With a start, he realised that it was the look of a person who had stared into the deep abyss and found it staring back at them.
A look that was only supported by people who have watched their entire world burn and scatter into the wind like ash in front of them as they watched helplessly, without the power to stop the carnage.
It was the look of a person who had lost their very reason to live and was just breathing to go through the motions and didn't care for the life and death of their person.
And another puzzle piece of the monarch slotted itself into Ning Fu's mind and seared it with a deeper understanding.
From that look, Ning Fu knew that the person the monarch loved had departed from the mortal world and if he recalled correctly, the monarch had begged and knelt to someone to spare the life of his beloved and cut a retreat root for him but it seemed that it was to no avail.
