C316 Unrivaled Commander
The heavens were ablaze with countless stars.
Atop the Fallen Star Eyes, Lau Ying of the Silver Moon Sect gazed down in silence. Below her, silver meteorites shimmered, morphing into vivid scenes that depicted the battles unfolding around the lake with striking clarity.
Space itself seemed to fracture, revealing Shen Feiqing's Yin God departing from her body. Lau Ying bore witness to the fierce clash with Bai Shuang, all through the Fallen Star Eyes.
Echoing in Lau Ying's thoughts were Yu Yuan's prophetic words: "The banquet is about to begin!" Initially, she was perplexed, unable to grasp their deeper meaning. Yet, as she observed Shen Feiqing—who should have been crippled by the backlash of the Void True Spell—emerge not only unscathed but with a more formidable and tyrannical power, the true intent of Yu Yuan's message became clear to her.
With a series of Spiritual Spells cast and her consciousness in flux, the gleaming silver stone at her feet mirrored the location of Yu Yuan. Flanking him were two striking women from the Silvermoon Empire, one exuding an icy demeanor, the other alluring charm.
The subsequent arrival of Wai Feng, Zhan Tianxiang, Zhao Yafu, and Su Yan sparked a quiet astonishment in Lau Ying, who eavesdropped on their exchange. It wasn't long before she heard Yu Yuan's ominous prediction that Jiaang Moyan and Zou Jin might meet their demise.
Lau Ying was utterly shaken.
Fine-tuning the Fallen Star Eyes with a touch of her consciousness, she observed the slender spatial rifts that, following Shen Feiqing's departure, could traverse dozens of miles in a mere moment. One by one, practitioners from the Thunder Sect, Cold Yin Sect, and Divine Might Empire fell effortlessly.
The military commander, once banished by the Ancient Desolate Sect and now concealed within the Divine Might Empire, had aided the current emperor's rise. His reputation for bloodshed and cruelty was on full display.
A realization dawned on Lau Ying: the concerted effort led by the lower sects of the Heavenly Source Continent to besiege Shen Feiqing and coax her out of the secret realm gate was likely doomed to fail.
"Ding Ling!"
The sound resonated from a bracelet of smooth, white jade on Lau Ying's wrist, reaching deep into her heart lake. With a subtle raise of her brows, she understood—the members of the Silver Moon Sect had reached the Absence Relic and were now using the array to connect with her within the Fallen Star Eyes.
After careful consideration, she voiced her decision: Hold position and refrain from any hasty actions.
She didn't want members of the Silver Moon Sect to rush in blindly before the situation was clear.
Otherwise, they would fall victim to the ferocious commander.
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Yu Yuan stood by the lake, his gaze relaxed as he watched Shen Feiqing on the mid-lake island.
Though her stature was small, the commander stood on the island with a presence as imposing as a mountain, unshakable by gods or demons. Her eyelids were lowered, suggesting a state between sleep and wakefulness.
With the Yin God absent, her true form couldn't release its full combat power.
But her detached Yin God floated in the air, an armored figure as imposing as an ancient deity, seemingly existing in a separate dimension with bright spatial fissures weaving around it.
Bursts of ghostly light exploded near the Yin God, resembling spatial ripples that occasionally surfaced in the depths of the cosmos.
Yu Yuan, who had some understanding of the Void True Spell, knew she was still amassing power!
Zou Jin and Jiaang Moyan, the two esteemed Soul Wandering cultivators, could never imagine the extent of bizarre power Shen Feiqing could draw from those spatial rifts and the unknown starry sea beyond.
The most fearsome aspect of the Desolate True Spell was its devastating force, which would be fully unleashed in Shen Feiqing's feigned "backlash."
Yu Yuan was convinced that Shen Feiqing, having survived this ordeal, would grasp the true essence of the Ancient Desolate Sect's forbidden technique.
Following this battle, Shen Feiqing's realm and power were poised to ascend to unprecedented heights.
Should she live and be reborn, Shen Feiqing would embody the true essence of a God of War, capable of challenging the mightiest demons and devils with her extraordinary physique.
"Yu Yuan, what about those two great cultivators from the Thunder Sect and the Cold Yin Sect?"
Yan Yu from the Silvermoon Empire, baffled, watched Zou Jin and Jiaang Moyan as they calmly observed the unfolding events. She whispered, "Are they really going to die?"
"Right now," Yu Yuan commanded sharply.
Boom!
The earth didn't just tremble on the mid-lake island; the land for a hundred miles around seemed to plummet several inches.
Shen Feiqing, slight in stature, stamped her foot and rocketed into the heavens like a projectile.
The fearsome force that made the earth feel as though it was sinking emanated from that very stomp Shen Feiqing delivered as she soared skyward.
As Shen Feiqing ascended, the air around her teemed with chaotic cyclones materializing out of nowhere.
Each cyclone, massive as a grinding stone, churned through the void, reversing time, stirring the energies of heaven and earth with a domineering and wild force.
"Activate the Fallen Star Eyes!"
Yu Yuan harnessed the soul energy from the Soul Transformation Pool, causing his eyes to blaze with light.
He suddenly noticed speckles within the vast cyclones swirling beside Shen Feiqing.
These speckles, magnified a million times, were part of a distant galaxy.
Upon reflection, Yu Yuan understood that these numerous chaotic cyclones were displaying their formidable might, a result of Shen Feiqing's silent absorption of the unknown Galaxy Extraordinary Talent.
"Hu!"
The armored Yin God of Shen Feiqing abruptly descended, merging into her physical form.
The fissures in space, once split open, now acted as whips in Shen Feiqing's hands, lashing out towards Jiaang Moyan of the Thunder Sect.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"
The sharp spatial cracks, like mighty dragons, surged forward to strike Jiaang Moyan first.
Shen Feiqing, adept at multitasking, had already reached a point just thirty feet from Zou Jin.
She extended her small palm and struck through the air.
Zou Jin's face contorted in shock.
Being a notch above Jiaang Moyan in cultivation, and at the Middle Period of the Soul Wandering Stage, Zou Jin felt as if a chaotic, roiling expanse of space-time from beyond the heavens was crashing down upon him at the moment of Shen Feiqing's clap.
The links between him and the Absence Relic, along with his connection to the real space, were instantly swallowed and obscured.
Zou Jin could no longer see or sense anyone around him.
He felt utterly alone, adrift in the dark, icy void of outer space, overwhelmed by the crushing force of a mysterious and turbulent realm.
"Crack! Crack!"
Zou Jin realized that his world, forged with millennia of icy force and constructed with soul energy and vitality, was fracturing inch by inch.
In that instant, Zou Jin realized that their earlier assault on Shen Feiqing—his own, Jiang Moyan's, and that of the Seventh Level Silverfrost Dragon—was nothing but a farce.
The "Desolate True Spell" could warp and throw time and space into chaos, tapping into the enigmatic powers of space-time from beyond their realm. How could he possibly contend with that?
Shen Feiqing, according to the intelligence they had, was merely in the middle stage of the Soul Wandering Stage.
Yet now, this outcast from the Ancient Desolate Sect, once a dazzling prodigy, was demonstrating combat prowess and mastery over space-time abilities that clearly outmatched his own.
In essence, Shen Feiqing, who should have been overwhelmed by the backlash, had suddenly manifested the strength of at least a late-stage Soul Wandering Stage powerhouse!
Perhaps even stronger!
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With her full firepower unleashed, Shen Feiqing's invincible presence and her capacity to distort space-time commanded everyone's attention.
Yuan Lianyao, Lee Yuchan, Qin Yun, and others began to believe Yu Yuan's prediction.
—Zou Jin and Jiang Moyan were doomed!
All eyes were drawn to the tumultuous sky, where Shen Feiqing stood alone against two adversaries, eclipsing the stars and manipulating the fabric of space with an aura that seemed to sever the very heavens and earth.
Yu Yuan's heart lake was suddenly filled with the voice of Yan Qiling.
Simultaneously, the White-robed Imperial Advisor and Xu Zixi sent their excited communications.
Shen Feiqing, having fully unleashed the formidable might of the Void True Spell, had inadvertently or deliberately activated an ancient and mysterious seal buried deep within the Absence Relic.
Yu Zhu was the first to sense it!
Following that, Yan Qiling, Zhou Cangmin, and Xu Zixi all reached out to his inner sanctum with their messages.
The gate to the secret realm!
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