"I know you have cultivation, but this is a matter for the Profound Saint Palace. It has nothing to do with you. Stand down!"
Shi Lan had barely taken two steps forward when Li Canglan appeared beside her and grabbed her, stepping in front of her with an air of righteous indignation.
Thud—
Without changing her expression, she raised a hand and slapped him aside. Her true form appeared as she unfurled her Divine Phoenix Wings, no longer suppressing her surging blood and qi. A pillar of blood and qi shot into the sky.
"You..."
Li Canglan stood there in a daze, momentarily at a loss for words.
"There's another big fish here."
Zheng Tianlun immediately noticed the commotion and stopped slaughtering. He raised a hand and summoned a nine-story pagoda, which came crashing down toward Shi Lan.
The pagoda gleamed brilliantly, surrounded by a ring of chains of law. It had already surpassed the category of spiritual treasures—it was a Dao weapon.
"Since you have some beauty, surrender obediently and I might spare your life. I'll bring you into the Zheng family. If one of the young masters takes a fancy to you and makes you a concubine, wouldn't that send you soaring to the heavens?"
Zheng Tianlun let out a booming laugh. The nine-story pagoda ground across the sky, its radiance shooting upward like a blazing sun as it came crashing down.
Shi Lan's gaze narrowed slightly. Her surging blood and qi condensed into armor that covered her entire body. Then she raised a hand and struck out with a Heavenly Extremity Seal. The flame-shaped divine mark between her brows shimmered, condensing a trace of Origin True Fire that seeped into the seal.
The palm seal swelled with the wind, transforming in an instant into something a thousand