With This Scheme, Grotesque Changes Came Easily; Yet This Love Stayed True Through Life and Death

The Heavenly Mechanism Divine Sect's teachings had spread into the Western Region, and deep within its mountains and ancient forests, they had summoned a great number of Heavenly Mechanism Puppets.

Under normal circumstances, this would surely have stirred heated debate across the Five Domains.

But now, only a very small number of people paid attention—such as the Holy Palace, or the intelligence agencies various major factions had hidden in the Western Region.

The vast majority of spiritual cultivators had no way of knowing, nor any interest in caring.

What they cared about was still the Tomb of Returning Consciousness in the Southern Domain, and that miserable cry of "No!" that had come from within it. "Great Emperor Cangsheng's scream?"

"Is he being devoured?"

Sui Yin's main consciousness, which had come from the Southern Abyss, had already swallowed most of the Southern Domain's Tomb of Returning Consciousness. The "Sky Hound Devouring the Moon" had reached its final step.

Within the Tomb of Returning Consciousness, that consciousness which had been forced to its limits clearly had nowhere left to flee.

"No! No, no, no..."

"How could this happen? How could this happen!"

That panicked voice was entirely at odds with Great Emperor Cangsheng's past conduct.

Even the voice itself did not sound quite like him? Just as doubts rose in everyone's hearts across the Five Domains, that utterly terrified voice finally shrieked its last cry in hysterics: "Xu! little! Shou—"

Thump.

The hearts of spectators everywhere skipped a beat.

Questions flashed through everyone's minds, questions just like the one Feng Zhongzui had before the Dao Transmission Mirror. "Master Shou?"

"What's going on? Why did he call Master Shou's name?"

"That voice—I said it didn't sound much like Great Emperor Cangsheng. It's layered and overlapping, and feels more like... Sui Yin?"

Thump!

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