The rift torn open in the Fourth Heaven abruptly expanded more than tenfold with an earth-shaking boom!
Its edges began to stabilize, forming a relatively secure "gateway" through which large numbers of powerful cultivators could safely pass!
The great formation that had sealed off the Fourth Heaven for twenty years had been breached completely!
"The formation is broken! All forces, heed my command—charge into the Fourth Heaven!"
Sword Venerable Lingjue's murderous voice thundered through the spatial gateway!
At his command, the allied elites who had long been poised to strike surged through the enormous spatial gateway like floodwaters bursting through a dam!
The first to charge in were dozens of mid-stage Emperor Venerable Realm cultivators from the Fifth Heaven!
Their auras linked together, their killing intent seething, they immediately spotted Lin Man standing in the air with her sword,
along with the "fruits" of her recent battle beside her—the scouts and early-stage elder she had just slain.
"That's the woman! She killed Elder Yan of the Blazing Fire Sect!"
"And that brat! He must be related to the chief culprit!"
"Capture them!"
Seven or eight Mid-Stage Emperor Venerable Realm cultivators from the Fifth Heaven instantly surrounded Lin Man and Lin Chen,
and one of them sneered:
“Late-Stage Emperor Venerable Realm?
No wonder you could kill that old bastard Yan.
But you're far too arrogant, woman!
You dare face us alone?
Today, we'll teach you that the Fifth Heaven is no place for you to run wild!"
Another swept his lecherous gaze over Lin Man:
"Tsk, tsk. Quite the beauty, and her cultivation has plenty of kick too.
Wouldn't it be lovely to take her back as a concubine and cauldron?"
A third spoke directly to Lin Chen:
"Little bastard, come over here yourself if you know what's good for you,