Chapter 1: The Fall of the Queen

It was late at night; the moon was bright, the stars were sparse, and a gale howled through the forest.

Inside a hidden cave in the Solomon Islands, a woman in black sat cross-legged on a white lotus pedestal, her eyes tightly shut.

At this moment, the lotus pedestal, naturally formed from a single piece of white jade, was floating atop a pool of milky stalactite fluid, rotating continuously.

The woman’s stunning face was shrouded in a faint, primal glow. Her black hair drifted in the air as if swaying like seaweed on the ocean floor. Moving in tandem with her hair were ten purple flames flickering between her rapidly moving fingers.

These flames were not the product of a magic trick; they were spiritual energy surging forth from within her body!

This woman was Solomon Yin, the current head of the mysterious Solomon family. At this very moment, she was attempting to break through to the fourth level of the *Wanxiang Secret Canon*, the technique passed down through her family.

The *Wanxiang Secret Canon* was a miraculous technique inherited by the Solomon family. As its name suggested, it was all-encompassing and covered a vast range of knowledge. This secret canon could only be practiced by the head of the Solomon family and a select few direct descendants.

To date, there were over a hundred people of direct Solomon bloodline, but on Earth, where spiritual energy was thin, Solomon Yin was the first to reach the third level of the *Wanxiang Secret Canon*. As for the others, even those with the best natural talent had only reached the second level!

Fine beads of sweat broke out on Solomon Yin’s forehead. The hand seals she was forming grew faster and faster, dazzling to behold.

With her movements, the purple flames at her fingertips grew deeper in color, signifying that the flames were becoming purer.

A hundred meters away from Solomon Yin stood five handsome men with solemn expressions. They watched her with nervous, yet faintly excited, gazes.

These five were the people Solomon Yin trusted most; they were responsible for guarding her. After all, she did not have a hundred percent certainty of a successful breakthrough. In the event of failure, she needed someone to save her and bring her back.

The purple flames at her fingertips danced like mischievous sprites. Suddenly, Solomon Yin clenched her hands shut. The flames at her fingertips extinguished instantly, and her body gave a violent shudder.

One had to realize that the purple flames dancing at her fingertips were the spiritual energy flowing through her body! The impact on her meridians from releasing such energy and then pulling it back in could well be imagined.

The spiritual energy inside her rampaged like a panicked deer. Solomon Yin felt as though her body were about to explode, yet she suppressed the urge to scream, continuously guiding the violent energy to circulate through her body.

If she could just endure this, her meridians would expand and thicken once more, allowing her cultivation to reach new heights!

The white jade lotus pedestal beneath her had now slowly ceased its rotation, and Solomon Yin was facing directly toward the direction of the five men.

However, just as she was fully focused on guiding the spiritual energy, a sudden change occurred! A bullet shot toward the center of her forehead!

At this moment, Solomon Yin was struggling to endure the spiritual energy that was on the verge of spiraling out of control. Consequently, a bullet she could normally catch with ease was, to her in her current defenseless state, nothing less than a death warrant from the King of Hell!

Clearly, there was a traitor among the five people she trusted most!

But she could not die like this! She was the invincible Solomon Queen; she absolutely could not die in such a pathetic manner!