As the voice echoed, a surge of air wave shot out swiftly like a fleeting white steed.
At the same time, the oppressive aura within the valley climbed again, signifying the arrival of a legitimate first-rank Sacred Realm.
Stephanie Stuart also sensed the danger immediately, her eyebrows slightly furrowed as she quickly dodged to one side.
However, despite her quick reaction, she was still shaken by the residual wave of the air, pushed back two to three hundred meters.
“Who are you, and how do you know about this place?” the first-rank Sacred Realm elder demanded sternly, looking in the direction of Stephanie Stuart.
“Want to know? Beat me and I’ll tell you!” A determined glint flashed in Stephanie Stuart’s eyes.
“You wish for death, as you desire!” the elder spoke gravely.
As he spoke, he glanced in Billy’s direction and then, without further ado, his hands drew countless afterimages in the air.
Soon after, the sky darkened, the valley was engulfed by whirling winds and dense clouds.
Then, a gigantic hand, nearly a hundred meters tall, pierced through the clouds and descended like a small mountain towards Stephanie Stuart.
In the void, the winds howled tumultuously.
“Well! Let’s see the power of this sword!” Just as the opponent made his move, Stephanie Stuart also acted.
As her words fell, dozens of phantom swords flashed in the air, each about ten meters in length.
As Stephanie Stuart continued her motion, the numerous phantom swords swiftly converged upwards amidst a piercing howling of the wind.
In a few blinks, a hundred-meter-long phantom sword, wrapped in thunder, hung in the air, the whole void emanating a dense, murderous aura.
“Break!”
With a deep command from Stephanie Stuart, the hundred-meter-long phantom sword, charged with an apocalyptic energy, shot towards the giant hand, as if to pierce through the void itself.
This sword move was clearly from the set of sword techniques that Billy and the others had brought out from Forbidden Phantom Valley.
Sword Roaring Across Heaven and Earth!
During this period, Stephanie Stuart, along with Edie Fennimore, Harleen, and Ivy, had practiced the first part of ‘Sword Roaring Across Heaven and Earth.’
This was their first opportunity to use this sword move against an enemy.
This set of sword techniques, truly a treasure from the eighth tier platform of the ‘Forbidden Sanctum’, was far superior even to the Heavenly Unity Sword Technique.
Boom!
A deafening explosion spread through the void, the clash of their attacks creating a deafening roar.
The powerful air wave swept through the sides of the valley, with large and small rocks and soil rolling down to the bottom, dust filling the sky.
At the same time, Stephanie Stuart and the old man each flew backwards, trailing two streams of blood in the air.
After flying back seven or eight hundred meters, they stabilized their forms, and from their auras, it was evident that Stephanie Stuart was slightly inferior in that exchange.
However, the difference was not significant, and had she been in her prime condition, the outcome might not have been the same.
“Not bad, try another move!”
After a brief recuperation, the elder made another move, his hands flipping to form a mysterious seal and smashing rapidly towards Stephanie Stuart.
“Die!”
At that moment, Billy’s voice came through.
Simultaneously, a blood-red blade curtain, with the speed of lightning, slashed towards the elder.
“Huh?” The elder’s pupils contracted, and he hurriedly dodged to the side.
But it was too late, in his current state, he clearly couldn’t evade this strike.
Thud!
The blade curtain fell, and the elder’s body, cut into two, also fell to the mountain ground, a blurred mass of flesh and blood, his face showing an endless frustration.
He was a bona fide Sacred Realm expert, yet, to be slain by a single strike?
“Mom, how are you?” Billy quickly walked towards Stephanie Stuart.
“Don’t worry, I’m fine!” Stephanie Stuart landed and asked, “Billy, did you find the eye of the formation?”
“Yeah!” Billy nodded and took out a pill from his pocket and handed it to Stephanie Stuart.
“Mom, take this pill first and then rest here for a bit!”
“I’m fine, you go and break the formation, I’ll go help Casey!” After taking the pill, Stephanie Stuart dashed towards Casey’s battle circle.
“Mom, be careful!” Billy shouted.
Then, without further delay, he flew to the stone wall above.
Next, he released his spiritual power to block the formation line and swung his sword at a nearby large rock.
It’s quite obvious that this is the eye of the Dark Big Dipper Array.
Bang!
Without the support of the array, the giant stone instantly exploded.
With the destruction of the eye of the formation, the array was broken simultaneously.
The killing formation in the void disappeared without a trace, and the imposing pressure in the air vanished.
Soon after, Edie Fennimore, Harleen, and Ivy destroyed the guarding eye of the formation and walked out from the barrier.
Then, the three of them simultaneously attacked Casey’s opponent.
Boom!
With the addition of Stephanie Stuart and Edie Fennimore, the opponent, who was at the half-step Sacred Realm, couldn’t hold on for more than two minutes and fell from the sky.
“Billy, is that the entrance to the treasury?”
After a while, the group arrived in the valley, and Edie Fennimore pointed to the entrance below the rocky wall and asked.
“It should be. Let’s go in and take a look!” Billy responded, leading the group into the cave.
As soon as they reached the entrance of the cave, a strong gust of wind whistled out, rushing towards them.
“Hmm?” Billy furrowed his brows slightly and raised his hand to send out a gust of wind to block the air waves.
Immediately after, four figures quickly flashed out of the cave and flew away.
Among the four people, the strongest was only at the seventh-rank Divine Realm. If Billy wanted to keep them, it would be a piece of cake.
However, Billy didn’t do so because he wanted them to return to the imperial city to report.
Afterward, Billy and the others continued to walk into the cave.
The passage inside the cave was spacious enough for two or three carriages to pass through at the same time.
After winding around for a while, they didn’t know how far they had walked before reaching a heavy iron gate.
Without the support of the array, a regular iron gate was no different from a wooden door in front of a warrior in the Divine Realm.
Casey casually slashed out a few sword energies, and the iron gate collapsed with a loud bang.
After walking for several hundred meters, they were once again blocked by another iron gate.
Similar to the previous one, under Casey’s sword energy, the iron gate was as fragile as paper.
“Hmm?”
Upon entering the iron gate, a look of surprise flashed across the faces of everyone.
It was a huge space, covering an area of two to three hundred thousand square meters and a height of about twenty meters.
The reason why Billy and the others were surprised was not because of the size of the space, but because it resembled a grand palace hall, with carved beams and painted rafters, magnificent and splendid.
If it weren’t for the fact that they had entered from the entrance in the valley, it would be hard to believe that this was an underground space.
The space was divided into two main areas. The left half was where the treasury was located, separated by four large rooms.
One of the rooms had its door wide open, and they could see neatly stacked mahogany chests inside.
The right half of the area was for personnel activities, with several rooms and a common area.
At this moment, in the common area, there were about a dozen men of different ages, each with a shocked expression on their faces as they stared at Billy and the others.