A faint smile curved the Black Phoenix Immortal Emperor's lips.
"Thank you!"
Her voice was soft, but it carried gratitude from the bottom of her heart.
Without Fang Chen, she would not be here today.
Without Fang Chen, her Clone would have died long ago in the Abyss of Annihilation.
Without Fang Chen, she would have remained a Six-Turn Immortal King forever, unable to break through the ceiling that had loomed over the Cultivators of the Outer Heavens for countless years.
Fang Chen had given her hope.
Fang Chen had given her the chance to break through.
Fang Chen had shown her the heights beyond Immortal Emperor.
Crack!
A dazzling bolt of Purple Lightning tore across the sky and struck down from the Void far above.
Heavenly Punishment had arrived.
The Black Phoenix Immortal Emperor's breakthrough to the peak of one-turn Immortal Emperor caused an even greater disturbance than the Nether Prison Immortal Emperor's. The World Will sensed it more keenly and reacted more fiercely.
The lightning bolt was over a hundred zhang across, Purple-Gold throughout. Fine Destruction Runes flowed across its surface, radiating a terrifying pressure that made souls tremble.
Where it passed, space silently evaporated, leaving a pitch-black Crack that refused to close. Along its edges, fine Violet Thunder Marks spread like veins, radiating an aura that promised to end all things.
The Black Phoenix Immortal Emperor looked up at the descending Purple-Gold lightning. There was no fear in her phoenix eyes, only calm.
She had not even called upon her True Phoenix Flame.
She merely raised her right hand, pressed her index and Middle Finger together, and lightly pointed at the falling lightning.
Hiss!
A thread of Scarlet-Gold Flame as fine as a hair shot from her fingertips to meet it.
Flame met lightning.
There was no