The Endless Fire Domain, Yun Qi's mansion.
With the Great Thousand Coalition Army now launching a joint assault on the Foreign Territory, the vast Great Thousand World felt deserted. Even the once-prosperous Endless Fire Domain had fallen deathly silent, countless people praying quietly in their hearts.
Within the Endless Fire Domain, Yun Qi and Yuanyan had become its true pillars. Matters great and small concerning alchemy, soul cultivation, and Array Master training now all flowed through these two women.
"Hiss!"
In the main hall, Yun Qi had been bent over her desk, wholly absorbed in painting, when her heart suddenly shuddered. The fine brush in her hand dropped onto the scroll, breaking the lines of the portrait.
"Yun Qi, what's wrong?"
Yuanyan, who had been sitting nearby, concentrating on condensing array veins, raised her plump face and asked in confusion.
Yuanyan did not know the reason, but her intuition told her that ever since Yun Qi had come to the Endless Fire Domain from the Ghost Realm, something had been off about her... though she could not say exactly what.
"I... I don't know."
"It just felt like something viciously stabbed my heart a moment ago. It hurt as though needles were piercing it."
Yun Qi shook her head, but her face had turned deathly pale, as though something had given her a terrible fright.
In that instant, deep within the soul spirit palace inside her, an elusive figure seemed to be growing solid, little by little, poised to emerge!
"Oh, Yun Qi, what are you painting?"
"It looks like a little girl?"
Seeing Yun Qi like this, Yuanyan tactfully turned her attention to the scroll on the desk.
The scroll depicted a little girl who looked no older than ten. She had graceful, slender legs, skin whiter than snow,