One Sword, One Severed Arm-A Quasi Emperor Bleeds!

Killing intent flashed in the Heavenly Punishment Envoy's eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, he raised his only remaining hand and gathered terrifying Quasi Emperor power. He was about to bring a devastating palm strike down on the crater below, reducing Xiao Yang and the land around him to dust!

But the instant he raised his hand—

A sudden change occurred!

A faint yet impossibly pure green light flashed briefly from the bottom of the seemingly endless crater.

Then a tiny green lotus, no bigger than a palm, crystalline and seemingly the most perfect work of art in the world, slowly and leisurely drifted up from the depths of the crater.

It simply floated quietly in midair, radiating a gentle green light.

It bore no earth-shattering might, nor any aura of destruction.

It looked so ordinary, so fragile, as if a breeze could scatter it.

"Hmm?"

The Heavenly Punishment Envoy's raised hand stopped in midair.

He furrowed his brow and stared at the tiny green lotus, an inexplicable and deeply ominous premonition rising in his heart.

He could feel that the "Myriad Laws Return to Silence" power, which was eroding Xiao Yang's Life Force, had recoiled the instant it touched the lotus—as if a mouse had seen a cat.

How was that possible?!

In the very moment he hesitated—

The Great Dao Green Lotus hovering in midair trembled softly.

One of its petals drifted down without a sound.

It fell very, very slowly.

So slowly that everyone present could clearly see its path as it descended.

Yet this seemingly slow scene made every hair on the Quasi Emperor's body stand on end in an instant!

At that moment, his Quasi Emperor instincts sounded the fiercest, most frantic alarm he had ever heard!

Danger!

Mortal danger!

Run!

Without a second thought, he