“What’s going on? How could anyone still enter here?!”
Leon’s body had completely merged into the Yin-Yang fish, as if he had become one with the entire space.
But his astonished voice echoed from the sky, clearly surprised by Shen Yiyue’s appearance.
“Xiao Yu, are you okay?”
Shen Yiyue looked around, holding the detonator for the high-energy explosives she had just set off. She then pulled out a heavy weapon from her arsenal.
“I’m fine.”
Ning Yu shook her head.
This was the unique connection between the Song of the Kite and Blood Kite, allowing the scabbard to be summoned back to Blood Kite’s side when needed.
It was an ability that transcended time and space, a bond prearranged by Ning Yu and Shen Yiyue as part of their trap.
The black and white gates both ultimately led to the center of this ritual, so it was clear that Shen Yiyue had also arrived here.
However, they hadn’t encountered each other in the same space, as Leon had trapped Shen Yiyue on the opposite side of the Yin-Yang duality.
But this division had been anticipated by Ning Yu, as Leon’s target had always been Ning Yu alone.
For those who got in the way, the best solution was to eliminate them beforehand. However, Shen Yiyue now possessed the healing abilities granted by the Song of the Kite, along with enhanced physical endurance.
Combined with her remaining future-reading abilities, it had become extremely difficult to kill her through physical means.
Leon, however, didn’t particularly care about Shen Yiyue’s survival. All he needed was a living Ning Yu, so trapping Shen Yiyue was the best course of action.
The moment the two of them entered the gate, they had already stepped into Ning Yu’s plan.
Ning Yu would summon Shen Yiyue back to her side at a critical moment or if Shen Yiyue’s life was in danger, launching an unexpected attack.
“This level of destruction is meaningless against a ritual that has already progressed this far.”
“But your futile struggle does bring me a certain pleasure.”
Leon, now merged with the Yin-Yang fish, seemed to have lost his original form.
As his voice echoed through the air, the Yin-Yang fish, which had momentarily paused due to Shen Yiyue’s explosion, began to rotate again.
It slowly disappeared, replaced by one golden vortex symbol after another lighting up in the sky.
These symbols were slightly different from the one on Ning Yu’s forehead, adorned with additional decorative patterns, clearly Leon’s handiwork.
They were imitations.
But these symbols grew brighter and more numerous, spinning like gears in motion.
Behind them, countless gray chains made of energy lit up, moving in tandem with the symbols.
The entire space seemed to transform into a precision instrument, with the Yin-Yang fish serving as its driving force.
Ning Yu felt something within her body beginning to dissipate.
“Xiao Yu, your body!”
Shen Yiyue noticed that Ning Yu’s body was becoming transparent, and in her chest, a wisp of gray mist floated, connected to her by a thin golden thread.
Now, this mist was being drawn out, slowly dispersing into the surrounding space.
The golden thread grew brighter and brighter.
“Say goodbye to the one you love, for the world is about to meet its end.”
Leon’s voice sounded as if he were announcing an undeniable truth. The space around them began to contract, and the gray mist within Ning Yu dissipated faster and faster.
The ritual seemed unstoppable.
“Sister Yiyue.”
Ning Yu reached out and took Shen Yiyue’s hand. Shen Yiyue couldn’t help but look at Ning Yu.
But this time, for some reason, she could look directly into Ning Yu’s golden eyes.
“Let’s end this together.”
Seeing Ning Yu’s smiling face, Shen Yiyue returned a calm smile of her own.
“Alright.”
She placed her hands on her shoulders, covering her chest, and gently closed her eyes.
The Song of the Kite slowly drifted out from her body.
The scabbard didn’t completely detach from Shen Yiyue’s body; a faint beam of light still connected them, but it didn’t hinder Ning Yu from taking the scabbard.
“Moon Princess!”
Even though she was already in the “Misty Moon” mode, Ning Yu called out the Moon Princess’s name once more.
Behind her, an ancient stone gate appeared, its doors slowly opening.
The Moon Princess, with her silver hair flowing and dressed in a pure white gown, emerged gracefully, surrounded by gray mist.
The golden vortex symbol on her forehead was identical to Ning Yu’s, and a golden thread connected Ning Yu to the Moon Princess.
This symbolized their contract.
“Oh~ At last, I meet you, the Gatekeeper who governs the root, the guardian of knowledge and wisdom.”
Upon seeing the Moon Princess, Leon seemed on the verge of losing control of his emotions.
“Have you come to guide me?”
But in the next moment, the Moon Princess gently embraced Ning Yu from behind, and their contract seemed to reach an unprecedented level of connection.
However, the Moon Princess didn’t glance at anything else. After embracing Ning Yu, she slowly disappeared, and the gate behind her quietly closed.
[You have received the Moon Princess’s Blessing, Tier V]
[Moon Princess’s Blessing * Tier V: +50 Stamina, +50 Spirit, +50 Charisma]
A series of notifications echoed in Ning Yu’s mind. Her Moon Princess’s Blessing, previously only at Tier II, had now ascended to Tier V.
Shen Yiyue felt as if Ning Yu was bathed in a divine radiance, as though she were about to transcend this mundane world, becoming untouchable.
But Ning Yu was still standing right beside her. She picked up Blood Kite and began to sheathe it.
The scabbard and the blade were about to become one, and Leon seemed to sense an unprecedented level of danger. The surrounding barrier began to compress at an accelerating rate.
Ning Yu closed her eyes, feeling the profound sensation of activating [Heart Blade], as well as the enhanced physical capabilities granted by her various buffs.
“Leon, you will never reach your destination.”
“I am both the key to fulfilling your desire and the perfect embodiment of restraint.”
“From the moment you needed me to come here, your fate was sealed.”
“This destiny, which began long ago, is something you understand better than anyone!”
Ning Yu suddenly opened her eyes, her silver hair billowing wildly. The vortex symbol on her forehead shone with an unprecedented brilliance.
She activated [Heart Blade * Perception], and in that instant, the entire space transformed before her eyes.
At the same time, Blood Kite left its scabbard.
Ning Yu vanished from her original position, but in that brief moment, she had glimpsed a predetermined outcome.
Everything in the universe has its time of decay.
Now, Ning Yu was about to bestow this mercy upon the world.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
