The massive source of light belonging to Luo Hongyan abruptly dimmed.
The six Luo Hongyans deep within the light all frowned deeply as boundless darkness spread over them in concentric rings. All six of her divine bodies remained silent.
Even she herself had not noticed that a tiny crack had appeared among her six divine personas.
Only now, under Black Phoenix's verbal assault, did she become alert to it.
Upon careful thought, if stray thoughts had not arisen in her heart, if emotions that should never have existed had not taken root, why would she have lowered herself to take Yingyue and Han Yi under her command, secretly shielding them along the way?
What merit or ability did those two possess to catch her divine eye?
At its root, was her recruitment of them not because she still cared about the bond forged in Purgatory with Pang Jian?
Whether she admitted it or not, the facts proved that she cared about that tangled emotional entanglement.
If not for that, how could her schemes in the world of Purgatory have ended in complete defeat?
She continued to ponder deeply.
Since this old adversary had been alive all along, with her demon soul spread throughout places permeated by filthy alien powers—
Then from the moment her body born in Purgatory had fallen into Bagua City, had it been under those demon eyes' watch?
Had the events she encountered with Pang Jian, and the course of her time with Pang Jian, been secretly propelled by that one?
Could this flaw have been deliberately manufactured?
"Perhaps... it wasn't an accident."
Luo Hongyan mused.
The divine personas and divine shadows of her six selves repeatedly touched within the light, yet they could never merge into one.
The main divine body clad in white could not