Chapter 1520: Chapter 1618: No Regrets from That Year

“OMG, this hairy guy looks like he’s going to be burnt to death.” Thousand-year Corpse Ginseng recovered its original appearance, squatting on the ground panting heavily, staring at the Green-haired Corpse King engulfed in flames.

The Green-haired Corpse King screamed miserably, and continuously black Qi spewed from its mouth, filling the Extremely Yin Cave with a nauseating stench.

“Ah! That’s really fucking fragrant~” Surprisingly, the perverted Thousand-year Corpse Ginseng actually loved the black Qi spewed from the Green-haired Corpse King’s mouth, showing a face full of intoxication, almost pouncing to directly absorb the black Qi mouth-to-mouth.

This black Qi, the convergence of long-accumulated Yin Qi and corpse Qi within the Green-haired Corpse King’s body, possessed extreme power. For the Thousand-year Corpse Ginseng, it indeed served as a great supplement.

Instantly, the Thousand-year Corpse Ginseng did not mind at all and began to absorb the black Qi right there, taking in as much as was emitted, not wasting a bit, inhaling every bit that came out from that side.

“How is this possible?” Outside the Extremely Yin Cave, the old man watched the situation inside with a face full of shock, unable to believe what he was seeing.

“This is the master’s flame! How can it appear on this Corpse King? Even The Ancient Lamp of Flame God couldn’t possibly release the master’s primordial heart fire!” The old man said in disbelief.

The woman in white continued to assault the array, trying to break into the cave to see the Flame Emperor, but the array was tough, personally set up by the Flame Emperor back in the day, and even with the woman’s current strength, it wasn’t possible to break through.

“Could it be, has the master appeared?” The old man, looking at the woman in white and combining it with the spontaneous appearance of the primordial heart fire on the Green-haired Corpse King’s body, suddenly thought of the Flame Emperor.

Suddenly, the array quietly vanished, and the woman in white charged into the cave, her eyes fixated on nothing else but heading straight to the deepest part of the cave.

The old man also wanted to enter the cave but just as he stepped in, the array abruptly rose again, blocking him outside.

“Master! Is it really you?” The old man knelt on the ground, trembling, wailing loudly, with the few life forces inside him draining even faster.

The Thousand-year Corpse Ginseng watched the woman in white running past him, got startled, originally thought she was going to do something to him, but she just ran past, and nothing happened.

At this moment, the Green-haired Corpse King could no longer move, burned rapidly by the flames like a true corpse.

The woman in white ran all the way, heading directly to the deepest part of the cave.

Both the Flame Emperor and Fang Lin were there, but now the Flame Emperor’s figure was dim, clearly not having much time left.

When the woman in white reached this place, her body also began to disintegrate slowly like mist.

Fang Lin tactfully stepped aside, not wanting to disturb this couple’s brief reunion after countless years.

The Flame Emperor looked at the woman in white with a gentle smile on his face, who knew how much reluctance and helplessness was contained in that smile.

This woman was the lifelong love of the Flame Emperor, for her, he willingly knelt before Pill Saint Palace, only asking for a single Corpse Emperor Pill.

For her, the Flame Emperor searched through thousands of mountains and rivers, just to find such an Ultra-Yin Land to settle her in.

For her, the Flame Emperor gave up Martial Arts, abandoned everything in the outer world, and guarded the Ultra-Yin Land for ten years, never stepping out.

But the Flame Emperor also understood that his most beloved had ultimately died, the Corpse Emperor Pill could only keep her corpse and the remnants of her consciousness, but couldn’t bring her back to life.

Ten years later, unimaginable calamities emerged, the Demon Clan rose, and the Human Clan was on the brink of extinction; for all beings in the world, the Flame Emperor stepped out of the Ultra-Yin Land, leaving his most beloved behind, never to return again, his body and path disappearing.

“Husband!” The woman in white walked slowly to the Flame Emperor’s front, whispering softly, reaching out to touch the Flame Emperor’s face.

Unfortunately, the Flame Emperor was dead, what appeared here was merely an incarnation of the Flame Emperor’s remaining essence, non-corporeal and nearly vanishing.

The hand of the woman in white passed right through the Flame Emperor, and at this moment, she was heartbroken to the extreme.

“Why are you no longer here?” the woman in white cried, her tears turning into ice beads, falling to the ground, unable to be melted even by the eight Ancient Lamps of Flame God surrounding the place.

Folklore says, ghostly women shed no tears, but if they do, disaster is said to follow.

However, this woman in white was not a ghost, but a corpse, her tears not actual tears but an accumulation of extremely cold corpse energy.

The Flame Emperor wanted to wipe away her tears but could not, and could only smile bitterly: “Don’t cry, haven’t I come to see you? Making you wait so long, I also feel uneasy.”

“Why did you leave? Why did you choose death?” The woman in white shrieked desperately, her body disintegrating severely.

Fang Lin was watching all this clearly; the Corpse Emperor Pill inside the woman in white showed no issues, the problem lay with the woman herself.

Although the Corpse Emperor Pill could preserve her body and leave behind fragments of consciousness, when she saw the Flame Emperor and realized he was no longer alive, her own heart died too.

The person she’d waited countless ages for had gone; what meaning was there for her to linger painfully in this world?

“It’s all my fault.” The Flame Emperor didn’t explain much, glancing at the eight Ancient Lamps of Flame God, he gathered their energy inside him with a wave of his hand.

This was just so he could temporarily have a physical form, to embrace his beloved one last time.

Eventually, the two embraced each other; whether it was the Flame Emperor, the woman in white, or Fang Lin who silently watched, they all knew that the Flame Emperor was about to vanish, his brief corporeality merely borrowed from the power of the Ancient Lamps of Flame God.

The woman in white cried no more, her pale face now overflowing with a smile.

“I’ve waited so many years, never regretted it; if you hadn’t shown today, I would continue waiting, be it a thousand or ten thousand years, I’d wait for you forever.” The woman in white softly spoke as the Corpse Emperor Pill flew out from her body and landed on the ground.

Fang Lin sighed lightly, the power of Pills, after all, couldn’t compare to human emotions.

Seeing the Flame Emperor, the woman in white no longer wished to live on as a living dead, she expelled the Corpse Emperor Pill from her body, choosing to vanish alongside the Flame Emperor.

The Flame Emperor looked at Fang Lin and waved his hand, all eight Ancient Lamps of Flame God flying into Fang Lin’s Nine Palace Bag.

“Treasure given to you, make sure to use wisely,” the Flame Emperor instructed.

Fang Lin bowed deeply: “Farewell, Flame Emperor!”

The figures of the woman in white and the Flame Emperor disappeared at that moment, turning into specks of light, mingling together.

“If you were to choose again, between the world and me, what would you choose?”

“No regrets then, and none now.”

ps: The third update, continuing to write.