If not for the Palace Defense Array, which was linked to the Imperial City and reinforced its foundations, that single sword strike would have utterly destroyed the entire Eastern Palace Mansion. It would have cleaved more than half the buildings in the Imperial City in two.
The Cultivators watching from the Imperial City—all those who were not Feathered Martial Artists or True Arhats—held their breath, their hearts pounding in their chests.
A slight stir in nature's spiritual energy marked the reappearance of the woman in green robes. She raised a translucent, crystal-clear left hand as a Dharma Aspect materialized behind her: a towering, sword-wielding woman. It was a Taoist Family Qi Cultivator's Yin Spirit, refined to absolute purity—hailed as one of the "golden branches and jade leaves"—with every muscle and meridian rendered in astonishingly lifelike detail.
It had been tempered by the Grand Thousand Canglan Map.
She had finally broken through to the Eleventh Realm.
