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The Witch Clan needed the Dragon Soul to suppress the Sea Eye, but the Dragon Soul was too powerful; it required the soul of a Sea Witch as a buffer.
Xi Yue poked at the black hole in her chest.
"My kin were nothing more than 'buffer material' stuffed into the formation. Before their souls scattered, I heard you say, 'This is for the sake of all beings!'"
The seabed trembled violently, and countless skeletal hands of Sea Witches reached out from the fissure.
Xi Yue crazily spread her arms. "Now I want to fill both clans into the Sea Eye; that would be fair!"
Cang Ming's Long Tail suddenly wrapped around my waist and flung me toward the surface. "Run!"
I grabbed onto his decaying scales. "The mistake I made a hundred years ago cannot be atoned for by you!"
It was I who had sent Xi Yue's kin to the altar with my own hands.
The Witch Clan Elder deceived me into believing that the Sea Demon Clan volunteered for sacrifice, until Xi Yue cried out at the edge of the formation, "Sister, save me!" Only then did I realize I had become a butcher.
"How old were you then? Twelve? Thirteen?" Xi Yue's voice mingled with the sound of bones scraping against each other. "The lofty Saintess, of course, couldn't see how the sacrifices struggled!"
When Cang Ming's claws pierced through Xi Yue's chest, she surprisingly revealed a smile of relief.
"Kill me... just like you killed my kin back then..."
The skeletal hands of the Sea Witch grasped his Long Tail and dragged him toward the fissure. I activated the Star Map to cleave through the bony hands, but more Skeletons ensnared my ankles.
Xi Yue coughed up black blood, a hint of desolation flashing in her eyes.
She murmured softly, "When my kin were sent to the altar back then, I too watched them in despair... Xing Yao, do you think you're the only one suffering?"
Her laughter was laced with endless bitterness. "The Sea Eye has already set its sights on the souls of the Witch Clan and Jiao Ren; no one can escape."
"Then let's change the offering."
I snatched the Jade Pearl from Cang Ming's hand and plunged it fiercely into my own heart.
The Star Map crawled up the pearl's surface along my bloodline, and the truth sealed away a hundred years ago finally emerged—
What the Witch Clan Elder took was not only Cang Ming's Dragon Soul but also the reincarnation power of the Sea Demon Clan.
They sought immortality with these two forces, but it led to the uprising of the Sea Eye.
It was I who secretly sealed the Sea Witch's soul within Cang Ming's body, temporarily stabilizing the Sea Eye.
"Xi Yue, your people's souls have never dissipated."
I crushed the Jade Pearl, and countless streams of light spilled from Cang Ming's back, transforming into the ethereal figures of the Sea Witch children.
"They have always been bearing the backlash for him."
The glowing figures surrounded Xi Yue, and one of them gently grasped her hand.
"Sister, we no longer feel pain."
Xi Yue froze in place as toxic mist withdrew from her seven orifices.
Cang Ming's Long Tail shattered completely but used its last strength to push me out of the vortex. "Run..."
"This time we leave together!" The Star Map burned against my skin as I pressed my forehead against his dragon scales.
"A Hundred Years Ago, you suffered for me; now it's time to repay that debt."
An image exploded in my mind—this time I finally saw clearly that what the Witch Clan Elder took was not Cang Ming's Dragon Soul, but my own fate.
They needed the fate of the Seven Killing Hawk God to suppress the Sea Eye, and Cang Ming willingly took on this fatal tribulation for me.
The seabed collapsed with a thunderous roar, and Gui Xu's whirlpool swallowed all light.
Cang Ming held me close, and as dragon scales cut into his chest, I finally felt that beating heart—wrapped in a Star Map identical to the one over my own heart.
"When you said 'relearn' back then..." I bit my fingertip and drew the final seal on his heart, "was it to make me carve out your heart?"
He chuckled softly, blood splattering onto my eyelids: "The Witch Clan said the fate of the Seven Killing Hawk God wouldn't last past twenty... Sister, I've stolen ten years of your lifespan."
At the moment the seal was completed, the poison mist transformed by Xi Yue suddenly solidified.
The poison mist formed a Star Map in the air, precisely the formation used by the Witch Clan Elder a hundred years ago to extract the Dragon Soul.
"You can't break this..." The poison mist formed Xi Yue's face, "The forbidden technique you taught me back then now requires your life to break!"
Cang Ming's Long Tail completely decayed into white bones but pushed me to the center of the formation: "The Seven Killing Hawk God can seize the fortunes of heaven and earth—Xing Yao, seize this formation!"
I shook my head, gripping his cold scales: "Restoring the Seven Kill Fate will backlash against you..."
"Ten years ago, I was willing to bear that backlash for you," he pried my fingers apart, Dragon Horn piercing my palm, "let alone now..."
In that moment when our blood mingled, I heard the sound of chains breaking deep within my veins.
The sealed Seven Kill Fate fully awakened, and the poison mist seemed to avoid me like a living creature.
Xi Yue's scream pierced my eardrums: "How could you control the Corrupted Bone Flower!"
I walked toward the center of the formation, and wherever I passed, the poison mist retreated.
"What you put in my tea back then wasn't a pulse-sealing powder; it was Corrupted Bone Flower seeds—did you think that for those ten years, Cang Ming was carving out his heart and drawing blood for no reason?"
A deep sound echoed from the Gui Xu, as the broken body of Cang Ming floated up, enveloped in golden light.
From the wounds corroded by the Corrupted Bone Flower, tender green shoots of Dragon Soul Grass emerged.
"Half a soul as the guide, heart's blood as the soil." I cut open my wrist, letting my blood drip onto the Star Map on his chest. "This is the true antidote."
The moment the Dragon Soul Grass bloomed, the entire sea surged like a molten furnace.
The Star Map controlled by Xi Yue was illuminated by golden light, her distorted face fading away in the glow. "You... actually used Ming Hun to nourish..."
Cang Ming's silver hair spread out in the currents, new dragon scales covering his white bones.
He grasped my hand holding the knife, its blade pointed at his own heart. "Can you see it now? My fate."
"The Gui Xu Sea Eye will only close once it has swallowed enough dual souls." I turned the knife's tip back toward my own heart. "This time, I gamble my life; I bet on you surviving."
His Long Tail suddenly wrapped around my waist, its sharp claws crushing the knife in my hand. "You once taught me that a Jiao Ren's promise is more important than life itself."
A thunderous pull resonated from deep within Gui Xu, Cang Ming's silver hair entwining around my wrist, while a Dragon Horn pressed against my forehead. "I said I would get to know you again, starting with your name—Xing Yao, live on."
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