The dust gradually settled, and the view slowly cleared. The palace walls, far apart from one another, bore similar devastation, their surfaces peeling, riddled with holes, looking like ruins from tens of thousands of years ago.
The southern palace wall had suffered the worst, with an enormous breach dozens of yards wide.
Lian Sanyue drew back her fist.
Everyone's gaze followed her fist before finally settling on her face, filled with awe and fear.
There was nothing beautiful about her movements. They were utterly ordinary, just like her.
But who among those who had witnessed the battle dared call that ordinary now?
Everyone knew Lian Sanyue was the strongest Great Figure in the Cultivation World, but few had seen her fight, because she had not truly fought in many years, and almost everyone who had seen her fight all those years ago was dead. Only today did people learn that she really was this powerful, this terrifying-even more powerful and terrifying than the legends.
Kou Qingtong, the Blood Demon Sect's last mighty cultivator, had actually been beaten into this wretched state by her.
Jing Jiu knew what she was like, and her victory over Kou Qingtong was expected, so he remained calm, though a trace of worry showed in his eyes.
"Yunmeng Mountain truly has deep reserves. Even someone picked at random is very strong. But for me, he was still a little too weak," Lian Sanyue said to True Person Tan.
However stolid True Person Tan might be, he could not help smiling wryly at this. "He wasn't picked at random."
However deep Yunmeng Mountain's reserves, it had only one fierce man like Kou Qingtong.
"But he isn't your equal." Looking into True Person Tan's eyes, Lian Sanyue said, "So I'm going to fight you."
The Green Mountain Sect