Amid rugged mountains, at the center of a valley surrounded by peaks.
For miles around, rocks, grass, and trees had all turned to ash, and the earth was scorched black.
Even a thick layer of soil had been scraped away, leaving deep pits and ravines everywhere.
At that moment, in the center of the battlefield.
Gu Yanshuang knelt on one knee, propping herself up with her spear.
Her shattered armor had long since been stained red with blood, some her enemies' and some her own.
Saber and sword wounds covered her entire body...
There were even three wounds piercing straight through her shoulder, waist, and leg, blood pouring incessantly from the hideous injuries.
Gu Yanshuang's disheveled hair danced in the wind.
Several blood-soaked strands clung to her deathly pale, beautiful face, lending this iron-blooded female general a touch of frailty and softness.
Gu Yanshuang had suffered extremely severe injuries, and the Source Qi within her was nearly exhausted.
Only a faint, almost imperceptible layer of deep-blue Profound Baleful True Fire remained on her body.
Like a candle flame in the wind, it could go out at any moment.
Even so, she still gripped her spear tightly, refusing to let herself fall.
At that moment, four figures stood not far from her.
A burly Barbarian Tribe man and two Imperial Guard commanders.
And Guest Elder Xu, whom the Huangfu Lineage had sent.
"So your Source Qi is Profound Baleful True Fire.
"No wonder you could unleash such combat strength with a cultivation of Source Core Realm Two-Star."
Dressed in blue, Guest Elder Xu, a gaunt middle-aged man, stared at Gu Yanshuang, astonishment in his voice.
Besides shock, a trace of horror lingered in the eyes of the burly Barbarian Tribe man and the two Imperial Guard commanders.
Earlier, six of them