Yin Ruins, ninth level.
A void vortex spun as Alicia stepped out and entered the ninth-level space.
The moment she appeared, her body trembled slightly, and intense unease rose in her heart.
Some unseen consciousness seemed to sweep past her. Her hair danced wildly, as though weaving itself into an even tighter net that concealed her more deeply.
At that moment, a will seemed to sweep over her only casually, yet it did not discover anything unusual about her.
Her brows furrowed faintly. No Heavenly Venerate had paid attention to the eighth level, but upon reaching the ninth, Heavenly Venerates had clearly begun to take notice. Still, she was not afraid of them. Her gaze pierced through the void toward the nine heavenly pillars.
A trace of wariness flashed through her eyes.
Her origin had been trapped within the Nine Heavens Great Array for more than a hundred thousand years. Many companions who had been suppressed alongside her had failed to survive, refined by the blood lightning into pure Primordial Spirit Fragments and reduced to exotic beasts within the Yin Ruins for martial artists to hunt and devour.
Thus, she was innately terrified of the Nine Heavens Great Array and never wished to enter it again. Every strike of that scarlet lightning refined their origins. She had no desire to endure that pain and terror ever again.
Last time, she had escaped while the array's exotic beasts were appearing, originally intending to lie low until she advanced to the Holy Realm.
But Fang Mo was too powerful. In his mad slaughter, Arnos had died, Kane had died, and Withered Spirit had died as well. She would be next.
She did not want to die. She could only gamble everything and return to the seal of the Nine Heavens Great Array.