"Senior Sister Huo Ling, don't take that seal head-on!"
When Lin Yuan's voice, wrapped in mana, cut across the battlefield, the Heaven-Flipping Seal, already swollen to the size of a mountain, came crashing down.
Holy Mother Huo Ling looked up.
She had originally activated the Golden Radiance Crown, flames surging around her, ready to test the Heaven-Flipping Seal's power head-on. But upon hearing Lin Yuan's shout, the hand seal she was forming barely paused while the fiery cloud beneath her feet sharply veered aside.
Boom—!
The next moment, the Heaven-Flipping Seal struck.
The spot where Holy Mother Huo Ling had been standing, along with a mountain beneath it, collapsed at once. Vast swathes of rock were forcibly crushed into the earth as though by a giant hand.
The tremors spread for dozens of miles.
Even the soldiers stationed on Jiepai Pass's walls staggered with the shaking.
Holy Mother Huo Ling came to a stop in midair again. Looking back at the bottomless crater, her eyelids twitched slightly.
She lowered her gaze toward Lin Yuan, who had just arrived, surprise in her voice. "Junior Brother Lin, you got here quickly."
Riding the breeze, Lin Yuan landed beside Huo Ling, his gaze still fixed on the Heaven-Flipping Seal overhead. "Senior Brother Duobao's message was urgent, so I didn't dare stop along the way. Good thing I made it in time. If you'd really stood there and taken that blow, Senior Sister, you'd probably be bedridden for a while."
Holy Mother Huo Ling raised a brow. "Bedridden for a while? You have that little faith in me?"
Lin Yuan turned to look at her. "Do you have that much faith in the Heaven-Flipping Seal?"
Holy Mother Huo Ling followed his gaze to the flattened mountain below. After a moment of silence, she coughed