She spoke calmly, her voice not loud, yet it seemed to ring clearly within the hearts of countless heroes outside.
The next moment,
She raised her crystal-clear, jade-like palm and lightly swiped toward the Central Region of the Eastern Wasteland.
Whoosh...
There was no earth-shattering Vision, nor was there any dazzling eruption of divine power.
Only a beam of black sword qi, condensed to the utmost limit and seeming capable of cleaving open the origin of the universe, flew from her fingertips. In an instant, it crossed an endless distance and descended above Fire Demon Ridge.
That streak of sword light did not seem to blot out the sky or cover the earth. It was tiny, almost pocket-sized, yet it contained a terrifying will to sever all things and devour the Myriad Daos.
The instant it appeared,
The entire void around Fire Demon Ridge froze, and time itself seemed to stop flowing.
Fire Demon, who had been deep within Fire Demon Ridge, drawing out the Innate Fortune Divine Essence there with all his might, had already turned pale with fright the moment the Female Emperor emerged from the Abyss beneath Scarlet Glow River.
When that black sword qi descended, he seemed to foresee his own end and let out a despairing, unwilling roar:
"NO!!!"
He wanted to resist, and he had considered fleeing.
But it was already too late.
Before this Great Emperor of the current age, even if she appeared to have entered her later years, and even if his own cultivation had once reached Perfect Completion, he was now nothing more than a slightly larger ant.
Whoosh...
The black sword qi fell.
There was no explosion, nor was there any tremendous roar.
The entire secret realm of Fire Demon Ridge, stretching for hundreds of thousands of miles, along