Golden light streaked across the ruins overhead.
Jiang Yuechu held the Ten Directions Mountains-and-Rivers Staff and followed Guanlan Immortal Lord's trajectory of descent.
Behind her came Azure Sea Fairy's shrill roar and the clash of True Lord Linghan's fierce Sword Qi.
Purple qi and azure-blue sword radiance churned madly across the heavens, tearing shocking fissures through half the sky.
But none of that concerned her now.
Since True Lord Linghan had agreed to this, he would naturally hold that woman back.
She only needed to do her own part.
The golden light abruptly drew in.
Jiang Yuechu landed steadily atop a collapsed hill.
Her gaze swept downward.
Not far away, the continuous mountain wall had been smashed open into a ravine several dozen zhang deep.
Broken stones and splintered trees lay piled within it. A scrap of crimson python-patterned robe could vaguely be seen hanging from a jagged rock edge, fluttering in the wind.
At the end of the ravine, the mountain wall had caved in, forming a massive human-shaped crater.
Guanlan Immortal Lord was embedded at the bottom of it.
His crimson python-patterned robe had long since been shredded into strips. The golden scales on both sides of his cheeks had cracked and fallen away in large patches, exposing the bloody flesh beneath.
Most of his chest had caved in, his ribs jutting outward amid shattered organs and congealed dark-red blood clots.
That kick had nearly kicked away half his life.
Jiang Yuechu leaped down along the ravine.
The hem of her black robe brushed soundlessly over the rubble.
When she landed, pebbles rolled with a faint series of clicks.
An exceedingly slight sound.
Yet that tiny disturbance made the broken body at the bottom of the crater tremble faintly.
Guanlan Immortal Lord laboriously moved his fingers, trying his