Pang Miao's face was ashen as he stared at the female clan leader's corpse without saying a word.
Pu Zhe, however, looked utterly unconcerned. He merely sneered. "Heh heh, she certainly came up with an ingenious way to kill herself..."
Hu Yan said grimly, "If the female clan leader killed herself, that means she's allowing the World Will suppressing the divine domain to awaken. It seems she already knows who her successor is!"
The purpose of the Sea of Time and its forbidden zones was to suppress the awakening of the divine domain's will.
The divine domain was a ship Chi You had given the Li people to escape in. But if that ship awakened its own will, things would become troublesome.
The World Will was often impossible to fathom. If that will was benevolent, all would be well. But if it was evil and violent, it could easily exterminate every living thing in the divine domain.
The blind clan's female clan leader had been tasked with suppressing the Nascent Will, keeping the divine domain's will forever in its nascent state.
Back then, both Dongfang Chun Jun and Hu Yan had considered killing the female clan leader and replacing her.
But Pang Miao had rejected the proposal.
Pang Miao had feared that after the female clan leader fell, the divine domain's Nascent Will would lose its suppression, gaining an independent consciousness and personality. At that point, the divine domain would be completely beyond their control. Moreover, because the Xuanyuan Guard were more powerful than the divine domain's natives, they would likely become the divine domain's will's first target.
For the same reason, the female clan leader had faithfully suppressed the Nascent Will all this time. But throughout the process, she had also been screening her own target.
The last time