The Eastern Family's floating island...
Inside an exquisite palace, a wisp of incense smoke rose in a straight line.
When that rumbling sound rang out, Dongfang Ying Qing abruptly rose to her feet.
She looked up at the sky, her eyes filled with deep worry.
The people of the Noble Families Alliance had entered the Abyss Demon Region for so long, yet not a single message had been sent back.
But this rumbling had brought back terrible news: a Saint had fallen, and had truly died with both body and Dao extinguished, with no chance of resurrection.
Could it be a Saint of the Noble Families Alliance?
If so, then who was it?
Even a Saint had fallen. Then what about her husband...
Dongfang Ying Qing suddenly found herself unable to sit or stand in peace. She paced back and forth through the palace in tiny steps.
Soon, she made up her mind and headed outside the palace.
In another palace of the Eastern Family...
Several elders of the Eastern Family had already set up a formation.
At the center of the formation was a huge chessboard, and a great drum stood upright within it.
When the elders activated the formation, the great drum began to boom.
The drumming echoed the rumbling in the sky. Every time the sky thundered, the great drum thundered in response.
A tiny chess piece on the board also kept leaping...
The Saints' cosmoses were scattered in different directions. By determining the direction from which the sound came, they could use this method to identify which cosmos had collapsed.
"Tap..."
Each time the great drum sounded, the tiny chess piece gave a light hop on the board.
The chess piece moved little by little toward the upper right!
The elders of the Eastern Family watched