Boom!
After a bout of swaying, Granny Huang on Stone Bridge withered away like fallen leaves in autumn.
However.
At the very moment she appeared to die.
A second Stone Bridge rose from the ground within Xian'an City and stretched across the sky. At its head, Granny Huang stood by the railing, her expression cold.
And on the first Stone Bridge.
The "corpse" disintegrated into ashes. The bridge surface shattered and vanished without a trace.
Rebirth?
Regeneration?
Or perhaps... some other special supernatural phenomenon?
Whatever it was.
Granny Huang appeared once more, completely unharmed. The "Death Prophecy" had not inflicted the slightest injury upon her.
No.
Perhaps it had caused some harm after all.
But at least, no such injury could be seen from her appearance.
On the contrary.
The reappearing Granny Huang unleashed a terrifying counterattack, instantly grievously wounding the Prophet. Blood sprayed from his mouth as his body was sent flying backward.
Even the "sutra chanters" chanting the "Law of Death" could barely maintain themselves.
Flickering between existence and nonexistence.
They changed from solid bodies into phantoms once more.
"This is impossible!"
The Prophet roared, shaking the heavens, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Granny Huang said coldly, "I already told you. The laws of death are not so easy to grasp. You arrogantly tried to control them, but in truth, you walked into a dead end."
"No matter how you pry at the laws, what you control is not the laws themselves."
"Only a painted skin."
"As for a trick like yours, hehe."
"Pathetic and laughable."
"Nonsense!" the Judgement Society's Prophet shouted. His hair and beard bristled with rage, and the "sutra chanters" in all directions became real once more. Their synchronized chanting resounded throughout heaven and earth.
"I foresaw your death!"
"You will die in three seconds!"