Chapter 491: The Drought Demon's Might, the Celestial Pass Realm! (Please Vote!)
Suddenly, a crimson fissure split the earth. A vermilion-lacquered coffin wrapped in Blood Baleful Intent burst from the ground and rose eerily upright.
Dark red beads of blood seeped from the coffin, then floated upward against all reason, gathering into a bloody mist three feet above the ground.
Storm clouds had already massed overhead, while Killing Intent surged into the sky.
Every plant the aura touched withered to ash. Had ordinary people been there, their three souls and seven spirits would likely have scattered on the spot.
Zhuang Xiuyin dared not let down her guard. Her jade-white fingers formed a seal, Star Sword light arrayed itself around her, and the Azure Firmament Jade Seal in her hand shed streams of clear light.
Creeeak—
Amid a coffin's teeth-grating scrape, the bloodstained lid slowly opened.
You narrowed your eyes. Unexpectedly, there was no blue-faced, fanged monster inside!
Instead, a young woman stepped out, neatly coiffed beneath a phoenix crown and dressed in embroidered bridal robes, as though for her wedding.
It seemed what had arrived should have been a bridal sedan, not a coffin.
Her features were strikingly beautiful, her lips painted a vermilion deeper than blood, yet her eyes were cold beyond measure.
Even so, the sight of her in red was deeply unnerving.
You sensed the moisture around you flowing uncontrollably toward the woman from the coffin. Even your blood stirred, as though drawn by an invisible force.
There was no doubt: she was the Drought Demon.
The monster responsible for the drought across a thousand miles of Clear River Commandery.
The female corpse suddenly turned her head. Her gold-embroidered bridal veil stirred without wind. She stared at Zhuang Xiuyin, and though her crimson lips did not move,