The woman's figure was ethereal, her features delicate and beautiful. She looked like a young girl.
Yet when her eyes shifted, they brimmed with the vicissitudes of countless years.
Su Yi had indeed seen her before.
That had been when he killed Old Tailor during the Era of Demons, when a wisp of her will had appeared.
It was then that Su Yi learned that such a backer stood behind Old Tailor.
He had never expected to meet her again atop Heavenly Witch Mountain in the Great Simplicity Ruins.
"How should I address you?"
Su Yi asked.
The woman casually replied, "My Dao title is Dark Silence. I am an inheritor of the Witch Dao lineage."
Su Yi recalled something. "The Subordinate-Mother Heart-Tugging Gu controlled by Burning Lamp Buddha—was that your handiwork?"
Dark Silence God Lord smiled faintly. "Unfortunately, it was still unable to do anything to you, Fellow Daoist."
Su Yi sighed. "I truly never expected that behind a cultivator of the human world like Old Tailor stood a Witch Dao expert such as yourself."
"He was a successor I selected in the human world."
Dark Silence God Lord stood casually before the white-bone altar. "His cultivation level was unimportant. What mattered was that he could carry out my arrangements."
As she spoke, she too sighed with emotion. "Regrettably, I acted too early. I never expected that you would reincarnate so many times, only mastering the power of reincarnation in this lifetime. Most of the chess pieces I arranged in the past never came into use."
Her words brought back Su Yi's experiences in the human world. He recalled Shen Mu, the Temple Master, Su Xuanjun, and the different paths their lives had taken.
Without question, Dark Silence God Lord had been laying out plans in secret throughout the