Chapter 1437

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Watching the black-haired man holding her daughter and shamelessly declaring his desire to be a kept man, Sif's brain couldn't help but buzz, suffering an impact countless times more intense than when she had just regained her memories!

However, before the old mother-in-law's heart could feel the anger of her own cabbage being fiercely arched by a shameless wild boar, the terrifying scene revealed behind that black-haired man made her feel as if she had fallen into an ice cellar!

"No! No! No!"

After shouting three times in fear and despair, Sif, as the link between 【Bone】, 【Flesh】, 【Blood】, and 【Heart】, couldn't help but open her eyes suddenly. Ignoring her heart, which felt like it was about to split from the pain, she screamed a warning:

"Go back! We have to go back!"

Go back? Go back where?

Hearing Sif's scream, the earth descendants, who had just recovered from the severe pain in their hearts, couldn't help but look at each other. The red-haired woman reached out to support her falling daughter, saying with confusion in her eyes:

"Sif? What do you mean? Where do you want us to go?"

"To the Stone Marrow Realm! Hurry back! Hurry!!!"

Recalling the devastatingly terrifying future she had seen, the trembling Sif couldn't help but grab her mother's arm, leaning her entire weight onto her, and shouted in fear:

"I saw destruction ahead! We can't go any further! Absolutely cannot go any further! Don't take even one step! Hurry back!"

"......"

"Move! Hurry up and go! If we don't go back now, it'll be too late!!!"

"......"

"Why aren't you..."

"We have been imprisoned for a full ten years!"

The thin, tall elder who had almost killed Li Ang hesitated:

"In order to fulfill your previous prophecy, all our clansmen suffered in the Stone Marrow Realm, which is how we finally escaped today. But now that we have just come out, you are shouting for everyone to hurry back. Isn't this a bit..."

"It's different! This time it's different!"

Recalling the terrible scene she had seen, Sif gritted her teeth and shouted:

"If we go any further, this time it's really over! Isn't this what we just saw together?"

"This is not what we saw; these are just what 'you' saw."

After deliberately emphasizing the word "you," the stocky earth descendant leader furrowed his brows tightly, questioning with a hint of disgust in his eyes:

"Sif, do you really still consider yourself an earth descendant now?"

"Ah???"

"Your current appearance is completely that of a human through and through."

Looking at Sif, who looked "human," the earth descendant leader named Blood said with an unkind expression:

"Although you are a creation of 【Flesh】, a child split from her own body after she combined with the 【Heart】 of the Witch Nation, you have the bloodline of our ten Great Court descendants flowing in your body.

But even if our bloodlines are connected, you have only been with us for less than three years, while you have lived among humans for over thirty years—ten times longer than the time you've spent with us."

Under Sif's shocked and puzzled gaze, the stocky earth descendant leader said with suspicion in his eyes:

"You are the only one who can see the future with the help of the 【Heart】, and you even rejected the earth's gift, unable to even grow scales of grace... So, did you really see the so-called destruction?"

"No... you have to believe me!"

Noticing the suspicious and distant gazes of her clansmen, the chilled Sif couldn't help but clench her fists. She then hurriedly looked back at the silent red-haired woman, pleading in a panic: "Mother! Mother, you know me! You know I wouldn't lie to you!"

"I... I believe you."

After nodding hesitantly, looking at the surrounding clansmen who were full of resistance, the red-haired woman said helplessly:

"But we finally managed to get out of the Stone Marrow Realm. If we go back now and the Clearing Bureau people come to block us again, wouldn't that be..."

"But that is already the best future!"

Seeing that the current situation seemed to be rushing toward the terrible future she had seen, Sif couldn't help but try desperately to persuade them:

"We can coexist with the Clearing Bureau and humans! Haven't the three Sea clans and three Feather clans already done it?

Mother! As long as we take the initiative to return to the Stone Marrow Realm and stop acting against the earth's core, the Clearing Bureau and humans will realize that our attitude has changed! They will change their attitude accordingly..."

"Sif, is it the Clearing Bureau's attitude that has changed, or your attitude toward humans?"

"I... you have to believe me! I really didn't lie! Everyone must go back immediately! Only by taking the initiative to return to the Stone Marrow Realm now is our only way to survive!"

"......"

"Mother!!!"

Looking at her silent mother and the surrounding clansmen whose eyes were full of distance, the chilled Sif felt a wave of dizziness. She was supported by the red-haired woman just in time, barely managing not to fall.

And after reaching out to catch her, the red-haired woman named Flesh said with guilt in her eyes:

"Sif, we... they don't not believe you. Perhaps the future you speak of would also be a good outcome.

It's just that everyone suffered for so long in the Stone Marrow Realm before finally finding the opportunity to come out again. We really don't want to entrust the fate of the entire clan to the charity of the Clearing Bureau and humans, so... sorry."

"?!!!"

In Sif's despairing gaze, the red-haired woman waved her hand to condense a stone chair, placed her—whose heart was beating like a drum and whose body was weak—on the chair, affectionately stroked her bloodless lips, and then said with a firm expression:

"The three of us are immortal as long as we stand on the earth. So no matter what the situation is up there, as long as the three of us leaders are still here, it will be enough to hold on until the others retreat safely. Even if the directors of the Clearing Bureau surround and attack us collectively, we can still forcibly carve out a path of survival for our clansmen!"

But the thing waiting for you up there is much more terrifying than the directors of the Clearing Bureau!!!

Watching her mother get up and walk toward the other two earth descendant leaders, the anxious Sif wanted to persuade them again, but she found that someone had stuck a smooth scale on her lips, directly sealing her ability to speak.

"Let's go!"

After nodding apologetically to Sif, the red-haired woman raised her hands, aimed at the dome above the earth's core, which was full of thick cracks, and waved her palms to the left and right.

Like Moses parting the sea, the hard dome above the earth's core, covered in hanging stalactites, was like a flesh wound cut open by a blade. It parted left and right, painfully and joyfully, revealing a huge passage nearly a thousand meters long.

And to Sif's horror and the confusion of the other earth descendants, the black-haired man who had just fled in a panic appeared at the end of the passage, holding a blushing blue-haired girl, looking down at them with surprise.

"Hmm? Just in time!"

The three earth descendant leaders narrowed their eyes, reading from the slight movement of the black-haired man's lips the words he had subconsciously muttered.

However, before the three leaders could figure out what this "just in time" referred to, a huge snowy mountain appeared out of thin air. Like a cork being forced into a thermos, it was brutally stuffed into the passage above and smashed down toward their heads with a roar!

(End of this chapter)