Before the Galaxy Alliance's supersaturation attack struck that cliff terrace, Zhao Layue had already left the edge of the atmosphere and reached the surface with the Unthought Sword, landing in the Ancient Castle garden she had visited once before.
The Unthought Sword was the fastest of Green Mountain's principal swords. With her acquired formless sword body, after studying the Ghost Sword Dao Nan Qu had left behind together with Liu S sui, she too possessed a speed even ascended immortals could not imagine.
The branch where Qing'er had once perched had snapped into two pieces and fallen onto the grass.
Many bodies also lay on the grass, liquids of various colors slowly flowing from their ruptures. They seemed to be biochemical humans. Many more stewards and service staff had, like these companions, fallen at their respective posts.
In just a few breaths, everyone in the Flower Household Ancient Castle had died. Not one of them had been human.
Even Zhao Layue was somewhat surprised by this outcome.
At that moment, a strand of divine sense arrived from the distant north, followed by a booming roar like muffled thunder.
Zhao Layue recalled the Unthought Sword, then flung it forcefully in that direction.
The Unthought Sword tore through the woods and the courtyard reeking of biochemical fluids, tracing a slightly curved, blood-red line across the sky. It accelerated until, like an actual ray of light, it reached the northern mountains in an instant.
The immense gravitational force field shrouding the mountains had already been crushed by an even larger white cat, as though it were stomping on a snowball. No barrier remained to separate the sacred from the mortal world, the ancient from the present.
The black hair before the eyes of Yukata the girl stirred slightly, then fell away strand by