Chapter 5810

Yvette’s gift lay with shadows. In this realm of searing light, her talent shrank to nothing. Only the sliver of celestial power Jared had slipped into her veins earlier kept her heart from stalling outright.

Around them, the rest of the Myriad Beast Sect looked defeated. Eagle clansmen watched their own feathers curl to charcoal. Tiger youths’ fur became charred. Snake-blooded novices listened to their scales crack open like old pottery.

Choked groans rolled through the troop, one after another, the mournful rhythm of an army tossed alive into a smelter.

Clara might be a disciple of Reiner and practiced a top flame-type technique, but due to the injury she suffered, her meridians were thin ice under a torrent of lava. Pale as bleached parchment, she shook and coaxed her art into motion, each cycle buying only another moment before annihilation.

Despair enveloped them yet again. They had outrun pursuit, crossed into a sanctuary whispered of in legends, only to discover the sanctuary itself eager to burn them down.

Death stood one step away, its hot breath already licking their souls.

“Calm down.”