Over the ruined auction square of Life God City, drifting dust slowly dispersed in the fierce winds howling high above.
Cold embers of divine power, broken fragments of slave shackles, and dried human blood crusted the stone paving.
The two human figures who had just broken free of eternal enslavement trembled involuntarily.
It was not because their grievous physical wounds had yet to heal, nor because their Divine Souls were weak from their seals being lifted, but because of an ultimate terror buried deep in their bloodlines, accumulated over a million years among the humans of the Lingmeng Continent.
A moment earlier, with a flick of his finger, Shiheng had dismantled the layers of origin seals laid by powerful Demons, completely erasing the slave curses branded into the foundations of the two women's Divine Souls.
Their dormant cultivation revived in an instant. Vast, pure Demon power erupted, and the formidable auras of a Five-Star Fiend and a Six-Star Fiend swept outward, shattering and annihilating every surrounding auction restriction and fragment of the God-Trapping Formation.
Yet the supreme joy of regaining their cultivation and power vanished from the two young women's eyes in an instant, not even lasting half a second.
Both were direct descendants of humanity's foremost royal tribe on the Lingmeng Continent-the Nordson Royal Family.
The young woman in front was Ailia Nordson, eldest princess of humanity's largest tribe, the Nordson Royal Family. The other was the family's second daughter, Lina Nordson. They were heirs to the largest and most legitimate human royal bloodline on the entire Lingmeng Continent, the spiritual mainstay of countless humans across the continent.
Ailia Nordson's fair face was utterly bloodless, her clear, pale-gold eyes threaded with bloodshot veins. She stumbled forward and seized Shiheng's sleeve, her slender fingertips whitening with the force of her