"Here..."
Xu Taiping looked at the woman, then surveyed his surroundings before transmitting his voice to Fairy Lingyue, his face full of astonishment:
"This isn't a room. This is a... secret realm?"
Through the bone-chilling wind and snow, what met Xu Taiping's eyes was a world studded with enormous, rust-mottled swords.
Beneath those enormous swords covered in wind and snow lay skeletons as large as small hills.
Among these skeletons were massive giants and demonic beasts shaped like dragons and serpents, but far more were variant bones with either three heads and six arms or skeletal frames that seemed neither beast nor human.
Xu Taiping had never imagined that behind the nine rooms on the Dragon-Trapping Tower's second floor lay separate secret realms.
"The Sky Demon... Battlefield?!"
Fairy Lingyue, who had already manifested beside Xu Taiping, saw their surroundings, and her eyes abruptly widened.
"No, this isn't the Heaven-Demon Battlefield. These are... these are ruins left adrift in the Void... after the Heaven-Demon Battlefield was shattered!"
The speaker was the woman covered in blood and grime, whose eyes had an exotic appearance.
She was the one who had been pounding incessantly on the second-floor door of the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
"You can see me?"
Fairy Lingyue warily stepped back, looking at the woman in great surprise as she spoke.
"These eyes of mine are called Soul-Seizing Eyes. They can see the soul directly through the flesh and see through any illusion. Even casting the Heaven-Covering Art on your divine soul is useless."
The woman explained this to Fairy Lingyue.
"But don't worry. We are fellow travelers."
She added this while staring intently at Fairy Lingyue with blazing eyes.
As she spoke, she pulled back her sleeve, revealing a bizarre branded mark on her arm.
Within the brand's design, a bleeding human