Celeste nodded as she spoke calmly.

"Is he okay?" Lily asked worriedly; her eyes were red.

Celeste sat down slowly as she raised the teacup and took a sip. Calmly, she said, "He is dead."

As the Spiritual Invisible Sect's Sect Master, Celeste had taken away countless lives. Life and death were the norms for her, so she was calm when she delivered the news.

‘What?!’

Lily's body trembled. Her whole body froze as if it had been jinxed with a frozen spell!

Celeste continued saying, "The Emei Sect surrounded Darryl before he fell into the volcano and died."

Lily's chest ached; her body turned weak as she fell onto the ground. She was so sad that her tears fell uncontrollably.

She would not have believed it if anyone else were to tell her that Darryl had died, but the news had come from her master's lips—she would never be wrong.

She burst into tears and could not speak. Images from the past continued to play in her mind, and her heart ached.

Celeste sighed as she consoled Lily gen