Within Ankang Quarter, Meng Qi stood high above the ground. Everywhere his eyes fell was ruins. The courtyard where Li Chongkang and the others had been was directly razed flat, the earth sinking three feet, without a single object left behind. Yet the surrounding houses remained intact, untouched by even the slightest ripple. The attacker's control over his power was terrifyingly precise.
After drawing in all kinds of information from heaven and earth and filling in the blank left by his brief departure, he confirmed that Li Chongkang, Bi Zhongde, and Lu Siquan had died, their souls extinguished, as if they had been erased from existence itself. Even the causal connections related to them had been severed completely.
Rain scattered chaotically through the air, mingled with fragments of lightning that drifted slowly downward. Meng Qi spread out his right hand and caught a little of it, sighing softly.
"Pei Daotong was silenced too..."
He seemed to have crumbled into dust, returning to the lightning, falling with the rain and spreading everywhere.
With a flicker of his figure, Meng Qi pierced through the palace city's restriction formations and appeared inside the Imperial Study. There he saw Xiao Xuan sitting upright, his eyes frozen with fear and fury, his right hand clenched tightly into a fist.
A breeze suddenly rose. Xiao Xuan's Nine Dragons Playing with Pearls Robe turned to flying ash inch by inch, while his body began disintegrating from his hair. The collapse rapidly spread to his head and surged toward his limbs. In a few short moments, nothing remained but glittering dust drifting through the room.
During the brief time Meng Qi had escaped this universe, the Demon Buddha had acted decisively, abandoning all other arrangements and withdrawing calmly, leaving no trace of where he had gone.
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