Sigil was a ring-like city floating at the center of the Outlands, above the Infinite Spire.
It called itself the center of all planes, the famed City of Doors.
Within the city were teleportation circles leading to every corner of the world.
Lady of Pain was Sigil's ruler. Aoskar, a powerful god of portals, had once offended her.
After a great battle, six districts of Sigil were destroyed, while Aoskar became a corpse drifting into the Astral Plane.
As the dragon head drew ever closer, Lady of Pain's gaze grew colder and colder.
Yet she remained silent. She was not someone accustomed to speaking.
When Ling Qing entered her optimal attack range, the blade-disc behind her head, like a mass of beautiful hair, burst open with a clang.
All the hair-blades flew out, flashing toward Ling Qing's face.
This attack lacked the vast, majestic grandeur of a clash between Heavenly Immortals, yet Ling Qing felt a crisis rise from the depths of his heart.
Every hair-blade carried divine-like spells born from abilities such as her aura and domain.
It made Ling Qing feel as though he had been marked by the pain of the Crystal Wall World itself.
The instant he saw those hair-blades, endless agony spread from his eyes throughout his entire body.
Ling Qing's own realm was not high—he had only just entered the Heavenly Immortal realm—and the Primordial Spirit Dragon possessed only intermediate divine power.
Yet with the power of spiritual treasures, he could unleash the might of a Four-Tribulation Heavenly Immortal.
By the standards of the Crystal Wall World, that was equivalent to powerful divine power.
Moreover, his strongest method was the newly forged Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation in his hands.
At this moment, the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords had transformed into four dragon horns growing from the