Chapter 342
"This..." Huang Weijun hesitated. "Given my current strength, I'm afraid dealing with Lin Hui would require fully mobilizing my true body. But right now... it still slumbers. We may have no choice but to ask Emperor Suo to act personally."
"Emperor Suo fought Guo Shengyu and needs time to recuperate. Set the matter aside for now." The voice from the abyss was unhurried. "Wait until I complete the succession and stabilize my form. Then we will deal with him once and for all."
Huang Weijun bowed his head in silence.
In the aftermath of the Martial Saint's final battle, only a handful of top-tier Blood Ancestors knew his true fate. To the rest of the world, all that was known was that on that fateful day, more than half of the Crystal Sea had vanished—its emptied basin swallowed by the surrounding waters of the Jade Sea. From then on, the Crystal Sea ceased to exist, and the Jade Sea's water level dropped drastically.
The Martial Saint was never heard from again. His only child, Guo Xiyan, vanished with him.
Time passed. In the blink of an eye, twenty more years were gone.
The walls of the Clear Source Courtyard faded from pure white to mottled gray. The pear tree blossomed and shed its leaves, dropped its fruit and blossomed again, in its endless cycle.
Creak.
The courtyard gate swung gently open. Liu Wujun, draped in the outer robes of the Rain Palace, stepped slowly inside. He found Lin Hui beneath the pear tree, sweeping fallen leaves from his younger sister's tombstone.