Heaven and Earth as Witness, This Heart Unchanging

Qi Qingyun didn't stop at all, carrying Xiao Feng and flying with all her might...

Meanwhile, everyone present felt a surge of excited fervor as they saw the City Defense Mystic Array shatter. Once a corner of the array was broken, the defense of the entire array would weaken by at least ninety percent!

Hope for survival reappeared before their eyes. Each of them ran desperately towards different directions of the City Defense Array, trying to escape this deadly calamity. To their surprise, Ximen Qing actually ran out of the array to chase after Qi Qingyun!

Was he not going to slaughter them anymore? Was he planning to let them go? The excitement in the hearts of everyone who had survived this ordeal was beyond words. They had finally survived!

But... was that really the case?

In the distance, Qi Qingyun held Xiao Feng in her arms, urging her Mystic Force to its limit, never stopping for a moment...

Looking at Qi Qingyun in front of him, Xiao Feng felt no joy of surviving a calamity. All he felt was grief and self-reproach for his own incompetence...

On the surface, Qi Qingyun appeared to have stable breathing. Her eyes stared straight ahead, her expression calm, with only a slight furrow in her brow...

But... Xiao Feng was a healer... Just now, he had discovered a severe break in Qi Qingyun's life force.

The Mystic Skill that Qi Qingyun had just used had shattered the City Defense Array with a single strike, an array that so many people had failed to break even with their combined efforts.

Even with the groundwork laid by the combined attacks of everyone earlier... the fact that their combined attacks could only create cracks after several attempts... only further proved the power of Qi Qingyun's strike. It was definitely not a Mystic Skill that someone in the God Monarch Realm should be able to use!

His expression dimmed. He wanted to tell Qi Qingyun to let him go and leave on her own, but the words never left his lips.

He knew that even if he said it, Qingyun would never listen, and it might even distract her...

All he could do now was remain silently...

Xiao Feng circulated his Light Mystic Force, healing Qi Qingyun's injuries.

Suddenly, Xiao Feng felt Qi Qingyun's Mystic Force begin to spiral out of control...

Drip, drip...

In just the instant that her Mystic Force went out of control, her white robes instantly turned into blood-soaked garments. Blood continuously seeped through the blood-soaked robes, staining Xiao Feng's body.

Xiao Feng, filled with Light Mystic Force, purified the bloodstains, but... the white robes that had just been purified were instantly stained crimson once again!

"!!!" Xiao Feng's pupils completely lost their focus... And after Qi Qingyun's Mystic Force went out of control, she fell directly from the sky. After stabilizing her landing, she could no longer suppress the injuries within her body. Blood flowed from her blood-soaked robes like a river...

Blood also began to seep from Qi Qingyun's facial features...

The side effects of forcibly using the Heaven Severing Sword had already manifested, but Qi Qingyun had been suppressing them with all her might. Now that the suppression was gone, the blood within her body was completely out of her control.

But Qi Qingyun seemed oblivious to her own injuries. She pushed away Xiao Feng's healing hand and took out a pendant, handing it to Xiao Feng: "Xiao Feng, don't worry about me. I'm already at my end. I can't even mobilize my Mystic Force anymore..."

"Xiao Feng! Promise me one thing... You must! You must! Live on! Okay?"

Xiao Feng took the pendant Qi Qingyun handed him, but didn't answer. He circulated his Light Mystic Force with all his might, picked up Qi Qingyun, and enduring the severe pain in his body, soared into the air, flying out of Flowing Wind City.

"Xiao Feng, you're carrying me..." Qi Qingyun began to speak, but before her words could fully fall, she felt drops of crystal-clear tears fall on her face. She looked up and saw Xiao Feng with his head raised, but... tears were uncontrollably streaming from the corners of his eyes...

Qi Qingyun stopped speaking, no longer saying anything more...

"Qingyun... what is your greatest wish?" Xiao Feng asked, choking with emotion.

"You... to live." Qi Qingyun didn't expect Xiao Feng to ask this, and subconsciously replied.

"And after living?" Qi Qingyun's thoughts followed Xiao Feng's words, and she began to subconsciously think about this question.

After a long while, she said with a slightly dazed expression, "To grow old with you..."

But she knew that there might not be a chance...

I will not marry anyone but you in this life, and this vow will never change until death... The image of Qingyun saying these words once again echoed in Xiao Feng's Soul Sea.

Xiao Feng lowered his head, his eyes red, and said with a fluctuating tone: "Qingyun, I... I'm really useless, I can't share any of your burden... If it weren't for me, perhaps you would have already gone to the Pure Land, and wouldn't have suffered such an undeserved disaster... If I were strong enough, this kind of thing wouldn't have happened..."

"No... it's not..." Qi Qingyun denied repeatedly, but before her words could fully fall, she was interrupted by what Xiao Feng said next...

"Qingyun... at this moment... I am willing... to use my entire life as the matchmaker, and my next life as the betrothal gift."

"To marry you as my wife..."

"Heaven and earth are my witnesses, this heart will never change."

"Qingyun... are you... willing to marry such a useless me?"

Qi Qingyun's expression showed a moment of blankness, followed by the first smile after the disaster: "I... I am willing."

Broken meridians, ruptured blood vessels, the intense pain didn't make her shed tears, but at this moment, tears welled up in her eyes...

Looking at Qi Qingyun with a smile on her face, Xiao Feng also evoked a slight smile: "Then it's settled... Now our marriage certificate is between heaven and earth, and it's no use even if you regret it now... We are now a couple recognized by heaven and earth."

"Wife..."

"Hu... Husband..."

Xiao Feng leaned close to Qi Qingyun's ear and whispered: "Now that we are married... We are husband and wife, we should live and die together... Don't say anything that will make your husband sad."

"Mm..." Qi Qingyun responded softly, her voice barely audible.

The cold wind howled in Xiao Feng's ears. He looked ahead, the tenderness in his eyes gradually dissipating.

Qingyun... no matter what, you must live on!

In flight, Xiao Feng's thoughts never ceased for a moment. He was constantly pondering whether there was any other way to deal with Ximen Qing. With his God Tribulation Realm cultivation, he simply couldn't outrun Ximen Qing if he wanted to.

To break the established understanding, a variable was needed...

And right now, the only variable on him was... his divine sense brushed over the "x" shaped mark on his left hand, the one he had thought was his cheat, but had never found any use for.

It was only recently, when saving Bing Hanxue, that this mark suddenly revealed a function similar to a storage space... and that voice... he didn't know who it was, speaking to him.

Xiao Feng's mind was filled with thoughts: "If I put Qi Qingyun into the space, if I die... can she survive?"

Without mastering the rules, doing anything feels restrictive...

But there was no response.

Just as Xiao Feng was feeling slightly disappointed...

"Delay..."

At this moment, a concise and refined voice appeared in Xiao Feng's Soul Sea, the tone was so familiar... it made his expression shake, and he unconsciously spoke out: "How to delay?"

"Husband?" Seeing Xiao Feng's suddenly strange expression, Qi Qingyun asked worriedly for the reason.

"It's nothing, wife... I..."

"Tsk tsk tsk... you're even calling each other 'wife', it seems you've already decided that in a little while, you'll be an enviable couple in the Yellow Springs."

Xiao Feng's words were interrupted by an extremely discordant voice, it was... Ximen Qing who had caught up!

At this time, the hour was midnight...

(11 PM - 1 AM)... [Feeling terrible, I've been so unlucky these past few weeks. I flew out while running the 50-meter dash, and then I caught a cold. My nose stopped running yesterday, but now my throat is starting to itch again, probably a respiratory infection.

I've noticed one very outrageous thing: as soon as you have a problem with your throat, once it gets better, your nose will definitely start running.

I slept for almost 20 hours today, my eyes hurt and I'm dizzy, just like having COVID.

Everyone, stay warm, I'm feeling awful.

If I feel better today, there should be another update.]