In a dim and ominous hall shrouded in gray fog, twelve bronze lamps flickered eerily on a long table.
Behind each lamp sat a figure, their faces obscured by masks intricately carved with strange patterns.
"The plan to resurrect the Ancestral Magus has failed," one of them stated.
"Every member of the Ghost Mage Sect has been exterminated. From the traces left at the scene, the Ancestral Magus was killed," another added.
"The attempt by He Yuanfeng of the Sancai Academy to sacrifice the Dao also failed, interrupted by someone," a third voice chimed in.
"After the revival of the Barbarian God, she didn't act as we expected and abandoned the Barbarian Tribe instead," said another in a calm tone.
"Hmph, those barbarians, mere human-shaped beasts, deserve to be exiled to the Abyss of the Fallen God, to be confined there till death," someone commented scornfully.
