She could not touch him.
Because she had been gone for a long time.
The scene ended there, abruptly.
The Torso Bone became a streak of icy-blue light and merged into his back. It was not a fusion; it had returned to its rightful place completely.
The Torso Divine Bone was complete.
Snow Empress's phantom looked at him, the corners of her mouth lifting slightly. "Congratulations. You're one step closer to Godhood."
Xu Yanli said nothing, only giving her a slight nod.
He had passed the Third Altar without a hitch.
Sunset City, on the border of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Huo Yuhao stood on a rise outside the city, his dark-blue uniform snapping in the evening wind. Behind him, the three hundred Soul Cannons Ju Zi had brought in were arranged in three arcs, all aimed at the city walls. Yet he still had not given the order to fire.
"What are you waiting for?" Ju Zi rode up from behind. Her orange-red hair whipped wildly in the wind, and she clutched the command flag tightly in one hand, ready to wave it at any moment.
Huo Yuhao did not answer. With his eyes closed, he expanded Spiritual Detection to its utmost range, probing every nook and cranny of Sunset City until he knew it all by heart.
The defenders on the walls numbered fewer than three thousand in total, and most were old, weak, or wounded. The real elites had already been wiped out in the earlier battles. The city's grain stores had been empty for more than half a month. The townspeople were gaunt with hunger, and some had even started chewing tree bark.
There were no ambushes, no reinforcements. The defenders had no intention of putting up a fight, either.
Huo Yuhao opened his eyes and