The unnamed valley east of Yue Kingdom had already been completely leveled.
The space here was fragile, the crater unimaginably deep, and primordial energy in utter chaos.
The mutual understanding between the two combatants—to remain "silent and swift in battle"—had finally been shattered by power neither could contain any longer.
That horrifying celestial phenomenon of lightning and thunder, of skies brightening and darkening, was now laid bare before the world with no further concealment. It could be seen clearly even a hundred li away.
In an instant, a white rainbow shot eastward while a black shadow veered west.
From "this fellow can be snuffed out with a casual hand" to "this man is exceedingly dangerous," the Life-less Cult Ancestor who plagued the world and the Mountain and Sea monster newly clothed in human skin had finally reached a consensus once more.
Thus, one went east and the other west, each withdrawing on their own.
Under a clear and radiant sky, a white rainbow streaked through the clouds.
The sea of clouds silently swallowed the rainbow light. Then a single white bone seed fell to the ground, transforming into the figure of Life-less Cult Ancestor Zhang Linchuan.
He was a miserable sight now, with none of his former composure or bearing.
His right ear, along with nearly half the scalp on that side, had been sliced away. Though the bleeding had long stopped, blue veins, red blood, white bone, and raw flesh had been churned into a neat cross-section, making for a ghastly sight.
Three fingers of his left hand had also been severed cleanly!
When he had marked Yue Kingdom as one of the targets for his original body's tribulation, Yue Kingdom's ruler Wen Jingxiu and its Hidden Minister Gao Zheng had been the only two dangers he anticipated,