As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life

Chapter 873: Chapter 273: Xi Xi’s True Heart Protects Parents, This World Only Needs One Xi Xi [Seeking Monthly Ticket]_5

She couldn’t hold on until the next trial.

Large teardrops, one after another, fell onto the White Jade Staircase.

Perhaps her destiny would be the same as her aunt’s?

Suffocation, despair, made it hard for her to breathe, robbing her eyes of their light.

She looked at Xi Xi. Her aunt wanted her to defeat Xi Xi, but… she truly couldn’t do it.

Watching Xi Xi face the challenges of the Heart Test, her lips curved into a smile, her face aglow with unabashed joy.

How could she be so happy?

Why?

Ao Qingqing was genuinely envious.

Buzz—

Lu Chi and Ao Qingqing were also sent out of the Qiankun Small Cave Heaven.

Lu Chi’s eyes were cold as he stood at the entrance of the Qiankun Small Cave Heaven. In those indifferent eyes, a flicker of light flashed, and a trace of pain surged within.

I still can’t let go…

He turned and left, entering the carriage.

“Elder Mo… let’s go.”

“Return to the Divine Capital.”

“In the end, I’ve disappointed the State Preceptor.”

Lu Chi’s voice echoed faintly: “It’s time for me to face what I must face…”

“Your Highness… you’ve already done very well.”

Elder Mo consoled him.

“I will report your performance truthfully to the State Preceptor…”

“Thank you, Elder Mo.”

As his words fell silent.

The charioteer tugged on the reins and, without lingering further, drove the carriage away from the Qianyuan Divine Sect Mountain Gate.

Lv Taibai withdrew his gaze from the departing carriage.

Meanwhile, within the spacious Daping.

Li Qingshan sat on the front of his cart, watching from afar as Lu Chi’s carriage shattered through the driving storm and sped into the distance.

From start to finish…

Lu Chi never once turned back to look at the man who had once been his master.

…

…

On the White Jade Staircase.

Only four Divine Children remained.

Gongshu Wentian, Jin Taixui, Li Nuanxi, and Yun E…

Just one more elimination, and the three Divine Children entering the third trial would be decided!

Who would it be?

Who?!

The spring rain roared, growing more torrential.

Even Li Che couldn’t help but open his eyes, focusing half his attention on the sword-light-reflected scene at the Qiankun Small Cave Heaven’s entrance.

The world was utterly silent.

The downpour became even more intense.

Suddenly.

It was as if the sound of something shattering resounded through the air.

In an instant, Gongshu Wentian, who was meditating cross-legged on the White Jade Staircase, suddenly shuddered, his face revealing an expression of disbelief and terror-filled despair.

In the next moment, his eyes snapped open.

He gasped for air in huge gulps.

He abruptly turned his head toward Xi Xi’s direction.

In his mind…

A memory surfaced of the battle he had with Li Nuanxi in the Heart Test illusion realm.

Gongshu Wentian had been about to defeat Li Nuanxi, suppress his Heart Demon, and pass the Heart Test!

But then…

Li Nuanxi suddenly transformed!

Her entire body was covered with bewitching black patterns, as if she had emerged from the corpse-laden Jiuyou blood seas!

In the illusion realm.

Gongshu Wentian felt his legs refusing to obey him. The terrifying rank suppression, as if the very skies had been gouged out and crashed down, forced him to kneel, unable to summon even the courage to resist.

It was simply…

Not a foe on the same level!

With cold arrogance, Xi Xi cast a fleeting glance at him, her eyes akin to one viewing the ephemeral mayflies of the world. That gaze crushed his feeble Dao Heart like a tofu block.

Then, with but a touch of her finger…

She erased him completely.

As Gongshu Wentian woke, it felt as though he’d experienced an apocalyptic nightmare.

Yet, confusion gnawed at his brain.

No…

He had never even seen Li Nuanxi in that form in reality!

Why was he forced to confront such a monster in the Heart Test?!

Does reality always choose to bully the honest?

Li Nuanxi…

Just who… are you?!