Hua Zun raised her eyes and swept her gaze ahead, her thoughts grinding to a halt.
She was somewhat breathless, staring at the Radiant Supreme in disbelief.
She had returned...
Hua Zun's body trembled. In an instant, she was seized by immense panic and overwhelming fury.
My luck has truly run out!
One foot had already crossed the threshold. She had been on the verge of cutting down the Saint Star Dao Fruit.
And then the Radiant Supreme had returned just like that, standing right before her.
The world fell silent. Even the firmament seemed unbearably cold, utterly different from the atmosphere throughout the entire Saint Palace.
The powerhouses from every faction who had been waiting for Hua Zun to succeed were all astonished. What was going on?
The atmosphere in the Saint Palace was terribly oppressive. Even the Radiant Saint Star seemed dim and dull.
"How are you going to face me?"
The Radiant Supreme broke the silence. Her sleeves fluttered, her bearing sacred and noble, and every word and movement she made caused the starry sky to faintly choke.
Hua Zun shuddered. The Radiant Supreme of the past had doted on her immensely, but now there was nothing left but icy emotion.
"G-Grand... Supreme Old Ancestor, I, I..."
Hua Zun did her best to steady her breathing, then knelt prostrate on the ground and said, "The world is in turmoil, and a great calamity is coming. You have been away from home for tens of thousands of years, and the Saint Palace needs strength to guard it."
"That is not what I wanted to hear."
The Radiant Supreme's voice turned colder. Bone-chilling cold surged from her eyes, boiling into mighty fury.
Hua Zun's entire body ached as though she had fallen into a mountain of corpses and a