A long while passed before the raging storm gradually dissipated among the stars.
When countless horrified gazes returned to the center of the battlefield-
"Hah... hah... hah...!"
The Forgotten River Dao Master's figure reappeared in the silent void.
But where was any trace of her earlier composure now?!
She gasped for breath, her black dress shredded by sword qi, exposing great swaths of skin as pale as paper. Blood dripped steadily from her fingertips.
And that was not all.
The black silk that had covered her eyes for years had vanished amid the sword qi!
What it revealed was a pair of pitch-black eyes without whites, as pure and dark as an abyss!
And now, those utterly black eyes were filled with lingering terror!
It had truly been that close!
Had that sword qi been even a fraction stronger, she would have been cleaved straight into ash despite exhausting every means at her disposal!
How was this possible?!
Why did this man possess a trump card of this caliber without so much as a hint of it ever leaking out?!!
"Enjoy that?"
A young voice, tinged with mockery, rang out near the Forgotten River Dao Master.
She looked up, visibly disheveled.
The white-robed young man strolled through the void, coming to stand before her as leisurely as if walking through a garden.
"Why don't you repeat what you said earlier?"
Ye Li's golden eyes blazed. As he looked at the bedraggled figure of the strongest person in the Sea of Nine Harmonies, the smile on his lips grew colder:
"Who... is your main ingredient?"
The starry sky fell deathly silent.
Only the lingering shock waves of collapsing stars reverberated around them!
The countless cultivators watching nearby, whether Dao Lords from the Primordial Continent or surviving members of Divination Manor, were