"Is it over?"
Countless people watched as the white-robed figure was completely swallowed by azure Sword Qi, the same thought rising in their hearts.
Above the Imperial City.
The young emperor wore an outer robe, leaning against the white jade railing as he gazed toward the city outskirts.
If even Gu Yue was defeated, Great Tang truly would have no way to survive.
It was not only him. Countless gazes throughout the city held their breath in tense anticipation.
Yet that dead silence did not last long.
BOOM—!!!
An incomparably muffled thunderclap came from the depths of the mist.
Immediately after.
Brilliant purple qi surged forth.
A phantom Qilin covered in dark blue scales burst forth in an instant, raising its head in a furious roar and sweeping away the surrounding gloom.
The next moment.
The clouds overhead suddenly churned.
The sea of clouds that had been cleaved apart by Sword Qi rolled back from every direction, converging into a gigantic hand that blotted out the heavens and covered the earth.
The five fingers of the giant hand closed, gripping that enormous azure sword that reached from heaven to earth.
Crack.
The sword stopped.
It was less than a hundred zhang away from Chang'an's walls.
Countless people in the city stared blankly upward.
Seeing that things had taken a bad turn, Gao Qingxiu's expression changed drastically. His hands once more formed seals at lightning speed.
"Fall for me!"
The azure giant sword let out another rumble.
Yet the cloud-hand gripped its blade tightly. No matter how the Sword Qi surged, the sword merely trembled slightly in midair, unable to descend even another inch.
Only then.
Did the figure that had been swallowed reappear before everyone's eyes.
Her white robe was already torn in many places, crimson blood dripping from its