A chill settled in the Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk's heart.
In an instant, she dragged Ye Tianchen, Yun Huang, Yun Qing, the Gu Princess, that bullshit Heavenly Dao mission, and all three thousand of her male attendants who had died to the last man through her mind and cursed every one of them.
But it was useless. Black-and-red mist erupted behind her!
The Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk swept her sleeve and turned into a streak of light, hurtling madly toward the Void Rift. She was blindingly fast, shooting straight for the gap just as it was about to warp. If she could only get through-just a little faster!
Too late.
The space around her, front, back, left, and right, was swallowed by the Ruins Shadows in an instant. Those shadows writhed like living things. The next moment, a pale, translucent hand reached out of the mist and gently clasped her ankle.
Cold and soft, the sensation spread upward from her ankle. The Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk unleashed every last scrap of her cultivation, yet still could not break free.
She looked down and saw countless fine black-and-red markings crawling up her ankle, greedily sucking away her cultivation like leeches.
Slowly, she forced a stiff, seductive smile onto her face. Her alluring features were somewhat twisted now.
"Everyone... I was merely passing through."
Countless low chuckles rang out at once within the mist, overlapping in layers that made her scalp crawl.
"Keh keh keh keh keh keh~"
"Passing through? Then stay."
Deep within the mist, something enormous was slowly writhing.
"The Gu Princess is dead."
"Perfect. A new one to fill her place."
The smile on the Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk's face cracked.
At the Great Xia Eastern Palace, the vermilion doors stood half-open.
That day,