“Bi Qiong?”

“Bi Qiong, how are you?”

It was as if she heard such a voice in her ears. It was very familiar, and also full of concern.

Zhu Biqiong still remembered the sea wind that day, whimpering like a flute. Of course, she also remembered the breath of a certain person in the wind, so tense and uneasy.

Her physical body was gradually disintegrating, and she already felt detached from herself, but unexpectedly, she could feel another person’s heartbeat.

Thump, thump, thump.

Every beat was clearly audible.

This lonely heartbeat, at least on that stretch of road, beat for her.

How far is the distance from Huai Island’s Tianya Terrace to Qi Country’s Tianfu City?

Originally, because her elder sister had tragically fallen into the Tianfu Secret Realm, she had left Huai Island alone, planning to go to the Yang realm to investigate Hu Shaomeng. She had walked for nearly a month in a tense and uneasy state before reaching Tianfu City.

At that time, she stood outside the full moon pool surrounded by high walls and was told that during the closed period of the Tianfu Secret Realm, no one was allowed to approach. In front of that thick, indifferent high wall, she truly realized for the first time that her elder sister was gone forever.

She had lost her umbrella, and could no longer hide under anyone’s wing. From then on, she could only face this world alone.

This world was too strange.

Every aspect was different from when her elder sister was alive.

The second time she came to Tianfu City, she unexpectedly didn’t remember how long it had taken. In the moment of her oil lamp flickering out, every breath was a torture, but within that kind of chaotic and frenzied embrace of the wind, she was unexpectedly reluctant to let go.

She still remembered within that embrace, vaguely seeing a jawline, a nose bridge, those lines polished by wind and rain, they were so heartbreaking.

She actually tried very hard to look one more time, but her eyelids were too heavy, and she could no longer hold them up.

What kind of place is the Tianfu Secret Realm?

Everyone who enters loses their memories within.

Everyone who cannot come out never comes out again. Except for her.

Or rather, not completely her.

At that time, her body had reached its limit, and her soul had also begun to sink. As she left that embrace and was gently pushed into the moon gate, her last will also followed and dissipated.

“Daoist Bi Qiong…!”

This was the last voice she heard.

There was no follow-up, and there would never be the follow-up she wanted to hear.

Actually, it would have been fine if the ending was that way. Who in the world would still expect her?

All the sympathy had been given, all the sorrow had been felt.

To live again… was not the right time.

She was not reluctant to leave this world, nor did she want to disturb anyone again. She was unwilling to become someone who wasn’t needed.

But she saw her elder sister again.

She was outside a huge, transparent glass sphere, watching those constantly changing scenes.

At that time, her consciousness seemed to be scattered in the void. Although she had no limbs and could not feel the five senses, she could ‘see’ it all.

Including that endless river from head to tail, those magnificent Dragon Palaces… as well as the Tongtian Tower.

The cloud platform on the mountain, the nine-cornered tall tower.

Wang Yiwu, the closed-door disciple of the Army God, Xu Xiangqian from Qingya Academy, Li Longchuan from the Shimen Li clan, Zhang Yong from the Fengyang Zhang clan, Chongxuan Sheng from the Bowang Marquisate… and also Jiang Wang.

All were chosen ones. Wang Yiwu fought five.

It was only a fight at the Tongtian realm level, but it made her feel dizzy, as if she was seeing the seventh grade of this cultivation realm for the first time.

The scenes within this glass sphere were repeatedly evolving.

Including the interactions, dialogues, and choices of those people, each time was different.

But almost every time the battle began, it was Wang Yiwu fighting five.

That Chongxuan Sheng was truly clever, always able to guide the situation in his favor. That Wang Yiwu was also truly arrogant, not caring at all how Chongxuan Sheng rallied others and formed alliances. He fought as many people as there were.

And the scene in front of the Tongtian Tower usually ended with the last survivor walking into the Tongtian Tower. There were also several times when all six people died, and no one survived.

She realized that this was probably just something that had happened to these people within the Tianfu Secret Realm. Or, to be more precise, it was the performance of these people within the Tianfu Secret Realm, recorded by the Tianfu Secret Realm, and continuously evolving and colliding in later times.

She had watched the battle in front of the Tongtian Tower no less than a hundred times… then, counting by a hundred times, Chongxuan Sheng successfully escaped sixty-nine times, Chongxuan Sheng and Wang Yiwu both died in battle four times, and the remaining twenty-seven times, it was all Wang Yiwu sweeping his opponents, holding the six divine power keys, and walking alone towards the Tongtian Tower.

Although it was clear that the evolved scenes within the Tianfu Secret Realm were probably limited to their performance in the Tianfu Secret Realm that year, not only did they not represent what happened afterward, but they did not necessarily represent their true strength at that time. But Wang Yiwu’s dominance in the Tongtian realm was still beyond doubt.

How did Jiang Wang later catch up and surpass such a Wang Yiwu, surpassing the Inner Mansion in the Tenglong realm and becoming famous in Linzi in one battle?

What kind of effort could exchange for later glory?

Zhu Biqiong thought that she had probably found part of the answer in the evolved battles within the Tianfu Secret Realm— among the seventy times Chongxuan Sheng successfully escaped, Jiang Wang died in battle thirteen times. He never retreated once, never gave up once.

The huge glass sphere in front of her was the Tianfu Secret Realm itself. The various experiences of the people within the Tianfu Secret Realm were like chapters in a serialized book.

In the long history, the Tianfu Secret Realm had been opened more than once, and the participants were not just fifty people. How could the so-called ‘story’ only have a thousand chapters?

Because she had lost her senses, she was unable to perceive the passage of time. For Zhu Biqiong, the only way to measure time was by the number of times she had ‘read’ the stories.

Among all those ‘stories’, the one she saw the most was the one opened in the Dao Calendar 3918, especially the drama that took place in the ‘Fourth Dragon Palace’.

Jiang Wang was also there, and her elder sister was also there.

The participants also included Ji Xiu from East Wang Valley, Zhao Fangyuan from the Four Seas Business Alliance, Tian Yong from the Great Marsh Tian clan, and Lian Que from the Chiyang Lian clan… Zhu Biqiong had already recorded down every person’s name and characteristics.

She no longer remembered how many times she had ‘read’ this drama where these six people vied against each other.

She only remembered that in the vast majority of situations, Jiang Wang was the final winner, successfully taking the Canglong Horn.

While in every iteration of the story, her elder sister Zhu Suyao always failed.

Compared to the gentle and kind elder sister in her memory, this Zhu Suyao, who competed in the Fourth Dragon Palace, had much heavier malice and much more ruthless methods… but she was completely no match for the others.

She was not as good at fighting or scheming.

She was only slightly better than that ugly man named Lian Que.

Watching Zhu Suyao struggle desperately again and again, and then fail and die again and again.

Zhu Biqiong could not feel her own body, yet her heart ached as if it was being twisted. She knew too well why her elder sister had come to the Tianfu Secret Realm… she wanted to desperately win back everything, yet she had even put her own life on the line.

Later, she heard a voice ask— “Do you want to help her?”

She didn’t know who that voice belonged to, she didn’t even remember if it was male or female. She only knew that it was the strongest wish that surged from the bottom of her heart after witnessing her elder sister fail countless times.

Then, she entered the Fourth Dragon Palace and replaced Zhu Suyao, becoming one of the competitors in the Fourth Dragon Palace.

Her task was to win the Canglong Horn. And the reward for the task was to allow her elder sister to break free from this infinite cycle of failure. This was an extremely difficult task!

Even though she had ‘read’ this scene a thousand times, almost understanding the performance of every competitor in the Tianfu Secret Realm, even someone clumsy like her failed again and again.

Tian Yong’s eroding killing intent, Ji Xiu’s Nine Deaths Poison, Zhao Fangyuan’s corpse refining technique… as well as the terrifying cunning corresponding to their methods.

She was even discovered several times for having ‘foreknowledge’!

Added to that, only when facing Jiang Wang did she feel a deep sense of terror.

Extremely keen combat intuition, an extremely tough and strong will, almost never making mistakes in life-and-death battles, always able to create opportunities and seize them.

She completely understood why Jiang Wang was able to come back from the maze realm, why he was able to complete that arduous examination, and walk to her dying self.

She tried cooperating, tried expressing her intentions, even begging with tears. But this Jiang Wang within the Tianfu Secret Realm was completely strange to her and stubbornly held to his promise to Chongxuan Sheng, absolutely unwilling to hand over the Canglong Horn.

The reason she was ultimately able to complete the examination was because she had deliberately leaked information from the beginning, letting others know of Jiang Wang’s terror. By repeatedly communicating with others, grasping everyone’s mentality, she had first forced Jiang Wang out by joining forces…

After completing the Fourth Dragon Palace task and obtaining the Canglong Horn, the Fourth Dragon Palace chapter had ended, and Zhu Suyao was detached from it.

The new task was in the Tongtian Tower chapter, which was the one where Wang Yiwu fought five!

The task required her to defeat all opponents in front of the Tongtian Tower, win all the divine power keys, and this time, her elder sister Zhu Suyao was her helper…

Zhu Biqiong no longer remembered how long she had tempered herself within the Tianfu Secret Realm. Time had no meaning in such a world. She didn’t even remember how many tasks she had completed.

She and her elder sister relied on each other, going through any knife mountain and fire sea, dying and coming back to life countless times.

From an ignorant and innocent girl to someone who had been tempered a thousand times and was covered in wounds.

She only remembered one day, that mysterious voice suddenly said to her— “You can come out.”

She only asked— “What are the conditions?”

Everything within the Tianfu Secret Realm had conditions, and she had also become accustomed to exchanging desperately for results in her repeated tasks.

The Jiang Wang in the Tianfu Secret Realm was not Jiang Wang, the true Jiang Wang was on the horizon.

What could be hoped for could not be reached, what could be thought of could not be obtained, like the moon in the sky. Living was a very difficult thing, and she originally did not want to continue. But because that one person still existed in the world, she unexpectedly had a slight expectation for that world.

She was determined to see him one more time, but she was not sure what she still possessed.

The price of bringing her elder sister out of the Tianfu Secret Realm was to enter into a faith contract and use the rest of her life to support Mirror Flower Water Moon.

The price of advancing to the Divine realm was to completely lose the possibility of escaping fate.

She accepted it all.

She knew her talent was not good. No matter how hard she tried, how desperately she struggled, if she couldn’t do it, she just couldn’t do it. From the beginning, there was no possibility of escaping Mirror Flower Water Moon.

She only sought to have a little freedom for her heart and love besides supporting Mirror Flower Water Moon.

She was able to see Jiang Wang again, able to feel her own heartbeat again. She was able to apprentice under Gu Huixin and resolve a True Person’s hatred for Jiang Wang. She was able to help kill Zhang Linchuan’s substitute life clone… The mediocre and clumsy her, was able to do so many things to repay Jiang Wang for her near-death experience, and she was already very satisfied. And now, it was time to pay the price.

When Zhu Biqiong realized this, it was when she raised her head and saw the bright moon.

People saw great power in this crescent moon, and her mind went blank for a moment.

Zhu Suyao was the flower in her mirror, Jiang Wang was the moon in her water.

Staying for a while was a luxury, not reality. “It’s time.”

Many years later, she heard that mysterious voice again. This time she heard it clearly. It was a low, hoarse male voice that seemed to hide many stories.

She fell backwards. Like a flower petal, a drop of dew. Without leaving a single word.

“Bi Qiong!?”

Jiang Wang subconsciously reached out to grab, but only caught a piece of flying flower.

He clenched his five fingers tightly, but couldn’t even grasp that flower petal. His hand was empty!

Just in front of him, Zhu Biqiong fell backwards. Her originally slender body became even thinner at this moment, as thin as a piece of paper!

A piece of drawing paper fell powerlessly.

And with Zhu Biqiong’s image— a pale face, lifeless eyes— printed in the rippling water mirror.

She had already become a flower in the mirror!

Under Qianyang Chitong’s gaze, Jiang Wang’s face also appeared in the water mirror, appearing right beside Zhu Biqiong!

But Jiang Wang was very clear that this was not his own reflection, because he was sorrowful, shocked, angry, and doubtful, while the person in the mirror was smiling! With this hint of a smile, he moved closer to the mirror surface, actually coming out of the mirror!

As he passed through the rippling wave light, his face also rippled like water, undergoing a radical change in an instant. When he completely walked out of the water mirror, he was already a completely different person!

His face was thin, his hair like frost and snow, and most notably, his pair of deep eyes seemed to contain the vastness of the universe.

He wore a simple long gown, possessing an indescribable charm. The first thing he did after stepping out of the water mirror was to stretch lazily!

It was like spring returning to the earth, and all things reviving. As if a restraint had been broken free.

The moonlight shone on the entire maze realm, and all of it shone with new life!

Jiang Wang remembered his duty and shouted coldly: “Shang Fengchen, take over the entire army!”

And he himself pulled out his sword without hesitation and charged forward.

At this instant, all five Mansions opened, and a brilliant light shone throughout. The Sword Immortal arrived in the world.

But he only saw a hand with fingers spread wide… a single palm, covering the sky and the earth, covering the physical realm and the divine soul.

But he only heard a scream— “No!”

It was a nearly frantic, abnormally sharp female voice! Zhu Biqiong’s voice!

Zhu Biqiong had not yet completely left!

A surprise arose in Jiang Wang’s heart, but his consciousness had already fallen!

Falling into eternal darkness!

Vast and boundless, chaotic and unknown. Almost at the same time.

In the field, Yan Dao True Monarch also detected something was wrong.

Candle Age, who was holding the lamp high in the sky, suddenly fell back. Yu Liyang, who was walking by the surging boundary river, suddenly turned around.

A wisp of white flame pointed at the sky spirit, a horizontal peach branch pierced the neck.

Two great Yan Dao, together made a move on the man who walked out of the water mirror.

But the white flame pointed down like an illusion, and the horizontal peach branch became empty.

This man with slightly frosty temples, after casually hitting Jiang Wang with a palm, actually viewed the attacks of the two Yan Dao powerhouses as nothing, and also viewed several Emperor Lord seals as nothing. His body flickered between virtual and solid, and he unexpectedly appeared on that crescent moon.

One foot stepping on the moon, stepping on the bright moon upside down.

He let out a long whistle and said: “Xuan Yuan Shuo, do you know how I came to see you?!”