Upon hearing this, Wu Shandie was utterly horrified. Instinctively, she tried to throw a punch toward the source of the voice.
However, the thought of "throwing a punch" had barely flashed through her mind when her vision was swallowed by silvery-white lightning.
The lightning writhed like countless venomous serpents, burrowing through her wounds into her battered body and rampaging through her internal organs and meridians. In an instant, all the spiritual power and strength in her body crumbled away, leaving her powerless to resist.
The lightning gradually receded, revealing Song Wen and Wu Shandie.
Wu Shandie's already scarred body had become even more horrific to behold. Her entire body was charred black and carbonized; even her internal organs had not been spared. She had fallen unconscious, utterly motionless.
Song Wen's body was withered like a corpse, yet his eyes were extraordinarily cold, like two frigid stars fixed upon the mountain gate dozens of zhang away.
With a wave of his right hand, an invisible force instantly swept up Wu Shandie and hurled her into the roiling sea of blood overhead.
At the same time, he flipped his left wrist, and the two-foot-long Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword abruptly appeared in his hand.
As spiritual power flowed into it, the short sword erupted with jet-black radiance. Its blade trembled, as though endless baleful fiends were howling and roaring within its body.
"Open!"
Song Wen shouted lowly, and the short sword suddenly transformed into a bolt of black lightning, slashing toward the mountain gate.
"Boom—"
The instant the sword light struck the barrier over the mountain gate, the two enormous stone pillars forming the gate shook violently, emitting a teeth-grating creak as though they might collapse at any moment.
Azure runes surged forth from the barrier, desperately resisting this world-destroying strike.
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