Miemie, "Hmm? So who are you saying is the bad guy?"
"What I'm saying is... hey, wait, are you up to no good behind my back again?"
Zhang Ze was just about to explain, but suddenly caught on, suspiciously looking at Miemie dressed in the Little Earth Immortal suit.
Miemie was silent for a mont, feeling that exploding herself was quite foolish.
But even fools have their day, maybe she could still muddle through once more.
She pulled a small wooden knife from her overalls pocket and stabbed at Zhang Ze's wrist, "Stab you, stab you!"
Zhang Ze, "Stop, don't ss around. Whether you threw cockroaches in my bed or did sothing else bad, we'll talk about it later. First, help with sothing."
Miemie, "Wh-what help?"
Zhang Ze, "Don't ask, it's gotta be you."
Miemie, "?"
The two waited a long ti until the sun set in the west. Zhang Ze finally saw a flash of gold on the horizon, and monts later, Xiao Qingyun landed on the mountaintop riding a Flying Ship.
"Brother Zhang, why have you called here?" Xiao Qingyun asked.
"Last night, with nothing to do, I wanted to use teorite Iron to make a Flying Sword for fun. But coincidentally, I'm a bit short on resources and don't want to use public supplies. At a loss, I happened to think of Brother Xiao's heroic deeds of battling two kings alone.
"Perhaps there is still so teorite Iron left in the Three Divine Mountains that hasn't been picked up. Brother Xiao, as soone who experienced it, why not accompany to find it and give so pointers?"
Zhang Ze, with his back to Xiao Qingyun, said while looking at the hollow valley below the mountain.
Xiao Qingyun looked at Zhang Ze's back, chuckled lightly, the Emperor's Heart Technique spinning in his mind, pondering the aning behind Zhang Ze's words. After a mont, he felt he understood Zhang Ze's intention and gestured invitingly to Zhang Ze.
"This place is too low, why not join on the Flying Ship, so we can have a better view from above," Xiao Qingyun said aloud.
Once on the Flying Ship, Xiao Qingyun took Zhang Ze on circles around the Three Divine Mountains without actually helping Zhang Ze search for teorite Iron, instead talking about the battle that day, with every word laced with emperor talk.
It was bewildering, making it hard to catch hold, and also making it sickening to hear.
By now it was nightti. Looking at the silhouette of Xiao Qingyun under the starry sky, Zhang Ze felt only disappointnt, but he still asked one last ti, "Brother Xiao, aren't you going to help find teorite Iron?"
"No rush for that... Hmm... I rember there's a canyon to the southwest, with rich mineral veins in the valley, but there are fierce beasts lurking there. Once peace reigns, I'll accompany Brother Zhang there, and after dealing with the beasts, all the teorite Iron and Refined Gold will be yours."
Looking at Xiao Qingyun, who was painting pictures for him, Zhang Ze sighed and then pat the confused Little Earth Immortal in his arms, signaling to get ready.
Miemie didn't understand what preparation was needed, saying it was for cracking soone's head open, but there seed to be no enemy...
Before she could think clearly, her calf was grabbed by Zhang Ze.
The next mont, the world spun around.
Realizing what Zhang Ze was about to do, Miemie cursed loudly, "Ah! Ah! Ah! Zhang Ze! Damn you!!! Doing it again!"
She should have known, to Zhang Ze, the Little Earth Immortal was just a weapon.
Because Zhang Ze moved too quickly, Miemie's voice was a bit delayed. By the ti Zhang Ze pulled back, the blood-covered Miemie finally got her voice out.
The blood was Xiao Qingyun's.
In White Jade County for ten years, Zhang Ze had long been nurtured by Lu Chen into a Nascent Soul Ancestor. Now, cracking open a Golden Core at close range was like reaching into his pocket.
As Xiao Qingyun's body collapsed, the out-of-control Flying Ship fell like a teor to the ground. Simultaneously, the night sky began to glitch, the starry sky started to crumble like a malfunctioning program, like a curtain falling.
The earth, birds, beasts, plants, and each of Zhang Ze's friends turned into points of light, dissipating along with the starry sky.
Because of Xiao Qingyun's 'death', the Illusion Realm shattered.
If this Illusion Realm were a program, then Xiao Qingyun as the founding Emperor would be a crucial dll file.
Now that file has been deleted by Zhang Ze, naturally, the program is going to crash.
Zhang Ze stood in the pitch-black space, various architectural fragnts and silhouettes drifting in the distance, and among those buildings were shadowy figures without faces.
What remained fixed in shape was only him, the Little Earth Immortal, and Xiao Qingyun's corpse.
"Co out of my friend's body," Zhang Ze said in a deep voice, looking at the 'corpse' on the ground.
Although Zhang Ze was speaking to Xiao Qingyun's body, Miemie shivered, though she quickly cald herself, thinking Zhang Ze probably wasn't referring to her.
'Does the Little Earth Immortal count as his friend?... Probably, not; the Little Earth Immortal is a toy, so he's not referring to .'
With that figured out, Miemie settled down to continue watching.
Monts later, Xiao Qingyun's 'corpse' started to move, and a dark shadow erged from the body.
The shadow had long limbs and no face, but soon, a large stone eye appeared on the shadow's face, turning to 'look' at Zhang Ze.
"How did you discover ? I thought I played my part well..."
The stone eye had no color, just a non-human otherworldly feel.
Although the shadow didn't look at Miemie, she still shivered, quickly clinging to Zhang Ze's leg, hiding behind him.
"What is this thing?" Miemie asked softly.
"Xiao Jing," Zhang Ze replied.
"Xiao Jing? Who is Xiao Jing?" Miemie found the na familiar but couldn't recall at the mont.
"That godforsaken last Emperor of Dongqi," Zhang Ze replied softly.
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