As Liu Luo's thoughts wandered, Meng Qi had already started forward. He passed through the scattered golden motes left behind after the Six Heavens Ancestral Dragon had collapsed, venturing deeper into the darkness of the Heavenly Prison like a god walking through the underworld.
Her heart was like a blade, cutting away the sudden surge of melancholy. She stepped after him and reminded him, "The Six Heavens Ancestral Dragon was an Innate Spiritual Being, formed from the Dragon Veins of the Immortal Realm. It had long since condensed a Divine Body, imperishable and incorruptible. Yet now it has collapsed without leaving anything behind. Something must have drained its essence, leaving only an empty shell."
And that something had to be connected to the eyes that had watched them from the darkness all along, and to the headless figure that had burst out of the Six Heavens Ancestral Dragon's Divine Body!
"I'm quite curious. What kind of monster is this?" Meng Qi said casually. "I wonder if it has anything to do with what remained in the Heavenly Prison of the Immortal Realm after the shockwaves of that battle on the Other Shore."
What a pity. The Six Heavens Ancestral Dragon's remains had turned to ash. Otherwise, if they could gather a few corpses of similar old gods and former ghosts, there would be hope of finding a Creation-level sword to pair with Absolute Blade.
After crossing this domain, the enormous, majestic steps appeared again. They continued downward. Meng Qi and Xuan Nü seemed to be flying through a boundless void, nearly losing all sense of time's passage.
After who knew how long, another golden mote appeared, burning quietly like a candle flame. As they drew closer, the golden flame split in two, then four, then eight, transforming into clusters of