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Boom! Bang, bang, bang! The World-Cleansing Azure Lotus Sword was still running rampant. Crystals like icicles kept piercing up through the ground, their terrifying sonic booms destroying everything. Yet this sword strike had bloomed with dazzling beauty, creating a scene like the pure land of Qinglian. I flew down to the ground and touched one of the crystals. It felt smooth and lustrous as jade beneath my fingers, and just as cold!
These were the traces left behind by the World-Cleansing Azure Lotus Sword's stunning manifestation. That single strike had turned the entire road in front of the prefectural headquarters into a pure land, from which countless green crystals had sprouted. It was breathtakingly beautiful.
Someone had rescued Di Xianchen, but the world-cleansing light had burned half his formerly flawless face down to the skull. For a man with such handsome features, that was undoubtedly a devastating blow, and grounds for immense hatred.
Whoever had rescued him probably hadn't fared much better. Otherwise, they would already have seized the chance to attack me. The Azure Lotus Sword's aftershocks raged on, the explosions growing ever more violent. Even fleeing into the space of the Six Paths might not have been enough to escape!
But I could no longer concern myself with whether his rescuer had survived. The energy within my body was exhausted, and I had also expended an amount of blood essence even I couldn't calculate. I swayed unsteadily, almost falling to my knees.
Fortunately, just as my vision blurred and my legs gave way, a soft body caught me in an embrace.
"Worn out already?" My wife's gentle voice came from beside me. I stopped standing on ceremony, wrapped an arm around her slender waist, and struggled to steady myself.
"The power of a domain really is terrifying...