Heaven-Reaching City.
The Grotto-Heaven had floated overhead for several days, and the city's people had gone from finding it novel to taking it for granted.
Now, however, waves of humming rang out from the Grotto-Heaven above, prompting the city's commoners and cultivators to look up, curious about what had happened.
The Grotto-Heaven, which had shown little activity for days, developed fine cracks in its barriers. First, a wisp of hazy Three-Colored Qi Light slipped out, then more and more followed, gathering into a beam ten thousand miles long.
The beam contained boundless power. It cleaved through the entire Grotto-Heaven, forcibly splitting the world suspended above the Capital City's people into two halves.
And that was not the end. After splitting the Grotto-Heaven, the qi light shot straight toward Heaven-Reaching City, making the city's people and cultivators blanch in horror.
The Imperial City.
Having witnessed the Three-Colored Qi Light split the Grotto-Heaven, the Great Heng Empress immediately knew Zhang Yuan had made his move inside. In a flash, she appeared in front of the qi light rushing toward Heaven-Reaching City and wielded her own divine power to stop it from destroying the city.
What is Zhang Yuan doing in there?
After successfully blocking the qi light, the Great Heng Empress wore an ugly expression. The exertion had clearly cost her dearly, and resentment toward Zhang Yuan filled her heart.
She had sent Zhang Yuan inside to find the God-Calming Jade Seal, not to seize the opportunity to destroy the Capital City.
Given the inherently evil disposition of cultivators from the Dust-Dyed Realm, she strongly suspected Zhang Yuan had done it deliberately.
The Great Heng Empress stopped the Three-Colored Qi Light, but the bisected Grotto-Heaven had now lost the support of its conceptual image. Its true expanse, comparable to three Great Heng