"Since you insist on discussing suitable matches, Empress, just who am I? The ruler of a power! Even for a marriage alliance, neither Misty Rain nor Meng Xunqing would be suitable, would they? They simply aren't a match. If anyone is... it would be you, Empress!"
In a moment of hotheadedness, Xiao Ying fired off those mocking, teasing words.
The instant he finished, his heart lurched. Inwardly crying out that this was bad, he pulled away and shot backward...
"Insolence!"
The normally composed and dignified Blue Sky Empress stiffened, her dazed, beautiful eyes widening. Then she abruptly came to her senses and shouted in a towering rage.
"Boom..."
An overwhelming aura erupted like a storm of destruction, and a small hand, white as jade, struck out like lightning...
Heaven and earth darkened, and space compressed. That exquisite little jade-white hand, like a perfect work of art, seemed to be the only thing left in the world!
"Rumble..."
The deafening crash shattered the quiet night sky.
The ground trembled, sand and stones flew, and a murky tornado shot skyward. The palace broke apart like loose sand in an instant, collapsing into ruins...
"Buzz... whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
Dense lights from formations rose in every direction. Countless figures rushed toward the storm's center from all sides, while nine terrifying auras, like the might of heaven itself, descended upon the ruins. They instantly scattered the dust and sand and locked onto the Blue Sky Empress.
Within a breath, three thousand Demon-Scaled Witch Guards, three Witch Emperors, nine Demon Emperors, and numerous Witch Kings descended upon the ruins, surrounding them in a dense ring.
The dust and sand dispersed...
The once luxurious, magnificent palace had become a devastated patch of ground heaped with broken stones and shattered jade.
Amid the ruins, two figures stood facing