He gently tended to her wounds…
After a while, Ming Zhi Tian tentatively reached for her cheek, relieved when the heat subsided.
“What are you doing?” Lin Shiyi instinctively tried to push his hand away.
Ming Zhi Tian, reacting swiftly, withdrew his hand. “Since you are no longer in danger, I shall take my leave.”
Lin Shiyi quickly moved to stop him. “Where are you going?”
Ming Zhi Tian replied, “Back to where I belong.”
At that moment, Mo Yixiao, Uncle Gui, the child, and the Demon Soul Twin Emperors arrived.
Lin Shiyi gazed at Ming Zhi Tian with admiration. Having fallen for his handsome appearance, she confessed from the bottom of her heart, “Ming Zhi Tian, I like you.”
“What?” Ming Zhi Tian, never having been confessed to by a woman before, was momentarily flustered.
Lin Shiyi looked at him with a deep, captivating gaze. “You like me too, don’t you? Don’t speak yet, let me guess… you don’t dislike me. Exactly. I want to be your woman.”
Mo Yixiao and the others were dumbfounded. “Sect Master…”
Ming Zhi Tian, however, said, “Thank you for your feelings, but I already have someone I love. Moreover… those who liked me and loved me all died because of me. I appreciate your kindness, Lin Shiyi, but I must go. Let this beautiful moment be forever etched in my heart.”
Ming Zhi Tian used a scorching light to cleave open space. Lin Shiyi rushed to stop him. “Wait!… Take me with you.”
“You…” Ming Zhi Tian started to say something, but Lin Shiyi grabbed his hand. “I, Lin Shiyi, have always waited for my fated one, and I have finally found the one I like and who has touched me. And that person is you. Take me with you, please? Even if I can’t be your woman, I want to stay by your side. Can I?”
The child also wanted to get involved. “Sister Shiyi, I’m coming too! Take me!”
Uncle Gui pulled him back. “You little brat, can’t you see what’s happening? Don’t butt in.”
“Uncle Gui, I…” The child tried to break free.
“Child… be good. Your Sister Shiyi is pursuing her own happiness. Wish her well,” Mo Yixiao said with a slight shake of his head.
Ming Zhi Tian agreed, “If you wish to follow, I won’t resist. But can you let go of your Heavenly Demon Divine Cult?”
Lin Shiyi glanced back. “The Heavenly Demon Divine Cult is no longer just mine. It will be the same whether I am here or not. Let’s go.”
Ming Zhi Tian stepped into the spatial rift. “Wait!” Lin Shiyi went back to bid farewell to Mo Yixiao and the others, having spent so much time together.
Ming Zhi Tian muttered to himself, “Women are so troublesome.”
Heavenly Sphere—
Ming Zhi Tian and Lin Shiyi emerged from the void-rending space, which then sealed behind them.
As the two set foot on the Heavenly Sphere, Ming Zhi Tian scanned their surroundings. Lin Shiyi asked, “What are you looking for?”
Ming Zhi Tian replied, “A friend… a very important friend.”
Lin Shiyi then asked, “It must be a woman, right?”
Ming Zhi Tian nodded. “Yes…”
Lin Shiyi pursed her lips and murmured, “If only that person were me.”
Ming Zhi Tian arrived at the bottom of the Ten Thousand Fathom Cave. This was where he had first met Martial Saint Ran Yizhou, and it was from that moment that he had truly stepped onto the path of cultivation. He wished for an ordinary life in his next reincarnation.
He activated his Twin Immortal Eyes, clearly seeing the last vestiges of the Martial Saint’s residual soul fading away. However, Ming Zhi Tian noticed something. He walked towards the tombstone and gently reached out!
A tiny speck of golden light appeared, a residual wisp of soul too faint to be seen even by a super microscope, floating on his fingertips.
Ming Zhi Tian then slowly infused it with his immortal spiritual power, strengthening its origin.
After a while…
The residual soul gradually grew larger, autonomously absorbing fragments of surrounding souls. Soon, a mere half of a faint Martial Saint’s residual soul coalesced, devoid of consciousness and missing its upper body.