After several more days of travel, they finally saw a speck of faint light at the bottom of the abyss.
It was a war halberd planted in a huge black stone stele.
The entire halberd was a dark gold, forged from some unknown divine metal, its surface covered in dense, fine dragon-scale patterns.
Chaos qi coiled around the halberd's blade. Even just standing there in silence, it gave off a terrifying sense that it could tear apart the heavens and annihilate ten thousand worlds.
"Aotian War Halberd!" Long Aotian growled in excitement, about to step forward.
A terrifying finger-beam that seemed capable of piercing the starry river stabbed out from the darkness above without the slightest warning, straight toward Long Aotian's back!
The timing, angle, and power of that finger were all exquisite to the extreme. It was unmistakably a Quasi-Immortal Emperor's strike, carrying a deathly Dao principle that froze Space-Time and ground away all life!
It was Ye Lingtian! He had been lying in ambush here all along!
"Look out!" Long Aotian reacted, erupted with the last of his Immortal Emperor power, and retreated with Zhou Qing and Lin Yan.
"Ye! Ling! Tian!" Long Aotian stared fixedly at the figure slowly walking out of the darkness, both eyes blood-red, his chaotic killing intent almost condensing into substance.
"My good brother, in such a hurry to take back your toy?"
Ye Lingtian stood in the air, his Nine-Dragon Imperial Robe moving without wind. The pressure of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor was released without restraint, forcibly flattening the raging Annihilation Storms around him.
Beside him, Feng Xuhuang's figure also quietly emerged. Her Seven-Colored Phoenix Skirt shimmered with flowing radiance, yet her devastatingly beautiful face was full of cold killing intent.
"Long time no see, Brother Aotian," she said, her red lips parting