She lay in the pit and coughed dryly twice, spitting out a mouthful of blood. Watching True Monarch Qingyun's outline gradually weaken, she gave a cold laugh.
"This is only one of your soul imprints. The stronger the techniques you use, the faster the soul imprint disappears. As long as I'm still alive before your soul imprint vanishes, then your disciples will be the ones to die!"
True Monarch Qingyun smiled, her eyes gentle and compassionate, and nodded softly. "You're right."
Her agreement filled Gu Ming with a sense of irony.
Under Gu Ming's watchful gaze, True Monarch Qingyun raised her hand again.
Gu Ming instinctively mobilized all the spiritual energy in her body, preparing to fend off the attack.
Yet True Monarch Qingyun's gaze shifted, landing on Luo Ci not far away.
Lin Qi coughed sharply twice and shouted at Luo Ci, "Third Junior Brother, is your array disk ready?!"
With tears brimming in his eyes, Luo Ci withdrew his bloodstained fingers and shouted, "It's ready!"
Hearing his reply, True Monarch Qingyun's fingertips began frantically gathering spiritual energy, while her figure grew increasingly illusory.
A wild wind howled all around them, kicking up sand and stones. Even the citizens within Ming City could sense the disturbance.
Spiritual energy surged in from all directions, converging at True Monarch Qingyun's fingertips.
With a point into the void, she cleaved an enormous pillar of thunderous spiritual energy down from the black curtain of the sky, striking directly at the array disk Luo Ci had thrown out.
The array disk shattered instantly. The formation patterns upon it drank their fill of spiritual energy and expanded countless times in an instant.
As the spiritual energy poured forth, True Monarch Qingyun's figure gradually vanished.
Sensing that something was wrong, Gu Ming rose to inspect the