Inside the dim great hall, all the lords of the Great Worlds had already awakened, and all of them were meditating as they reviewed their earlier gains.
Zhu Xi suddenly opened her eyes. Her brows drew tight, and confusion showed in her gaze.
As she pondered, she lifted her eyes and swept them around. When she saw Star Lord Beichen, she could not help being drawn in by his expression.
Star Lord Beichen stood atop the steps, gazing out at the dark dome of heaven beyond the palace. No one knew what he was thinking, but from his face, his mood was clearly very heavy.
Could something have happened to the Son of Heaven?
Zhu Xi thought of this in an instant. She closed her eyes to avoid being noticed by Star Lord Beichen.
But after that, she could no longer cultivate with peace of mind. If something truly had happened to the Son of Heaven, did that not mean this struggle of the Sons of Heaven was about to turn around?
Even though Taixian Shenyuan had already subdued ninety percent of the Great Worlds, Zhu Xi had always felt uneasy, because no matter how she looked at it, Taixian Shenyuan's way of doing things did not accord with the Heavenly Dao.
What immortal god drove fiends into battle, and even let fiends devour the common people?
Although the Taiwei Great World had not been temporarily occupied by fiends and had been spared disaster and chaos, that was because she had pledged herself to Taixian Shenyuan at the very beginning of the struggle of the Sons of Heaven. She had heard of what had happened to other Great Thousand Worlds. The Great Worlds conquered by Taixian Shenyuan had all become purgatories on earth.
It was precisely because of these things