Yet at the very instant the golden giant palm came crashing down, a faint but tenacious streak of blood-red light broke free from its restraints by the narrowest margin. Like a startled bird, it shot through a gap between the edge of the giant palm and the Chaos currents. Driven by a secret technique, it moved at an unimaginably fast speed, vanishing beyond the horizon in an instant, leaving behind only a faint blood trail and ripples in space.
It was the heavily wounded Shaking Mountain Ape clan chief!
Millions of miles away, above a desolate wilderness, space suddenly tore open. The Shaking Mountain Ape clan chief's battered, ruined body stumbled out of the rift, his aura utterly feeble.
He looked utterly miserable. Half his body had nearly been destroyed, and his sole remaining arm clutched the Heaven-Shaking Staff, which was covered in cracks. Golden demon blood gushed forth like a spring, corroding deep pits into the ground wherever it fell.
"Zhang Shuai... this grudge... pfft!"
He had barely managed to grit out a few words when he spat out a mouthful of blood. The backlash from the secret technique made his vision go dark, and he nearly fell from the sky. Forcing out the last trace of demon power, he prepared to flee farther away.
Suddenly, the void ahead lit up without warning. A dazzling sword light emerged from nothingness, shining as brilliantly as a blazing sun and instantly illuminating the desolate wilderness.
Its edge seemed capable of splitting the heavens. Its sharpness surpassed all imagination, as though it could sever karma and shatter destiny.
The Heaven-and-Earth Boundless Sword seemed to have crossed millions of miles of void, having waited here for a long time!
The Shaking Mountain Ape clan chief wanted to block it, wanted to evade it,