At that time, a bright moon hung in the sky.

Xuanyuan Shuo with the emperor’s divine power descended upon the world, while Gao Jie fixed his gaze upon it with millions of scaled eyes. Both sides were locked in a standoff of opposing forces, not yielding an inch.

At the intersection of the two transcendent paths, Ji Lan Xian was the first to boldly forge ahead on a third transcendent path, creating a human-dragon body and refining a perfect Dao body.

The human body is used to derive the path, and the dragon body also derives the path. My true self, over three thousand eight hundred years ago, already foresaw transcendence!

At this moment, he was infinitely close to transcendence, possessing power that was almost invincible on the field. One punch shattered the army formation commanded by Gao Jie, and one punch killed Zhu Sui, who guarded the night for Great Qi.

Even the moon hook trembled, seeming unable to hang high in the sky. Even Xuanyuan Shuo’s fishing rod became somewhat unstable, beginning to vibrate. Even the Great Qi national book wrapped around the rod body lifted a corner, fluttering like a purple tassel.

It was truly a moment of despair.

Jiang Wang then arrived at this moment, stepping on clouds, directly facing Cover Sea, and admiring himself in a mirror.

So carefree and outstanding, and so casual!

The derived path battle could not affect him, and the transcendent path could not obstruct him.

Wearing helmet and armor, Ji Lan Xian, who had already transformed completely into another form, of course also noticed this young man whose divine soul should have been shattered by him—if not for Mirror Flower’s desperate struggle at the critical moment, causing a potential half-breath delay, originally even his physical body would have been erased along with it.

He just descended divinely, yet he walked here so brazenly.

He dared to approach! He actually could approach!

Whose backing is this?

Xuanyuan Shuo?

The current Great Qi emperor, Jiang Shu?

“You don’t look very good.” Ji Lan Xian lowered his head to look at this young man. “What are you looking at in the mirror?”

Whether it was the original Cover Sea Dao body or Ji Lan Xian’s later human body, both had extremely charming faces. At this moment, they were combined and forged into one, even more nearly perfect. Indeed, he had the qualification to say that Jiang Wu An, who was already ranked among the handsome men of Linzi, “didn’t look very good.”

But at this moment, Jiang Wang, whose divine soul resided in the mirror world, could only think of the words Ji Yan Ru had spoken—

“No one in the world understands him better than I do.”

“Because no one in the world loves him more than I do.”

“He is very powerful, but also very fragile.”

“He was born with enormous insecurity, so he is thirsty for knowledge. He fights for his life to learn, cultivate, and improve himself.”

“He fears the unknown.”

“He is accustomed to controlling everything. He relies on his wisdom.”

“Everything, he must understand thoroughly before deciding how to face it.”

“If you walk towards him yet don’t look at him, he will definitely want to see what you are looking at.”

“So we only need—”

“To give him something to look at.”

Under the gaze of various true monarchs and emperor lords, under the uplifted gazes of the remaining human warriors.

That Great Qi Wu An Hou, who represented the highest military achievement of the current human young generation, stepped onto this place and just said casually, “You look at it yourself.”

Then he flipped his palm and turned the comb mirror over.

Ji Lan Xian then saw that mirror.

He of course also saw the face in the mirror, but it did not reflect his current appearance, but a woman, a woman he would never forget!

From his appearance until now, he had always maintained a casual posture, as if controlling everything. For the first time, his expression suddenly changed!

The woman in the mirror spoke gently: “Long time no see. Should I call you Cover Sea, or Shen Lan Xian?”

The fishing dragon guest on Tianya Terrace’s hand trembled, and the moon sank three inches! He then held it firmly again.

While Ji Lan Xian’s eyes had already begun to transform into dragon pupils, the red and gold color nearly dyed half of his pupils, yet it stopped precisely at this half.

Everyone could feel that indescribable great feeling actually paused in the air, like the moon.

That process of stepping towards the great leap was actually halted!

How was this possible?

By what means?

In Ji Lan Xian’s current state, he was already half-human and half-dragon, combining the absolute peak advantages of two paths, and on the path of transcendence… A casual true monarch would find it difficult to withstand one of his punches. How could a non-transcendent resist him?

But the dragon kind, like Xuan Shen Emperor Lord Rui Chong, whose massive goddess face was temporarily illusory, nearly withdrew from the realm of Ji You. At the moment the mirror was lifted, she felt a clear, deep-seated suppression in her soul!

While Wu Yuan Emperor Lord Zhan Shou, whose eyes showed seven colors, saw that within Ji Lan Xian’s human body, a source power was spreading from inside out, seemingly contending with Ji Lan Xian for control of the human body! He saw even more clearly that within this Dao body, during its forging process, the part belonging to the dragon body was already fixed by the mirror light!

People saw—

Between Jiang Wang, who held the comb mirror, and Ji Lan Xian, who stood on the bright moon, the absolute gap that should have existed between peak and peak was quietly erased.

While a woman with an ultimately beautiful posture walked out from that comb mirror.

She wore a palace dress of an unfashionable style, but it absolutely did not seem old; instead, it made people’s eyes light up.

She was the representative of beauty, the impression of beauty, the explanation of beauty.

There were originally no heavenly stairs in this world, but when she wanted to walk, the stairs simply appeared on their own.

Level by level, waiting in line. Like the heavenly stairs in mythology, leading to the ancient heavenly gate.

She stepped leisurely, stepping up.

From the trembling phoenix wing hairpin to the skirt hem trailing on the ground like blooming flowers, there was no place that was not beautiful.

She calmly looked at Cover Sea, and Cover Sea also looked at her seriously.

“Are you thinking, what is this matter?” she asked. Her voice was gentle, as if afraid of disturbing someone’s dream.

The figure on the moon stood still, not moving.

Wearing dragon scales as armor, with dragon horns on his head as a helmet.

Under the dragon helmet that initially possessed a great aura, Cover Sea’s eyes were still deep.

“You’re a bit haggard.” He thus said. This was the first sentence he spoke to Ji Yan Ru.

Ji Yan Ru, walking on the heavenly stairs, turned her head to look back at Jiang Wang.

Brought forward by this senior, leaping out of the realm of Ji You and approaching the bright moon, Jiang Wang had at this time recovered himself, just holding his sword in his hand. Although above was the intersection of the transcendent paths, and below was the violent collision of the human and sea race derived path powerhouses, he was caught in the middle, like an unfurled feather, a fledgling shivering in the wind. Yet, precisely understanding the inquiry within this gaze, he very firmly answered: “Not at all haggard, very beautiful! Absolutely beautiful! Perfect!”

Ji Yan Ru gave a soft puff, amused by his three consecutive firm teasing remarks. This smile only subsided when she saw Cover Sea, and became arrogant, noble, and high and unreachable: “You to Xuanyuan Shuo competed with death for the first place, I died even before you. Cover Sea! I took the first time, can you play chess anymore!”

Cover Sea shook his head: “Could never.”

For his current honesty, Ji Yan Ru only said: “This human body you have now, during the process of its creation, had my participation. What flows through it at this moment is all my blood…”

Her tone even contained some naive curiosity: “How dare you use this body to merge with the Dao?”

Cover Sea did not immediately answer her question, but counter-asked: “So this mirror… is a monster illuminating mirror?”

“It is now called Red Makeup.” Ji Yan Ru said lightly. “Killing the person in the mirror, and the dragon outside the mirror.”

Cover Sea had already figured everything out, and seemed to see the ending. He only sighed: “It is I who am sorry for you.”

“What are these useless fart words for!” Ji Yan Ru laughed and cursed, beautiful beyond compare, then smiled and accepted: “Let me be sorry for you.”

The Red Makeup mirror jumped up and hung behind Ji Yan Ru, like a rising sun, following her all the way as she stepped into the sky and ascended to the moon.

Yue Jie, who was wielding a spear and fighting in a bloody battle, temporarily stopped and looked up, temporarily stunned, as if seeing that ancient empire that suddenly collapsed in the sunlight.

An aura of undivided chaos seemed to descend from an ancient era.

A difficult-to-describe terrifying power, nearly penetrating time and space, descended along with Ji Yan Ru’s ascending steps, and along with the mirror light of the Red Makeup mirror!

Why would Ji Yan Ru in the mirror world want to still time and space?

What eternal youth? Of course, that was just a teasing remark to Jiang Wang. It was only because she was reluctant to lose even half of her power for revenge against Cover Sea!

Residual soul is difficult to restore, and a single mirror is difficult to complete. To repair the monster illuminating mirror into a dragon illuminating mirror,

It requires power and heart’s blood that are hard to imagine for a casual derived path cultivator!

In the mirror world, she was half-asleep and half-awake, missing too many things.

For example, she quietly exerted influence, guiding the Red Makeup mirror to approach the Tianfu elder, Mirror Flower, but in her sleep, she did not expect Hu Shaomeng to turn the approach into play. For example, she guided the Red Makeup mirror to go to Qi country, to approach the Tianfu secret realm, and when she woke up again, Hu Shaomeng had died in Jiang Wang’s hand.

For example, the destruction of the Great Chang Empire, the madness of the last Chang emperor…

She missed many things, only not missing the storage of power, like transporting winter grain. That was her day after day cultivation of the Red Makeup mirror! What kind of person was she, Ji Yan Ru?

She was a descendant of Ji Yan Shu, one of the eight wise ministers of the ancient human emperor, born into a glorious family with noble bloodline. Her elder brother was Ji Yan Qiu, who founded the Great Chang Empire with his own hands.

And she herself, deep into the demon tide, eliminating evil water, fighting and killing Asura… In the process of Ji Yan Qiu’s rise, she also made indelible contributions. In that era of shining stars, she, Ji Yan Ru, was also one of the stars!

Powerful as Cover Sea was, to deal with her, he also relied on deception, relied on sneak attack.

Why did a dazzling star hide in the long night, and why did absolute beauty hide deep at the bottom of the sea?

She originally had an infinitely bright future, yet she actually only resided as a residual soul in a mirror, counting the various things of her lifetime. Four thousand years passed empty in the mirror, and she slew dragons tens of thousands of times in her dreams!

At this moment, all ten thousand hates were paid back at once. That kind of power made the sun and moon change color for it! Cover Sea bore the brunt of it!

Infinite power surged within the origin of his human body. Inner mansion against inner mansion, organ against organ, Dao origin killing Dao origin, self and self in confrontation! He, the Dao body that was qualified to step towards the great Dao, actually dripped blood beads from the surface of his body.

While he only looked at Ji Yan Ru, looked at Ji Yan Ru coming towards him, and slowly said: “Why would I, who am as cautious as I am, want to use this body to merge with the Dao? Because I always thought it was your only scar in this world.”

“I won’t go into detail about how difficult it is for you to gain another human body recognized by the current world, and that there is no other person in the world who can help you and is willing to let you deceive them. I’ll just say that you utilized this body to accelerate the destruction of the Chang country…” Ji Yan Ru appreciated his expression and lightly praised: “To me, it is truly a good way to commemorate.”

Cover Sea calmly said: “Your Chang country held no special place for me. Its destruction could supplement my cultivation resources, so I just did so, that’s all.”

Ji Yan Ru did not walk fast, but with every step, a piece of Cover Sea’s transcendent path collapsed. What human race and sea race combined, what two paths were forged. Wherever she went, they were incompatible!

In a sense, she was the ‘mother’ of Ji Lan Xian, this body. For the control of this human body, she had more authority than Cover Sea!

While the monster illuminating mirror, the supreme treasure of the demon court, after being repaired into a dragon illuminating mirror, poured out thousands of years of accumulation, solely illuminating this dragon, completely fixing this dragon body in place.

“Remember what you said, Cover Sea?” Ji Yan Ru’s voice was gentle, as if immersed in beautiful memories: “You said you wanted to become human, to become a true person, forever together with me…”

Cover Sea forcefully controlled his body, finding it very difficult, but tried to say lightly: “Every word I said, I remember.”

Ji Yan Ru smiled charmingly, stopping midway up the heavenly stairs. She lifted her flawless jade hand and pointed remotely at Cover Sea’s human body, making a tearing motion with both hands, one left and one right.

Jiang Wang heard the sound of cracking on the mirror surface.

He indeed saw cracks on the surface of the Red Makeup mirror.

But a clearer cracking sound appeared in Cover Sea’s body.

The red scales on his body were actually peeling off piece by piece. No, not just dragon scales?

Following Ji Yan Ru’s action, the red dragon body was forcibly pulled out from within Cover Sea.

Cover Sea’s forehead bulged with blue veins. The dragon helmet covered in blue veins, yet blood dripped from it first.

The part belonging to the dragon race of Cover Sea was being re-peeled!

Cover Sea, whose Dao body was originally infinitely close to perfection, gritted his teeth and struggled on the moon, struggling, and became a “red tong tong” person.

Like being peeled alive!

Ji Yan Ru looked at her masterpiece. There was no satisfaction in her gaze. Instead, she continued to move her fingers, unhurriedly… tearing that dragon body into fragments, letting it flutter and scatter, scattering between heaven and earth.

Then she only said to Cover Sea—

“Now you are a true ‘person’.”

He, Ji Lan Xian, was now not only a person, but also a person whose hope of transcendence was forever cut off, whose derived path realm was also not kept, and who was still falling in realm.

The mountain alliance and sea oath were still in his ears, and the infatuated child’s wish came true!!

Falling from the level infinitely close to transcendence, having a nearly perfect Dao body forcibly peeled apart… This kind of pain was almost unbearable.

Even Cover Sea, almost bit his tooth bed into pieces, his face twisted like old tree bark.

But from beginning to end, he did not let out a single cry of pain.

Only at this moment, after Ji Yan Ru tore apart the dragon body, he lifted his head, his twisted face gradually smoothed, and he quietly looked at Ji Yan Ru. In his eyes, deep like the universe, there were too many stories. But he said nothing.

“Now we are together forever.” He said.

Ji Yan Ru laughed heartily, laughing on the heavenly stairs, almost unable to straighten her waist.

She laughed, pressing her heart, saying with a twitch: “Jiang Wang, little friend Jiang! Don’t you think it’s funny? Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha…”

Jiang Wang did not laugh.

Ji Yan Ru laughed for a long time before stopping. And everyone in the field, whether human race or sea race, looked at her laughing.

After she finished laughing, she brushed her skirt, straightened her waist, turned around and left, no longer looking at Cover Sea.

She gazed at the distant sky, seeing the person sitting alone on Tianya Terrace. She thought of the days they had roamed the world together, slaying demons and eliminating evil.

From the barren mountains to the grassy warbler-filled fields. The story was so short.

“Do you hate me?” she asked at last.

Xuanyuan Shuo, who sat on Tianya Terrace, holding the rod and fishing alone, slowly shook his head: “No hate.”

Born with noble qi like him, his voice now was closer to that of a drunk guest, a dejected poet, a disappointed talent, and the person who made him drunk, dejected, and disappointed was right in front of him.

This was a reunion after separating for four thousand years.

He said: “I once loved you very much, but I also recognize that there will be regrets in human life. I calmly face the emotions in my heart, and I also calmly accept the fact that you do not love me. No matter what my talent is, what my appearance is, whether I have ten thousand family fortunes or achieve fame… these are not the reasons you love me. There is no condition in the world that must be loved. You have the freedom to enjoy loving someone or not loving someone.”

Ji Yan Ru quietly looked at him, not saying anything more.

Her brow, like distant mountains, gradually receded, and her eyes, like smoky waves, fell like smoky rain.

And then, in this quietness, she shattered piece by piece.

Shattered on the heavenly stairs.