When Wen Zhuyi cleaved her sword into the illusory gate of the Cloudsea Immortal Palace, the entire world shook with a thunderous roar.
Countless tiny cracks, invisible to the naked eye, sprang up between the sky and the sea of clouds. The frozen sea below shattered at that moment too, sending countless shards of ice spraying upward.
Chu Xisheng discovered that the surrounding temporal sequence and void felt like a smoothly running set of gears that had jammed. Not only had they stopped completely, they were trembling violently.
He also saw a layer of frost begin forming over the Cloudsea Immortal Palace's Vermilion Gate.
The ice spread rapidly, racing along the palace walls on either side.
Chu Xisheng's pupils contracted slightly, waves surging through his heart.
Wen Zhuyi's strike had frozen not only the Grand Void but temporal sequence as well, allowing her to break through the Cloudsea Immortal Palace's "Standing Upright Without a Shadow" method and attack its interior directly.
Was this the power of someone above the first rank in the present age, the pinnacle of mortal Martial Dao?
"So this is Wen Zhuyi, the City-Toppling Sword?"
Yan Guilai gazed up at the silver-armored maiden, surprise and a measure of admiration in his eyes. "What formidable ice arts! Her Martial Dao has already reached the stage of celestial person in harmony with the laws. No! She's even approaching celestial person unity. She truly deserves the words 'city-toppling.'"
Chu Xisheng's mind stirred.
He had read some of the Formless Divine Sect's secret martial classics and knew that most first-rank experts of the present age were working on "modeling oneself on heaven and earth."
That meant studying the Martial Dao experience left by their predecessors, or observing the various phenomena of heaven and earth, then distilling and deducing complete Heavenly