The Heavenly Oversight Pavilion's Choice

The colossal fortress city atop the cliff still stood, but at this moment, an enormous black curtain had appeared above it, shrouding everything within.

Looking down from the sky, wisps of dim gray vapor seeped and spread across the smooth surface of the black curtain, like countless ferocious tentacles writhing in the air.

Within the dark karst cavern at the bottom of Thousand Thorns Gorge, a gentle, elegant female voice, observing everything above, suddenly spoke:

"Is this the embryonic form of the ten-thousand-year calamity you speak of?"

The cavern was silent, her voice echoing through it.

Only after a long while did another indifferent, chilling female voice quietly ring out from the cave entrance:

"Heavenly Oversight Pavilion has never exaggerated matters of calamity."

Miss Wen did not speak at once. After a few quiet breaths, she smiled faintly and unhurriedly. "From the perspective of an individual, or even a small nation, Mu Nuo's existence can indeed be called a catastrophe. But looking at Great Yan as it now stands, wouldn't such a catastrophe seem rather childish, Pavilion Master?"

Tianyuan, who had escaped with the White Emperor's aid, moved lightly through the darkness, her palace gown fluttering with every step. "Mr. Wen, you should already have discovered that this thing is devouring the Source Qi of heaven and earth to expand itself. You should also be able to see everything happening within this Ghost Domain."

"I am indeed well aware of that."

Miss Wen's voice was exceedingly mild, neither hurried nor slow, her tone soft and delicate as water. "If it were in certain uninhabited regions, it might well bring disaster upon an entire area. It can be reborn and exist forever within it; whether those in the mortal world who have lost their beloved ones or those who fear death,