This finger carried terrifying imperial might, appearing in the heavens like a rainbow that could pierce through the sky. It seemed to traverse endless time and space, emerging from another dimension with an onslaught.
In an instant, the world trembled, the stars collapsed, the Milky Way reversed, and all forms of Daoist techniques were destroyed by the overwhelming annihilation force.
Boundless killing intent swept across the nine heavens and ten earths, stunning the entire space and time.
There were sounds like celestial Sanskrit echoing, tearing the space apart, radiating waves of endless destruction.
The finger pierced towards Chu Yang.
Trapped in the temporal prison, Liu Xiaoxiao let out a heart-wrenching scream upon seeing this scene: "Brother Chu Yang!"
Her heart was filled with immense anxiety, and her eyes flashed with a determined light.
Her palms kept flipping, and an extremely powerful and ancient divine rune fluctuation erupted from her body. At this moment, Liu Xiaoxiao's state returned to its peak, even stronger than her previous peak.
The light of these divine runes became increasingly dazzling, transforming into boundless karmic fire that burned within her body, using her three souls and seven spirits as fuel to produce a tremendous force of karmic fire.
Boom! The apocalyptic karmic fire, like the god of death, erupted with an earth-shattering power, completely tearing apart the temporal prison before her.
Freed from her predicament, Liu Xiaoxiao ascended into the void.
Tears streamed down her face as she gazed deeply at Chu Yang, then resolutely looked at the Supreme Elder Devil.
"I said, no one can touch him in front of me, no one!"
"If you want to harm him... you'll have to step over my dead body first."
With that, she raised her head to look at the void in the sky, murmuring, "Burn my three souls, sacrifice my seven spirits, use my flesh and blood as a bridge, the power of my origin as the guide, summon the supreme heavenly demon..."
Her words, like incantations, echoed in the heavens, shaking the very fabric of space and time.
At this moment, the heavens wept, all things trembled, and a mournful rain poured down from the sky.
As the rain drenched Liu Xiaoxiao, the power of the karmic fire burning on her body grew even more intense. Her flesh and blood withered bit by bit, and her vital energy rapidly declined.
An extremely terrifying shadow of a heavenly demon, as if crossing the river of time, tore through the sky and arrived in this place.
The heavenly demon's radiance clashed with the Supreme Elder Devil's finger.
Liu Xiaoxiao's divine soul grew increasingly weak, and her vision blurred.
In her last moments, she cast her gaze on the man.
Her eyes were filled with complexity, tenderness, and reluctance.
"You big fool, I'm sorry, Xiaoxiao has to go first..."
Her final words were barely audible, like the whisper of a mosquito.
The last scene in her eyes was that man, her one and only in her heart.
The misty rain, the silent world, it was as if the heavens and earth had returned to peace.
That slender figure finally fell with the wind, carrying all her unwillingness and longing, plummeting from the nine heavens.
With Liu Xiaoxiao's passing, the shadow of the heavenly demon completely dissipated.
Only the disheveled Supreme Elder Devil remained, his face filled with boundless fury.
The shadow of the heavenly demon had made him suffer greatly. As a half-immortal, to be humbled by a supreme was a great humiliation.
His face contorted with rage as he advanced, determined to grind Liu Xiaoxiao's bones to dust to vent his hatred. ... In the distant darkness, a pair of eyes suddenly opened, emitting boundless light that shot into the sky.
"Xiaoxiao!!"
The figure let out a heart-wrenching roar, like someone who had been teetering on the edge of collapse and repression, now plunging into the abyss.
Liu Changsheng's eyes bled tears, and his vision was filled with blood.
His veins bulged, and his vital energy surged, shattering everything in the Demon Sect.
He tore through the void before him, striding across endless space and time, and arrived at the peak of a mountain.
At that moment, he witnessed Liu Xiaoxiao falling from the void, while the Supreme Elder Devil was about to crush her bones and scatter her ashes.
...
Outside the Heavenly Emperor's realm.
Upon seeing this scene, the gazes of the gathered cultivators froze.
Liu Xiaoxiao is dead?!
This...
Every cultivator turned their gaze to the lifeless Liu Xiaoxiao, their eyes filled with disbelief.
Who could have imagined that Liu Xiaoxiao would go to such lengths for the Emperor?
At the most critical moment of the Emperor's ascension, she truly fought to the death, buying him time until her three souls and seven spirits, everything she had, were completely exhausted.
"I, Liu Xiaoxiao, will not allow anyone to harm him. If you want to strike at him, you'll have to step over my dead body..."
Every word echoed in the hearts of the cultivators. They had previously thought Liu Xiaoxiao was merely making bold statements, but now they understood.
They understood the unwavering determination Liu Xiaoxiao had when she uttered those words, a resolve to face death without hesitation.
To protect the Emperor, this woman had given everything she had.
The cultivators were deeply moved, a touch of emotion in their eyes.
Liu Xiaoxiao had gone to such lengths, yet why did Chu Yang not love her? Such a woman had never been able to enter his heart.
The Emperor's actions seemed too cold and heartless.
All the cultivators felt a sense of injustice for Liu Xiaoxiao, feeling that she was undeserving of such a fate!
Not far away, Liu Xiaoxiao ignored the gazes and opinions of the other cultivators, speaking to herself, "Brother Chu Yang, I never asked for anything after doing so much for you. How come those other women could enter your heart, but I couldn't? You have no regrets towards the world, yet why do you treat me this way?"
Liu Xiaoxiao couldn't understand. She was willing to die for Chu Yang, yet she couldn't enter his heart.
But those who betrayed Brother Chu Yang could?
And later, when her father revived her, he still wanted to kill her father. Why?
Tears shimmered in Liu Xiaoxiao's eyes. She couldn't understand.
Although she didn't harbor hatred, she was confused.
She just wanted to know what was troubling Brother Chu Yang. She wanted to know the truth of what happened back then.
Because Liu Xiaoxiao firmly believed that someone as loyal and righteous as Brother Chu Yang would never do such things.
She had always trusted him unconditionally, even though he had never explained anything to her.
From that point on, she lost her memories of the events. When she woke up, she saw Chu Yang killing her father, and the issue likely arose during that time.
She stared intently at the image in the Heavenly Emperor's mirror.
When Liu Xiaoxiao sacrificed her three souls and seven spirits, all her essence blood, Chu Yang suddenly opened his eyes.
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