Just as the Ruthless Empress was being held back by the kings of the Foreign Territory and focused all her strength on defending against attacks from the upper reaches of the river.
A blinding golden light suddenly lit up within the Black Mist at the river's upper reaches.
It was a golden spear radiating undying brilliance. The shaft carried the weathered aura of countless ages, as though it had once drunk its fill of the blood of innumerable worlds' origins.
An Lan's Spear.
This peerless murderous weapon did not attack the white-robed empress. Instead, carrying an ultimate killing intent capable of piercing through eternity, it bypassed the empress's defenses like a bolt of lightning that cleaved through heaven and earth.
Its target was exceedingly clear: Shi Hao within the Space-Time Secret Realm. Following the River of Time, it mercilessly speared toward him.
Faced with this fatal strike, Shi Hao felt every hair on his body stand on end. That aura had him firmly locked in place, making him feel as if even his soul were about to be annihilated.
His entire body stiffened, and he could not even move a finger. A cross-realm strike from an Immortal King's weapon was simply not something his current realm could withstand. It was absolute suppression at the level of life itself.
"Dodge!" the mysterious woman cried out, wanting to help, but beneath that undying kingly might, her fragmented imprint was like a dying candle in the wind, swaying on the verge of extinction. She was utterly powerless.
Watching the golden spear tip grow ever larger in his vision, Shi Hao felt a profound unwillingness rise in his heart.
He still had far too many things left undone. He had yet to quell the turmoil—was he truly going to die to this scheme from