The entire Eerie City fell as silent as the grave.
Whether it was the Eerie Empress flying into a thunderous rage or the Eerie Eunuch scurrying everywhere, whether it was the fate corpses throughout the Death Realm or all the examinees, every last one looked up at the sky.
Some of the filthy, sinister creatures either fled without a trace a moment beforehand or suddenly let out a wretched scream and vanished into nothing beneath the starlight.
The cultivators of the demonic and evil factions all frowned. For some reason, they felt their power being inexplicably suppressed, the flow of their true essence and magical power slowing. Yet there seemed to be no major change, only a temporary effect.
The Southern Dipper Six Stars shuddered in unison, releasing six long rivers of starlight that converged at the center of the Imperial Palace, then merged into one and descended upon the Great Principle-Slaying Sword.
Both sides of the Great Principle-Slaying Sword's spine had originally borne golden branch patterns. But a light flashed across its upward-facing spine, and all those patterns vanished, replaced by the Southern Dipper Six Stars branded upon the blade.
Along the edges of the stars, radiant markings flickered like fire.
The six fate stars above the altar disappeared.
Overjoyed, Li Qingxian bowed with his hands clasped. "My thanks to the six Star Lords."
The Southern Dipper Six Stars contracted and dissolved into the starry sky.
Li Qingxian bowed in thanks once more, then pointed at the Great Principle-Slaying Sword. A flash of sword light swept past the beyond-rank fate corpse.
Hiss...
As though snipping a thread, it silently severed the fate-thread connecting the beyond-rank fate corpse's fate star to his body.
A spherical mass of light emerged from the beyond-rank fate corpse's ruined body. It was the head