Gui Ling 37th Planetary System, Seventh Planet.
Far from the Royal City stood a range of mountains blanketed in snow all year round.
The terrain was steep and treacherous, and savage creatures lived among the peaks, so even the planet's own alien inhabitants rarely ventured there.
Yet now, most of the mountain range had been leveled, leaving craters and pits everywhere.
In a rift cleaved through the mountains by Sword Qi, boiling lava cascaded down both sides.
The scorching heat made the air shimmer.
Three figures chased one another through the rift. Storms were swallowed by the scattered sword flashes, while deep violet lightning roared like a frenzied serpent, melting the surrounding rocks into surging rivers of lava.
This really is a bit much...
Chi Jiuyu held her sword in one hand and retreated close to the surface of the magma, her golden eyes fixed on Ji Ge and Jiu Fu as they pursued her.
Her foundation might be rather ordinary, but she was still at the peak of the half-step Void Return stage—and she was fighting two opponents at once...
That should be about enough.
The emotions in her eyes settled, and her expression returned to calm.
She wiped away a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth and gripped the Jade Talisman in her hand.
She had always liked testing how much she had improved during missions. It was hard to experience a true life-or-death struggle in the real world under ordinary circumstances, after all.
As for the Sword Sect Battle Net's "Virtual Immortal Realm"...
Though every sensation felt the same, she always felt that something was missing. So unless she had reached a new realm and grown strong enough to make the rankings...
She hardly ever went there otherwise.
Boom!
She swung a sword arc