Gu Yuena was seated on the couch with her eyes closed, but judging from her occasionally fluttering eyelashes, it was clear that she wasn't sleeping or meditating. Instead, she seemed to be in deep thought about something.

There were several other people seated beside her, one of which was a man with a head of long black hair, punctuated by a single thin line of golden hair.

This man wore a pair of senior colonel epaulets, and he was accompanied by several other figures of different descriptions.

"My Lord, are we really going to help the humans combat the abyss?" the black-haired man asked.

Gu Yuena's eyes remained shut as she replied, "We have no choice. If the Douluo Continent ceases to exist, where will we reside? I've come into contact with the abyssal plane in the past, and those abyssal creatures are extremely formidable. They're 100...