A Fated Encounter

Remember: at any time, never doubt whether the trump card of a direct heir from a top-tier great clan would work.

Since it was a trump card,

it would definitely work.

And not merely work.

Its effects were bound to be exceptional as well.

As the Holy Daughter of the Floating Tu Ancient Clan, Qing Yan Jing had rashly declined the Supreme Elder's offer of an escort, but that had only stemmed from her confidence in her own strength. She had not truly acted on impulse.

If she had truly acted on impulse...

there would have been no need for her to carry trump cards...

Of course, trump cards were trump cards. Having them was certainly a good thing, but when activating any trump card, one had to remember a principle—one that was also the rule governing all things in the world: to move a thousand catties with four ounces, you first needed the strength of those four ounces!

Did Qing Yan Jing possess that strength?

Without question, she did not at present.

Of course, as a cultivator—and especially as the Holy Daughter of the Floating Tu Ancient Clan—it was inevitable for her to possess two states. The first was her normal state: the strength she could display without harming herself. The second was her abnormal state: the greatest destructive force she could unleash when she disregarded everything else.

Thus, in a spar, it was common to use the first state.

Even in a life-or-death battle, she would most likely only use the first state.

But if the situation turned against her...

if she had to carve out a path through blood in order to survive...

if fighting normally would only result in being crushed...

then she would have no choice but to use the second state!

Extremely destructive Forbidden