He struggled to raise his head and stared at the center of the explosion, his eyes filled with shock. He had lived for over ten thousand years, yet he had never seen such a terrifying collision.
As the smoke and dust cleared, the Fire Phoenix Empress appeared before everyone. Her chest had been pierced through by a single spear, blood gushing out and staining her robes red.
She lowered her head to look at the bloody hole in her chest, her eyes full of disbelief.
She had lost!
Her ultimate strike, achieved by burning her bloodline and exhausting all the power of the grand formation, had been effortlessly neutralized by Lin Ming's single spear thrust. It had even pierced straight through her chest.
That spear seemed to have pierced through space and time itself before landing directly on her body.
"How is this possible..." The Fire Phoenix Empress slowly collapsed, falling to her knees and gasping for breath.
As she looked into Lin Ming's indifferent eyes, immense despair and indignation welled up within her.
She had lost completely, without the slightest ability to fight back. She did not even know how Lin Ming had done it. That spear had been too fast—so fast that even her eyes could not keep up.
A thought suddenly flashed through her mind. If she had not been greedy back then, if she had not wanted to side with the Star River Empress, if she had not wanted to kill Lin Ming as a token of loyalty... would none of this have happened?
Lin Ming had originally belonged to their Fire Phoenix Empire! With his talent, if she had properly nurtured him, perhaps the Fire Phoenix Empire would have risen long ago.
Yet she had chosen that path—a path leading to the Abyss. Immense regret