In the eerie quiet of the Mysterious Sword Manor, the young guests, wise enough to read the room, bowed their heads and made their exit. 0

Soon, only Song Bomei and Huyan Luo remained, the latter's face a mix of grief and rage, his once white eyes now threaded with blood, almost entirely crimson.0

"I want this man to live a long, cursed life!" Huyan Luo growled, his voice laced with a venomous chill, his teeth clenched in fury.0

"To live long, yet wish for death every single day," Song Bomei completed the thought, a grim assurance in his tone. "Primordial Son, worry not. He's but a pawn in the grand game, doomed from the start."1

With a deep breath, Huyan Luo tried to find his calm, to still the storm within.0

But no amount of deep breathing could quell...0