Salvation (Codex Of Creatures, 1)

Great book

[Come on Yuna, you'll never have to see him again. Pull it together, you were supposed to be over this in already!]

              Of course, after Ling Jian got this new spiritual root and got his revenge, he faithfully followed Tao Kang, a few chapters later he dies to protect Tao Kang. The equivalent only a few months in the real world until that moment there was nothing unusual with Ling Jian.