While Kiana and the others were continuously reliving their experiences within the Saint Mark Space, while Xu Yanwu's attention was focused on Kiana and the others inside the Saint Mark Space...
In the one Saint Mark Space that Xu Yanwu had not paid attention to... something happened.
Within this Saint Mark Space, Yae Village was now nothing but a sea of flames.
Those houses had already become ruins... but those ruins had not been violently destroyed by anything... they had collapsed after being cut cleanly in half.
The streets of Yae Village were filled with the smell of charred debris.
Yet there was not a single person in Yae Village, as though no one had died among these ruins.
Only flames still quietly burned amid the rubble.
The only unusual thing was... in the very center of the village stood a massive pavilion and the courtyard surrounding it. Within the area occupied by the courtyard and pavilion, there was not a single trace of destruction.
In the ruined Yae Village, a black shadow was slowly drawn out from the surrounding air. It eventually gathered together and formed the shape of a woman.
The woman looked at the scene around her with some surprise on her face, but she felt no other emotion over the devastation surrounding her.
And she knew where she should go if she wanted to see what she had come for.
Yae Village's altar... there lay the answer to why this place had become ruins.
The woman walked barefoot, and the burning ruins around her had no effect on her whatsoever.
She walked toward the altar step by step, leaving no trace behind along the path she took.
Before she even reached the altar, the woman had already received the answer to her question.
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