The weak shall not be bullied for their weakness

Inside the Insight Brightness Holy Hall.

The passageway was lined with torches, their dusky violet flames swaying without cease. Though they provided light, they also lent the place an added air of eerie strangeness.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu walked slowly through it. As they proceeded deeper inside, they carefully examined the murals on both walls.

Traces left behind by Yuan were here, and the Dongming Holy Lord had explicitly mentioned Yuan's name before. That was why they wanted to take a look, to see whether they could uncover any information about Yuan.

Unfortunately, the murals and reliefs here depicted nothing but horrifying fiendish demons and vicious ghosts. It was as though the Dongming Holy Lord had commissioned them solely to flaunt his own "villainous" side. There was not the slightest trace of information about Yuan.

Before long, the two passed through the lengthy corridor and arrived at the main hall they had once glimpsed in passing.

When the Kongji Holy Lord and the Dongming Holy Lord had fought over the Third Supreme Authority, they had briefly caught sight of the interior of the Insight Brightness Holy Hall through the mark the Dongming Holy Lord had left in the Abyss Ruins Realm.

Everything within the hall remained as it had been.

Layers of ghostly fire hung from the vaulted ceiling, while the pillars arranged neatly along both sides were covered in reliefs of vicious ghosts.

They were even more lifelike than the murals seen along the corridor, as if they might leap out at any moment and tear apart everything in sight.

And atop the black throne at the very end, a mass of profound shadow writhed without cease.

Yet as the two women's gazes fell upon it, that profound shadow gradually took on a distinct form—

A black crown