The border pass.
Golden lotuses bloomed everywhere, iridescent light shimmering. The city walls looked dusted with gold, radiance flowing over them. Chanting rose from within the city, and soldiers who had laid down their weapons could be seen everywhere.
Emerald waves churned and surged.
Sword intent swept back and forth, finally becoming a vast tide, like an unbroken azure mountain range spanning heaven and earth.
The Vast Water divine ability, Tide Keeps Its Promise, was a variation of Commanding the Waves, which Dragonkind cultivated.
When the vast sea entered a river, it became a tide-the precise opposite of Kan Water's Hundred Rivers Return. Born from the ancient deed of Taihao coming ashore, it was a true inheritance of the Unvast tradition.
Chou Xi's expression was cold, revealing no emotion.
Even in the Liao Lands, she was famed for her cold, unapproachable temperament. She raised her hand, formed a seal, and gave a soft command:
"Open."
The tide abruptly rose, blotting out the sun and scattering the clouds.
Countless surging currents formed from sword intent crashed down, racing unrestrained toward that tiny silver figure.
Xu Xuan advanced with his sword, activating his divine ability.
Keen metallic energies interlaced, thunder and lightning leaping between them before condensing into a silver line that slashed vertically. That single thread of silver split the mighty tide, which collapsed with a roar.
Countless bolts of Black-and-White Thunder darted through the waves like dragons and serpents, closing on the pale-blue figure as tribulation punishment spread.
Heaven-Commanding Tribulation abruptly activated. Drawing on Altar Thunder's Divine Status to suppress her, lightning erupted, instantly flattening the waves around Chou Xi into a smooth mirror.
Xu Xuan knew how formidable sword intent was. He reckoned he could defeat her, but if her sword intent struck him, he would still be gravely