Millions of miles away, within the territory of Sea of Clouds Prefecture.
An oppressive atmosphere flooded the air like a tide.
Inside one of Sea of Clouds Prefecture's inner residences, it was so quiet that a falling pin could have been heard.
Lu Jiayan stood in the center of the residence, yet she felt as though she were sitting on needles. Her still-attractive face had long since drained of color, and she paced back and forth in panic.
"It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but hard to go back..."
Lu Jiayan clenched her fists so tightly that blood seeped from her knuckles, her heart filled with despair and regret!
As the Matriarch of Sea of Clouds Prefecture, she had held a lofty position for years and grown accustomed to holding countless cultivators' lives in the palm of her hand.
Now her husband had been blasted apart in public, while a life-and-death restriction had been planted in her, reducing her to a puppet at someone else's command.
How could she willingly let someone control her?
She certainly had no masochistic desire to be enslaved!
But now she bitterly regretted the choice she had thought so clever.
"Why did I gamble?"
"How did I dare gamble that that god of slaughter wouldn't see through me?!"
Lu Jiayan had thought she had mastered the art of using someone else to do her killing, only for her scheme to be exposed with shocking speed.
Now she had only made things worse.
When that god of slaughter returned, her soul would probably be utterly annihilated!
Just then.
Rumble!!-
A muffled rumbling suddenly came from the distant sky!
Lu Jiayan jerked her head up and looked outside through the great hall.
Huge swathes of golden clouds had appeared without warning in the previously gloomy