**[Task 1 (Easy): Save Elia and ensure she successfully survives past age eighteen. (Completed)]**
**[Task 2 (Normal): Raise Elia’s realm to the High Stage. (Completed)]**
**[Task 3 (Hard): Help Elia fully awaken the Frostwhisper Blood. (Completed)]**
**[Evaluation and settlement are in progress. Task rewards will be issued after the settlement is complete.]**
Lu Mo’s consciousness returned to reality at that moment.
First, she felt a powerful sense of space-time disorientation, followed by a surge of agonizing pain that swept through her entire body.
She convulsed, curling up in agony.
“Aaaaggghhh…”
The sensation was as if her entire body had been stabbed by hundreds or thousands of bloody holes.
Well, just moments ago, she really had been pierced through the heart by 10,000 arrows in the Simulated Reincarnation.
Although she was perfectly intact in the real world, the physical and mental pain had carried over to reality, feeling exactly like phantom pain.
After a long while, the sensation finally began to fade, and Lu Mo’s tensed body relaxed.
She wiped the cold sweat from her brow and breathed a sigh of relief.
‘I’ve come back to life…’ she murmured.
She had only completely dissipated after merging her final sliver of power into Elia’s body.
And in the second before she vanished, Elia’s bloodline had fully awakened, and her realm had reached the Super-tier.
Her three tasks were finally complete.
‘Elia…’
Even though everything in the Simulated Reincarnation was an illusion, Lu Mo still found herself worrying about Elia’s safety now that she was back in reality.
After spending five years by Elia’s side in the simulation, she couldn’t simply let go.
**[The system is performing the settlement.]**
**[During the settlement process, the host may re-enter this Simulated Reincarnation as an observer to watch the remainder of Elia’s life.]**
**[Once the settlement is finished, this Simulated Reincarnation will be closed permanently.]**
**[Would you like to re-enter this Simulated Reincarnation?]**
Lu Mo summoned the system and saw the text floating before her again.
“Yes,” she said.
In the next instant, the space around her warped.
She returned once more to the Ancestral Gate.
But this time, she was not lying in Elia’s arms.
Instead, she stood far off to the side.
In this Simulated Reincarnation, her physical presence was gone.
She was now nothing more than an audience member, a bystander.
Elia’s arms were empty.
Yet, Elia remained kneeling there, cradling a non-existent figure as she wept with her head bowed.
The Shadow Moon Hall Master looked down at the scene with cold, indifferent eyes.
As if noticing his gaze, Elia’s sobbing gradually ceased. She looked up at the figure above and spoke, “I never wanted that much…”
“But why… why must it always be you people who personally destroy the happiness I desire?”
Her voice grew colder and colder until it eventually carried a bone-chilling intent to kill. “You… scum, dregs.”
This was the first time in many years that anyone had dared to insult him to his face.
The Shadow Moon Hall Master was surprised at first, but then his expression turned cold and cruel at a visible speed.
“Do you dare repeat those words?” he questioned. “Do not think that just because you can push open the Frostwhisper Gate, I will fear you!”
One of the elders stepped forward in the air, walking down toward Elia.
“It seems you have fully awakened the Frostspeak Bloodline?”
“But even if you have awakened the bloodline and obtained the power of Xue Yue, your realm is merely at the Super-tier.”
“Right now, you do not have the qualifications to challenge the Shadow Moon Hall — “
*Boom —*
Elia simply waved her hand.
In the next heartbeat, the elder’s body exploded where he stood.
The splattered blood quickly condensed into snowflakes, fluttering down in the air.
“!”
For a moment, everyone from the Shadow Moon Hall was stunned.
What happened?
How could an elder-level existence be killed in a single encounter?
“No, this power — ” another elder discovered the anomaly.
The power used to kill the previous elder was the Frostwhisper Power.
Right now, the doors of the Ancestral Gate were creaking open wider and wider.
That ancient and formidable Frostwhisper Power was surging out from within the Ancestral Gate in a never-ending stream.
It flowed through the world, surrounding Elia, and was being completely… controlled by her!
Vaguely, the members of the Shadow Moon Hall could feel faint, hazy wills.
They were protecting Elia and glaring at them.
Even the Shadow Moon Hall Master felt as if needles were pricking his back.
“The Ancestral Gate… the Ancestral Gate…”
Were these wills and this power left behind by generations of Frostwhisper Monarchs?
More and more Frostwhisper Power emerged from the gateway. The wind and snow echoed, completely enveloping the surrounding world and isolating it from the outside.
Layer upon layer, it formed a prison that could never be broken — or perhaps, a sanctuary.
It was as if the world had become her domain.
*Crack —*
Then, a flower bloomed.
With a single thought from Elia, it transformed into a Frostwhisper Flower representing eternal cold and death.
At this moment, even the monstrous shadow behind the Shadow Moon Hall Master was frozen and subjected to intense suppression.
The Shadow Moon Hall Master’s expression turned grim.
In this moment, with the help of the Ancestral Gate, the power Elia displayed had completely reached the Skyguard level!
For the first time, a look of panic appeared on the Shadow Moon Hall Master’s face.
Exactly at that moment, Elia looked up, and their gazes met for the first time.
What he saw were a pair of bleeding, indifferent eyes.
They were as cold as a winter storm.
And hidden deep within that thick wind and snow were extreme madness, undying hatred, and… monstrous killing intent!
“I swear by my own life and soul… I will stop at nothing to exterminate the Shadow Moon Hall.”
Elia looked at the Shadow Moon Hall Master and spoke in a cold voice, “If I cannot achieve this, I will never rest in peace even in death. My soul shall never find liberation for all eternity.”
Her voice was soft.
But right now, it exploded inside the Shadow Moon Hall Master’s mind.
This was a nightmare he would never be able to escape from now on.
One thought, one flower.
The Frostwhisper Power that had reached the Skyguard level suddenly erupted.
***
No one among the spectators on the high platforms knew what happened under the Ancestral Gate that day.
They only knew that the First Prince had entered with his death soldiers and personal guards and never came out.
They only knew that the Shadow Moon Hall Master and the elders had stepped inside, and in the end, only the Shadow Moon Hall Master fled, covered in blood and heavily wounded.
They saw Elia walk out from the heavy wind and snow. The Frostwhisper Power surrounded her, forming a supreme crown.
Everyone bowed, offering their praises for the birth of a new monarch.
But Elia ignored them and continued walking forward, going far, far away.
“Sister Lu Mo…”
“Sister… Lu Mo.”
She walked forward unsteadily like a broken clockwork doll, looking lost and soul-shattered, cradling a figure that did not exist.
She had awakened, become the new monarch, and broken her original fate.
But the person who had given her everything and walked beside her the entire way was gone.