Buzz… buzz…
Elder Bloodblade's destructive sword-intent flooded every inch of space before the palace gates like a roaring tide.
Even the passing breeze was transmuted into invisible blades, shredding the air with bone-chilling screams.
This was nothing like his earlier probing strikes—
now Elder Bloodblade had fully unleashed the vast might of a Master Rank powerhouse.
The energy contained within such an existence surpassed mortal imagination.
Whether palace guards or ordinary citizens on the streets, all felt as though an invisible giant hand had clamped around their throats.
Elder Bloodblade rose into the air, scarlet beams of swordlight bursting from his eyes like tangible blades.
He stepped forward—
and with that stride, a tide of sword-qi, boundless and dreadful as a forbidden sea, crashed toward the towering imperial palace, as though to erase the very symbol of imperial rule from the earth!
Ten Mountain Shieldbearers leapt up in unison.
