The Painful Yet Pleasurable 'Brawl'

After seeing Xiao Ruo's battered expression, everyone realized something terrible had happened.

Once the news spread, some busybodies began making inquiries.

Eventually, they discovered scattered fragments of warships and pieces of armor all across the starry sky.

"The Celestial Dynasty's million-strong army is gone?"

The world was aghast.

Li Ye was scouring the world for materials needed to set up the Five Luo Smoke Mist Array and the Immortal Imprisonment Array.

He ventured beyond the heavens and swung his fist, shattering a small, gleaming star into gravel.

Then he gathered some of the gravel, which still carried the star's energy.

A full hundred thousand tons.

"Star Sand, an unrivaled material for refining Saint Artifacts."

"I'd only ever heard of it before. In just a little over a decade, this material has become something I can get my hands on with ease."

Li Ye looked at the ten thousand tons of Star Sand he had packed into a small bottle and sighed with emotion.

He started heading back.

Who knew how much time had passed when a series of rumbles reached Li Ye's ears.

Amid a boundless Lightning Sea, a tall, white-clad woman with flowing long hair was undergoing her tribulation. Her movements were graceful and fleeting, as light and nimble as a Heavenly Maiden dancing.

Speed: three times the speed of light.

Her fingers and palms gleamed like crystal. Her shapely body was astonishingly supple as she bathed in Heavenly Cloud and swept out a fierce palm strike, severing the last mutated, blood-red tribulation bolt.

This palm technique was extraordinary. Its force was like a blade; it seemed to be a single wave of palm force, but it actually contained nine layers of power, which pierced through the last and most terrifying tribulation bolt.

Pfft! Pfft!

The woman staggered,