Inside a black hollow shaped like a bathtub and smooth as a mirror, dozens of divine-grade sabers and swords floated in midair, shooting out wisps of sharp saber light and Sword Qi from time to time. The saber light and Sword Qi, like luminous mist, intertwined in the air and formed a huge net that enveloped a girl with a graceful figure and lovely features.
The girl had the long ears typical of the elf race. Her delicate, perfect face looked so pitiful that no one could bear to harm her. Behind her petite body grew a pair of wings as exquisite as a butterfly's; whenever they fluttered, threads of rainbow radiance drifted down. She was a woman beautiful to the very extreme, as though she had gathered all the beauty in the world into herself.
Yet those beautiful wings on her back had been beaten full of holes, and black, filthy blood seeped from the tattered wings from time to time. Her body, too, was covered in dozens of crisscrossing wounds. Some pierced straight through her abdominal cavity, and through them, one could see her internal organs slowly writhing inside her belly.
More than half of the dark green hair growing from her head had been burned away by some unknown flame, leaving her mottled scalp looking horrifyingly ghastly. Half her scalp, along with a layer of skull, had been hacked away by a sharp blade; her brain had nearly been exposed.
A peerless beauty who had once been breathtakingly lovely now lay on the ground like a foul-smelling corpse, wearing a strange smile as she gave a rasping "Heh heh" laugh toward another Lin Family ancestor floating above the seal. Her laughter was incredibly hoarse and grating, as if her throat had been stuffed with a huge handful