253: Chapter 253 Your Majesty, Watching the Shooting Star

Su Daji lay quietly in his arms, hugging him back even tighter.

Then, she gently pushed him away again.

"There's no need to say sorry."

She stood up, her back to him, and walked toward the railing.

Her hemline and long hair fluttered in the night wind.

"Your Majesty, go."

Su Chen looked at her lonely back and took one last deep look at her.

Then, he closed his eyes, no longer hesitating.

His mind activated the "Instant Teleportation" skill.

A silver-white spatial light suddenly lit up around him, quickly enveloping his body.

Su Daji really hadn't lied to him.

She really did as she said and let him leave just like that.

In the final instant before his form completely vanished, Su Chen saw Su Daji, with her back to him, slightly turning her face to the side.

A single tear finally slid down from the corner of her eye.

Then, the light completely swallowed everything.

Su Chen disappeared.

Only Su Daji remained alone on the Star-Gazing Platform.

Almost in an instant.

The smile Su Daji had been forcing on her face could no longer be maintained.

All color drained from her pretty face instantly, leaving it as pale as snow.

Her exquisite body was like a doll with its frame removed.

She collapsed limply onto the ground.

"Pfft—"

A large mouthful of dark red blood sprayed out from her mouth without warning.

Specks of blood splashed onto the white jade railing and her magnificent dress.

Lying on the ground, she let out another series of uncontrollable, violent coughs.

More blood poured out through her fingers, dripping onto the ground and quickly pooling into a small puddle.

Panting, she struggled to prop herself up again.

Step by step, she crawled back to the bench Su Chen had just been sitting on.

Feeling the lingering warmth of his body there.

With the last of her strength.

She lay down facing the starry sky, her body curled up on the seat of the bench.

She dropped all pretenses.

At this moment, although she was still peerlessly beautiful.

Her aura was already as weak as a candle flickering in the wind.

Her fox-like eyes, gradually losing focus, stared stubbornly at the starry sky they had looked at together.

It's good...

He's gone.

Before her death, she had shown him her most beautiful side.

He didn't see her ugly, dying appearance.

What he would remember was her smiling face with perfect makeup.

At this time, she was even somewhat grateful for Su Chen's fickle heart.

There was Jiang Luoli, and the three women including Zhuge Jinyu.

There were so many people who loved him and whom he loved.

One less of her, one more of her, it didn't seem to matter much.

If they lived on together, there might still be hope for this world.

That was enough.

Her mission was finally complete.

From a thousand years ago when he sacrificed himself to help her attain mastery of her technique, slaughtering immortals and gods, and cutting off the path to immortality.

To later shouldering the burden of maintaining this realm and resisting external demons alone for nine hundred years.

Until today, when her lamp was dry and her strength exhausted, beyond saving...

This long and lonely road, she had finally reached the end.

She had not failed his expectations.

She could finally rest.

In a daze, she seemed to have returned to the top of the Star-Plucking Tower in Chaoge of the Great Yin all those years ago.

She snuggled in the young emperor's arms.

Listening to him point at the night sky and tell legends about the stars.

And that sentence that left the deepest impression on her.

"...Look at that one streaking across the sky; that is a meteor."

"Though its brilliance lasts but a moment, it is more dazzling and memorable than many eternal stars."

"If a person's life could be like a meteor..."

A meteor...

Your Majesty, you were right.

Demon Concubine Su Daji's life was brilliant because of you, and it ends because of you.

Your life as King Zhou was like a meteor, burning itself out as it crossed the sky at the end of the Yin Shang Dynasty.

Then Demon Concubine Su Daji will also turn into a meteor and cross your life twice.

Though brief.

It used up all its light and heat.

Now, the fuel is gone, and it's time for the light to go out.

In the night sky, an exceptionally bright meteor, at this very moment, trailed a long tail of light and tore through the dawning sky.

It streaked across her gradually dilating pupils.

So beautiful.

Just like...

That night, on the Star-Plucking Tower...

The corners of Su Daji's mouth curled up one last time.

Frozen in a faint smile.

Then, the last faint spark of spirit in her eyes quietly went out.

Her long eyelashes quietly lowered.

A tear that had not yet finished flowing, at the moment her eyelashes fell.

Slid down and shattered.

Just like a meteor breaking apart in the night sky.

The perspective shifted, and the wild wind howled.

...

Meanwhile.

Above the East Sea.

Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing set off from Qiantang, flying toward the surface of the East Sea at their fastest speed.

When they first set off, the continuous storms over the East Sea and the cracks in the sky were heart-stopping to behold.

But when the two of them actually reached the surface of the East Sea.

That exaggerated wild wind had stopped at some point.

"Is it Zhuge Jinyu and the others? Or have other Transcendent Heroic Spirits come to help them?"

Bai Suzhen thought to herself, continuing her journey with Xiaoqing without stopping for a moment.

The rifts tearing through space were slowly closing at the junction of the sea and sky.

The two beautiful figures of Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing finally arrived at the location where Zhuge Jinyu and the others were.

But the scene before them made the White Snake sisters, who had already prepared for a fight to the death, both freeze in place.

Earth-shattering, towering waves?

The roars of monsters that would make one lose their sanity?

Massive monsters?

None of it.

The East Sea front, which they had expected to become a living hell on earth, was unexpectedly calm at this moment.

Even more shocking was that the rumored indescribable "mountain-sized monster" from Zhuge Jinyu's message to them.

Had vanished into thin air.

Only the bottomless giant rift left on the deep blue sea surface, enough to split the entire ocean in two, remained to prove it had once existed.

The seawater was forcibly cut off by some invisible power.

Forming thousand-fathom-high reverse waterfalls on both sides of the rift, letting out a deafening roar.

And directly above that rift.

Four peerless figures, each with their own unique charm.

Were floating quietly in mid-air.

Zhuge Jinyu, with white hair and white clothes, holding the vermilion bird feather fan;

Ye Jingjun, in a blood-red robe with crimson eyes like swords;

Cang Mingyue, ethereal and deep blue, her lower body already transformed into legs;

And Jiang Luoli, in a black dress slit up to the thigh, blessed with the Phoenix Fate Luck.

Aside from the newly ascended Transcendence Realm Jiang Luoli, the other three were old friends.

Four Transcendence Realm combatants were gathered here.

Moreover, to Bai Suzhen's surprise, although the aura on them was slightly unstable.

Their condition looked surprisingly good.

They hadn't experienced the tragedy of life-and-death exhaustion.

In fact, the spiritual power of Zhuge Jinyu and the other two seemed even stronger than before.

Not only were they uninjured, they had even broken through to a higher realm?

Bai Suzhen's heart surged with emotion.