How could she still be standing here perfectly unharmed after touching upon a "taboo"?
And from the looks of it, only her aura had fluctuated slightly. She was clearly fine.
What now?
Advance or retreat?
Even if she advanced, this place was still too far from the Abyss...
As those thoughts churned, Chi Xuan went cold all over.
Before her, the Female Emperor looked at her indifferently. There was not the slightest ripple in her eyes, only deathly coldness and a trace of impatience at having her peace disturbed.
"I spared your life back then, yet now you have trespassed into my dwelling again and disturbed my cultivation..."
As soon as she finished speaking, she wasted no more words. Slowly raising a jade-like hand, she was about to strike with thunderous force.
Her five slender, fair fingers contained the power to destroy heaven and earth.
Chaos Qi swirled around her palm, as though she held a universe in the midst of creation...
Chi Xuan stood where she was, watching that palm approach slowly yet with astonishing speed. As she felt the suffocating aura of death drawing nearer, her heart became utterly calm.
Fine.
To die here, in nearly the same place as that person...
Perhaps... that was a kind of release as well.
She closed her eyes, and even a sorrowful smile appeared at the corner of her lips.
However,
Just as the Female Emperor's palm was about to descend and endless black light and demonic qi were about to swallow Chi Xuan—
"Enough!"
A calm, low voice, yet one incomparably clear, suddenly drifted up from the bottom of the Abyss.
The voice was not loud, yet it seemed to possess a strange magic that froze the killing intent filling the area.
It forced the Female Emperor's descending hand to