The wind howled toward them, and the scene seemed to freeze in that instant.
Everyone saw it. They saw the grotesque figure implanted with the Red Moon's Authority halt under the girl's restraint. Her frail body trembled uncontrollably, as though the immense pressure would crush her to the ground at any moment, but her eyes were red, and she stubbornly remained standing.
She did not know where the thought had come from.
It was as though, suddenly, in that moment-
The fierce impulse and anger born in her heart were like the Authority whispering in her ear. She had never been some vessel for its Authority. From the moment she was born, she had already inherited everything from its ancient master.
It was just...
"How dare you kill him in front of me!"
Her reddened eyes were filled with rage and anguish.
"How dare you!"
"Don't!"
Splurch-
Lin En snapped back to his senses, but by the time he urgently tried to stop her, it was already too late.
Before his frantic eyes, Hana Ye made its long crimson spikes cross and pierce straight through its own skull from beneath its chin. As scarlet blood dripped onto the ground, Lin En's pupils kept contracting, and his heart sank.
Because when the Nine Realms were connected, when the Red Moon's Authority appeared in reality, he understood.
This secret could no longer be kept.
When Hana Ye lost consciousness and fell alongside the impaled remains of the Red Moon, Lin En rushed over as fast as he could, caught her, and gathered her into his arms.
But at that same moment-
Bzzzt-
Within the Ninth Layer of the Spirit Realm, terrifying presences emerged one after another. Not only the Great Corrupter battling Firstborn, but over a dozen distinct figures coming from different