The Three-Life Butterfly Enters a Dream, the True Martial World! The Daojun Emperor's Decree, an Empress Rules the World!

Dan Fei lay in the dirt, pitted and scarred by blasts of force, her breathing desperately weak. Dust stained her plain white palace dress, and her flawless, delicate face was deathly pale. Razor-sharp energy had torn her skin, leaving wounds that seeped blood.

Her eyes were vacant, as though she had fallen into a terrifying nightmare, until light footsteps reached her ears and a face appeared before her.

Pei Lingshuang's cool, indifferent face now wore a smile as she looked down at her from above.

It was a lovely smile, beautiful enough to melt frost and bring spring back to the earth. Yet Dan Fei felt not a trace of warmth, only an indescribable chill.

It chilled her to the marrow and froze her soul.

Dan Fei's eyes shifted slightly, meeting a gaze as still as a fathomless sea. Dimly, she seemed to glimpse somewhere impossibly distant through those deep eyes.

Perhaps it was the end of the heavens.

Perhaps it lay within another plane, separate from this world.

A figure steeped in unfathomable mystery, like a god or a devil, was casting an amused gaze upon her, as though mocking them for overestimating themselves.

Though these were the same eyes and the same person, Dan Fei already knew that the person before her was no longer Pei Lingshuang!

"Just who... are you?" Dan Fei forced the words out. Even that single question consumed an enormous amount of strength, and her once clear, melodious voice had become low and hoarse.

Hong Yuan said nothing. There was no need for him to answer, for a sweet voice like silver bells had already rung out. "Let it be known: the one before you is a true sage descended to this world, a Celestial Person come among mortals-the Dao Lord of Ten Thousand