At the same moment.
Everyone standing outside the pavilion stirred at once.
They took out their communicators, and Kunlun's voice rang out:
"Everyone, evacuate!"
"Song Qingyun can alter memories. Remember that!"
Everyone immediately scattered, fleeing into the distant sky.
Knocked into the air by that attack, Song Qingyun caught sight of the Fire Phoenix, and her expression changed completely.
Following the Fire Phoenix with her gaze, she saw Shen Ye.
-Shen Ye stood beside her younger sister, completely unharmed.
"You're not dead?"
She could not help asking.
"Is something wrong with your head?" Shen Ye said with a shrug. "I'm standing right here, perfectly fine. Of course I'm not dead."
Song Qingyun immediately raised her long saber and chanted an incantation.
Powerful fluctuations emanated from the saber, forming a thousand layers of shadows that seemed ready to slash out at any moment.
"I killed so many people, only to find out in the end that you're still the one she cares about-damn it!"
Before she finished speaking.
The saber was about to strike.
But the Blazing Long Whip moved first, cracking across the sky with an explosive thunderclap.
Song Qingyun raised her saber to block.
But how could a saber block a whip?
As though alive, the Blazing Long Whip struck the blade, then dropped with the momentum and lashed Song Qingyun viciously with a crack.
-No!
The whip had not struck Song Qingyun!
At the last instant, a figure soared out of the palace buildings and landed directly in front of Song Qingyun, blocking the whip.
Whoosh-crack-
The whip struck that person, bursting their entire body apart and killing them on the spot.
It was like an opening act.
A dense crowd of class holders surged out of the Song Family's palace hall.
-The heads of the Thirty-Six Aristocratic