"Who was that?!!"
Red-Rumped Yama and the Black Sky Lord were driven back again and again by that terrifying blade qi. The two Grandmaster-level Yama avatars were forced several hundred yards back through the air before they barely managed to steady themselves!
They raised their heads in shock and fury, looking toward the source of that azure blade light.
The light faded.
Heaven and earth grew clear.
At the end of the enormous rift that the blade qi had plowed across half the Huangpu River—
A figure had appeared in the void, unnoticed until now.
He wore a plain navy-blue robe without a single ornament. Tall and powerfully built, he resembled a towering mountain that no one could ever surmount.
A two-foot beard hung beneath his chin, streaming freely in the fierce night wind.
On his square face, imposing even without anger, two thick, swordlike brows swept up to his temples. His tiger eyes held neither killing intent nor fury, only a stillness like an ancient, bottomless pool, and an overwhelming aura of dominance that looked down upon all living beings and scorned gods and devils.
His right hand held a blade loosely, almost casually, its tip pointing down.
The weapon was nine feet five inches long, with a crescent-shaped blade. Lifelike azure dragon scales adorned its spine, and its edge was cold and hard as frost.
Where the shaft met the blade, a ferocious azure dragon head held the blade between its gaping jaws.
The Green Dragon Crescent Blade!
At the sight of that weapon, at the sight of that utterly familiar figure—
Li Xiang, hiding in the shadows of the ruins, felt the heart he had forcibly suppressed begin to pound wildly beyond his control.
An unmistakable flash of fervor and awe crossed his eyes.
"Alliance Leader Guan..."