Lilith!

As Lu Yuan and Ying Luan followed Aimeilu toward the reception hall, a brutal conspiracy to seize power was unfolding within a sealed underground altar in the deepest reaches of Silver Dragon Star's main palace.

The empty altar chamber echoed with a young girl's manic laughter, sharp and grating.

"Ha ha ha! Your power, your bloodline, your authority—they'll all be mine from now on!"

The speaker was a young Dragon Human Race girl.

The dragon horn on the left side of her forehead was broken halfway through, an old scar lingering at the fracture. Her eyes shimmered with a dim purple-black glow, and her face was filled with near-twisted fanaticism.

Before the girl lay a forbidden magic array originating from the Devil Race. Black patterns wound into rings, while eerie violet radiance flowed endlessly along the runes. Black and purple light intertwined, roiling upward and exuding a sinister aura that made one's heart tremble. Waves of cold demonic energy slowly seeped from the gaps in the array, corroding the surrounding air.

At the very center of the array lay an adult Dragon Human Race woman.

She was naked, her four limbs lightly bound by faint chains of demonic runes. Her eyelids drooped heavily, and her face was pale as paper. The originally vast and powerful aura of Dragon Human bloodline within her was steadily weakening, while glimmers of light continuously peeled away from beneath her skin and flowed outward along the array's patterns.

Her limbs were limp and weak; even lifting a finger was difficult. Her eyes were filled with exhaustion and despair as the boundless power of her origin was forcibly extracted by the array.

If Gu Li had been here at this moment, she would have recognized the woman at once.

She was the nominal ruler of Silver