Shrouding the Heavens: The Years When I Was the Female Emperor's Strictest Master

Half an hour later.

Tan Lin had traveled several thousand miles away from Divine City and entered a mountain range that had been reduced to barren wasteland by excessive mining.

Boom!!

Bang... bang...

"Damn it, it's that great demon!!"

"Ah..."

The instant Tan Lin stepped into a valley within this desolate mountain range.

Saintly might surged amid cries of agony a thousand miles away. A fierce battle was clearly underway.

Shortly afterward, Tan Lin noticed spatial fluctuations rippling through the distant sky. It seemed that a Saint King-level existence was rushing over.

He spent a small amount of Fireflies and activated the Soul Pearl at the right moment, remotely granting his "claw," which had always lurked in the shadows, the dual enhancement of [Inverted All-Causes Vision] and [All Causes Barrier].

While concealing his own trail, this also helped that "claw" slip away unnoticed.

As one of the contingencies he had left behind in his previous life, that claw was still a fairly useful chess piece at this stage.

It was precisely because that chess piece had been indirectly "enlightened" by a fragment of his soul that the Soul Pearl's divine effects could so easily act upon it from such a great distance.

Whoosh!

Not long afterward, a pitch-black streak of light visible only to Tan Lin silently shot over from afar as swiftly as lightning. It arrived before him and knelt.

It was the Flood Demon!

"What a pity, Master. A big one came, so this lowly one was unable to finish cleaning them up..."

The Flood Demon knelt on the ground, his voice carrying a trace of unease.

"It doesn't matter."

Tan Lin casually waved a hand.

This time, ordering him to slaughter a few was merely meant to kill the chicken and frighten the monkeys. It would also