Heavenly Machine Art.
The Heavenly Machine Art again!
The instant Empress Xiaoman's spiritual power for healing Ye Zhen surged into his body, it unexpectedly stirred the Heavenly Machine Art within him.
The Heavenly Machine Art continuously circulating within Ye Zhen's body actually resonated with the spiritual power Empress Xiaoman had sent into him.
This resonance was exceedingly subtle. Outsiders could not discern the slightest trace of it, but Empress Xiaoman and Ye Zhen, as the parties involved, were acutely aware of it.
All their shock was reflected in their eyes.
Empress Xiaoman and Ye Zhen were staring at each other, and at that moment, each saw astonishment in the other's gaze.
Ye Zhen's astonishment was beyond description.
Before this, Ye Zhen's attention had been fixed on the Sun Moon Divine Lord.
Though Empress Xiaoman's entrance with the Heaven Punishing Axe in hand had been rather stunning, it had not drawn much of Ye Zhen's attention.
But now, Ye Zhen was utterly stunned.
Empress Xiaoman possessed a cultivation art that shared the same origin as the Heavenly Machine Art. In other words, she was very likely from the Mystic Gate Sect.
The Heavenly Machine Art was the Mystic Gate Sect's most core cultivation art. Under normal circumstances, only someone who also cultivated the Heavenly Machine Art could possibly trigger it. The other cultivation arts passed down within the Mystic Gate Sect could only be triggered by the Heavenly Machine Art.
Other cultivation arts, however, had no possibility of triggering the Heavenly Machine Art.
In other words, Empress Xiaoman was not only from the Mystic Gate Sect, but might even be one of its core disciples.
With cultivation at the peak of the Creation Realm Divine King, the Heaven Punishing Axe in hand, and if she was indeed a core disciple of