Chapter 851: Revived (2)
Tan Qingying leaped from the Black Emperor’s back using the last of her strength. She threw her dry and frail arms around Li Xiaofei from behind. Her heart pressed against his back as if she were trying to use its still-beating warmth to reignite the dying flame of life in Li Xiaofei’s heartless body.
But it was all in vain. Tan Qingying could clearly feel the body in her arms growing colder with every passing second. She could also feel, unmistakably, that her own energy, her life force, and her very soul were all being drawn out of her.
She watched as her body withered rapidly, like a yellowed leaf falling from a branch in late autumn. It was drained of moisture, and stripped of vitality. Still, Tan Qingying did not let go. Instead, she held on tighter.
If life must one day come to an end, then Tan Qingying did not long for some perfect, ideal finale. To have their love reach its peak, only to be severed in that moment of intensity—wasn’t that, in its own way, a kind of happiness? At the very least, she could die together with the one she loved most.
Below, the bloodied Black Emperor was nearly flat as it strained against the pressure of the Heavenly Pillar. Its injuries were grave, as blood oozed from between its fur. Then, as if struck by a sudden thought, it lunged forward and bit down on Li Xiaofei’s leg. This bite had nothing to do with love. It was about not wanting to betray the meaning of their fated encounter.
It was about a bond of friendship; the days spent walking side by side and the unwillingness to lose someone important. Or rather, perhaps it was a desperate desire to offer everything, including its life, its soul, in exchange for the chance of a miracle.
As expected, in that very instant, a terrifying suction began violently draining the Black Emperor of everything within it. It was draining all of his energy, flesh, marrow, spirit, and life force...
The deep crimson on the three segments of the Heavenly Pillar grew even more piercing to the eyes. The densely packed blood threads flowing through its carved lines were now fully saturated, pulsing with strange, rune-like patterns that slithered across the surface. Slowly, a mysterious and ominous transformation began to take shape within the Heavenly Pillar.
Zheng!
A single metallic resonance rang out from the Heavenly Pillar without warning. A strange vibration was born from it. The tremor traveled through the Heavenly Pillar, passed into Li Xiaofei's hands, and then, as if striking a chord, it surged through his entire body in an instant.
His skin immediately disintegrated into fine dust, scattering into the air. Only a skeletal frame remained. Tan Qingying and the Black Emperor were no exceptions. Swept by that same shockwave, their desiccated muscles and bones crumbled into powder and dispersed into the void, leaving behind only tightly bound skeletal remains...
"No... it shouldn’t be like this!" Little Aunt, struggling to maintain control of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, did everything she could to preserve the balance of the force field around Doushuai Palace. She tried to prevent the three skeletons from being utterly obliterated by the Mother of All Beasts’ annihilation force.