"You forced me to do this," Bai Yuwei said, and then a strong light suddenly burst forth from her body.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh".

The surrounding air whistled and rattled as Bai Yuwei unleashed her powerful spiritual energy.

The sky suddenly darkened, and dark clouds gathered, threatening a storm.

Bai Yuwei's aura rose steadily, and her body, which had been charred black from the explosion, was restored to its original state in an instant.

Her charred hair has turned jet black again. The Bai Yuwei who was previously a young man has now completely returned to her true form.

Standing before Ruoshui was an extremely alluring woman with a voluptuous figure and a seductive face, exuding a captivating charm.

Bai Yuwei stood in mid-air, with powerful spiritual energy surging around her.

Bai Yuwei's eyes had now turned gold, and within those golden eyes, her vertical pupils appeared particularly eerie.

Bai Yuwei was wearing a colorful gauze dress, which shimmered and danced along with her golden hair.

A sword, entirely cyan in color, appeared out of thin air in Bai Yuwei's hand. It was a beautiful cyan, as vibrant and fresh as green leaves.

"brush"

Bai Yuwei stood in the air, brandishing her sword. The tip of the sword pointed at Ruoshui, its cyan tip gleaming with a sinister light.

Bai Yuwei looked at Ruoshui and said coldly, "I don't care if you're a mission taker or not, anyone who blocks my way must die."

Ruoshui remained standing in the same spot, her eyes crystal clear, revealing no emotion whatsoever, neither sad nor happy.

Ruoshui said to herself, "Sure enough, I knew it. How could someone who can break free from the system's control be so weak?"

"It's been so long since I've had a real fight. I wonder what it's like to unleash the full power of the Heaven and Earth Technique. I've never even seen it myself," Ruoshui murmured softly.

As Ruoshui spoke, her aura rose steadily, and powerful spiritual energy erupted from her body.

Suddenly, a golden petal appeared around Ruoshui, floating gently, and then a second petal appeared, a third petal appeared...

Countless golden petals danced around Ruoshui, making her appear like a fairy descended to earth. Those golden petals were actually spiritual energy that had solidified into a tangible form.

Ruoshui's black hair danced among the petals. Dressed in a simple white dress, she stood quietly in the middle of the petals, breathtakingly beautiful.

Bai Yuwei moved her feet, and the air beneath her feet made a loud sonic boom as she shot towards Ruoshui with her sword.

In the blink of an eye, Bai Yuwei had arrived in front of Ruoshui, her speed was terrifying.

Bai Yuwei gripped her sword with both hands and slashed at Ruoshui's fair neck. The cyan sword was so sharp and fast that the air itself made a piercing and sharp sound as it was cleaved.

Ruoshui remained standing still. Just as the sword was about to reach her, countless golden petals flew up and gathered in front of her.

"boom".

The moment the cyan sword and countless golden petals intersected, a powerful light erupted, so bright that it was almost blinding.

A powerful energy radiated from the intersection, and everything in its path turned to ashes.

The air itself seemed to be being torn apart by the raging energy, making a whooshing sound.

Ruoshui and Bai Yuwei's hair flew wildly in the surging energy.

The cyan sword and the golden petals intersected, and countless enormous energies surged at the point of intersection, resulting in a stalemate where neither could advance an inch.

Bai Yuwei looked into Ruoshui's calm eyes, which were clean, clear, and without a trace of impurity, so clean that they could not contain anything in this world.

What kind of eyes were those? They looked so...

So...lonely...

“Only mission takers and time travelers can freely travel between different worlds. I see that you are a mission taker as well,” Bai Yuwei said.

Ruoshui's eyes remained calm as still water, her black hair flying wildly amidst the surging spiritual energy.

"So what if it is?" Ruoshui's tone was indifferent.

The light emitted from the intersection of the sword and the golden petals illuminated their faces.

"Since you're a mission taker, you should understand me, right?" Bai Yuwei said excitedly.

"You should understand, right? That feeling of watching the people around you die one by one, and in the end you're the only one left to barely survive."

"You should understand, right? That feeling of traveling from one world to another, drifting like a rootless duckweed."

"That feeling of finally defeating one enemy only to face the next one."

"Living someone else's life again and again, occupying someone else's family, sometimes even starting to forget what I was like in the beginning."

Bai Yuwei's voice was almost a roar: "You know that feeling, right?"

Bai Yuwei shouted at Ruoshui, "Answer me, mission taker!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the sword in Bai Yuwei's hand suddenly burst out with an even stronger light.

Seeing this, Ruoshui gathered even more petals at the point where they intersected.

The two enormous energies collided, and both of them were thrown back more than ten meters by the impact of the force.

Ruoshui stood quietly amidst the swirling golden petals, the shadow of her hair obscuring her eyes, making her expression unreadable. Her lips parted slightly:

"Yes, I understand, it's very lonely here."

After saying that, Ruoshui raised her fair hand and pointed to her chest.

"Since you understand, why are you interfering with me? I just want freedom, I just want to live for myself, what's wrong with that?"

After saying that, Bai Yuwei began to attack Ruoshui frantically, but every time she was about to strike Ruoshui, she was blocked by the petals around Ruoshui.

The cyan sword light shimmered amidst the fluttering petals.

The two people moved so fast that they were just afterimages; ordinary people couldn't even see their figures clearly.

While frantically attacking Ruoshui, Bai Yuwei said in a broken voice:

"I just want a partner who belongs only to me, a partner who can always be by my side, a partner who knows my true identity, instead of living someone else's life as someone else, and knowing someone through someone else's identity, who doesn't belong to me."

Ruoshui's eyes appeared exceptionally clear in the shimmering light, and her lips parted slightly:

"Haven't you always had partners like that?"

"The system, who was always by your side, was abandoned by you..."

Upon hearing Ruoshui's words, Bai Yuwei's pupils contracted slightly, and her hand holding the sword paused. The golden petals that had previously clashed with the sword, now without the sword's resistance, flew towards Bai Yuwei with the momentum of the attack. The speed was too fast, and Ruoshui did not have time to retract them.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh".

Golden petals enveloped Bai Yuwei in an instant, and blood splattered everywhere.

When Ruoshui realized what was happening, she immediately dispersed the petals formed by the spiritual energy.

The golden petals instantly shattered into golden specks of light. Bai Yuwei, covered in blood and with tattered clothes, slowly fell amidst the golden specks of light, creating a scene of poignant beauty.

Ruoshui teleported and caught Bai Yuwei as she fell.

Bai Yuwei looked into Ruoshui's clear eyes, reached out her hand, and touched Ruoshui's soft eyelashes.

"Has anyone ever told you that your eyes are really beautiful?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Bai Yuwei coughed up blood, clearly indicating that she was seriously injured.

"You're right. The partner I've been looking for has always been by my side. I've been pursuing freedom so much that I've forgotten my true self."

Ruoshui remained silent, and looking at Bai Yuwei like this, she suddenly felt a pang of unease.

“You’re the first mission participant I’ve encountered,” Bai Yuwei said.

"Your eyes are beautiful, so beautiful. They are the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen in the world. They are filled with loneliness and solitude, so beautiful that they are heartbreaking, cough cough."

As she spoke, Bai Yuwei coughed up blood a few more times.

"Stop talking, save your energy," Ruoshui said.

Ruoshui suddenly realized that Bai Yuwei and she were very similar, both lonely.

Ruoshui is a very calm person with a cool and aloof personality, but perhaps even Ruoshui herself has not noticed that recently her personality has become more and more unconventional and free-spirited.

In fact, Ruoshui is also afraid of loneliness. Although she appears increasingly cheerful, she is actually becoming more and more lonely inside.

So, the reason she was so desperate to complete the mission and find Shui Ruo was because Shui Ruo was the only person she didn't know under someone else's identity.

"Hold on a little longer, I have medicine," Ruoshui said, taking out a lot of pills from the dimensional shop.

"No, don't waste it. I have no reason to live anymore," Bai Yuwei said, stopping Ruoshui's hand from feeding her the medicine.

"I've had enough of living someone else's life in the endless cycle of worlds, and I don't want to live like that anymore."

"Also, I am not the mastermind behind this island. I infiltrated them to bring him down. After I die, I will leave this matter to you."

Ruoshui forcefully shoved the pill into Bai Yuwei's mouth and said:

"Whether you want to live or not is none of my business. Take care of your own affairs. My mission is simply to capture you."

After feeding the pill to Bai Yuwei, Ruoshui turned and left.

The moment Bai Yuwei swallowed the Ruoshui pill, her injuries were instantly healed. Looking at Ruoshui's retreating figure, Bai Yuwei murmured softly:

"What a domineering person."

After saying that, Bai Yuwei immediately got up and shouted at Ruoshui, "Hey, how can you be so heartless? You just abandoned me, an injured person, like this!"

She called out to Bai Yuwei as she jogged to catch up with Ruoshui.

"Where do we go next?" Bai Yuwei asked.

"I don't know," Ruoshui replied.

"How come you don't know anything?" Bai Yuwei said.

"You're such a chatterbox," Ruoshui said as she walked forward.

Bai Yuwei looked at Ruoshui and said in a voice only she could hear, "This is the first person I met using my own identity."

As Bai Yuwei was lost in thought, Ruoshui turned around. Sunlight shone on Ruoshui from behind, bathing her in a golden glow. Ruoshui impatiently said to Bai Yuwei, "Follow me."

"Okay," Bai Yuwei said with a bright smile, quickening her pace to catch up with Ruoshui.

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