"Liang Wuji! I thought you—"
Protected by the Seven Kill Stele, Black Mountain Old Demon returned. He had just been about to laugh three times and declare that it was nothing much—
When he suddenly looked as though he had seen a ghost, staring at Meng Qi, who had already broken free of the Empress's restraint and arrived before him.
Was this a joke?
He was actually not dead?!
Meanwhile, both the Empress and Foolish Monk looked utterly baffled. Who was Liang Wuji?
There was, however, a Supreme Elder of the Cangtian Sect named Ji Wuliang.
"Didn't you want to see my strength?
"Why not experience it for yourself..."
Meng Qi raised his hand and unleashed a Heaven Opening Seal.
In that instant, heaven and earth fell silent as a new world was created within chaos.
Even with the Nine Nether Aura amplifying him severalfold, Black Mountain Old Demon had nowhere to evade.
He could only watch as that Heaven Opening-like blow smashed him into fragments.
Even as he died, Black Mountain Old Demon was filled with endless question marks.
Why hadn't he been this strong when fighting the Empress earlier?!
His final lingering obsession could only release an incomplete cry of grief and rage.
"I may not have broken free, but you won't be able to escape Demon Buddha's grasp either..."
The next moment, Black Mountain Old Demon was crushed into powder.
Yet his words sent a tremor through Meng Qi's heart. Demon Buddha? Ananda?!
Could Black Mountain Old Demon's abnormality, and the Empress's abnormality, have been caused by Ananda making a move?!
Having already achieved his goal, Xu Yue timely broke free from the restraints of the fallen eminent monk's relic. In one step, he arrived before the Seven Kill Stele and took it into his hand.
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