Damn it, we ran into a Foundation Establishment Herald!
Foundation Establishment Heralds and Third Rank Heralds were incredibly easy to distinguish. They seemed to differ by only one advancement, but the gap between their levels was as vast as heaven and earth. No matter how powerful a Third Rank Herald was, they could at most 'take the enemy general's head from among ten thousand troops,' whereas a Foundation Establishment Herald only needed to make the slightest move to unleash 'a volley of arrows and a full-army charge'!
One person became an army, overturning heaven and earth, like a god or demon, like an abyss or hell!
Having witnessed Chen Liexia's destructive power in the Wandering Star Forest, Yan Qing understood one fact very clearly: let alone the two of them, even a group of Third Rank Heralds couldn't stand against a Foundation Establishment Herald. A level-39 Herald was merely the strongest kind of mortal, while a level-40 Foundation Establishment expert was honored by the Buddha as an Arhat or Bodhisattva, and by those who sought the Dao as a perfected cultivator. They were great beings who had undergone an essential sublimation—gods walking upon the earth!
Yan Qing didn't even dare to speak. He forcibly swallowed back the blood surging up from his abdomen, lowered his presence as much as possible, and ran to Shang Xin Lei's side at top speed. He pried her off the wall, hoisted her over his shoulder like cargo, and hurried away without looking back!
A woman dressed in a plain palace-maid's uniform, who appeared to be around fifty, walked out through the broken wall. Her old-fashioned silver hair was as smooth as silk polished by time, with specks of starlight flowing through it like fragments. Her face was thin, and the crow's-feet at the corners