Hum—
The black-and-white flames exploded with a roar, transforming into an ultimate power of space law.
This power instantly enveloped Su Jinxue in midair, forming a completely sealed spatial cube.
“Zhang Mingyuan, listen!”
Lingxuzi's voice was urgent and resolute.
“I am sending you to a Boundless Realm beyond the Heavens.”
“I don't know where exactly that world is, but I can sense that its laws are complete.”
“You motherfucker better cultivate all the way to the Heavenly Immortal rank, then come back and avenge me!”
Zhang Mingyuan was stunned.
He knew this was an illusion, that the Lingxuzi before him was merely a projection conjured by the Illusionary Heart Abyss based on his memories.
Yet, this feeling of someone risking their life to protect him made his eyes sting with warmth...
“Go!” Lingxuzi roared, thrusting his hands violently toward Zhang Mingyuan.
However, at the very instant the spatial channel was about to form...
Crack.
The isolated space trapping Su Jinxue was like a fragile bubble.
With a casual point of her finger, she popped it.
She hadn't been trapped at all; she had simply been too lazy to dodge earlier!
Su Jinxue took a step forward, instantly appearing before Lingxuzi.
Without even sparing him a glance, she casually slapped him away.
Bang!
Lingxuzi's body flew backward like a broken kite, crashing heavily into the chaotic airflow, his fate unknown.
“Old Xu!” Zhang Mingyuan's eyes split with rage.
“Fuck! You crazy bitch, what are you doing?!”
“Are you really going to kill me?!”
Su Jinxue looked at him coldly. She slowly raised Tingxue, pointing the tip of the sword directly at Zhang Mingyuan's throat.
“Kill you?”
“Hmph. Give this seat one reason not to kill you.”
Despite her words, the hand holding her sword faltered almost imperceptibly.
A tempest was raging in her heart.
She loathed the man before her to the extreme.
For these past five thousand years, she had wanted to hack him into a thousand pieces every single second.
Yet now, when she possessed absolute, crushing power, and when this man stood before her completely defenseless...
She actually... couldn't bring herself to do it.
Why?
Why did her heart throb with an inexplicable ache the moment her sword tip touched his throat?
No!
It had to be because she wanted to torture him!
Yes, letting him die so easily would be far too merciful.
She had to imprison him and drag him to the Upper Realm.
Only by torturing him day and night with her frost laws could she appease the hatred that had festered in her heart for five thousand years!
Su Jinxue frantically made excuses for herself, a flicker of conflict passing through her cold, crimson eyes.
“A reason?” Zhang Mingyuan looked at the slightly trembling sword tip and suddenly laughed.
He laughed wildly, not caring in the least that it pulled at the wound on his abdomen.
Enduring the pain, he stood up. His bright eyes stared straight at Su Jinxue as he stepped closer, one pace at a time.
The tip of Tingxue instantly pierced the skin of his throat, and a drop of fresh blood slid down the blade.
Su Jinxue's eyelids twitched. She instinctively wanted to pull her sword back, but forced herself to stop.
“Why are you backing off?”
“Aren't you going to kill me? Come on! Thrust it in! As long as your hand moves forward another half-inch, I, Zhang Mingyuan, will die by your hand today!”
“You think this seat doesn't dare?”
Su Jinxue gritted her teeth. The immortal Dao laws around her fluctuated violently, causing the surrounding temperature to plummet once more.
“Fine, then kill me!!”
With that, Zhang Mingyuan grabbed the sword resting against his neck, preparing to slice his own throat—
“!”
Su Jinxue hastily withdrew her sword, taking several steps back.
Her crimson eyes stared at Zhang Mingyuan as if looking at a madman!
“Have you lost your mind?!”
“Yes, I'm mad! I was mad enough to let a crazy woman like you drag me into the Myriad Snow Palace, mad enough to act like I didn't care about losing my freedom!”
“I was mad enough to force a kiss on you, and mad enough that even after you schemed and drugged me, I couldn't bring myself to hold a grudge against you!”
“I was mad enough... to actually find you cute and inexplicably agree to a Heavenly Marriage with you! Mad enough to let you, my nemesis, handle me, and even find it sweet! Mad enough to...”
“I don't even know what's wrong with me anymore—”
“Have I fallen in love with you? Do I want to be entangled with you forever?”
“But Su Jinxue, do you know?”
“Out there, our names are carved upon the Heavenly Dao's Concentric Lock.”
“You won't kill me...”
“Because I know that no matter what you become, you are still Su Jinxue... the Su Jinxue I know.”
“Shut up!” Su Jinxue shrieked. “It is nothing like what you say!”
Was this not reality?
Yet this man was saying such bizarre things...
But why was her heart trembling?
She felt a wave of confusion. Back when she attained her Dao, she had two paths to choose from.
She had thought she would choose ascension without hesitation, yet she had lingered at the fork leading to the Red Dust Immortal path for a very long time...
Why had there been a trace of reluctance?
Her master had already ascended to the Upper Realm, and she currently had no family or disciples. She could have simply passed the position of Palace Master down to her subordinate...
“I won't shut up!”
Instead of stopping, Zhang Mingyuan took another step forward.
The distance between them was mere inches; they could clearly hear each other's breathing.
“With your current strength, if you really wanted to kill me, you wouldn't even need to draw your sword!”
“With a flick of your finger, I would die a horrible death, my soul completely obliterated.”
“Yet you didn't do it!”
“Su Jinxue... wake up. No matter how ruthless you pretend to be, I am not afraid of you—”
With that, Zhang Mingyuan cupped Su Jinxue's snow-like face and kissed her fiercely...
!!!
As their lips and teeth met, Su Jinxue's mind went entirely blank.
Only the warm, sweet sensation between their lips and tongues rippled continuously, stirring her mind.
After a long time, their lips finally parted.
A translucent, soft, and lingering thread of saliva stretched between them.
Suddenly, a vast golden glow descended from the heavens.
The thread shimmered under the light, casting an almost sacred luster.
The golden light spread, sinking into the boundless boundary sea alongside the filling snow.
Su Jinxue's body began to undergo a bizarre transformation—
Her skin gradually became ethereal and translucent, her body transforming inch by inch.
Her entire being radiated a translucent, jade-colored immortal light.
Then, she floated toward the sky within the golden pillar of light.
Only at this moment, bathed in the guiding immortal light, did Su Jinxue suddenly realize—
She didn't want to kill this man at all.
A thousand years of life-and-death entanglement and pointing swords at each other had long woven an unbreakable, tangled web between them.
Scenes from the past flashed through her mind like a revolving lantern:
Whenever she drew her sword to kill him, he always wore a roguish, carefree look, speaking with a foul mouth, yet he could always pinpoint the flaws in her swordsmanship with sharp precision.
When her life hung by a thread in desperate situations, this bastard would curse her for being stupid while throwing himself in front of her without hesitation.
When she suffered from backlash during closed-door cultivation and writhed in agony, he was the one who risked being pierced by her sword to forcefully channel gentle spiritual energy into her meridians...
It turned out that, without her realizing it, she had long grown accustomed to having him by her side.
What she felt for this bastard was not hatred at all!
She didn't want to ascend anymore.
She wanted this bastard. She wanted him to belong to her forever, for lifetime after lifetime!
In midair, Su Jinxue did something that caused heaven and earth to change color.
She actually pressed her fingers together and thrust them viciously into her own dantian.
Accompanied by a tragic, muffled groan, she forcefully gouged out the flawless Immortal Embryo that was on the verge of completion!
Crack—
The Immortal Embryo shattered, and the Great Dao wailed.
The brilliant golden light of ascension collapsed in an instant, turning into a rain of blood that filled the sky.
Her white robes were completely drenched in blood, and her once vast, boundless aura withered in an instant...
Like a blood-soaked butterfly with broken wings, she plummeted straight down from the high heavens.
With a loud boom, she crashed down beside Zhang Mingyuan.
Ignoring her broken body, she reached out with trembling, blood-stained hands to cup both sides of the man's face.
The man's gaze was forced to lock with her crimson eyes.
In those eyes that were once as cold and pure as snow, nothing remained but madness and possessiveness.
She pressed her blood-stained cheek against his ear, whispering like a lover:
“Zhang Mingyuan, I don't want to become an immortal anymore...”
“From now on, I will lock you inside my Myriad Snow Palace for lifetime after lifetime.”
“And you will never, ever be able to leave me, not even by half a step.”
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