Three years later, the capital city of Nanyang Country was breached by Dongling Kingdom. By the time the people from Carefree City arrived at the Imperial Palace, it was filled with defeated soldiers and Death Warriors, blood flowed like rivers. When they finally found Xuanyuan Jinxing, he was already dead on the dragon throne in Jinluan Hall, his face twisted in agony, eyes bulging, pupils dilated, and mouth agape in an expression of disbelief—it was exactly the date Xiao Yao had warned him about, precisely three years prior.
In one of the Cold Palaces of the Imperial Palace, the group discovered a wine jar containing a dead human swine and a corpse; Zhi Ruo recognized the human swine as Zhi Yun. Zhi Ruo's heart was conflicted, the corpse was Chang Liying.
