.

Both could only shudder as they thought about how she had silenced the raging skies above.

If either of them had tried something like that, it would probably have been their last day alive, but the same didn't apply to her.

The level of power she had reached was beyond the comprehension of any of them; only three beings from a distant past could even compare to her.

And as it happened, her connection with those three legendary beings of the past was far from small.

This was because she had been the right hand of the first human emperor.

In other words, she was a living fossil from the darkest eras of the entire continent, a living legend, perhaps the only one still known in the current age.

Her deeds from the past still made many tremble, grand and powerful, second only to those of the first human emperor.

Seeing a figure like her in one's lifetime was more than enough for many to feel that they had not lived in vain, and that now they could die in peace.

But that didn't matter right now.

What mattered was that if a figure like this had appeared, then things were far more complicated than they had imagined.

Just as this realization struck everyone's minds, they all saw the woman, the intensity in her eyes had grown, and her expression had completely changed from the one everyone knew.

An expression no one expected to see, not even Huo Lian, who had been the closest to her.

A smile, not just any smile, but one brimming with excitement, as if she had found something lost for a very long time.

And just as everyone was stunned by this, they watched with wide eyes as she rushed into the vortex of energy that served as the portal to the secret realm.

It happened suddenly, and no one had time to react immediately, but it didn't take long for everyone to tremble at the thought of what could have happened right after she entered the realm, even with the present restrictions.

"Damn it, is she trying to blow the place up or what?" one of the them said, panic creeping in, only to be immediately silenced by someone else.

"Calm down. She knows better than anyone how the secret realms work. If she dared to enter, it means she's confident in what she's doing. In any case, there's nothing we can do but hope everything goes well now that she has appeared."

And just as the person had said, nothing catastrophic happened.

If something like that had been attempted by one of them, there was a good chance the vortex would have killed that person, or worse, self destructed, causing a level of destruction not small at all.

Seeing that there was no visible anomaly, everyone exhaled, while Huo Lian, who had descended from the sky, could only sigh in disappointment as she remembered how she had been treated so harshly by her master before.

Though disappointed on the outside, in reality, she felt relieved; this was not the first time she had undergone such treatment, in fact, it had always been like this.

Every time she had encountered her in the past, both before, when she was still under her wing, long before she had founded the Masters' Pavilion,

and afterwards, whenever she had the rare opportunity to meet her, as she was always traveling here and there, her attitude had remained exactly the same.

The last time she had seen her was over a century ago, and after all this time, she had begun to think she might have finally ascended, but it seems that this was not the case.

Now she had appeared unexpectedly, and that excited smile on her face…

Remembering that expression, which she had never seen on her face since she had known her, made her lose herself in a series of thoughts, wondering what could exist in this plane of existence that was important enough to attract even her attention.

That said, they didn't have to wait long before they received answers to many of their questions.

Just a couple of minutes after the she disappeared into the portal for the secret realm, several beams of light began to shoot out of it.

One by one, they struck various points in the area in front of the portal, crumbling quickly and, under the astonished eyes of those present, leaving some people wounded, some unconscious, and others conscious but clearly struggling.

The beams continued for a while, and in no time, the area that had been emptied after various groups had been sent into the secret realm was once again filled.

When everyone there saw who these people were, they immediately realized they were the groups sent inside.

This confused everyone, but a sense of relief could be seen on many faces as they rushed to reach those who belonged to their factions.

It was clear to them that the cause of all this was very likely the woman who had just entered. As for why she had acted directly to save everyone present, they didn't know, but now that groups were out, they wouldn't take long to find out.

Among those still conscious was Liang Yuexin, who, despite her fierce and powerful appearance when she had entered the secret realm, now had a dark, empty expression, her eyes fixed on nothing, still trapped in the horror of what she had witnessed inside the realm.

Her mind couldn't process the sight of that individual, both so familiar and yet not, dying before her eyes.

Her reaction was similar to when she had thought he had sacrificed himself to let her escape successfully from the underground cave,

but this time the blow to her mind was far more powerful.

Unlike before, which had been just a supposition, now she saw him with her own eyes, brutally killed by the being that had emerged from the tunnel.

The realization that this time it was all real, and that the first thing he had done even in that moment had been to try to save him, was the final blow that shattered her mind completely.

Her body trembled, but she didn't seem to notice. As this happened, deeper within her, in her dantian, a small purple spark began to glow. It started faintly, then grew steadily until, in no time, it filled her entire dantian.

At that moment, a strange figure began to take shape within it, only a silhouette of a creature with uncertain features, which had not been there before.

It devoured the nascent soul that Liang Yuexin had begun forming when she had successfully entered the fifth stage. As soon as it did, it grew larger, and its features became more complete and visible.

Once this happened, several symbols began to appear in her mind, one after another,

symbols incomprehensible, mixed and confused, which at first glance seemed meaningless, but in reality, they were far from it

As these symbols consolidated, a sharp pain erupted in her mind.

The pain was sudden and intense, and, already in a chaotic state, she could not withstand its blow. She lost her senses and collapsed to the ground.

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