As the smoke and dust settled, the view became clearer. The palace walls in the distance were in a similar state, with the layers of the walls peeling off and full of holes, looking like a relic from tens of thousands of years ago.
The palace wall in the south was in the worst state, with a large breach about one hundred feet wide.
Lian Sanyue pulled back her fist.
Everybody fixed their gazes on her fist and then fixed their gazes on her face, full of awe and fear.
Her movements couldn't be considered beautiful. They were very ordinary, just like her.
Yet, those who had witnessed the earlier fight couldn't say that her movements were ordinary.
Everybody knew that Lian Sanyue was the most powerful figure in the Cultivation world, but few of them had seen her fight; it was because she hadn't fought for many years, and those who had seen her fight many years ago were mostly dead. It wasn't until that day that people learned that she was actually so powerful and formidable, even more so than what was rumored to be.
Kou Qingtong, the last swordsman of the Bloody Demon Church, had been beaten so badly by her.
Jing Jiu was well aware of what kind of person she was, and it was expected that she could defeat Kou Qingtong. As such, he remained calm, though a hint of worry could be seen at the bottom of his eyes.
"The Cloud-Dream Mountain has a profound foundation, and any one of them is very powerful; but he's still a bit weak in my eyes," Lian Sanyue said to the Immortal Tan.
No matter how dull the Immortal Tan was, he couldn't help but let out a bitter smile, saying, "I didn't pick him randomly."
No matter how profound the Cloud-Dream Mountain was, they had only one formidable swordsman like Kou Qingtong.
"But he's not as strong as you," said Lian Sanyue while staring into the Immortal Tan's eyes, "so I'm going to beat you."
The Aoyama Sect and the Zhongzhou School had agreed to have five fights, and the winner could continue the fight.
Lian Sanyue had won the first fight, so she was qualified to fight the second.
Yet, nobody expected that she would challenge the Immortal Tan right after she had defeated a swordsman like Kou Qingtong.
It grew quiet again in the royal palace.
Nobody thought she would win this time.
The Immortal Tan was the strongest swordsman in Chaotian, and Lian Sanyue had said that even Kou Qingtong was not as strong as him.
No matter how strong Lian Sanyue was, she had just defeated Kou Qingtong, so she must have consumed a great deal of energy, and it was obvious that she was wounded. How could she defeat the Immortal Tan?
Unexpectedly, the Immortal Tan didn't refuse her like he did to Jing Jiu. "Please," he said calmly.
Looking at him, Lian Sanyue revealed an appreciative expression in her eyes, as she said, "As I said, you're a decent person, so I let you strike first."
She had told Kou Qingtong earlier that nobody would have a chance to strike if she struck first.
Was it possible that the Immortal Tan was no exception?
The Immortal Tan didn't feel humiliated at all. He started preparing himself earnestly. He reached out his hands in front of his body and started adjusting the distance and angle.
His expression was really very serious, like a farmer who was preparing to plow the fields and a general who was preparing to go to war. He was meticulous and didn't mind the complexity.
After a while, his hands stopped moving. They were about a foot and a half apart, and his fingers were slightly spread open, as if he was hugging a void.
After making sure that everything was perfect, the Immortal Tan lifted his head and said to Lian Sanyue, "All right."
Lian Sanyue suddenly laughed out.
She asked the Immortal Tan to strike, and the Immortal Tan did so with only a pair of hands.
How indifferent, how proud.
This was the demeanor of the head of Zhongzhou School.
Yet, Lian Sanyue didn't want to strike first, and it was very difficult for her to strike when facing those hands.
The Immortal Tan's hands were not simple. The void grasped by his hands gave her the feeling that it was another space, exuding a profound and dangerous intent.
Lian Sanyue started calculating while looking at those hands in Silence.
The Immortal Tan didn't move, letting her look at them as she wished.
Time passed slowly. The morning sunlight returned to the sky above Zhaoge City. It was still quiet in the royal palace. Everybody was watching the scene nervously, as they were aware that it was not a simple confrontation. It was just that the Immortal Tan and Lian Sanyue's Cultivation states were too high for them to understand.
A yawning sound suddenly broke out in the side hall. Ping Yong-Ka felt bored, asking, "When will it start?"
Many people in the quiet royal palace had heard what he said, glaring at each other angrily.
Lian Sanyue heard what he said as well. She smiled faintly and flicked a drop of water toward the other side with her index finger.
The drop of water flew over a distance of one mile and landed squarely between the hands of the Immortal Tan.
The ripples suddenly appeared in the patch of void, as if it had turned into the surface of a lake.
Lian Sanyue didn't strike first.
The Immortal Tan didn't strike.
Yet, the fight between the strongest swordsmen in Chaotian had begun.
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The surface of the lake had gradually calmed down, and the ripples grew wider, forming a few arcs of light.
When the waves were rolling, the lake was a lake and the river was a river; but it would become a mirror when it calmed down.
It was then that the space between the hands of the Immortal Tan turned into a mirror, with a few arcs of light on it.
The smallest mirror could accommodate the widest sky, as long as the distance was far enough or the magic method was powerful enough.
The whole of the royal palace had entered the mirror, and then it was divided into different scenes by the arcs of light. The scenes intertwined, overlapped, and separated once in a while; but they were no longer one entity.
The real world had also undergone a change. The group of palace halls seemed to have been cut into a few pieces, looking eerie and dazzling.
Some courageous and curious eunuchs couldn't stand it any longer after taking a few glances at the scenes and passed out.
Some chancellors in the grand hall sat down on the ground while covering their foreheads with their hands.
The swordsmen of the Cultivation sects in the sky felt their Dao Hearts disturbed when they saw the scenes from the side, so they turned their heads around hastily.
Bu Qiuxiao ordered Liu Shisui, Xi Yiyun and other regular disciples to close their eyes, and then he looked at the square, praising the Immortal Tan again, thinking that the Immortal Tan was indeed unparalleled in the world in terms of magic methods.
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As the Immortal Tan's hands drew close to each other, the patch of void changed shape and became distorted.
The two palaces in the two scenes drew close to each other. An unimaginably powerful force appeared in the square along with the overlapping of the space.
Countless crisp cracking sounds rang out in the quiet royal palace, which could be the sound of the space being cut apart or the sound of the broken pieces of space being destroyed.
A great amount of Chaotic Wind gushed out from the cracks and cracks, passing through the square. If it weren't for the protection of the Great Formation of the royal palace, the palace walls would have been destroyed instantly.
Lian Sanyue's black hair tousled, her face pale, a trickle of fresh blood seeping out from the corner of her mouth.
Lian Sanyue had sustained a minor injury during the fight with Kou Qingtong. Now that she was squeezed by the space, her injury became more serious.
If she wished to win this fight, she had to use the most brutal attack to interrupt the Immortal Tan's magic method. However, the Immortal Tan was also the person in the mirror even though he was the holder of the mirror. It was impossible for her to determine where his real body was in the space, so how could she attack him?
Lian Sanyue took a step forward and found a passageway among the mirrors in the sky.
The passageway didn't lead to the Immortal Tan's real body, but to the morning sun in the sky.
She didn't intend to fly away; all she wanted to do was look at the sun.
A beam of morning sunlight arrived from the east, passing through the broken pieces of space in the royal palace, and landed squarely on her.
Her figure looked exceedingly tall amid the beautiful morning sunlight.
She reached out her right hand to grab the beam of morning sunlight, and then clenched it forcefully.
An indescribable sound rang out in her palm.
It sounded like a zither string breaking, or a flying sword breaking, or a magic treasure breaking apart.
The morning sunlight was broken!
Lian Sanyue didn't loosen her grip. The morning sunlight refracted and collided with each other in her palm. In the end, it seeped out from the cracks between her fingers and turned into tiny particles, scattering in all directions.
The mirrors in the space in the royal palace were occupied by the tiny particles of morning sunlight at the same time. All of them turned white instantly, looking like countless pieces of paper. It was a marvelous scene.
"Open!"
Lian Sanyue yelled as she tossed the piece of morning sunlight to the ground.
The milky-white light particles rolled on the ground like the ocean spray or the fog.
In the meantime, the light particles in the mirrors in the space began to collide with the edges of the mirrors, giving off crackling sounds like the rainstorm.
It was unclear whether it was because the edges of the mirrors were on the verge of collapsing or because of the strong attraction between the particles of morning sunlight, but the mirrors in the space had gradually moved closer to each other, and the group of palace halls had gradually returned to their original appearance.
There was a pagoda in the royal garden in the west of the royal palace, but it was in the sky above.
As Lian Sanyue did it, the pagoda drifted toward the royal garden in the west slowly.
It was then that the Immortal Tan walked out from the pagoda.
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