The battle blade in Sui Pojun's hand was now riddled with fine chips, clearly left behind after his exchanges with the gray-clothed woman. As for the woman, she hovered in midair, surrounded on all sides by a vast ring formed from the lifeless gray aura. The ring resembled a portal leading to an endless abyss of death.
From the circular portal, surging gray aura took the shape of two vicious dragons, burrowing toward the places where Huayan and the lion-headed, dragon-bodied beast statues had collapsed. Sui Pojun was already in an extremely poor state. The gray-clothed woman did not seem inclined to attack him again for the moment, while Tu Ling had disappeared without a trace. He had likely avoided getting caught up in the fight with her.
By now, something like the Heart of the Earth Palace had formed inside Lu Xiaotian: a yellow jade disk. Here in Earth Vault City, even though the city was half-destroyed, it let him sense far more than before. He could tell that Tu Ling had not left completely, but was lying low off to one side, some distance away.
The gray-clothed woman was immensely powerful. Though she clearly knew Tu Ling was nearby, she had no intention of seeking trouble with him.
The gray-clothed woman had set many things in motion, and had even begun corroding the Heart of the Earth Palace an unknown number of years ago. Yet after spending so much time and effort here, she had made no move to seize the law profundities contained within it, nor had she deliberately tried to kill Sui Pojun and the other native powerhouses. Otherwise, Sui Pojun, gravely wounded as he was, would not still be barely standing.
"Was her target the formation woven from those lion-headed, dragon-bodied statues and the Huayan