Cultivation Online

"Once again, you're late to the party, killing her." The demon looked at Yuan with a smirk on its face.

Yuan closed his eyes and took a deep breath before releasing it slowly.

"You're right. I killed her by being too slow. She died because I was too weak."

He opened his eyes, and the demon was no longer there. Instead, Yuan could see himself standing where the demon stood, almost as though the demon had transformed into his appearance.

"Finally, you're accepting the fact that you're responsible for her death." The demon's voice resounded while wearing his appearance.

"That's not right. I have accepted the fact that I couldn't protect her even before I left the Jaded Garden. I blamed myself for her death, and I still do."

"I just didn't want to deal with the guilt of killing her, and I even tried to forget about it. However, I now know that's not possible. I understand now that I will have to live with this guilt for the rest of my life."

"I need to stop dwelling on the past and start moving forward. Therefore…"

Yuan turned to look at Azure, who was no longer lying on the ground but standing a few meters away with a calm expression on her face.

"I'm sorry that I couldn't save you in time, Azure. I'm sorry that I couldn't defeat the demon fast enough. I broke my last promise to protect you, so let me make another promise to you. I promise that I will never forget you, regardless of how much pain I feel every time I think of you, and I promise you that I will never let something like this happen again."

After taking a deep breath, Yuan turned around and began walking away from the Immortal Caves.

"Yuan… Please… Don't leave me here… Didn't you promise to protect me?" Azure's voice resounded from behind him, but Yuan didn't look back and continued walking away.

"Goodbye, Azure."

Although he couldn't see it with his back turned, the scenery behind him was slowly crumbling away into the darkness.

Eventually, Yuan returned to the Stairway to Heaven.

Ding!

him a moment later while holding a glowing

passing all of the trials,

of light flew straight into Yuan's forehead,

at the end and said, "Once you climb

go, there is something you

in the middle of the room, which emitted

"Please."

and began walking towards

other side, but he could not physically see the other side of the door due to the

walked through the door and disappeared from the Stairway to

those in the spectators'

Where are we?" Chu Liuxiang looked around

the Stairway to Heaven." Tian'er

are you?" Xiao Hua asked her with a

cautious. I am the will of

to Heaven's will? I have never heard of such a thing." Feng

know about the Stairway to Heaven, Vermillion

Feng Yuxiang's eyes widened with

Brother Yuan?" Xiao Hua

to the golden door behind them, "He's currently in there. He should return

is behind that door? Can we see?" Chu Liuxiang

shook her head and said, "Only he can

enough, the door opened a few minutes later with Yuan coming

something strange about him, and he looked

are you okay?" Feng Yuxiang