Husband?
Not a single cultivator present, excluding the speaker herself, wasn't taken aback with some degree of surprise displayed vividly in their expressions. The only outward exception was Wei Wuyin, but internally, his mind was intently focused on this unexpected outcome.
"She…" Sage Moonrise was stripped of her ability to speak any coherent sentence, truly unbefitting of her status of superior might and prestigious reputation as a Sage! Her voice stammered, unable to process what just happened. It took a struggle and a half before she and everyone else finally had something click in their minds.
"She wasn't dead…" Sage Avenging Heart and Pavilion Master Shang Liu both spoke in eerie unison, they exchanged glances, seeing the disbelief in each other's eyes, and for Shang Liu, a flickering light of intense regret lingered as it dawned on him. Xi Ning wasn't just not dead, she had hidden away the way for her to be revived to escape the clutches of a Sage.
