The last wisp of black smoke transformed from the Vengeful Demon Wan Guiyuan was utterly annihilated beneath the dual strangulation of azure sword light and array power, vanishing without a trace.
The suffocatingly cold, sinister aura of Vengeful Sha in the air also slowly dissipated, assimilated by the already murky primordial energy on the shadowed side of the ruins.
Outside the array, Chen Fei remained calm. With a light wave of his hand, the Array Puppet that had been standing silently at his side immediately changed its hand seals. The Chain Great Array that had scorched streaks of burn marks even into space promptly dimmed.
Countless crisscrossing dark-gold array patterns receded into the void like a falling tide and vanished. If not for the lingering energy fluctuations in the air and the slight mess upon the ground, that brief but fierce entrapment and slaughter would have seemed like nothing more than an Illusionary Dream.
Once the great array was withdrawn, part of the gray mist that had temporarily been cut off by its power drifted back in.
Cao Feiyu stood with her sword in hand, breathing lightly. Her full chest rose and fell gently with each breath. That World Cleansing Sword Art, unleashed with all her strength, had consumed much of her primordial energy, which had yet to fully recover, leaving her face even paler.
Yet her beautiful eyes shone with astonishing brightness. Staring at the place where Wan Guiyuan had vanished, she slowly exhaled a long breath, and her taut mind finally relaxed.
She slowly turned around and looked toward Chen Fei in the distance.
An intensely unreal sense of daze, mixed with the immense relief of having survived a calamity, instantly drowned Cao Feiyu like a tide.
Just moments ago, she had thought that she and Chen Fei