Chapter 1651 — Still as at First Sight
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 3
Yin Tianzi vomited blood and forcibly bound his scattered black sand within his body. He opened his mouth, wanting as gallantly as ever to speak the words he had spoken at their first meeting.
Yet when the words reached his lips they became what he most wished to say.
"Forgive me, back then I dared not resist, I have always loved you.
" Blood flooded his throat and blurred his speech.
He struggled to master his body, to be as composed and dashing as before and preserve his last image before the woman he had loved, but the welling blood still reduced his words to senseless sound. Boom!
His flesh exploded into a mist of blood, and countless grains of soul black sand surged like a tide in all directions. "How is it? " Lady Tianyin hastened to land upon the Gate of Mingdu, waving away the blood mist and black sand, circling Di Yiyue and patting her all over in alarm.
"Yin Tianzi landed his last blow on you.
Are you hurt?
That wretch is rotten to the core, his arts impossible to guard against! Are you hurt? " Di Yiyue stared blankly, and only when Lady Tianyin waved her hand before her eyes did she come back to herself and murmur, "His final strike carried no force and hid no art.
. . At the last moment, I felt no killing intent left in him toward me.
. .
" Lady Tianyin breathed relief, drew her close to examine her up and down and inspect her soul, and finding no hidden treachery from Yin Tianzi, she was fully at ease.
"Yin Tianzi is wicked through and through, made of bad water, never a good deed in his life!
I still think you should have Mu Tianzun check you, lest there be some art I cannot see. By the way, what did he just say to you? " Di Yiyue shook her head.
"I did not hear clearly.
" She felt a melancholy.
The man she had loved most, then hated most, had died at last by her own hand.
In this moment she felt no joy of vengeance, only a rising sorrow. She lowered her gaze to Yin Tianzi's blood smeared across the Gate of Reincarnation they had forged together, the gate glowing with幽 light that ground away every chance of his rebirth. Perhaps she understood his arts better than he did himself, which was why Shen Mu had secretly sent word to her, and why she had her chance for revenge.
Yet now, recalling every moment with Yin Tianzi, that melancholy only deepened. Those had been the happiest days of her life. She had once thought she loved Kaihuang, until she met Yin Tianzi and was drawn to him, believing they could cherish each other and heal the rift between Heaven and the Kaihuang era.
As it proved, before the lust for power and the rolling tide of the world, the love of two people was nothing. Her dream dissolved into bubbles, love turned to a cold coffin, to hatred, to blades crossed. She had her revenge, yet tears slid from the corners of her eyes. "I have utterly forgotten this man.
" She said to Lady Tianyin, "Kaihuang is gone, and Wuyou Township has lost its pillar.
The war between Heaven and Jingping cannot be delayed much longer.
I will not fail Kaihuang's hopes nor repeat the mistakes of those years.
As the First Heavenly King, I will lead Wuyou Township in a final battle against Heaven! " Lady Tianyin rejoiced.
"Congratulations on your vengeance. I feel light-hearted too.
" Di Yiyue nodded, with no smile on her face, gazing at the Gate of Mingdu as the scene of her first meeting with Yin Tianzi rose before her eyes again.
She shook her head, cut off the thought, and left the Tianyin Realm.