As Zhang Chen returned along the palace corridor leading to Elizabeth's room, the area had already become bitterly cold from the large amount of ghostly energy leaking out. Viscous black liquid even seeped from beneath the door and spread across the corridor. Any living creature that touched it would immediately have its vitality drained away. The Lost Souls Maidservants who had been waiting at the door had long since fled the area.
"Dark matter... Yu Ming said it was a fusion of dark power and subspace abilities. It was rare to see someone combine two abilities so perfectly. Most powerful figures followed a single Great Dao and took it to its absolute limit. For example, I walk the Dao of Devouring, Jin Geng walks the Great Dao of Lightning, and Gu Chen walks the Great Dao of Blood. All of us have taken our paths to the extreme.
"Elizabeth's abilities had seemed quite unusual to me from the beginning. Her true strength was probably no weaker than that of the other prison wardens, second only to the foremost of Ghost Mound's Four Great Prison Wardens. From the looks of things, she seemed to have awakened memories from her life and completely lost control."
Zhang Chen stepped toward the room's entrance. The dark matter seemed capable of automatically sensing the approach of living beings, surging purposefully toward him.
Yet as Zhang Chen took each step, the viscous dark matter parted on its own.
"Elizabeth seems unable to control her current state. After all, she had always lost the memories belonging to her human life. Elizabeth was no low-ranking ghost; the suffering she endured as a human must have been beyond ordinary imagination. Because she had lost those memories, she had never borne such pain. Having it all forced upon her at