Smack!
To confirm that this was an illusion and wake himself from it as quickly as possible, someone slapped himself hard across the face without hesitation or the slightest restraint.
He had meant to break the illusion, but instead, that slap made him all the more certain that everything before his eyes was utterly real. "N-no, this isn't an illusion! That woman really killed Xiao Yu with a single stroke!"
"She killed Xiao Yu in one strike! Even Qin Xuanji, the Human Race's strongest cultivator back then, might not have been capable of that, right?"
"I heard that once humans reach a certain realm, they can turn back the years and regain their youth. Could she be the Human Race's Female Emperor, after breaking through to that realm?"
"..." Chen Mu felt that if his mother heard the implication that she was old, she would probably wipe out their entire clan.
Still, with Qin Xuanji's current strength and cultivation realm, remaining youthful forever was hardly difficult.
Her appearance had settled at that of an ordinary woman of thirty-not excessively young, yet still mature enough to command respect from the ministers in her court and the common people.
If the Female Emperor had a baby face instead, people would inevitably underestimate her at first sight...
After slaying the dragon, just as Ye Qingcheng had said earlier, she would not repeat herself a third time.
She released her grip, leaving the blade hovering before her.
With the index and middle fingers of both hands pressed together, she spread her hands apart. One sword became ten thousand, as countless as raindrops, hovering everywhere the dragons could see.
Wherever they looked, divine swords filled their vision.
Before, they might have scoffed at such a trick.
But after witnessing the bloody sight of Ye Qingcheng