"Madam!"
Within Seven Absolutes Cave on Nine-Head Mountain, the maid's call jolted Seven Absolutes Empress awake from her memories.
"Green Pearl, what is it?"
"Reporting to Madam, the lords of the various estates say the troops have been fully assembled and await only your command."
Hearing the maid's words, Seven Absolutes Empress did not hesitate in the slightest. "Then have them move. If that foolish dragon in Ten Thousand Waves Marsh truly dares show himself, I will deal with him myself!"
"A mere flood dragon-python dares call himself Dragon King? He truly knows neither heaven nor earth!"
Green Pearl quietly withdrew to relay the order, while Seven Absolutes Empress continued recalling Dragon Lord Ao Hui's instructions: "No matter what, Jiuzhou World will not be a match for the Three Realms."
"Little Seven, you cannot remain confined to one corner of Vermilion Province for your entire life. So long as Jiuzhou World still exists, no one will bother you in Vermilion Province. But if Jiuzhou World is merged into the Three Realms Great Thousand World someday, with no one above you, will you truly be able to roam free and at ease—or keep your Nine-Head Mountain?"
Thinking of Dragon Lord Ao Hui's words, Seven Absolutes Empress slowly drew a treasured sword.
The sword was over three feet long, its blade divided into seven sections. Its entire form was slender like a swimming snake, radiating a grim, icy gleam.
This was the Seven Wonders Sword, Seven Absolutes Empress's life-bound magic treasure. When she had shed her skin, she had refined it from the heart-protecting scales and tailbone left behind by her seven molts. The sword was supple yet sharp, able to transform as she wished, and fit her hand incomparably well.
Looking at her reflection in the Seven Wonders Sword, Baleful Intent