When Lin Changqing saw Yuan Qingying suddenly shoot toward the palace, he did not think much of it at first, assuming only that she was overly excited.
But the very next moment, he sensed that something was wrong, and his expression changed drastically.
"Bitch, you're courting death!"
With a furious roar, Lin Changqing swept up a hand. Blade Qi instantly crisscrossed the sky, and a ten-thousand-zhang blade aura pierced through the heavens as it viciously slashed toward Yuan Qingying.
Clang...
The blade flashed, unbelievably fast. The sky was torn apart in an instant, and countless space-time planes were annihilated.
Lin Changqing's reaction could not have been any faster, but in the end, he was still one step too late.
A tenth of an instant before his Blade Qi came down, Yuan Qingying had already slammed into the palace gates. Light immediately flickered across them, and in the next moment, her entire body merged into the gates and vanished without a trace.
Boom!
Blade Qi raged as it struck the gates fiercely. An incomparably violent energy shockwave erupted from within and surged toward Lin Changqing.
"Damn it!"
Lin Changqing's face darkened completely. With a lift of his hand, a black hole condensed into existence. Like an Ancient Desolate Beast, it swallowed the incoming energy shockwave in a single gulp. Taking one step forward, he appeared before the gates. As he stared at the thing before him, terrifying power immediately surfaced in his pupils, along with killing intent sufficient to tear heaven and earth apart.
His rage was truly boiling now. That woman Yuan Qingying had played him again.
"Very well. You've given me another reason to kill you."
Lin Changqing growled coldly, though his gaze fell upon the palace gates before him. The entire gate seemed fused with the palace itself,