The white-robed elder stared at the youth who had collapsed to the ground, his heart full of mixed emotions.

“It’s a pity my primal source is damaged, and I still need to teach a successor. Perhaps I could share some of my source power to help you through this tribulation.”

“This parting may be the last time you see her again. Do you have anything you wish to say to her?”

The young Heavenly Emperor opened his mouth like he wanted to speak, but then hesitated.

A sorrowful look filled his eyes as he finally drew Gu Youwei into his arms, but in the end could not speak the words.

His eyelids grew heavy, and finally he went completely limp on the ground.

In the vision, the white-robed elder bore Gu Youwei into the Sacred Land and that beautiful immortal domain gradually faded from this world.

Gu Changqing clenched the wordless Heavenly Book in his arms.

“Youwei…”

Amid murmurs like distant moth wings, the scene plunged completely into darkness.

“In the end he still couldn’t speak up about Miss Youwei’s blood feud.”

“Perhaps he didn’t want Miss Youwei to bear all of that burden.”

Outside the realm, the cultivators wore strange expressions. Throughout the Heavenly Palace the atmosphere was heavy.

Gu Youwei now sat collapsed on the ground, her eyes were filled with endless bitterness and regret.

“Why did you never tell me!”

“This was your Immortal Root to begin with! If you wanted it back, you only needed to say the word and I would have given it to you!!”

Gu Youwei could no longer hold herself together.

Tears poured out like a broken dam, her face paled and her body trembled.

The hatred she had accumulated for eons collapsed utterly in that instant!

For the first time she felt how ridiculous she was.

Her life, the Immortal Root she was so proud of, even her lineage—everything had been given to her by her brother!

Her brother gave up everything and guarded her without expecting anything in return.

But in return, she repaid him with betrayal and enmity!

Scenes of the past echoed through her mind.

“The Heavenly Emperor is brutal and merciless, unworthy to be my brother. From today onward, I, Gu Youwei, sever ties with him.”

“The Heavenly Emperor is steeped in sin and should be killed!”

“The Heavenly Emperor is in seclusion; now is the best time to destroy him. I’ll coordinate with you from within and without.”

“Brother!!”

At this moment Gu Youwei cried with heart-rending sorrow.

She had never known that the brother she hated to the bone had done so much for her.

Seeing Gu Youwei like this, Ye Chen gently comforted, “Youwei, it’s all in the past…”

“Indeed the Heavenly Emperor did do much for you, but later he changed.”

“He became cruel and lawless, persecuting beings and steeped in wickedness; now heaven and earth have turned against him—the fault lies with him, not you.”

Gu Youwei’s emotions surged. She shouted hoarsely, “But what does that have to do with me!”

“If he claims my Immortal Root, it’s only right of him to do so—it’s his in the first place!”

“He became cruel and was abandoned by all, but I still shouldn’t abandon him!”

“I don’t deserve it! I have no right, do you understand!”

“He fed me with his own flesh, he used his life to give me what I am now! On what basis—tell me—what right do I have to betray him!”

The other cultivators, who had been thrown into disarray by Gu Youwei, fell silent one by one.

Indeed the later Heavenly Emperor became cruel, but judging by what he had done for Gu Youwei, her reaction was entirely understandable.

If the roles were reversed, any one of them would likely have reacted the same.

“I will save him, I will save him!”

“He must not die! No matter what, he is my brother!!”

In that one moment, an utterly terrifying aura suddenly erupted around Gu Youwei.

A vast breath like an abyss and an ocean flooded the heavens.

Gu Youwei stepped on the firmament, crushing boundless time and space, gathering endless might, and suddenly surged toward the Bronze Ancient Mirror.

“No!”

At this moment all the powerful cultivators paled in horror.

No one had expected that this woman—once the most resolute in campaigning against the Heavenly Emperor—would turn and act so decisively.

If the Heavenly Emperor were to be released.

The entire Justice Alliance would likely be annihilated under the Heavenly Emperor’s fury!

“Enough!”

Jiang Minghuang stomped one foot, splashing boundless waves of power.

The void shattered in an instant and countless great stars were ground to dust under that stomp.

That stomp was like the creator of the world walking along the thousands of paths created to put an end to them—an apocalypse stride that suppressed everything in the world.

Even the boundless might that had nearly swallowed the heavens was temporarily pacified!

“Jiang Minghuang!”

Gu Youwei ground her teeth, her beautiful eyes were full of frost.

This empress—who a moment ago had been beside herself before the Bronze Ancient Mirror, a wreck of emotions—now finally revealed her imperial majesty.

Unapproachable, cold as an iceberg, devoid of any emotion!

“Today, I will kill whoever stands in my way!!”

These emotionless, frigid words were slowly uttered.

Like the eight-year-old boy in the mirror who was resolute and imposing before the white-robed Saint King.

At that moment, murderous intent surged from Gu Youwei like a flood. In an instant all beings beneath heaven felt boundless fear welling up in their hearts under that terrifying murderous intent!