"Then tell me what I should do! Do you expect me to watch him slaughter so many of our fellow disciples, then scrape out a living elsewhere as though nothing happened? If that's the case, I should have just let him kill me!"
The Darkness Master shot to her feet, glaring furiously at the Ice Master as she roared.
"I..."
The Ice Master was struck speechless, unable to find anything to say.
"Enough, junior sister. If you came to persuade me to give up rather than help me, then please leave. I won't see you out."
Seeing the Ice Master fall silent, the Darkness Master snorted coldly and gestured for her to leave.
Looking at the Darkness Master's gloomy, indifferent expression, the Ice Master finally shook her head and sighed helplessly. Without another word, she rose to leave.
Rumble!
But just as she was about to step through the doorway, a heaven-shaking thunderclap suddenly erupted overhead!
The expressions of both the Ice Master and the Darkness Master inside the room changed abruptly.
Although one had yet to recover her strength and the other's cultivation had been sealed outright,
their discernment remained intact.
How could they fail to recognize the terror of that thunder?
It was as though something forbidden had been born into the world, something heaven and earth could not tolerate, prompting them to send down this thunderous judgment to scour the world clean!
"Th-this... did he cause this?"
The Darkness Master no longer spared a thought for her earlier quarrel with the Ice Master. She swallowed instinctively, utterly dumbfounded.
The Ice Master merely nodded slightly in response, her eyes still fixed on the sky. Her expression was exceptionally grave, her thoughts unreadable.
After a moment's daze, excitement flickered in the Darkness Master's eyes. She gazed at the thunder