A thunderous boom shook loose rocks from the mountain.
Only Lou Yunxiao's hand kept the stone table from toppling.
The Sword Sect disciples rushed out of the dining hall and rose on their flying swords, shouting in confusion.
A cultivator drenched in blood flew up from the foot of the mountain on his sword, landed before Lou Yunxiao, and collapsed with a thud, coughing up blood.
"Sect Master... it's the Demon Venerable! Demon Venerable Ning Ke is attacking the city!"
"Save... save the people!"
Shock filled Ning Xiaoxiao's face. She hurried to help the disciple up and heal his wounds, but when she looked again, Lou Yunxiao had already vanished...
Meanwhile, in the city below the mountain.
Ning Ke stepped out of space. He stood in the middle of a bloodstained street, staring blankly at the severed limbs strewn across the ground.
After several attempts in the Infinite Space, he had finally torn open a passage to the Qianyuan Continent, only to arrive at the foot of the Sword Sect's mountain.
He had been met with this scene of utter carnage.
And, not far away, a "person" who looked exactly like him.
"What a coincidence." Surprise flickered in Nan Lou's eyes when he saw Ning Ke, then gave way to overwhelming excitement.
"Do you like it? The world I created for you?"
With a vicious grin, he emphasized, "A world where everyone hates you."
With that, he activated his space domain without hesitation, tearing open space to escape.
But Ning Ke had already activated his time domain, freezing time as he rushed in front of him.
He was just about to catch Nan Lou.
When the pendant on Nan Lou's chest suddenly shone, releasing gray chaos aura that broke the time domain.
Ning Ke only managed to sever Nan Lou's