Li Yu, who had been hiding in the clouds, shot out at high speed. She had returned to human form and moved directly between Fang Cheng and the black line.
The black line shot straight toward her, carrying the force to pierce right through her.
Li Yu's face went pale, all color draining from it. The attack just now had taken a terrible toll on her; even years of eating restorative pills like meals wouldn't make up for it.
Now, facing the oncoming attack, she gritted her teeth and held her ground, thrusting both palms out.
With one hand, she used Mountain Shaking Earth Quaking; with the other, Returning Wind and Reversing Fire.
The black line slammed into her, and the two forces collided violently, unleashing a shock wave comparable to a small tactical nuclear weapon.
Amid the deafening crash, the layers of dark clouds Li Yu had summoned around them were swept away in an instant.
The black line seemed to hit a Copper Wall and Iron Bastion, and was sent straight back.
Li Yu was thrown backward too. She grunted, blood spilling from the corner of her mouth, while both arms went numb, losing all feeling.
But thanks to her intervention, Fang Cheng had already plunged into the aurora and disappeared.
Li Yu tilted her head toward the sky and murmured, "Buddy, it's all up to you now."
"Woooo..."
The Shadow Within the Gate let out a sound of utter rage. The shadow tried to control the corpses below, continuing the sacrifice to stabilize the gate.
But without the Evil God Consciousness Fragment controlling them, not only had the dozen or so Great Demons gone berserk, the giant made of corpses had also begun to collapse.
Billions of corpses tumbled down from a height of three thousand meters,