Jiang Tian did not charge straight at the lightning-pillar cage.
Instead, he shot into the sky, plunging straight into the clouds.
He had long discovered that the clouds overhead were actually the weakest point of this formation.
Clang! Clang!
Sword light soared skyward, directly punching a massive hole through the dense thunderclouds.
After passing through the hole, Jiang Tian did not pause in the slightest. The lightning wings behind him beat fiercely once more, and his entire body transformed into a streak of azure-gold light that shot toward the outside of Jade Water Island.
"No—!!!"
Tang Si let out an unwilling roar. His thousand-zhang Dharma Avatar rose from the ground, intending to pursue and kill him.
But the Dharma Avatar was simply too enormous. Speed had never been its strength, and no matter how fast it was, it could not outrun Jiang Tian with his speed Amplification stacked to the fullest and the Wind-Thunder Wings.
That streak of azure-gold light flashed across the horizon and vanished beyond the end of the sea within only a few breaths.
Only the sound of thunder still faintly echoed above the sea.
Tang Si stood atop the ruins as his thousand-zhang Dharma Avatar slowly collapsed, turning into arcs of lightning that vanished around him.
His figure reappeared, drenched in blood and weakened to the extreme. His face was ashen, as though he had aged several decades in an instant.
He lowered his head and looked at Jade Water City beneath his feet, once prosperous and now reduced to ruins. Then he raised his head toward the direction in which Jiang Tian had vanished. He remained silent for a long time before finally letting out a sigh that was impossible to tell whether it held rage or helplessness.
"The Jade Water Alliance... is finished."
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