Chapter 2249: The Might of a Palm Strike (2/2)

Immediately, space collapsed, and the sky cracked. The entire world seemed like it had shattered. The clash was terrifying and shocking, causing the entire central region to shake violently. A huge earthquake occurred, causing waves to toss and the land to move. Countless mountains collapsed as rivers shifted.

A Grand Prime’s strike was extraordinary. If it were not for the protective formations, the entire Tian Empire would have probably been flattened from the ripples of energy.

However, not only did the Heavenless Demon Exalt’s strike fail to disperse the hand condensed from demonic aura, but the hand did not even stop at all. It continued to fall from the sky like it was unstoppable.

The Heavenless Demon Exalt happened to be exactly below the hand. As the hand fell, he was actually pushed to the ground as well.

“Oh no!” The hearts of the two other Grand Primes of the Tian Empire sank when they saw this. They immediately flew out, working with the Heavenless Demon Exalt to face the huge hand.

However, even when the three of them worked together, they failed to slow down the hand at all. In the end, with a heavy rumble, the hand forced down the three Grand Primes, shattered the three formations that protected the Tian Empire, and struck the imperial capital as if nothing could stop it.

Immediately, great earthquakes overwhelmed the five regions of the Cloud Plane, and the Cloud Plane that originally hovered still in outer space began to drift from the strike.

The palm strike had actually shifted the Cloud Plane’s position in space.

The majestic imperial capital of the Tian Empire had already vanished along with the beautifully-decorated imperial palace. The entire imperial city was replaced by a bottomless handprint.

The many lives moving about in the imperial city and the many experts who stood with the Tian Empire all perished from the palm strike.

Only the three Grand Primes and two weak existences survived the palm strike. The two weak existences suffered no harm at all when the hall that trapped them was destroyed.

The palm strike had forced the three Grand Primes deep underground. They all paled as blood flowed from the corner of their lips. Clearly, they were quite injured.

The two unharmed existences were naturally Xiao Jin and Xiao Ling that the Heavenless Demon Exalt had captured.

Currently, Xiao Ling and Xiao Jin hovered in the air, wrapped up in a cloud of demonic aura. Below them was not ground but a bottomless chasm the strike created.

They were located below ground level.

Wrapped up by the demonic aura, Xiao Jin looked around in complete shock. He was left dumbfounded.

“W- w- what happened?” Xiao Jin was completely dumbstruck when he looked at the bottomless chasm below him.

However, Xiao Ling was not thinking about what had happened at all. She could sense with great precision that an extremely familiar presence that invoked her memories had drifted over. Her eyes immediately reddened as tears poured out uncontrollably. She looked around at the darkness helplessly and sobbed, “Master, master, where are you? Xiao Ling knows that you’re already here. Where are you… Xiao Ling is scared. Don’t abandon Xiao Ling…”

Like a mistreated child, Xiao Ling sobbed loudly. She cried extremely painfully, and there was also a sense of undisguised yearning.

“Xiao Ling, don’t be scared. Master is coming to take you back. From today onwards, no one will be able to harass you anymore,” at this moment, a gentle voice rang out. A black-robed, middle-aged man appeared silently before Xiao Ling.

No one knew when he had appeared there. It was like he had been there the entire time, fused with the surrounding demonic aura. No one discovered his traces.

However, his gaze towards Xiao Ling was filled with love, like a father looking at his daughter. Along with it was some hidden pain.

Xiao Ling cried even more vigorously when she saw the middle-aged man. She immediately threw herself into his bosom and cried loudly. Tears poured out like rain as if she was trying to vent all the hardships and longing she had accumulated across the years.