Every step.
Was incredibly hard to take.
But Xu Lai gritted his teeth and kept walking, and that walk lasted twenty thousand years, all the way until he became an Emperor.
In that time he'd been hunted, and had hunted his enemies; he'd hit dead ends of despair, and he'd had moments of carefree laughter.
Looking back over the past hundred thousand years.
Xu Lai felt he could face the Immortal Domain with a clear conscience.
Even at the moment of death, he still chose to take care of these two huge threats to the Immortal Domain—the Nine Kings' Palace and the Blue Giant Jellyfish.
He could face everyone under heaven, but the one person he'd failed was Ruan Tang.
He had lied to her.
This time.
Xu Lai really wasn't coming back.
"I really want to hug Yiyi and Ping'an one more time, and hug Ruan Tang again."
"In the next life, I'll be your ox and horse, mother and children, to make up for this life's regrets."
