They were all red, giving off wafts of delicate fragrance.
Packed densely together, they flickered ceaselessly in the darkness like eerie eyes, emanating terrifying killing intent.
They drifted toward that courtyard together.
Chill winds gusted, and a hundred ghosts roamed the night!
Capital City, Star-Seizing Temple!
Mo Ke was playing a game of Go with someone, her expression calm, her Daoist robes looking utterly harmonious and natural on her.
She almost blended into the scenery within the temple.
Clack!
A stone landed, and cracks spread densely across its snowy-white surface.
Mo Ke frowned slightly and looked north. Ripples stirred in her eyes, which had always been as clear as a stream, then quickly subsided.
Across from her, a woman wearing an imperial robe and an imperial crown keenly caught this. After a long silence, she asked,
"What is it, Imperial Preceptor? Has something gone wrong?"
Mo Ke said with a cool expression,
"Another forbidden zone has appeared within the Tang Kingdom, and it seems to have already reached Grade B."
"What?!"
The Female Emperor's expression abruptly changed. She rose to her feet, waves of overbearing power radiating from her.
A golden dragon flickered in and out of sight behind her.
"Half a month ago, a Grade D forbidden zone appeared in the Tang Kingdom. Three thousand soldiers were killed or wounded, along with forty Great Grandmaster Realm cultivators and five One-Leaf Dharmakaya Realm cultivators."
"Five days ago, another Grade C forbidden zone appeared in the Tang Kingdom, killing and injuring countless civilians. Six two-leaf Dharma Body Realm cultivators also perished, and one three-leaf Dharma Body cultivator vanished mysteriously, their fate unknown."
"..."
"Those two forbidden zones have already inflicted disastrous losses on my Tang Kingdom, and even now, we remain helpless. Now that a Grade B forbidden zone has