Even after being humiliated by Lin Qi at the castle gates, Qi Aran only believed that he had slipped up for a moment. He did not think Lin Qi was beyond his ability to handle; he believed he had merely been careless and lost his footing for an instant.
He remained proud, remained aloof, and still did not truly regard Lin Qi as anyone worth taking seriously.
Thus, after the tea party that lasted three full hours, Qi Aran's anger grew harder and harder to restrain, directly affecting Auspicious Heaven's self-control. So when those two puppet eunuchs winked and grimaced as they provoked Auspicious Heaven, she boldly used a secret art to kill one of them!
Things immediately developed in a direction that left Qi Aran utterly at a loss, a direction wholly unfamiliar to him.
Lin Qi gripped his longsword tightly. A holy white radiance suddenly flashed across his face. "Lord of Dawn, my god, my lord, Your glory envelops all, Your majesty destroys all! Before this heretic, reveal Your power and wrath!"
A ball of white light condensed in Lin Qi's palm. Accompanied by a terrifying crack of shattering air, the white sphere unleashed an unstoppable torrent that struck Qi Aran fiercely. Qi Aran let out a cry of pain as he and Auspicious Heaven were blasted out of the VIP hall together, sent flying over a hundred meters in a miserable heap.
The power of dawn and the seven-colored glazed radiance around Qi Aran rapidly ground against each other, devouring and dissolving one another, constantly producing strange hissing sounds. Thick black smoke continuously rose from wherever they met, and within it flickered distorted shadows of many colors.
Alda rushed out from among the nobles and pointed at Qi Aran, shrieking hysterically, "Are you all idiots? Seize this