The instant the token shattered, it made no sound.
It merely turned into specks of icy-blue light dust, silently merging into the raging energy storm.
The next second.
In the distant sky, it was as though something had been stirred.
Heavenly Sword Peak.
At the summit of a solitary, lofty mountain shrouded in clouds year-round, Sword Qi piercing the heavens.
A woman in white sat quietly cross-legged atop a smooth, mirror-like bluestone. Before her floated an ancient, three-foot-long Green Longsword.
She seemed to be in seclusion, mysterious Dao Charm swirling around her.
Suddenly, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes.
What icy, desolate eyes they were—like glaciers that had not melted for ten thousand ages, yet also like stars reflected from above the ninth heaven.
She raised her head, her gaze seeming to pierce boundless space and behold everything taking place in Qingyang City a thousand li away.
"Blood Fiend Tower... you do have some nerve."
Her crimson lips parted slightly. Her voice remained indifferent, betraying neither joy nor anger.
She extended a slender finger, fair as jade, and lightly flicked the floating Green Longsword before her.
"Buzz—"
The longsword let out a clear Dragon's Roar.
Then it transformed into a streak of green light, tore through space, and vanished over the horizon in an instant.
Qingyang City, the Chen Family ruins.
"BOOM!!!"
The Blood Fiend Envoy's destructive sphere of scarlet energy finally crashed into the heart of the energy storm.
A heaven-shaking explosion resounded throughout all of Qingyang City!
The earth trembled violently once more!
A massive crater more than twenty meters across appeared at the center of the ruins.
Within it, everything was scorched black. All things had been utterly vaporized by the blazing heat and violent energy.
"It is over."
The Blood Fiend Envoy stood in the air with his hands behind his back, a scornful smile curling his lips.
In his eyes, that youth who did not know the immensity of heaven and earth must by now have been reduced to dust, body and soul obliterated.
The onlookers in the distance all paled in horror.
This was the might of a Qi Condensation Realm expert!
A flick of the finger, and heaven and earth were destroyed!
Yet just when everyone believed the dust had settled.
A sudden change erupted!
A green sword gleam so swift it could not be caught by the naked eye descended from beyond the heavens without warning!
This sword gleam possessed neither astonishing momentum nor terrifying pressure.
It simply cleaved through the sky, plain and unremarkable.
Its target did not appear to be the Blood Fiend Envoy in the air.
It merely struck lightly upon the... empty space between the Blood Fiend Envoy and the crater below.
"Riiip!"
A faint sound, like cloth being torn apart.
Space itself was sliced open by that single strike, leaving behind a thin black fissure!
A terrifying suction force emanated from the depths of space within the fissure.
The Blood Fiend Envoy's smile froze instantly!
His pupils shrank to pinpoints, and for the first time, utter terror appeared on his face!
"A spatial fissure! Sword... Sword Intent!"
"Which senior master is here!"
Without a second thought, True Qi erupted from his body. Like a startled bird, he frantically shot backward, trying to flee the spatial fissure that was slowly healing shut.
He knew that once he was sucked inside, even as a Qi Condensation Realm cultivator, he would certainly die!
This was power beyond the Qi Condensation Realm!
It belonged to a supreme sword cultivator of an even higher level, one who had comprehended "Intent"!
And just as the Blood Fiend Envoy was scared out of his wits by that sword strike from beyond the heavens.
At the edge of the crater, a charred, ragged figure crawled out of the ground in a miserable state.
It was Chen Chen!
The instant he detonated the Qi Condensation Pill and crushed the Heaven Concealing Talisman, he had used every last ounce of strength to dig a hole and bury himself inside.
The Heaven Concealing Talisman concealed his heavenly secrets, causing the Blood Fiend Envoy's attack to lose its most precise lock.
Meanwhile, the energy storm formed by the exploding Qi Condensation Pill had offset most of the aftershock from the attack.
Even so, he was grievously injured, his five viscera and six bowels feeling as though they had all shifted out of place.
But he had survived!
He saw the green sword gleam in the sky, and he also saw the Blood Fiend Envoy's terrified expression.
He knew this was his only chance!
"Go!"
Without the slightest hesitation, he drew the door-sized Flying Sword Artifact from his storage bag.
He madly poured every remaining trace of vital blood within him into it!
Buzz!
The flying sword's radiance flared brilliantly. Carrying him, it turned into a streak of light and shot into the sky at its fastest speed, fleeing madly toward the outskirts of Qingyang City without looking back!
"Trying to run?!"
Regaining his senses, the Blood Fiend Envoy saw Chen Chen fleeing, and endless fury and killing intent erupted from his eyes.
He did not dare pursue the warning from an expert of a higher realm.
But allowing an ant of the Body Tempering Realm to escape right under his nose was the greatest humiliation imaginable!
He was just about to give chase.
Beside the spatial fissure that was nearly healed, the green sword gleam trembled lightly once again.
An icy, bone-piercing Sword Intent locked onto him from afar.
Its meaning was obvious.
Go on. Move if you dare?
The Blood Fiend Envoy's body stiffened abruptly!
A layer of fine cold sweat seeped across his forehead.
In the end, reason defeated rage.
He could sense that if the owner of that Sword Intent wanted to kill him, it would be scarcely more difficult than crushing an ant.
He could only watch helplessly as Chen Chen's streak of light disappeared beyond the horizon.
"Aah—!!!"
The Blood Fiend Envoy threw back his head and let out a roar filled with boundless unwillingness!
He vented his endless fury upon the ruins below.
With a sweep of his sleeve, countless scarlet streams of True Qi fell like a torrential rain.
Rumble rumble!
The entire Wang Family Mansion, along with several surrounding streets, was utterly razed by that force and turned into a true... scorched wasteland.
After doing all this, his cold gaze swept over the trembling living beings in the city.
"Qingyang City..."
"Chen Chen..."
"You had better wait for me!"
He transformed into a streak of blood-red light, soaring into the sky before vanishing from sight.
All that remained was a city ravaged beyond recognition, and Qingyang City's residents, who had survived the calamity yet remained shaken to the core.
They knew.
The sky over Qingyang City had changed completely.
The Wang Family was gone.
And a new, even more terrifying legend had been born.
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