Amid the dust and sand, the voice that emerged remained unchanged, as calm as ever, carrying not the slightest emotion.
Su Feiyan let out a cold laugh. She was not at all surprised that he had taken the first move, nor had she expected that first move to grievously wound him.
As the dust settled, Ning Chen quietly watched the woman before him. He too wanted to see just how far she had grown over these years.
With the first move past, the second was about to begin. Suddenly, blood seeped from all five fingers of Su Feiyan's right hand. The blood stained the five strings, and a crimson mist instantly spread around her.
Blood lightning appeared, and the pressure throughout the garden changed in an instant. A force that did not belong to the acquired realm erupted. Crimson bolts of lightning raced without cease, and the earth between the two swiftly collapsed, sinking several zhang deep.
The world-shaking might made the several generals behind Mingyue greatly wary. They stepped forward at once, shielding her.
It was widely known that the Empress Dowager possessed extraordinary martial prowess, yet no one had expected her to be this powerful.
Within the blood lightning, Su Feiyan pushed her cultivation to its limit. Borrowing the lightning power left behind by her first two moves and using her own blood and vitality as the catalyst, she forcibly plucked five strings, once again revealing the Hexi Imperial Family's inherited ultimate art.
"Five Strings Shatter Heaven, Spring Thunder Shakes the World!"
As the five strings sounded, heaven and earth changed color. With only a clear cry heard, Su Feiyan's aura instantly surged from half a step into the innate realm into the innate realm itself. In the instant heaven shattered, the blood lightning grew several times fiercer,