Mary Geoise, the Empty Throne sanctuary in the deepest reaches of Pangaea Castle.
This was no palace, but an isolated island of laws suspended ten thousand meters in the sky, sealed off from heaven and earth, severed from space and time.
The ground was paved with pitch-black obsidian that had resisted decay for hundreds of millions of years, its patterns formed by twisted World Tree roots.
At its center stood the Empty Throne, which legend said no one dared sit upon, for whoever did would die-
Pure white throughout, it was carved from the white jade at the World Tree's core. Twenty ancient broken blades stood on either side of the throne, symbolizing the twenty kingdoms' submission to Imu.
Atop the throne sat the supreme being whose true face no one had seen in eight hundred years, who ruled over all life and death in the world-Imu.
He wore an Imperial Robe covered in boundless black patterns, its hem streaming with pitch-black mist of void. A dark-gold crown of thorns rested on his head, and boundless darkness shrouded his entire face, revealing only a pair of eyes of law filled with hundreds of millions of concentric circles-
Deep within his pupils floated a miniature phantom of the World Tree, slowly revolving and exuding an aura of deathly silence, coldness, and void.
Below, all of Mary Geoise had long since become a hellish battlefield.
Bai Qi's Death Haze enveloped more than half the Red Line, and all the Five Elders had fallen;
Guan Yu's Sky-Splitting Flame Slash, Zhang Fei's magma tsunami, Lü Bu's Shadow Halberd Shadow, Zhao Yun's White Flame Dragon Breath, Huang Zhong's Time Arrow Rain, Dian Wei's Steel Shield Lightning, Ma Chao's Black Lightning Sky-Splitting, Zhang Liao's Sacred Sword Storm, Liu Bei's Life Light Wings, Gan Ning's towering tsunami