Beneath the heavens, moonlight rippled like waves, draping the dim world in an aura of sacred purity and ethereal stillness.
A bright full moon hung high overhead, and before it stood a slender figure, beautiful as a dream, as illusory as a fantasy.
She wore a long water-green dress beneath a plain white outer robe. Her dark black hair was gathered into a loose bun and secured with a golden hairpin. The faint moonlight flowed around her, accentuating her ethereal bearing.
She had the appearance of a young girl, graceful and enchanting, with skin fairer than snow. A sheathed dagger hung at her waist.
Earlier, it was she who had summoned a bright moon and cleaved apart a towering star corpse as though slicing tofu.
Her otherworldly elegance made even peerless figures such as Yun Qiaojun and Liu Tianchen feel admiration stir in their hearts, their eyes flickering with astonishment.
At a glance, they recognized that this beautiful woman, with a bright icy moon reflected behind her, was a heaven-defying existence from the Southern Heaven Dao Court.
Her Dao title was Lian Yue!
Eleventh on the Carefree Realm List.
Even in the Upper Five Continents, she was renowned far and wide, peerlessly graceful.
It was said that when she attained the Eternal Realm, she had followed an Old Ancestor of the Southern Heaven Dao Court to a secret realm known as the Heaven Moon Dragon Cave.
High above the Heaven Moon Dragon Cave hung an Eternal Moon Palace, within which was nurtured a "bright moon" condensed from the innate essence of supreme yin.
Throughout the ages, countless people had sought to pluck that moon, yet they could not even enter the Eternal Moon Palace.
Much less speak of "plucking the moon."
Yet when Lian Yue arrived, something inconceivable happened: the