The entire hall was built from dark-gold boulders, majestic and grand. Phoenix totems could be seen everywhere among the carved beams and painted rafters, displaying the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's former glory.
On both sides of the hall, enormous stone pillars were carved with lifelike Heaven Phoenix reliefs, as though they might spread their wings and fly away at any moment.
Yet now, this hall, once a symbol of the Beast Domain's supreme authority, had changed owners.
Liu Bai and Zi Yan sat side by side on the throne at the very top.
That throne had originally belonged to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's patriarch. It had been carved from ten-thousand-year cold jade, with nine Heaven Phoenixes soaring with outspread wings engraved upon it, symbolizing the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's supreme authority.
Now, two young people sat upon it, a man and a woman. The man wore a black robe and looked calm; the woman had purple hair and wore a purple dress, nestled in his arms as she idly played with a lock of his hair.
Zi Yan's fingers lightly entangled Liu Bai's hair as her purple eyes calmly looked down below, as though those kneeling beneath her were not the former overlords of the Beast Domain, but a group of ants.
"Huh? The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan actually has an aberration like you? I thought Ancient Heaven Phoenixes had already gone extinct."
Zi Yan's voice was crisp, yet it carried a lazy indifference.
Below, Huang Tian, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's patriarch, knelt on the ground, trembling all over.
He was tall and broad, with stern features and long dark-gold hair draped over his shoulders. He should have looked imposing and domineering.
But now, his face was deathly pale, his forehead pressed tightly against the cold ground, his