Eternal Night Desert.
Whispers, like the anxious prayers of countless people all at once, echoed slowly.
In its depths.
Nine stone pillars stood in silence.
Thunder rumbled with the force of a thousand bolts, roaring through the air.
The Heavenly Tribulation chains wrapped around the nine stone pillars rang without cease. Purple and cyan light flashed and vanished, radiating the boundless might of heaven.
Beneath one of the pillars, flickering lightning occasionally illuminated a figure wreathed in Killing Intent.
Pei Ling stood quietly with his hands behind his back, eyes tightly shut, still fast asleep.
The man before her was the Holy Son of Chongming Sect, guilty of crimes too numerous to record and evil beyond redemption. He had once been a prisoner in the "Heaven" district of Du'e Abyss, too!
As the warden of Du'e Abyss, she was now [five characters censored here] a prisoner from Du'e Abyss. This... This was simply inconceivable!
But right now, Wenren Lingshe had no idea what was happening to her Dao Heart.
Pei Ling was still asleep. Killing Intent churned around him, and the bloody stench unique to demonic cultivators seemed almost tangible. She didn't need to touch his skin; she could tell at a glance that this Holy Son of Chongming Sect had surely slaughtered countless people and committed atrocity after atrocity. He was exactly the kind of villain Wenren Lingshe had always loathed most, the sort she had wanted to kill at the first opportunity!
His crimes could not be washed clean even by all the waters of the Ten Thousand Viper Sea.
The nine stone pillars seemed to have stood there since time immemorial, silently encircling the blood-red coffin suspended at the center.
Viscous darkness streamed ceaselessly from the coffin's seams like a pitch-black river, making the entire Eternal Night