"Saintess Zhu, everything we've done was for your own good. Please understand."
Chen Nuoyi's tone carried an apology, but even as she spoke, her right hand was already raised high.
The girl's jade-like hand clenched into a fist. Her beautiful eyes turned golden, gleaming in the darkness with a soul-stirring light.
Zhu Tianqing instinctively turned around and looked at Chen Nuoyi's raised right hand.
Aside from being beautiful, the hand seemed utterly ordinary. Yet for some reason, she felt an extremely dangerous power hidden within that fist.
Zhu Tianqing instinctively tried to retreat, but it was already too late.
Chen Nuoyi slowly raised her right index finger.
In that very instant, a purple-gold Sword Qi shot out between the girl's fingers, hurtling toward Zhu Tianqing's chest at an unimaginable speed.
The sword strike was too fast, almost like teleportation. One moment it was at Chen Nuoyi's fingertip; the next, it was already at Zhu Tianqing's chest.
But just as the strike was about to pierce the skin over Zhu Tianqing's chest, a silver shield suddenly appeared around her.
The shield collided with the purple-gold Sword Qi, and the latter shattered on impact.
Yet as the Sword Qi broke apart, a terrifying blast of air erupted from its center, engulfing everything within a meter.
The tremendous air pressure smashed a deep crater into the ground beneath Zhu Tianqing. A nearby tree so thick it would have taken both arms to encircle was caught in the blast, and half its trunk was pulverized.
Clearly, that strike had combined the Sword Qi with Purple Gold Dragon Qi.
Its power was enough to rival the full-force attack of an ordinary Third Layer of Foundation Establishment cultivator.
But even though the strike was so powerful, the silver shield had still blocked it with ease.
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