Though it was still covered in cracks and teetering on the brink, it ultimately did not perish immediately.
"This is..."
Ye Lingyun and the other high-ranking members of the Ye family felt the golden brilliance and pressure; they were stunned at first, then their faces erupted with uncontrollable ecstasy and awe!
"It's Her Majesty the Empress! Her Majesty's imperial talisman!"
"Her Majesty sensed it! Her Majesty has taken action!"
"The Ye family is saved! The Ye family is saved!"
The onlookers in the distance were even more shaken, many of them involuntarily bowing toward the golden phantom!
Azure Profound Empress!
The Dominator of the Eastern Region! A legendary Ascension Realm Great Expert!
Even if it was only a manifestation of power pre-sealed within the jade pendant, its majesty was enough to make all living beings bow their heads!
Gu Han's brow twitched almost imperceptibly.
Looking at the golden phantom emitting pressure, a hint of faint surprise flashed in her eyes.
"Mid-stage Ascension Realm? Not too weak, then."
She whispered to herself, her voice audible only to her.
No wonder she can be the ruler of a region and have a clan like the Ye family act as her willing lapdogs.
Just as the golden imperial talisman manifested and blocked Gu Han's strike...
At the very center of the Eastern Region, deep underground beneath the Qingxuan Dynasty, within a Secret Realm shrouded by chains of Dao Laws...
A woman dressed in a nine-colored phoenix-patterned palace gown, with a face of peerless beauty and elegance, as if gathering all the radiance and nobility of heaven and earth...
She sat cross-legged atop a Dao platform filled with chaotic qi.
She was surrounded by visions of endless stars appearing and vanishing, and the sun and moon alternating; her Aura was as deep as an abyss, as if she had already merged with the Great Dao of this world.
She was none other than one of the Dominators of the Eastern Region, Empress Qing Xuan!
Suddenly, her beautiful eyes, which seemed to contain endless galaxies, slowly opened.
A hint of displeasure at having her secluded cultivation interrupted first flashed in her eyes, which then turned into a clear sense of surprise.
"Hmm?"
With a slight thought, she instantly sensed that the "imperial talisman" she had bestowed upon the Azure Dragon Guards had been activated.
And... it was currently enduring an extremely powerful pressure that even caused her a hint of surprise!
"To be able to force out the imperial talisman and have it manifest on its own..."
Empress Qing Xuan whispered to herself, her voice ethereal and pleasant, yet carrying a trace of doubt.
"When did such a person appear in the Eastern Region? Could it be that fellow White Cloud has returned from the Eastern Sea?"
The White Cloud she spoke of was precisely the other Ascension Realm Great Expert of the Eastern Region, Venerable White Cloud.
He was also the person who was playing chess alone under the peach blossom tree on Penglai Immortal Island in the Eastern Sea when Gu Han broke through to the Ascension Realm.
Empress Qing Xuan's Divine Sense, like an invisible tide, instantly crossed thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, spreading toward the Ye Residence in Tianfeng City.
With her Mid-stage Ascension Realm cultivation, it was not difficult for her Divine Sense to cover the entire territory of the Qingxuan Dynasty.
However, as her Divine Sense was about to reach Tianfeng City, especially when it fell toward the silver-haired figure in front of the Ye Residence—
On Empress Qing Xuan's peerless face, a clear look of astonishment appeared for the first time, even a hint of... solemnity!
She couldn't see through her!
When her Divine Sense touched the area within a few feet of that silver-haired woman, it was actually completely blocked by an invisible barrier!
Let alone peering into the depth of her cultivation, even the opponent's Aura was sensed only unclearly!
It was as if what stood there was not a real living being, but a severed piece of the void, a mass of unanalyzable mist!
"This..."
Empress Qing Xuan's pupils shrank slightly.
Since she achieved Ascension and had ruled the Eastern Region for tens of thousands of years, this was the first time she had encountered an existence that even she completely could not see through!
Even with those old fellows of the same level in the other regions, they could generally sense each other.
But this one before her... "Southern Region... Yaochi Immortal Palace... Gu Han..."
She softly recited the information she had just captured from the mental fluctuations of Ye Lingyun and the others below.
When did such a powerhouse appear in the Southern Region?
Moreover, looking at the other party's methods of imprisoning space-time so effortlessly and forcing out her imperial talisman...
Her strength is likely not below my own!
"Interesting..."
The surprise and solemnity in Empress Qing Xuan's eyes gradually turned into a hint of... interest.
At her level, there were already too few things that could make her feel "surprised" or find something "interesting."
She slowly stood up.
The visions of glowing light surrounding her quietly faded away, and her nine-colored palace gown fluttered without any wind.
Taking a step forward, the space in front of her rippled like water.
In the next moment, her figure had already disappeared from the Secret Realm...
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