"Lady..."

"Lady..."

Han Qiu and Xiao Cui knelt at the edge of the arena, separated by a short distance, gazing afar at Gu Changsheng, not speaking a word, yet tears were already streaming down their faces!

"No! Don’t!"

Gu Changsheng looked through the light and fire of the Heavenly Punishment Thunder, vaguely seeing the figures of her two maidservants, shaking her head, decisively refusing!

No!

Don’t speak!

"Don’t speak! I forbid you to speak! I don’t want to know! Don’t want to know!"

Holding her head in pain, blood tears once again dripped from Gu Changsheng’s eyes...

The blood-red imperial robe, the dragon and phoenix pattern outlined by gold and silver threads, with her movement, gracefully swam as if alive...

All of this, all, was demonstrating her identity, she, Gu Changsheng, honored as the Southern Emperor ruling over nearly nine-tenths of the world’s territories!

Yet, even though she was the Southern Emperor, even though she commanded respect throughout the world, even though she received the veneration of thousands, at this moment, she chose to evade!

People all have this habit; when faced with reality they cannot accept, they’ll feel fear, they’ll evade!

At this moment, Gu Changsheng was no exception!

She chose to evade!

Before Han Qiu and Xiao Cui could speak, she first shouted harshly, blocking their words!

However, in fact, deep down, she already knew the answer!

Her previous suspicions were confirmed!

Actually, when Han Qiu and Xiao Cui appeared within her field of vision, she already had a premonition like this, but she was self-deceivingly unwilling to believe it!

"Lady, the Lord... he... woo..." Xiao Cui’s cheek pressed against the ground, sobbing uncontrollably.

Beside her, Han Qiu’s usually cold, pool-like handsome face was now unable to hide the look of sorrow, watching her master holding her head in refusal, shaking her head, rejecting any truth, silver teeth biting her lip as if making a huge decision, she suddenly kowtowed, curling on the ground, her voice heavy with pain, opened her mouth and said...

"Lady! I was incompetent; I didn’t take good care of the Lord..."

Pausing briefly, Han Qiu continued.

However, she knew, at this critical moment, when her master was still shrouded under the Heavenly Punishment Thunder’s light fire, all delays, all distractions were deadly!

The matter had happened; even if her master didn’t want to accept it, what could change?

Could they just watch their master at the moment of life or death, numbly, hollowly, giving up like this?

Raising tear-filled eyes, filled with sorrow, crimson lips slightly parted, she continued word by word, "Lady, the Lord has passed away!"

Lady, the Lord has passed away!

The Lord has passed away!

Passed...

away...

Those words struck Gu Changsheng like a bolt of heavenly lightning!

Even more so than the previous Nine-Layer Heavenly Punishment Thunder!

The hands holding her head dropped listlessly...

The red golden thread coronet robe instantly fell...

Gu Changsheng’s bright, small face instantly lost all its luster...

Almost soulless, woodenly, she slowly repeated...

"The Lord has passed away..."

"The Lord has passed away..."

"The Lord has passed away... passed away! Passed away! Passed away!"

This soulless appearance, this sorrow so profound it’s as though separated from the world...

Instantly captured the hearts of everyone present!

Of course, these people were all close to Gu Changsheng!

They too were shocked by the news brought by Han Qiu and Xiao Cui.

Each face held disbelief and shock...

The Lord has passed away?

The Lord?

Gu Changsheng’s father!

Yue Xilou’s gaze, Borjigin Nian’s gaze, everyone’s gaze concerned for Gu Changsheng, at the very moment Han Qiu’s words landed, converged on Gu Changsheng!

How much Gu Changsheng cares for the people around her, those being close to Gu Changsheng, deeply understood!

Although she usually seemed carefree, as if nothing and no one mattered in her heart...

Yet they knew, she was genuinely serious about life, treating every person around her like family, with wholehearted attention, though not appearing so usually, yet whenever something occurred, she would never hesitate, she would be the first to step forward...

She would with a roguish tone pat her own shoulder, pretend to laugh and say, "Alright, lean on my shoulder a bit!"

However, when she lost the person she cared about the most in her life, could they too pat their shoulders and offer her support?

They want to get close...

Yet they find that the Nine-Layer Heavenly Punishment Thunder’s light fire still lingered, they could not get near at all!

"Child!" shouted the Medical Immortal Old Man anxiously.

"Girl!" Yue Xilou’s face, more beautiful than a demon’s, was full of panic.

"Gu Changsheng! Gu Changsheng!" Borjigin Nian stomped anxiously, but to no avail.

"Changsheng..."

Amidst the Nine-Layer Heavenly Punishment Thunder Light Fire, Zhou Mu was clad in a long, blood-stained purple robe, and at this moment, watching Gu Changsheng’s devastated figure, he anxiously exerted all his strength, gradually moving toward Gu Changsheng despite the rampant thunder.

Can’t let her continue like this, she’ll fall into madness!

She’ll definitely fall into madness!

The pain of losing her beloved, how deep must her pain be, Zhou Mu can’t imagine!

But Zhou Mu knows, finding Gu Taitian brings her such joy and excitement...

Zhou Mu is the only one present who knows everything about Gu Changsheng!

He knows her past life, her present life!

He knows why she stubbornly wants to head north, to seek the Tears of the Goddess that can supposedly bring the dead back to life!

Everything, all of it, is only for that obsession deep in her heart!

Both in her past life and present life, she lacked parental love, a complete absence!

And now, just as she had begun to experience fatherly love, she cruelly loses it once again!

The Lord, passes away!

These words, to her, perhaps are more painful than dying herself!

"The Lord, passes away! The Lord, passes away..."

"Changsheng!"

Under Zhou Mu’s anxious calls, Gu Changsheng still murmurs in a daze...

"Haha... The Lord, passes away! Haha... passes away..."

However, just as Zhou Mu is about to approach Gu Changsheng, suddenly, a string of mournful laughter reaches him from ahead...

Zhou Mu hears, immediately raises his head in shock, and sees...

Sees that blood-red imperial robe, that slender fragile figure slumped to the ground, slowly rising...

Arms wide open, gradually spinning...

"Haha... The Lord, passes away! Haha..."

Blood tears stream, laughter piercing, echoing between heaven and earth...

"Haha... The Lord, passes away! Haha... The Lord passes away! Haha..."

"Changsheng!"

Witnessing this, Zhou Mu’s face, like a Divine Residence, suddenly loses all color, he reaches out desperately, yet can’t even grasp a corner of Gu Changsheng’s dress...

On the platform, members of the Hidden World Clan witness this and immediately become uncertain.

Elder after elder exchange looks, their faces showing a trace of bewilderment...

"That, could Gu Changsheng be insane?"

"Her father is dead... her madness isn’t surprising!"

"Is this... heaven’s help for our Hidden World Clan?"

"..."

At this moment, a feeling of surviving catastrophe rises in their hearts!

No wonder, because Gu Changsheng is simply too abnormal!

She has triggered the Nine-Layer Heavens Thunder Punishment!

Looking forward, under the Nine-Layer Heavens Thunder Punishment, she should have disintegrated completely, yet she has risen like a phoenix!

This should be impossible, yet it so vividly happens to her, if not for the terrifying brilliance of the Nine-Layer Thunder, they’d have long since acted, seized the chance to kill Gu Changsheng on the spot!

However, the current situation is optimal!

She has seemingly spiraled into madness upon hearing of her father’s passing!

Madness!

Madness!

The deeper the madness, the better!

Gu Changsheng’s madness ensures chaos for the world, and chaos is the best chance for their Hidden World Clan to enter society!

If this world is a watermelon, then as one of the rulers of the world, Gu Changsheng is undoubtedly the largest rind. If she succumbs to madness, the world will fracture, and then it’s time to redefine its map!

With the family heroes, their Hidden World Clan will find it as easy as taking candy to establish themselves in the chaos!

Madness!

Madness!

If Gu Changsheng spirals into madness, it’s the best opportunity for their Hidden World Clan to emerge!

The elders of the Hidden World Clan seem to see a bright future calling to them!

Power, high positions, riches, velvet flowers...

All splendid scenes, opulent futures, seem so near!

"Haha..."

Spinning Gu Changsheng, still laughing heartily.

The blood-red imperial robe, Dragon and Phoenix Totem, dances and swirls with her rotating form!

"Changsheng!"

Zhou Mu, looking at such a Gu Changsheng, is utterly at a loss.

Beside him, the Manman Bug, raising a small claw, has an equally rigid expression...

All those concerned for Gu Changsheng, at this moment, feel incredibly tense...

A bad premonition secretly rises in their hearts!

The premonition is so familiar, yet so strange...

"Back then, before she bloodbathed Hengtang Lake, the scene was just like this..." Borjigin Nian’s profound features held a trace of tremble...

That battle remains unforgettable in her memory!

Tens of thousands of soldiers reduced to ashes under Gu Changsheng’s hands, blood stained Hengtang Lake water red, and the bloody aura on Hengtang Lake’s banks persists even now...