It pained Ye Qingwu to the core to see this, but there was nothing she could do.
After all, one must accept defeat! Such is the law of the jungle in the Cultivation Realm!
If she had succeeded this time, Lin and Mo would have been the ones to die, and everything they owned would have become hers. Therefore, she was already lucky just to have escaped with her life.
...
Over the next few days, no one else came to cause trouble.
However, they didn't encounter any more Nether Void Demon Beasts for Lin Changheng to collect Essence Blood from.
Mo Zhaoli saw the disappointment in Lin Changheng's eyes and grew pensive. After laying the final Array Base, she smiled and asked him the reason.
Lin Changheng had no intention of hiding it from Mo Zhaoli. In fact, just the night before last, their constant companionship—spending every waking moment together—had caused the affection that had brewed between them for over eighty years to deepen and mature, to the point of overflowing.
