Chapter 1079 — A Love That Never Wavers
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
Dahong snatched it away, pried open the jade pendant, and a woman's soul flew up from within it, drifting and floating, flying toward the golden coffin. Dahong gazed at this woman's soul with infatuation — it was none other than his beloved wife, his Goddess King Gong Yun. "Nüxin.
. . " He came to the golden coffin.
Within the golden coffin, the beloved who had haunted his dreams slowly opened her eyes.
Dahong's body trembled; a smile hung on his face as he extended his palm toward the woman in the coffin. The woman in the coffin raised her hand, and the two palms clasped. Dahong drew her to her feet and embraced this Goddess King who had returned from death. Two streams of tears poured from his eyes without cease: "Nüxin, my beloved wife, all these years I have been thinking of you, always wanting to see you again. I have countless words I want to say to you.
. .
" Behind him, Gu Xiao revealed a mocking smile, and slowly raised the Imperial Sword in his hand, pointing the hilt at Dahong's back.
A slender jade hand grasped the hilt of the Imperial Sword.
With a squelch, the Imperial Sword stabbed into Dahong's back, piercing his heart. The woman in Dahong's arms released him. Dahong knelt heavily before the golden coffin.
The void mother-beast roared in fury, opening its bloody maw to devour that Goddess King who had returned from death.
"Beast! " Dahong was seized with towering rage, blood spraying ceaselessly from his mouth.
He rebuked the void mother-beast, shouting sternly: "Begone —" The void mother-beast let out a timid cry, leaped into the void with a bound, glanced back once, then vanished.
Blood gurgled from Dahong's mouth. He raised his head to look at his beloved wife, a smile still hanging on his face: "Nüxin, I would betray everyone, betray my own race, but I would never betray you, never change my heart toward you.
" The woman in the coffin was expressionless. She rose slowly, passed over the top of his head, and came to stand behind him.
Gently she grasped the hilt of the Imperial Sword, and drove it in heavily.
A length of blade tip emerged from Dahong's chest.
The Dao-might contained within the Imperial Sword was destroying the functions of his physical body and suppressing his divine consciousness. "I still love you, unchanging in this life.
. . " he said with a smile. Goddess King Gong Yun lay down by his ear, her long beautiful hair hanging from his neck down to his chest.
Her voice was filled with boundless hatred. "But I no longer love you, Great Emperor.
Ever since you destroyed my race, I have not loved you. " Her voice was like a scraping-bone knife.
Her palm gently twisted the hilt, bit by bit grinding Dahong's heart to pieces: "I feel only hatred for you, only infinite and endless hatred.
I can stoop to consort with Taichu, borrow his power to kill you. Let me quietly tell you — I threw our child to its death, and I even bore a child with Taichu!
" The smile on Dahong's face did not diminish: "So long as you live.
. .
" Squelch. Goddess King Gong Yun wrenched the Imperial Sword free with force.
Gu Xiao staggered to his feet, and sneered: "Daoist friend, you still cannot defeat me. " Goddess King Gong Yun did not turn to look at him. She raised the sword and swept it level behind her; the blade-light flashed across Gu Xiao's neck.
Gu Xiao's head slid from his neck. His corpse toppled, the smile on his face frozen, revealing an expression of disbelief.
Goddess King Gong Yun reversed the hilt and hurled it down heavily. With a squelch, it plunged into the back-heart of Gu Xiao's headless body, running him through and nailing him to the floor of the mining vein.
"I hate traitors most of all.
" She raised her foot and crushed Gu Xiao's skull. She spoke indifferently.
Dahong still had not breathed his last. Lying on the ground, looking at Gu Xiao's headless corpse, he chuckled: "Well killed, well killed!