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The ocean suddenly fell silent.
Cang Ming's grip on my neck loosened, and a warm drop of blood fell onto my eyelid—it was his tear.
"Sister..." The blood-red hue in his pupils receded like a tide, and the phantom of Dragon Horn shattered piece by piece. "I think... I just had a very long nightmare."
Xi Yue's scream pierced through the water. "Impossible! The Corrupted Bone Flower's poison cannot fail!"
She frantically urged the Jade Pearl, and more Corrupted Merfolk surged from the abyss.
Cang Ming shielded me behind him, his decaying tail sweeping through the enemy ranks. "Take the Jade Pearl to Gui Xu; there lies the truth."
As I rushed toward the bone pillar, Xi Yue's icy blade was already at my back.
Cang Ming caught the blade with his bare hands, scales flying from his palms.
"A Hundred Years Ago, you manipulated me to slaughter the Witch Clan; today, it is time for reckoning."
The Jade Pearl felt cold in my hand, black mist seeping from its cracks.
Those distorted memories flooded into my mind—so it was Xi Yue disguised as the Witch Clan Elder who led the massacre against the Jiao Ren back then.
"Do you know why he was chosen back then?" As Xi Yue broke through the water's surface, the silver nail in her hand had transformed into a bone blade.
"Because he is the only one who refused to slaughter the Witch Clan," she pointed her blade at Cang Ming, "just like he would rather turn to ashes than..."
"The Dragon Soul Grass cannot cure the poison," I crushed the Jade Pearl, half of my soul transforming into a stream of light that entered Cang Ming's body. "What can cure the poison is the complete you."
Cang Ming's silver hair spread out in the seawater like snow, and at the moment the complete Dragon Soul awakened, all the Corrupted Mermen controlled by Xi Yue turned to dust.
"Do you think you've won?" Xi Yue tore off her disguise, revealing a body ravaged by forbidden techniques—countless cursed insects seemed to writhe beneath her skin. "I have already planted the Corrupted Bone Flower poison in my heart. If I die, the entire sea will be buried with me!"
Cang Ming's Long Tail swirled around, pushing me up to the surface. "Hurry!"
I grasped his skeletal hand. "We go together! Gui Xu's Dragon Soul Grass..."
"The Dragon Soul Grass can cure your poison." He pried my fingers apart, his smile overlapping with the moonlit night from a hundred years ago. "Back then, you bore the backlash for me; Xin Mai has long been corrupted, hasn't she?"
The seabed began to collapse as Xi Yue's body exploded into a cloud of poisonous mist.
Cang Ming's silver hair wrapped around my waist, throwing me onto the rocks. "I've paid off my debt to you."
I lay at the edge of the cliff, watching him swim against the current toward the center of the toxic fog.
In that final moment, he turned back and mouthed, "I'm not afraid of pain."
The Star Map on my chest burned like a branding iron; the prophecy was finally complete—
It was neither he who carved out my heart, nor I who carved out his. We shared a single heart, destined to perish together in the depths of a blood sea.
As I leaped into the poisonous mist, Cang Ming's silver hair was already soaked in black blood.
The poison of the Corrupted Bone Flower had eroded his Long Tail, exposing bare bones, yet he still clutched Xi Yue tightly.
Xi Yue's body twisted into grotesque angles within the toxic fog, her fingertips plunged into her own chest, pulling out a pulsating black flame. "Xing Yao, did you think only Cang Ming was afflicted by the Corrupted Bone Poison?"
The black flame illuminated her decaying skin, and I finally saw that the writhing things were not worms but a dense array of Witch Clan incantations—A Hundred Years Ago, her kin had been marked with the same brand.
"Have you ever seen a living sacrifice?" she suddenly laughed, the toxic mist forming an image: twelve Witch Clan Elders surrounded an altar, beneath them lay hundreds of Sea Demon Clan children. "They said they needed the pure bloodline of the Sea Witch to suppress the Sea Eye, but really?"
In the vision, the elders' daggers slashed open the children's throats, but the blood flowed toward the Jiao Ren boy at the center of the altar.
That was young Cang Ming, chained at the formation's heart, as the seal on his back devoured the souls of the Sea Demon Clan.
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