The cold pool in the Secret Realm of Inheritance, meant to help one achieve enlightenment and see one's true nature, had even begun radiating heat in an instant.
Amid the steaming bubbles, Long Xiruo's body slowly floated up from the depths of the pool. Her clothes were completely soaked through... Yet even such an intense cooling method still couldn't dispel the scorching aura within her body.
High above the Secret Realm, the winds and thunder raged, and the sky changed color as lightning flashed without end.
She was like a patient with an unremitting high fever, unconscious and motionless as she half-floated, half-sank in the cold pool.
A restless and powerful spiritual force transformed into a gigantic pillar of light and instantly broke through Kunlun's Secret Realm.
In this ancestral land of Divine Land's dragon veins, the spirit light shot straight into the Sky Dome. A dark cloud centered on this place instantly spread outward, and in the blink of an eye, the entire sky above the ancestral land of the dragon veins was covered by black clouds...
Rumble--!
Thunder crashed!
Within an ancient gateway in the snow-covered mountains of the North Sea region of the Island Nation.
A bloodstained figure was sent flying in an instant, smashing through the manor's gate before falling into the snow-covered front courtyard, its fate unknown.
"Who dares trespass into Mitama Manor!"
In less than a moment, all the Onmyoji within Mitama Manor, whether renowned veterans or apprentices who had only just awakened their spiritual powers, rushed out in shock and fury.
Powerful shikigami descended upon the place, their ferocious and wary gazes fixed on the sky.
In the sky, Su Zijun sat directly upon a throne, looking down with a chilling gaze... Beside her, a Golden General of the Xuanyuan Clan