Immediately after,
A familiar Imperial Dao aura spread into this place.
It was unmistakably the aura of the Undying Daoist and the Undying Heavenly Blade!
Within the Divine Source, the Undying Heavenly Empress's eyelashes trembled slightly.
Immediately after,
Whoosh...
She suddenly opened her eyes!
A trace of shock, confusion, and complexity flashed through her gaze.
"This is..."
She murmured, and her body shook. The Divine Source sealing her away exploded with a boom!
Countless crystalline fragments scattered in all directions, transforming into a rain of light that filled the sky.
The Undying Heavenly Empress stepped out of the Divine Source. Her body swayed slightly, and her face was somewhat pale.
Back when the Female Emperor attained the Dao before her, she had been forced to halt her tribulation. The backlash she had suffered had not fully healed, and forcibly breaking the seal now made the blood and energy within her surge.
She took a deep breath and circulated her power, suppressing the surging blood and energy.
Then, she raised her head, her gaze piercing through the barrier of the small world toward the outside.
Whoosh...
In an instant, her gaze fell upon the Southern Region of the Big Dipper, fixed on the direction of Scarlet Glow River.
There, two powerful auras were confronting one another.
One belonged to the Undying Heavenly Blade. The other was an aura both familiar and unfamiliar to her—it belonged to Tan Lin, the Sacred Body.
"How many years has it been? Are you preparing to bathe in Emperor blood again and begin another round of Nirvana?
"And you... you really are still alive. I truly do not know whether I should call you Human Emperor Suiren or the Great Accomplished Golden Body."
The Undying Heavenly Empress murmured, a complicated look passing through her eyes.
She