Many years later, facing the endless onslaught of the Demon Abyss beyond the Celestial Domain, Yun Qinglan, heir to the Sword Emperor, would remember the distant afternoon when his sworn younger sister, Ye Zhaoli, the Night Clan’s Holy Maiden, trembled as she confessed her feelings to him amid a sky full of falling Soulbane Flowers. Even after attaining the realm of an Immortal Saint, he would not escape death.
