Chapter 1266

Climbing out of the blood pool, Zhao Lian Yun asks whether they won, severely injured and blacking out. Zhao Pu is already dead, so the Blood Drain on her and Yu Yi Ye Zi dissipates; otherwise both would have followed him to death. Yu Yi Ye Zi is dazed and pale. He stammers over her face and body. She looks down: her hands are old and skinny, and she realizes she has become an elderly woman, bent back, wrinkled body, blurry sight, white hair pulling loose at a touch. Yu Yi Ye Zi explains, heavy-voiced, that love Gu likely consumed her lifespan to burst out the power that killed Zhao Pu. Anyone aged this suddenly would definitely take a huge shock, but Yu Yi Ye Zi says lifespan Gu can restore her youth, and that Spirit Affinity House will certainly provide it to her as its current fairy. ^{ch. 1266}

After a silence she recovers her resolve: old age does not matter, since Hong Yun still waits, and she gazes toward the distant first snowy peak. Yu Yi Ye Zi warns her not to continue. Love Immortal Gu might take her lifespan again, and then she will definitely die. So what if she dies, she answers with a slight smile not even a little beautiful, though it dazes him all the same. She draws her arm from his hold, and a formless force makes him release her; she walks off with heavy, aged steps. Without her, he reflects, he would definitely have died in Zhao Pu’s hands, and he resolves to follow her. ^{ch. 1266}

The fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation then separates them, and Zhao Lian Yun walks down the peak alone. She reaches another snowy peak, the eighth of Snowy Mountain blessed land. Its large hall stands quiet, wrecked inside, signs of an intense battle everywhere. A voice greets her as Fairy Lian Yun: Mu Ling Lan, who fought this peak’s owner Xiao Fei Fei, both now hiding wounded. He warns of a memory-erasing immortal killer move, and as he finishes, a ray of light strikes her forehead. He calls out that each memory she loses will first float up in her mind, and tells her to defend with Immortal Gu and use no immortal killer move, since forgetting one brings backlash. ^{ch. 1266}

She agrees, uneasy that losing memories from her recent training would be an extremely huge blow. Memories surface one after another: Ma tribe’s defeat and surrender to Hei tribe, with Ma Hong Yun spinning her round in relief. Then at Imperial Court, she congratulates him on becoming Chang tribe’s son-in-law, agreeing to rely on him despite a strange, unexplained bitterness. Inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Giant Sun’s will exposes her as an otherworldly demon at Ma Hong Yun’s side and moves to kill her. He shields her, even as Hei Lou Lan’s gaze turns hostile too. ^{ch. 1266}

Stunned that he would defy Giant Sun’s will for an otherworldly demon, she stares at him in a daze. He hugs her in desperation as the will strikes. Held against him, an unprecedented warmth floods her, and she realizes she has hopelessly fallen in love with him, since no one else would risk their life for a despised otherworldly demon. ^{ch. 1266}

The memories fade one by one despite her cries to stop, and Xiao Fei Fei taunts that the move takes the most precious memories and that forgetting brings relief and maybe a smile, which then appears on her face. Mu Ling Lan warns this move kills through the smile the longer it lasts, but hers only widens as though she had turned silly, so he unleashes his own, prepared over a long stretch. Its incredible effect kills Xiao Fei Fei, who has exposed herself while attacking Zhao Lian Yun. Mu Ling Lan rushes to help Zhao Lian Yun, urging her to persevere. She is still smiling, no longer dazed, tears running down her aged face as she speaks only through Gu worms. She wonders what to do, having forgotten almost everything about Ma Hong Yun, even his face. She remembers only his name, and that she loves him. ^{ch. 1266}