in it.

As they looked at each other, an indescribable feeling suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart and rushed to his throat. He didn't know where this intense emotion came from, making his whole heart warm and curled up into a ball.

"……Who are you?"

The woman in red did not answer, but just held him tightly, with their fingers interlocked without any gap, and led him back.

Suddenly, a ray of light appeared in front of me. I looked up and saw the bright moon hanging high in the sky. The clear light stretched for thousands of miles, like a rich Milky Way pouring down from the sky. Countless points of light rushed forward, leaving all the coldness in the darkness behind.

He gradually became a little overwhelmed: "...Where are you taking me?"

The moonlight gently fell on her face, which seemed real and unreal. Only her watery red lips looked real, and they slightly raised up as he looked at her.

"--go home."