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"Hiss..."

With a burst of sharp pain, Ji Huaxi slightly furrowed her brows and finally slowly woke up.

Her memories were still on Skull Plain, at the moment when Su Heng suddenly lashed out, that damned monster, goodwill taken for granted.

As for what happened afterward, she had no clue.

Ji Huaxi's heart gradually sank, even preparing for the worst possibilities.

She first looked around to assess her environment. She found that she was not in a filthy, damp cell as she had expected, but in a room with wooden floors, clean and tidy. Not far away on a table, there even stood a lotus-shaped copper furnace with wisps of white smoke seeping out. The scent was not overpowering and seemed to have some calming and beautifying effects.

Lifting the thin quilt covering her, she gently stepped down from the bed.

Barefoot on the wooden floor.

The armor she had been wearing was taken off, now hanging on the weapon rack beside her.

Instead, she was wearing a plain white long dress, the hem reaching her ankles, feeling no discomfort on her body.

"Sigh..."

Ji Huaxi clutched her chest.

Her heart, which had been hanging, finally started to relax.

She reached out to touch her armor, but at that moment, the sound of hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside.

The footsteps stopped near the door, followed by rhythmic knocking.

"Come in." Ji Huaxi cleared her throat.

Creak!

The door was pushed open.

A young woman dressed in black clothes walked in.

"Princess, have you rested well?" The woman in the black dress bowed and greeted her with a smile.

"I'm feeling quite well now." Ji Huaxi slightly lifted her chin, her alluring phoenix eyes narrowing as she said, "I feel like I could blow up the head of a Destruction Power right now."

"That's good to hear." The woman in black seemed not to pick up on the threat in Ji Huaxi's words, only offering a faint congratulation.

"Our lord has always wanted to meet you."

"Your lord..." A bad premonition surged in Ji Huaxi's heart, "Northern Border Demon Dragon."

"Yes."

The woman in black said, "Please come with me, our lord's patience has always been quite short."

"At least let me change my clothes," Ji Huaxi muttered under her breath, but still followed the woman in black out of the room.

Leaving the room.

Ji Huaxi felt as though she was stepping out of a semi-transparent barrier.

The air outside suddenly became much heavier, and a booming sound followed.

Through the dimly lit corridor's open windows, Ji Huaxi saw blood-colored lightning and towering volcanoes, realizing she was in some world within the Eternal Heaven Realm. How long had she been unconscious, and what had happened next... Confusion flooded her mind.

Ji Huaxi opened her mouth but didn't make a sound.

The woman in front of her didn't seem too keen on talking, and Ji Huaxi wasn't one to beg either.

So, they moved forward in silence.

Stepping out of the corridor, they arrived at an external hall paved with black stone slabs.

A burly figure in Golden Armor, impatiently waiting there, caught her eye and said, "Please follow me."

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Ji Huaxi, barefoot, stepped onto the wide street paved with volcanic ash.

Around her were buildings under construction, each towering over ten meters tall, as if specifically crafted for giants. Letting her senses spread slightly, she picked up intense life auras from her surroundings. Ji Huaxi was surprised by how little time had passed yet so many powerful beings were already assembled under the Northern Border Demon Dragon.

As they crossed the street and reached a plaza at its end,

The crowd around grew denser.

On the plaza, eight giant black steles stood, arranged according to the Bagua order.

Below each stele, there were several or dozens of people sitting cross-legged, among them some warriors in Golden Armor, who she knew from previous conversations were personally forged by Demon Dragon, an extension of its brutal minions and evil will. Others were cultivators from various external regions.

Unexpectedly.

On this plaza, Ji Huaxi saw a familiar face.

General Shi Teng from Heaven's Grace, both comparable to Realm Masters in strength, met each other's gaze through their keen perception, then subtly shifted their eyes away simultaneously.

Those steles apparently held records of some Cultivation Technique; out of curiosity, Ji Huaxi glanced over them with the corner of her eye.

It was like walking through a dark tunnel and suddenly seeing a flicker of light.

That was how Ji Huaxi felt.

But the moment she saw those inscriptions,

A massive wave of Spirit Light swept over her like a tsunami.

Crack!

The bottleneck that had long confined her started to loosen, showing cracks.

Ji Huaxi was deeply shocked, momentarily hesitant to move away.

Only when the Dragon Guard in front of her turned back with a puzzled and scrutinizing look did she blush slightly, cough lightly, and pretend to be indifferent as she continued forward.

"Sigh..."

Ji Huaxi took a deep breath.

With her head bowed, she swallowed a dry gulp of saliva.

Only then suppressing the terror inside her.

Just now, from that brief glance, Ji Huaxi determined that the inscriptions on those steles bore the Cultivation Technique practiced by the Northern Border Demon Dragon itself.