There was a small flash on her tear-stained palms, and the World Piercer appeared.

She slowly raised it as the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor’s parting words to her before she left the Primal Chaos rang inside her mind:

“You have witnessed my choice, Xia Qingyue. Let my World Piercer be the witness to your final choice.”

She knelt there for an entire day and night.

When the howls of the wind quieted and took away the terrible chill covering her whole body, she rose back to her feet once more. The tears, the grief, the sorrow; everything had been buried back into her soul once more.

She spoke as she faced the World Piercer, “I have made my choice, senior.”

“I have already let down my parents, my sect, Yuanba… I cannot let him down as well, especially since he and I were husband and wife. If nothing else, he will be the one person in this world that I can face with a clear conscience.”

“However, I am obeying not the fate I’ve been subjected to, but my own wishes!”

The World Piercer vanished from her hands. She had just gone through the biggest collapse of her life, and yet her eyes now shone with unprecedented clarity and determination.

“When the ‘ending’ approaches, I will naturally defy fate in my own way! Before that though…”

The World Piercer vanished, and she turned her gaze toward the north. Her deep, purple pupils reflected the distant blue sky.

“I loathe this lamentable...