Alarms rang throughout the sect's domain, and the Big Dipper Divine Church's grand formation activated in an instant, its light barrier shooting into the sky.
"Which fellow cultivator has arrived at our Big Dipper Divine Church? If there has been some misunderstanding, please..."
The current church master, an old man at the Great Saint Peak, soared into the air.
Before he could finish speaking, he saw the visitor's face. It was as if he had been struck by lightning, and his complexion turned deathly pale.
"It's... it's you! Shao Hanyun... no, Holy Maiden, Holy Maiden, please don't act rashly. What happened back then was all..."
"Thanks to you all, I was able to reach such heights today..."
Shao Hanyun stood high in the air, looking down at the Big Dipper Divine Church members below as they faced a great enemy. Her smile was bewitching, but her gaze was icy.
"That is why I came today to repay the 'kindness' you showed me in the past."
"Holy Maiden! Every grievance has its culprit. Whatever hatred you bear, please do not implicate us... We knew absolutely nothing about what happened back then!"
"Enough noise..."
Shao Hanyun could not be bothered to waste words. She simply raised her hand and pressed down with her palm.
Boom!!!
In an instant, a colossal dragon claw that blotted out the sky condensed from thin air, wreathed in surging demonic qi and blood-red patterns as it slammed viciously into the church's mountain-protecting formation.
Rumble...
Crack... crack...
The mountain-protecting formation, fully activated and capable of withstanding an ordinary Quasi-Emperor's full-force strike, was like paper before that dragon claw. Cracks spread across it in an instant before it exploded apart!
"Puh..."
The several dozen elders presiding over the formation all vomited blood and were sent flying.
"Form the Big