# 1319
Chapter 1320: Between Wind and Snow
Human Enclosure.
"We can't find those two... what do we do now?"
The knight led the Oath Society members in a search around the stone city but found no trace of Si Xiaonan or Leng Xuan.
"Perhaps they had something urgent and left on their own." An Qingyu pondered silently. "But given Si Xiaonan's condition, she should have..."
The rest of the sentence went unsaid—after all, with two God-Slaying Infusions in her body, plus the soul binding from Loki's death, Si Xiaonan had no chance of survival.
The crowd fell into a long, heavy silence, their expressions grim.
"This isn't the time for mourning. We still have a mission to complete." A delegate spoke calmly. "Loki is dead, so the barrier between the Human Enclosure and Asgard should have shattered... We can go up now."
"Right, Jinian and Qiye are still in Asgard—it must be chaos there right now."
Cao Yuan nodded immediately. "Let's hurry."
The group set off at once, rushing straight toward the passage between the Human Enclosure and Asgard.
They hadn't run far when Baili Pangpang, bringing up the rear, suddenly slipped. An ancient stone brick that had been there for who knows how long cracked open with several fine fissures.
The cracks intertwined with one another, seemingly meaningless at first glance, as if merely crushed underfoot—but upon closer inspection, one could detect a unique rhythm within them...
Baili Pangpang caught sight of the cracks beneath his feet, and his gaze suddenly sharpened.
"Elixir of Immortality?" He stood frozen in place, murmuring to himself.
"All the elixirs of immortality and immortality have emerged... Could that great catastrophe still be coming after all?"
Baili Pangpang stood there like a statue for a long moment before sighing heavily... His expression seemed resigned.
"Pangpang!" Cao Yuan, some distance away, called out seeing that Baili Pangpang hadn't followed.
Baili Pangpang gave one last glance at the shattered stone pattern, then stomped it into powder. As the yellow sand drifted into the air, he called back, "Coming!" and hurried to catch up.
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Mist.
An unnamed snow-capped mountain.
In a dead, pale world, Si Xiaonan's eyelashes trembled gently, shaking off sheets of snow.
Her eyes slowly opened, their depths filled with profound confusion...
"I..." Si Xiaonan stared blankly at this familiar world, seemingly puzzled as to why she could still wake up.
Just then, her peripheral vision caught sight of the body beside her, already wrapped in ice and snow. Her pupils constricted!
She stood frozen for a long moment, then like someone driven mad, she scrambled to her feet and stumbled to his side.
"Leng Xuan?! LENG XUAN!!!" Si Xiaonan threw her arms around his body, shaking him violently. Bone-deep cold radiated from her fingertips—his body had already stiffened like ice.
Her face went pale as death. She kept calling Leng Xuan's name over and over.
"Elixir of Immortality... Elixir of Immortality?!" Si Xiaonan stared at the scene before her, quickly understanding what had happened. She turned and saw several pills on the ground that had already frozen into ice—stunned, as if struck by lightning.
What Leng Xuan had eaten was never the Elixir of Immortality... It was the Awakening Pill he had obtained from the God of Forging.
He had given the Elixir of Immortality to her.
"No... I won't let you die, I won't let you die!" Si Xiaonan clutched Leng Xuan's body, murmuring like one possessed. She let out a roar, and a surge of divine power erupted outward, scattering all the snow atop the mountain peak!
Countless black threads extended from her body, weaving into schematics that bloomed with mysterious light.
One schematic after another dissipated. Si Xiaonan's crimson-red eyes stared fixedly at Leng Xuan in her arms, but no matter how she activated the schematics, his body showed not the slightest sign of recovery...
Schematics could deceive brief history, but they were not omnipotent.
Even Loki at his peak could only rewrite history from just over forty seconds prior, and Leng Xuan's death had occurred far longer ago than that...
Countless schematics materialized and vanished around Si Xiaonan. Her fists clenched tight, and with a thunderous roar, she slammed them into the ground!
BOOM—!!
Snow flew in all directions as the entire mountain peak collapsed. The tumbling avalanche buried the land below, rumbling like thunder, echoing through the valley.
Si Xiaonan cradled Leng Xuan in her arms, kneeling in the void, her scalding hot tears falling onto the frost-covered surface of his body, creating ripples.
"God of Scheming... Immortality... What use are any of these?!" Si Xiaonan, like a child who had lost everything, tore at her heart and wept bitterly in the swirling snow.
When the swirling snow gradually drifted back to the valley and the world once again fell into dead silence, Si Xiaonan slowly pressed her forehead against Leng Xuan's chest.
Sobbing, she whispered to herself:
"I... don't want to go home alone..."
The cold wind wailed mournfully as the mist drifted aimlessly.
In the devastated mountain valley, Si Xiaonan held Leng Xuan's body and wept for a long time before slowly standing.
She wiped away the tear tracks frozen on her cheeks, bit her lip, and searched behind Leng Xuan's waist. She pulled out a metal box the size of a cigarette case.
"Leng Xuan... Stay in here for a while, alright? I have something to do, and then I'll take you home..." She gazed tenderly at Leng Xuan's pallid face and spoke softly.
She opened the [Mobile Arsenal] and was about to store Leng Xuan's body inside, but her movements halted.
After a moment's hesitation, she carefully removed the blood-stained black windbreaker from Leng Xuan's body and draped it over her own shoulders.
"Watch me, Leng Xuan..." Si Xiaonan rubbed the windbreaker's collar, murmuring to herself. "I will make Asgard pay the price..."
Si Xiaonan's fingertips brushed across the metal box. A flash of light, and Leng Xuan's body was stored inside. She carefully tucked the [Mobile Arsenal] into her chest, then slowly turned her head toward a certain direction in the mist.
Her eyes narrowed slightly, and within that icy gaze burned a murderous intent.
The blood-stained black windbreaker billowed wildly in the wind. Si Xiaonan stepped into the air, countless black threads sketched out beneath her, and her figure vanished in an instant within the swirling snow.