Half of Xiangyang City had been destroyed by the earth dragon's upheaval. More importantly, the entrance to the ancestral resting place Yang Qing and the others had intended to visit could no longer be found.
A great stretch of Cross Street was now missing from its middle.
And that missing stretch was precisely where the entrance they had used before had stood.
Now, nothing could be seen, and nothing could be found.
That left only two paths before them.
The Sacred Emperor had originally been waging wars far and wide to assemble the Phoenix Nirvana Formation. But now, a single earthquake had turned several cities, including Xiangyang City, upside down.
Just like that, half of what the Sacred Emperor had spent centuries planning had been destroyed.
For him, there was still one way to salvage things: seize Yang Qing at any cost and forcibly perform body snatching.
For Yang Qing, that method would be a death warrant. For Emperor Zhetian, however, it was merely the worst of all possible options.
If the victim of forced body snatching possessed an iron will, Emperor Zhetian would suffer an extremely powerful backlash as well.
It could be said that forcibly taking possession of his body would certainly leave both Yang Qing and Emperor Zhetian defeated.
Only Yang Qing was more likely to lose.
He was just one man, while his opponent not only had centuries of experience but also countless followers behind him. In either wealth or manpower, Yang Qing could not even hope to catch a glimpse of his back.
Naturally, Yang Qing understood all of this only too well.
Now, everything depended on what the Sacred Emperor chose to do.
When the earthquake struck, some people had fled to the mountains for shelter. Far more, however, had believed the tremors would