The Empress pondered and retracted Her gaze from the skeleton.
She then looked at the other seven stone gates in the surroundings.
After sweeping through them one by one, when Her gaze landed on the third stone gate, Her eyes narrowed slightly. After that, She closed Her eyes and sat cross-legged, waiting silently.
And beyond the third closed stone gate, which She was gazing upon, the black-robed figure, wrapped in iron chains, who had been moving mysteriously ever since arriving at Great Emperor Nether Flame's seclusion site… was standing there.
His eyes stared fixedly at the stone gate in front of it, as though his gaze could penetrate it as well, observing the chamber behind the gate and the black crystal in the immortal skeleton's hands.
He didn't act rashly but his expression was gloomy. He chose to sit cross-legged and wait as well.
