One person: Starting with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, his grandmaster uncle emerges from seclusion.

He looked at the lifeless girl in his arms.

This is the girl who clumsily chewed herbs to apply to his wounds on a rainy night.

This is a girl softly singing a nursery rhyme in my ear.

"Sorry……"

Zhang Tianyi buried her face in Feng Baobao's cool neck.

This little tyrant is undisciplined and disregards all rules and regulations.

At that moment, his shoulders were trembling violently.

Hot tears, mixed with bloodstains on her face, dripped onto the little girl's cheongsam.

"Brother is late..."

"Brother will take you home now..."

All around was silent.

Only his hoarse murmurs remained.

On the empty, blood-red altar, it appeared so powerless, so desolate.

……

"Tap, tap, tap."

Just then, a series of hurried and chaotic footsteps came from the direction of the plank road at the entrance of the sinkhole.

"Second Senior Brother!!!"

A desperate cry, tinged with tears, shattered the tranquility of the valley.

Zhang Huaiyi wasn't even wearing shoes.

Covered in mud, they tumbled and crawled to the bottom of the sinkhole.

Behind him followed a dozen or so inner disciples dressed in Taoist robes from the Celestial Master's Mansion.

Actually, it happened several days ago.

When Zhang Tianyi noticed the group's presence, he sent a message via paper crane, requesting Longhu Mountain to send reinforcements.

just.

The heart of Sichuan is mountainous and remote.

Even though they traveled day and night, they were still a fatal half-beat too late.

When Zhang Huaiyi and the others rushed to the bottom of the pit and saw the scene before them.

Everyone was stunned.

My heart felt like it was being squeezed tightly by a giant hand.

The ground was littered with mutilated Japanese soldiers' corpses.

A giant crane shattered, a blood-red torii gate collapsed.

And on the altar.

The second senior brother, his body covered in cracks, was kneeling in a pool of blood, silently weeping as he held a girl's corpse in his arms.

Zhang Huaiyi's eyes reddened.

"Second Senior Brother..."

He walked carefully onto the altar, his voice trembling.

He could feel it clearly.

The life force within Zhang Tianyi was gradually draining away along with the overflowing lightning.

"Second Brother, don't scare me! Your body..."

"Get out of the way."

A very low voice, filled with suppressed grief, came from behind the crowd.

The crowd quickly parted to make way for each other.

Celestial Master Zhang Jingqing.

This old man is in charge of the Zhengyi sect throughout the land.

He was holding a long sword that was still sheathed, the blade dripping with the blood of the remaining sentries.

He walked quickly to the altar.

He looked at his most proud, yet also most troublesome, apprentice.

Now he has ended up with a broken heart and a destroyed body.

Zhang Jingqing's weathered old eyes instantly turned red.

"Foolish child...you foolish child!"

Zhang Jingqing threw down her longsword, strode forward, and grabbed Zhang Tianyi's shoulder.

The moment it was touched.

The violent, destructive lightning energy then rebounded from Zhang Jingqing's palm.

But the old man didn't even frown.

He forcibly channeled his own profound and pure golden light into Zhang Tianyi's body, attempting to stabilize his collapsing meridians.

But it didn't work.

Zhang Tianyi's Dao heart has been shattered.

Life is like a leaky bucket; it can't be retained.

"Master..."

Zhang Tianyi slightly raised his head, his dull eyes looking at Zhang Jingqing.

He didn't cry out in pain, but simply held the girl in his arms even tighter.

"My apprentice is useless... He couldn't bring Lao Ba back... He couldn't even protect this girl..."

"What's the use of all these skills I've cultivated..."

Hearing his apprentice's words of utter despair...

Zhang Jingqing finally couldn't hold back her tears, which rolled down her wrinkled cheeks.

"Nonsense! Your master is not dead yet, and the Celestial Master's Mansion has not collapsed! It's not your place to give up on yourself here!"

Zhang Jingqing took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the bitterness in her heart.

He knew that if he didn't take drastic measures...

His second disciple will now completely vanish from this world.

Zhang Jingqing turned her head and looked at Zhang Huaiyi and the others:

"Back off! Guard the entrance to the sinkhole! Not a single bird is allowed to enter!"

With tears in their eyes, the crowd accepted the order and quickly dispersed to maintain order.

Zhang Jingqing turned around and solemnly took out an object wrapped in bright yellow silk from her bosom.

Untie the silk.

An ancient seal, neither gold nor jade, radiating an imposing aura, appeared in his palm.

A treasure passed down through generations of Celestial Masters.

[Yangping Zhidu Gong Seal]!

"Yi'er, listen to your master. Go to sleep."

Zhang Jingqing looked at Zhang Tianyi, her eyes filled with a fatherly compassion and resolute determination:

"Forget all this pain and resentment."

"As long as you're alive, there's always a way to go in this world."

Zhang Jingqing bit her fingertip and placed a drop of her blood onto the Du Gong Seal.

"boom!"

The ancient seal instantly erupted with extremely dazzling golden runes!

The light was soft yet irresistible, enveloping Zhang Tianyi and Feng Baobao.

"In the name of my Celestial Master, I command Heaven and Earth!"

Zhang Jingqing's hair and beard stood on end, and his eyes were wide open.

He poured all his life's cultivation into the Dharma seal without reservation.

"Imprison its soul! Seal its memories! Suppress it!!!"

Zhang Jingqing pressed the Yangping Zhidu Gong Seal heavily onto Zhang Tianyi's forehead with her other hand!

"Om-"

The moment the ancient seal touched the space between the eyebrows.

In Zhang Tianyi's mind, there were those tragic images of the rainy night, the altar, and the little girl's death.

They were all forcibly enveloped by an unparalleled golden power.

It was locked into the deepest part of his consciousness!

The lightning that was constantly spreading outwards was also forcibly suppressed back into the body by this force.

The golden light remained undiminished.

It enveloped his body like a large golden cocoon.

The pain in Zhang Tianyi's eyes gradually disappeared, replaced by a calm blankness.

His eyelids grew heavier and heavier.