The thunderous explosion that echoed across the sky jolted Aurous Hill awake, rousing the entire city from its slumber.


    In the valley where the st took ce, the once-dense vegetation was obliterated, leaving a vast circr void with a radius of hundreds of meters!


    Willie had entirely vanished; his body was utterly vaporized, leaving no trace behind.


    The notion of the body dying while the soul lives on was merely a ruse, a deceptive promise to entice them into sacrificing themselves.


    Willie remained unaware until his final moments that what the British Lord had left in their Niwan Pce three decades earlier was not a means to preserve a soul, but a formidable self-destructive formation.<h3 style="background-color:DodgerBlue">


    In that critical moment, he thought he had found hope for rebirth, but it turned out to be a strategy for mutual destruction with the enemy.


    When the explosion erupted, Charlie, who was less than two meters away from Willie, also vanished without a trace.


    On the ground, the only remnants of Charlie were his tattered clothes and a few tiny fragments of a giant m.


    These remnants were once part of Charlie’s soul-piercing de.


    Meanwhile, his Thunderbolt, crafted from lightning-struck wood, had been reduced to a pile of ck ash in the explosion!


    At this moment, on the outskirts of the expansive void, a severely injured woman was struggling to crawl away.


    She was Dingyuan Boyun Ruge!


    When the explosion urred, Yun Ruge was still ten feet away from the two men, sparing her from the brunt of the devastation.


    However, her condition was far from good.


    The powerful shockwave had thrown her backward, and her physical state was akin to that of someone on the brink of death.


    Her meridians were severed, half of her bones were shattered, and her internal organs sustained grave injuries. While she was still alive, it remained uncertain if she would survive her severe wounds.


    Enduring excruciating pain, Yun Ruge crawled forward, gasping for breath, but she couldn’t help but curse under her breath, “Damn the hero… how could he have deceived us for thirty years?”


    “After opening the Niwan Pce, how could there be… how could there be any truth to the idea of the body dying and the soul being reborn? It’s all a lie… just a lie!”


    This son of a b*tch… he just… turned the four of us into… human bombs… bombs…”


    “He tricked us into believing that in a life-or-death crisis, we could leave behind a trace of our souls and be reborn, giving us hope…”


    “But in reality… this bastard wanted us to face a formidable enemy… during a life-threatening moment… to open the Niwan Pce… and perish alongside them…”


    “This n is truly… devious… because an enemy capable of pushing us to the brink… would undoubtedly pose a significant threat to that bastard and the entire Qing Dynasty…”


    “With this deception of opening the Niwan Pce… the four of us would not hesitate to sacrifice ourselves at the critical moment, dying together with the enemy and serving that bastard to eliminate all threats!”


    “My lord, my lord, Uncle Willie was right; you truly are… too cruel!”


    Reflecting on this, she murmured to herself, “We’ve served you for so many years, yet you’ve never regarded us as human beings. To you, are we any different from those explosiveden body bombs?”


    Yun Ruge gritted her teeth and continued to crawl toward safety.<fn4bf0> Th?s chapter is updated by find(?)ovel</fn4bf0>


    She understood that with Willie detonating the Niwan Pce today, both she and Charlie were as good as dead, and this was her best opportunity to escape.<h3 ss="has-text-align-center wp-block-heading" id="chapter-list"><strong></strong>