Their auras remained magnificent and domineering, but that ancient resonance spanning past and present, eternal and everlasting, was gone.
"Phew..."
At the summit of the Nine Heavens, Li Wei let out a long breath, her expression turning fierce.
Just as Tongtian had said, they... had grown weaker.
As long as this wasn't a pure crushing disparity in rank, Li Wei was confident she still had the strength to fight.
She might even win!
She rose into the air, flew more than ten yards, then halted and looked back at Gu Jinzhi.
"You're just a weak mythic being. Don't go out there. Just guard the Heavenly Palace!"
Gu Jinzhi nodded with a smile and did not argue, though he still remembered to remind her,
"Don't forget... our agreement."
Li Wei gave him a reassuring smile.
"Don't worry. This time, we'll live and die together!"
The moment she finished speaking, her figure vanished. In an instant, she descended between the Heavenly Palace and the eleven eternals, standing atop the surging River of Time.
Gu Jinzhi's gaze pierced through layer after layer of obstruction as he watched that proud, solitary figure.
He watched her ink-black hair and immaculate white immortal robes whip wildly in the turbulence of time.
He murmured to himself,
"You, who aren't washed away by time... could actually run on your own..."
"I... only made things worse again..."
Above the River of Time, Li Wei did not summon the Slay Immortal Sword Array.
The four swords at the mythic level simply could not keep the array operating steadily under the river's erosion.
She stared at the eleven eternals pressing toward her step by step. With the Slay Immortal Sword in hand, she took the initiative and charged!
"You old geezers, eat my sword!"
Clang—!
A sword ray honed to