My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

The paper bird's voice was even more gloomy and low.

"You're lying; what you're saying is completely inaccurate."

“I can’t accurately judge people or things that have no physical form, but you have a physical form. I don’t know how you got it, but as long as you have it, even if it’s just a fox with a hair on it, I can tell.”

You are ethereal and intangible; the physical form only provides you with tactile sensation, not inner feeling. I don't understand, what's the point of living like this?

At this moment, the white fox burst out laughing.

"Ha ha……"

He held the girl in his arms and pressed his face against her cold forehead.

"Haha... After all that talk, you've been devouring souls and searching for a physical body, but you're still just a monster without any feelings."

You said I don't deserve to have feelings, that I don't even know what love is, but now I clearly feel that I love Little Lotus. What about you?

Do you know what love feels like? Do you know how wonderful love is?

These words completely enraged the Shadow Monster.

As the paper bird's head completely broke off, it tried to use its remaining paper body to attack the Love Tree.

"You're lying! You're just a lowly fairy who hasn't been discovered by me and is staying in the River Valley Secret Realm. You're not some seed left behind by an ancient divine tree at all!"

"I will uproot you and destroy you!"

The Love Tree quickly transformed into human form.

A cry of "Ah".

However, just as the paper bird was about to touch the Love Tree, it was burned away by Qiao Yi's pure yang fire and disappeared completely.

The green-haired man patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

“You scared me to death. I don’t know how to fight or kill. I’m just a tree.”

The white fox then said, "Qiao Yi, Hua Ran, come here, I have something to say to you two."

Joey leaned closer and noticed that even more blood was seeping from the white fox's mouth.

The sleeves were also red, and a pool of blood spread on the ground like a winding river.

“Just now… that woman withdrew her magical supply to me, which I understand to mean… she killed me…”

The white fox was actually laughing as it said these things.

"That's good... I'm still thinking about how I can die. If I could have a fragment of my soul, I hope it can be with Little Lotus."

She's timid and cowardly... I have to stay with her...

Although we haven't known each other for very long, I feel that the time I spent with her was the happiest time of my life.

The white fox returned the section of hair that had been dyed with flowers to him.

Joey threw out another talisman and burned off Hua Ran's hair.

The white fox said, "I'll tell you something, something that even that woman doesn't know I know..."

The illusion of Hanazono's heart has been trying to escape. He once mistook me for part of the illusion's remnants, so he talked to me a lot.

That woman ate the corpse of the first incarnation of Joey... which is why she has been able to maintain Joey's appearance.

Eating human corpses has its own drawbacks; I don't know if this information will be useful to you...

"For so many years, she's claimed she has no weaknesses; I don't believe her."

After the white fox finished speaking, it lay down on its back on the ground.

She still held his little lotus tightly.

As its body slowly disappeared, leaving only a spot of light, it slowly flew into the air.

Indeed, miraculously, a spot of light slowly flew out from the girl's body.

The two spots of light intertwined and flew into the distance until Joey could no longer see them.

Joey let out a heavy sigh.

"Actually, I don't quite understand why the Shadow Monster is only satisfied when it transforms into the Sun God."

Joey tilted her head to look at the flower dye.

“Look at that paper bird. Just now it clearly showed that she needed affection, that she wanted affection. If she wanted affection, why did she become the Sun God? I don’t even have any memory of being the Sun God, and I didn’t think there was anything wrong with it.”

Hua Ran didn't understand this either; he even felt confused about it.

Yes, why is that?

However, he pulled Joey to the love tree and asked it again.

"I love my wife, is that true or not?"

"real."

Joey understood immediately.

"I love floral dyeing."

"real."

Hua Ran immediately embraced Qiao Yi. He had only one thought: he must live happily with his wife and baby, and never again be seduced by the turmoil and reincarnate.

Meanwhile, in the dimly lit hut, a man was bound hand and foot by a dense network of chains.

His hands were pulled up, but his legs were still relaxed, and he could sit on the ground.

He was wearing orange clothes, but upon closer inspection, there were thin threads beneath the chains.

His skin would be cut if he moved even slightly.

Soon, the door opened, and a woman with a deathly pale face entered.

"You're happy to see me like this, aren't you?"

The bound man chuckled, "You destroyed that derivative yourself, so I should indeed laugh. I always thought it would be Joey who destroyed it."

Upon hearing this, the woman's eyes widened impulsively, and she rushed forward, causing the silk threads to cut her face, leaving bloody streaks.

But she recovered quickly, making the woman appear completely unharmed.

"Keep talking about Qiao Yi! What's so great about that woman? If she loved you, if the real Hua Ran cared about you, they wouldn't have done something like making the real Hua Ran dismember herself!"

The orange-clad woman laughed again.

It exuded disdain and contempt.

"You impersonated my wife and tricked me into dismembering my original body. Only in this way could you obtain these remains, so that you could sow discord among us, or use them for your precious derivative body."

Orange blossoms stain the strange, slanted shadow.

“But now your derivative has also escaped your control. You want something else to replace the original Hua Ran, leaving only me. But I... will not be swayed by you.”

He said that no matter what the shadow monster said, it was useless.

From an external perspective, the Shadow Monster's choice to imprison the heart is undoubtedly the wisest one.

Because Hanazono has no heart, even if it had everything else, it could not become a complete true form.

But from an internal perspective, Shadowcraft is a failure.

Do you know what it means to have your heart flutter? Do you know what it feels like to like someone for the first time because you've spent time with them?

Do you know the phrase 'starting from the heart'?

Every word Orange Flower Dye uttered stung Shadow Monster.

The shadow monster immediately grabbed his neck with one hand and knocked him to the ground.

The chains inside the house swayed violently, and the silk threads cut the skin stained with orange blossoms.

Bloodstains appeared on her fair skin.

It instantly enhances the beauty and pleasure of torture.

But similarly, these injuries disappeared quickly.

The orange blossoms are neither humble nor arrogant.

"Is it useful? You've abused me so many times, when was it ever useful?"

"It's good that you've suffered!"

The shadow monster roared.

But Orange Flower Dye just smiled.

"My first encounter with Joy was incredibly unlucky; I suffered endless torment and humiliation at her hands. I'm not afraid of pain—in fact, I enjoy it!"