Faced with such a desperate predicament, the smile on her face only grew more bewitching, even tinged with a few traces of feverish, almost pathological color.
She slowly raised her right hand. Resting in her palm was unmistakably a section of… finger bone.
The bone was as smooth and translucent as jade, its surface laced with dark golden patterns. Even lying there in silence, the aura it radiated made the surrounding space groan as though it were about to collapse under the strain.
“Crack—”
The instant the finger bone appeared, the folding fan in the young man’s hand abruptly stopped. A fine crack even spread across its surface.
His previously languid eyes shrank to pinpricks as he stared fixedly at the bone. For the first time, his voice betrayed a ripple of emotion—perhaps even… greed.
“That’s… his finger bone?!”
Gu Qing drew in a deep breath, his breathing turning rapid. “Impossible! Back then, he was gravely wounded by Immortal Venerable Fallen Dragon and never recovered. In his later years, he even courted ominous forces in an attempt to extend his life. And yet, when he finally abandoned his position as Emperor in hopes of living a second life… he was still slain by the current Celestial Emperor, his true spirit ground to nothing. How could any of his remains possibly have survived?!”
“Nothing is impossible.”
Ning Shuangyue caressed the finger bone obsessively, as though stroking a lover’s face. “Gu Qing, you’ve been a dog in the heavens for too many years. You always assume that everything in this world has already been determined. Have you forgotten that there is another thing in this world called a ‘variable’?”
“This finger bone is my variable—and my… ladder to immortality!”
Before her voice had even faded, Ning Shuangyue abruptly pressed the bone against the heart of the altar.
“Rumble—!!”
An indescribably terrifying pressure swept outward from the altar in a circular wave.
It was neither spiritual energy nor immortal power.
It was a pure will—the will to trample all things in heaven and earth beneath one’s feet.
“Pfft!”
In the distance, Mo Yun and the other experts from the Chaotic Star Sea were knocked flat on the ground without even a chance to groan. Blood sprayed from their mouths as they sprawled there like a group of squashed frogs.
Even Gu Qing, suspended in midair, suddenly sank under the pressure, nearly losing the lofty bearing he had maintained.
“Good! Very good!”
Rather than growing angry, Gu Qing laughed. A terrifying gleam burst from his eyes. “Ning Shuangyue, out of consideration for our past relationship, I was going to leave you with your corpse intact. But since you’ve brought out such a treasure… I’ll be taking it!”
“A mere mortal dares to lay hands on the Celestial Emperor’s remains?!”
Gu Qing formed a hand seal with one hand. The void behind him trembled, and a hundred-zhang-tall azure phantom rose from the ground.
Its features were indistinct, yet it radiated a majestic celestial might. One enormous hand blotted out the sky and sun as it reached down toward the altar!
“Hand it over!”
Faced with the full-force attack of an immortal projection, Ning Shuangyue neither dodged nor retreated.
She simply raised the finger bone toward the sky and gave it a light slash.
The phantom’s enormous hand, which had blotted out the heavens, touched the faint golden radiance emanating from the bone—and was severed.
The cut was perfectly smooth and clean, as though nothing had stood in its way.
“Argh—!!”
Gu Qing let out a shriek. The pain was not physical. It was the agony of having his soul torn apart.
The phantom was an extension of his soul.
“So this… is the power of an Emperor…”
Ning Shuangyue stared at the finger bone in her hand, the fervor in her eyes nearly blazing into flames. “Gu Qing, did you see that? This is the insurmountable gulf between us! Even after being dead for tens of thousands of years, even reduced to a single fragment of bone, it can still sever your immortal hand!”
In the distance, Su Ji watched the scene unfold, his expression becoming exceedingly strange.
He instinctively looked at his own right hand, then at the bone in the distance that was wreaking havoc across the battlefield.
“So flipping someone off can actually be this lethal?”
…
At the center of the battlefield, the situation changed in an instant.
Gu Qing was, after all, an immortal. Though he had suffered an unexpected setback, he quickly regained his footing.
“What an impressive relic of the Celestial Emperor!”
Gu Qing’s expression darkened, his formerly refined features now twisted with menace. “Ning Shuangyue, do you really think a dead object can overturn the heavens?”
Gu Qing frantically formed hand seals. Countless azure chains emerged from the void. They were not physical objects, but had been condensed from some kind of force of laws.
Ignoring the sharpness of the finger bone, the chains wrapped directly around Ning Shuangyue herself—and the entire altar.
“If I can’t deal with the relic of the Celestial Emperor, can’t I deal with you?”
He intended to seal this place completely, then slowly refine the bone.
Ning Shuangyue’s expression changed. Though the finger bone granted her terrifying offensive power, she was still only at the Great Ascension Realm. Faced with an immortal technique involving the laws themselves, she immediately found herself stretched thin.
“Damn it…”
Ning Shuangyue gritted her teeth and was just about to burn her blood essence to forcefully activate the finger bone.
Suddenly, Gu Qing’s movements paused.
His cold eyes snapped toward the trio standing on the distant reef.
More precisely, he was looking at Su Ji.
“I almost forgot. There are still a few little insects getting in the way.”
Gu Qing sneered. “Since you heard what you shouldn’t have heard and saw what you shouldn’t have seen… then you can die.”
He needed to clear the area as well, lest word of the relic spread.
Before his voice had even faded, he extended one hand and casually pointed toward Su Ji’s position.
“Die.”
It was only one word.
The sky above Su Ji collapsed in an instant.
A gigantic finger formed from pure azure radiance descended with a will that seemed capable of crushing everything beneath it!
“It’s over…”
Wang Ping rolled his eyes back and fainted on the spot.
Mo Yun and the others closed their eyes in despair.
When an immortal wanted someone dead, who could possibly stop him?
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