The Ruthless Empress's Legacy

Golden ripples spread across the surface. This was Supreme Yang True Water, a treasure akin to Supreme Yin True Water. Just as there was Sun True Flame, there was also Supreme Yin True Flame. Mist billowed and the water churned, its power fiercely yang. By all rights, it should have been devastating against poisonous insects and evil creatures.

Pfft!

But the jade-green centipede was no ordinary creature. It had even seized and refined the magical artifact belonging to the corpse in the coffin. It spat out a jade-green glow: a short sword shaped like a centipede. The moment it appeared, the might of a Spirit-Communicating Treasure surged skyward. With a single strike, it split the void, tore through the curtain of Supreme Yang True Water, and slashed toward the mountain lord.

At the same time!

The jade-green centipede unleashed its full power. It expanded from two meters to thirty-five meters, looking just like a jade-green Flood Dragon. Its body seemed carved from green Spirit Jade, gleaming faintly as segment after segment undulated through the air. It ripped through the mist formed by the Supreme Yang True Water and charged at the mountain lord.

Whoosh!

Just then, a fist-sized flash of five-colored light struck the centipede's forehead. Pfft! Its skull was pierced clean through. Its brains burst apart, and its Primordial Spirit was extinguished.

One blow. Jiang Chanyu had already tested the power of her one and only treasure, but seeing it again still left her astonished.

A terrifying insect at the peak of the Half-Step Great Ability Ninth Heaven, with one foot already in the Great Ability realm, could not withstand a single strike from her.

What was more, the treasure had a mysterious trait: it never missed, and it ignored defenses formed from Dao laws or magical power.

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