Pain faintly showed on the woman's face, but she made no sound.
This was the punishment she deserved.
She could well imagine that an even harsher punishment awaited her once she returned to the upper heavens.
As unease churned in her heart, Golden Snake spoke again. "You need not return just yet."
"Not return?" the woman asked.
Her first thought was that he wanted her to retrieve that Instrument of Light.
But those two were already exceptionally powerful within the Seventeenth Heaven. She might not be a match for them, and that fellow must have obtained the Instrument of Light by now. How could she possibly take it back?
"Continue downward and find a human man named Evil God. He is in Yang Soul form," Golden Snake said.
Descending like this, with her strength suppressed, was already extremely uncomfortable.
If she continued downward, the pressure she endured would become even greater.
Naturally reluctant, she asked, "He's merely a Yang Soul. What do you want him for?"
In her eyes, the humans of the Mother World were nothing more than delusions left behind by the Seventy-Seventh Civilization—a collection of failed copies.
"Lead him into the Land of Absolute Life Severance," Golden Snake said.
"What!"
A flicker of astonishment appeared in the woman's eyes.
Every civilization and every great clan concealed numerous secrets within the Other Shore.
The Primal Spirit Clan, the Void Clan, and even the human race naturally had no shortage of such secrets, and the Land of Absolute Life Severance was one of them.
"Letting a Yang Soul enter the Land of Absolute Life Severance—isn't that a little too..." the woman asked hesitantly.
Even she had not been qualified to enter the Land of Absolute Life Severance to cultivate back then. How could she be willing to let some