Heaven Dou City, Moonlight Pavilion.
As the Heaven Dou Empire's premier academy of court etiquette,
Moonlight Pavilion was usually filled with elegant music and the faint scent of sandalwood.
It was a revered place that countless nobles and dignitaries longed to enter.
But today, the entire pavilion was eerily still.
On the terrace at its highest level, a graceful figure stood alone in the fierce wind.
She wore a noble silver-white court gown, her long dark hair cascading down her back.
Her skin was fair as snow, her bearing the height of refined elegance. Innate nobility and melancholy lingered in her beautiful eyes.
She was the mistress of Moonlight Pavilion and Tang San's aunt—Tang Yuehua!
At that moment,
Tang Yuehua gripped a white jade teacup.
The tea had long gone cold, but she did not notice.
Her fine brows were tightly drawn.
Unable to hide the worry on her lovely face, she gazed toward the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
"The Soul Power fluctuations from the palace are terrifying..."
Tang Yuehua murmured, her slender fingers whitening around the cup.
"Xiao San went to help Xue Ye put down the traitors at his side today."
"Then why did such a thick aura of blood and slaughter erupt from the palace just now?"
"That didn't seem to be Xiao San's Divine Slaughter's Domain."
As the wielder of the special Mutated Martial Soul, the Wishful Halo,
Tang Yuehua had only nine levels of Soul Power and would never break through to level ten.
Yet she was extraordinarily sensitive to killing intent and emotion.
Over the past half hour, she had unmistakably sensed the despairing cries of thousands upon thousands dying at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
Even from halfway across Heaven Dou City, that towering blood-soaked aura chilled her to the bone and made her soul tremble!
"What happened?"
"Did Xiao San and the others succeed?"
Tang Yuehua drew a deep breath, struggling to calm her racing heart.
The sounds of battle from the palace had now fallen completely silent.
She was desperate to learn how the battle at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace had ended.
Tang Yuehua muttered to herself, "Xiao San is brilliant. He has his exquisite Hidden Weapons, and the two Super Douluo of sword and bone from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect are protecting him. Nothing could possibly happen to him."
"Once Xiao San deals with the palace coup, he should come to Moonlight Pavilion to see his aunt soon..."
Comforting herself with that thought, Tang Yuehua was just turning to pour a cup of warm water.
Riiip!
Without warning, a dreadful crimson tear ripped across the clear sky overhead!
"What?!"
Tang Yuehua spun around in shock.
Killing intent from the Nine Netherworlds, a hundred times purer and more savage than Divine Slaughter's Domain, engulfed the entire pavilion.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The terrace's white jade railings, precious flowerpots, and even the prized guzheng Tang Yuehua had tended so carefully shattered at once,
reduced to fragments that flew everywhere under the onslaught of that killing intent!
Tang Yuehua shuddered violently and tasted blood in her throat.
The dreadful pressure struck her like a blow, forcing her back several steps.
Her graceful composure crumbled.
"Such... terrifying killing intent!"
Her beautiful eyes widened, filled with disbelief and fear.
"Heh. As expected of a daughter of the Clear Sky Sect. Even at your age, you're still quite a beauty."
A bone-chilling voice laced with bloodthirsty mockery sounded beside her ear without warning.
Whoosh!
Tang Yuehua whirled around. "Who's there?!"
Less than half a meter behind her stood a blood-drenched crimson figure that had appeared from nowhere.
It was a tall, perfectly formed girl in blood-red armor, with crimson hair.
Six blood-red wings spread wildly behind her.
Her scarlet eyes roamed brazenly over Tang Yuehua's body.
In the girl's hand, the Slaughter Blood Sword, a divine weapon wreathed in the wails of countless vengeful souls, still dripped fresh blood onto the ground.
"You... you're the Heaven Dou Crown Prince, Xue Qinghe? No—you're Qian Renxue!"
Tang Yuehua's pupils shrank to pinpoints.
This crimson demoness, as though she had emerged from the depths of the Nine Netherworlds, was nothing like either Xue Qinghe or Qian Renxue as Tang Yuehua remembered her.
Whether disguised as Xue Qinghe or appearing as herself, Qian Renxue had always possessed a gentle, sacred air.
The Qian Renxue before her was a Slaughter Angel formed entirely of killing intent.
"Oh? You know Qian Renxue?"
Qian Sha Yu sounded a little surprised.
She stepped toward Tang Yuehua.
The killing intent closed in.
Bzzzt!
A pure, gentle golden glow burst naturally from Tang Yuehua's body.
The light formed a translucent domain barrier that enveloped the top floor of Moonlight Pavilion.
This was Tang Yuehua's Innate Domain—the Wishful Halo!
Tang Yuehua was a direct descendant of the Clear Sky Sect and the peerless mistress of Heaven Dou's Moonlight Pavilion.
Her Soul Power was only level nine.
But her innate mutated domain possessed the wondrous power to cleanse the mind and dissolve hostility and killing intent.
Over the past several decades,
even an Asura-like brute consumed by killing intent
would have felt his urge to kill subside the moment he entered Moonlight Pavilion and came under the halo's soothing influence.
"Whoever you are, Heaven Dou City has laws, and my Moonlight Pavilion has rules of its own."
"Please restrain your killing intent!"
Tang Yuehua forced down her fear, her beautiful eyes turning stern.
She tried to use her domain to cleanse the sickening, overwhelming bloodlust from Qian Sha Yu!
Unfortunately, she had picked the wrong person.
"You think your worthless level-nine domain can dispel my killing intent?"
"How absurdly arrogant!" A cruel smile curled Qian Sha Yu's lips.
She did not even use a Soul Skill.
The divine Slaughter Blood Sword in her hand merely trembled!
Boom! Crack!
Her tightly compressed, demonic killing intent surged back like a blood dragon awakening from the Nine Netherworlds, crushing all resistance!
Crack! Crack!
The sacred, peaceful Wishful Halo domain
was as fragile as a thin sheet of paper beneath that world-shattering killing intent. In an instant, it burst into golden sparks!
Crack!
The domain was torn apart.
The backlash of killing intent slammed into Tang Yuehua's chest like a hammer.
"Pfft!"
Her face turned white as paper, and she spat out a mouthful of hot blood.
Blood stained her noble silver-white court gown.
Her elegant hairstyle came undone. She lay against the cold floor, convulsing and gasping for breath.
Tang Yuehua was stunned and horrified.
"How can this be? My domain had no effect on her killing intent!"
She finally understood how powerful Qian Sha Yu was.
Her killing intent was simply too violent, too strong!
No mortal should have possessed such killing intent!
The savagery, greed, and bloodlust within it were even more terrifying than the Divine Slaughter's Domain of her second brother, Tang Hao!
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