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The heavy jade door closed silently behind her.

She arrived at the Cloud Sea Corridor.

Jiang Wei placed her hands gently on the edge of the enormous floor-to-ceiling window, standing on tiptoe slightly, her fiery red hair cascading over her shoulders like a waterfall.

Her clear red eyes overlooked the City of Injustice below, like a miniature sand table.

Buildings lined up in rows, streets crisscrossing, cars and people flowing like tiny ants.

They formed this chaotic yet vibrant steel jungle.

In the distance, the massive Central Arena loomed like a hibernating giant beast.

Even further.

The outline of the Gray Rock District hovered indistinctly in the smoke and dust.

The clamor was isolated beyond the altitude.

Only the subtle sound of the wind flowing through the clouds remained.

She looked at this city that had accepted her, and had also accepted Fang Qingyu, watching those living beings bustling for survival, for desire, for Power.

A strange feeling quietly sprouted in her heart.

Strange yet warm.

"Actually..." Jiang Wei’s cherry lips parted slightly, her voice as light as a dream, audible only to herself, "Such a life doesn’t seem too bad..."

The corners of her mouth subtly lifted into an almost invisible arc.

In those clear red eyes, the city’s prosperity was reflected.

As well as a hint of unprecedented, named attachment glimmer.

Who knows how long passed.

The jade arch behind her slid open silently inward.

Jiang Wei immediately concealed any exposed emotions, reverting to her cool, composed expression, swiftly turned around.

Fang Qingyu was the first to walk out, his expression calm, showing little disturbance.

Da Lei followed closely behind, the same gentle and respectful demeanor on his face.

"Lady Nvba, we have finished the discussion."

Da Lei slightly bowed, speaking to Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei’s gaze immediately focused on Fang Qingyu’s face, trying to decipher the outcome of the negotiation from his expression.

Seeing his eyes calm and without waves, neither joyful nor disappointed, Jiang Wei’s heart slightly sank, subconsciously thinking Da Lei refused Fang Qingyu’s request.

Her delicate eyebrows immediately knitted together.

Her red lips slightly parted, about to speak.

"Let’s go." Fang Qingyu, however, spoke first before she could, his tone gentle, even revealing a shallow smile, "We’ll talk about it when we get back."

Upon seeing Fang Qingyu’s smile, the words on the tip of Jiang Wei’s tongue stuck in her throat.

She blinked her clear eyes, swallowing back that little impulse, just giving a soft "mm," compliantly walking to Fang Qingyu’s side.

Da Lei escorted the two to the elevator entrance at the end of the corridor.

As the elevator doors slowly opened, Jiang Wei stopped, turned around, and waved lightly at Da Lei as a farewell.

The movement was natural.

Da Lei’s face immediately bloomed with a delighted and gentle smile, also waving in return, "Lady Nvba, take care."

The elevator doors closed silently, sealing off the inside and outside.

Soft light poured within the cab.

A slight feeling of weightlessness came as the elevator began to smoothly descend.

Almost as the doors closed, Jiang Wei abruptly turned around, raised her small face, and stared unblinkingly at Fang Qingyu with her clear red eyes:

"How did the negotiation go?"

Fang Qingyu, seeing her nervous little expression, had his smile deepen.

He reached out, habitually ruffling Jiang Wei’s smooth red hair, the action natural and endearing.

"Success."

Fang Qingyu’s voice carried a hint of relieved ease.

"Success?!" Jiang Wei’s eyes instantly lit up, like two brilliant rubies ignited, the nervousness on her small face immediately replaced by joy.

"Did he give you the item?"

Fang Qingyu nodded with a smile, without speaking.

His right hand made a loose grip in front of him.

The next second, a small piece of bone.

Lay quietly in his palm.

The bone was no more than a foot long, its entirety a deep black.

Within this blackness, countless fine, dazzling, starlike silver light points flowed slowly within and on the surface of the bone, dimming and brightening as if alive.

They gathered into slender rivers of stars.

And dispersed into splendid nebulas.

As if the entire universe’s miniature projection was sealed in this small bone fragment.

The starlight flowed, dreamlike and illusory.

Just looking at it could make one’s heart waver.

"This...!"

Jiang Wei’s breath instantly caught, her clear red eyes widening slightly.

She stared intently at that bone with flowing starlight, her small mouth slightly agape.

Then she leaned in closer, her petite nose almost touching the bone.

Her gaze meticulously scrutinized the flowing starlight, her delicate brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

With the knowledge accumulated from her long years.

She still couldn’t immediately discern the exact origin of this bone.

The aura was unimaginably ancient.

"What creature’s bone is this?!"

Jiang Wei suddenly raised her head, her ruby-like eyes full of curiosity.

Fang Qingyu, seeing Jiang Wei’s shocked and curious look, deepened his smile.

He gently held up the bone with flowing starlight, his voice gentle:

"In Beiming, there is a fish, its name is Kun..."

Jiang Wei: "!!!"

Her eyes widened round as saucers.

Her petite mouth opened completely, wide enough to fit an egg.

On that unparalleled cold little face, shock and bewilderment were written all over, as if hearing an unbelievable tale!

"Kun... Kunpeng?!" Jiang Wei’s voice rose due to extreme shock, "Impossible, Kunpeng was completely eradicated with combined forces of the gods during my time, its bloodline severed, bones vanished. How can he have a Kunpeng’s Divine Bone?!"

Kunpeng, after all, was an ancient overlord capable of rivaling the ancient God.

Its extinction was one of the hallmark events of the previous era’s end.