In the wilderness.
Sleeping Bamboo Empress half-knelt on the ground, using the famed sword Tongzhu as a cane to barely keep herself from collapsing.
Their recent clash had ended in her crushing defeat, a defeat without the slightest suspense. There had not been a shred of uncertainty.
Even after she unleashed the strongest secret art of Yin Return Blade and activated the long sword's potential, she had still failed.
More humiliatingly, she did not even know how she had lost.
Zhou You had reacted in the heat of battle and unleashed a technique she had never seen before, crushing her strongest move head-on.
One thing was certain: this secret art had definitely not been passed down by the Heavenly Southern Divine Sword. Lord of Broken Brow Mountain had carefully instructed her in every profound art and secret technique of the Heavenly Southern lineage, and there was no such technique among them.
In other words, Zhou You had another trump card of his own, an ultimate move no weaker than the profound art she was proudest of.
"I lost!"
Sleeping Bamboo Empress forced out those words.
Zhou You nodded. "Mm. It's good that you admit defeat. Are you ready?"
Ready for what?
A chill suddenly ran down Sleeping Bamboo Empress's back. She understood the meaning behind Zhou You's words. She was about to die.
"You led people to hunt down my family. Zhou Mou holds grudges, and I never leave a grudge overnight."
With a slight exertion of force from his palm, the Half-Sage Yin Dao dropped into his hand and stabbed straight into Sleeping Bamboo Empress's forehead.
He had no intention of cherishing beauty or showing mercy. Even if Lord of Broken Brow Mountain's relationship with the Heavenly Southern Divine Sword was ambiguous, it could not sway his decision.
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