Chapter 654 – Killing in a Single Breath (2/2)

From any angle, this choice was courageous and wise, yet in hindsight, it was the greatest mistake he made in this battle of the Divine Domain.

Because the Tianhai Divine Empress's goal had always…been him.

The Tianhai Divine Empress did not turn. Instead, she continued to fly into the night sky, and then vanished.

Two streams of black light suddenly made their way through innumerable shooting stars, the black Phoenix wings tearing through.

The vast sky of stars was riddled with paths. Even fate could be reversed; how could she not see through the cracks in these shooting stars?

An extremely clear and incomparably arrogant Phoenix cry rose up from the Mausoleum of Books.

A true Phoenix cleaved a path through the stars and arrived in front of Guan Xingke.

This was a Black Phoenix, utterly enormous, seemingly able to obscure half the sky.

With a grim shout, Guan Xingke could no longer care for the sword intent in the blizzard. He flipped his right palm and sent it up to meet the night sky.

With this single palm, the countless stars in the night sky grew brighter. These were all the stars he had seen in his many years at the shores of the Western Sea. They were all his companions.

It was only a pity that the two wings unfurled by the Black Phoenix obscured his eyes and also obscured those stars.

The darkness of death descended.

There was a light clap.

The Tianhai Divine Empress's palm fell on Guan Xingke's palm.

Silently.

Guan Xingke's palm was pristine, but his wrist bones were shattered.

He was an expert of the Divine Domain who had observed the stars for centuries, and whose flesh and bone had long since transformed to jade, their strength comparable to that of ordinary divine artifacts.

But now, they shattered like rotted wood.

Right after, Guan Xingke's hand shattered, then his shoulder shattered.

His crystal-like flesh, his jade-like bones, his blood glistening with fragments of stars, sprayed everywhere into the night.

Guan Xingke's body incessantly grew shorter, incessantly crumbled away.

Boom!

The palm hanging in the darkness also finally shattered.

Guan Xingke became a pile of shards on the ground.

With the howling of the night wind, these shards were scattered in all directions, all the way into the night sky, their final destination unknown.

In the night sky, the massive Black Phoenix gradually dispersed its body.

The Tianhai Divine Empress returned to the peak of the Mausoleum of Books.

She stood on the edge of the Divine Path and slowly clasped her hands behind her.

She closed her eyes, then opened them to once more look upon her world.

She was very calm as if nothing had happened at all.

Thus, the entire world turned silent.

In the moment when the Tianhai Divine Empress closed her eyes and opened them again, her soul once more traveled tens of thousands of li away, returning to the stream near Xining Village's old temple.

The tree branches were still gently swaying in the breeze.

The blood lotuses in the stream drifted off in all directions, guideless.

The monk was still sitting by the stream, his bare feet still in the water.

”This is Our world. Your coming means you can no longer leave.”

The Tianhai Divine Empress gazed at him and said, ”And We can come and go however We please.”

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