Shrouding the Heavens: The Years I Was the Female Emperor's Strictest Master

Li Qingjue stood there in a daze, slender and still. Beneath her Bronze Mask, her rosy lips parted slightly, as though she wanted to call out and stop that phantom. Unfortunately, it had already vanished between heaven and earth, gone in an instant.

Yet the injuries that had grievously damaged her organs, meridians, and bones seemed to have healed without a trace.

In the distant sky.

The cultivators who had witnessed the commotion here from afar were all shaken to the core, their courage shattered, nearly frightened out of their wits.

Only several breaths after that Saint Spirit had been crushed did they gradually come back to their senses.

"What... what just happened?!"

"How did that Saint Spirit die?"

"..."

"Who made a move? That streak of radiance... was it a strand of immortal light descending from the Immortal Domain?"

"A single ray of light wiped out a Saint King? And a Saint Spirit at that!!"

"Was it some peerless imperial weapon?! Or did some Quasi-Emperor-level existence secretly intervene?"

"That phantom... what a terrifying aura..."

"..."

"No, that's not right... none of that is right! Lunar and Solar... it was the Human Emperor!! The Human Emperor has returned once more! The Saint Spirits slaughtered the living beings of our Human Race, and the Human Emperor has returned from the void..."

"That's right, it was the Human Emperor!

"Earlier, when I was in the Central Plains, I glimpsed His Majesty the Human Emperor's divine countenance from afar outside the territory governed by Human Emperor Hall. The aura that appeared so briefly today was exactly the same as His Majesty's!"

In the distant sky, some cultivators wore expressions of fanaticism and excitement, utterly exhilarated.

But some also questioned it.

"But how could that be possible?"

"That Human Emperor sacrificed every trace of