Finally Reaching the Half-step Celestial Realm Late Stage-Fourth Update, Seeking Monthly Votes

These ferocious birds were simply endless, yet human stamina was limited. Even Celestial Realm experts were no exception. Holding out until these ferocious birds went out to forage again under such circumstances was simply unimaginable.

Or rather, it was simply impossible.

At this moment, Ye Xiwen no longer hid his abilities. He directly activated the domain of Wind-Thunder Force. Countless currents of Wind-Thunder Force transformed into blades of wind and thunder, sweeping into a terrifying storm that instantly annihilated a batch of ferocious birds charging in.

For a time, those ferocious birds could not approach Ye Xiwen and Li Hongxiu at all. They were all blocked outside the domain of Wind-Thunder Force.

Yet these ferocious birds seemed never-ending, utterly inexhaustible and ceaseless.

On the other side, Li Hongxiu also activated her own domain. Beneath its power, those ferocious birds were swiftly cut down on the spot.

But the pace of battle was simply too frequent. Ye Xiwen quickly felt that the consumption of his true essence was astonishingly fast. Even his recovery speed could not keep up with such expenditure, which showed just how terrifying that rate of consumption was.

Li Hongxiu was in even worse shape. After only a few hours, she had already exhausted herself completely, and she was utterly fatigued. Such combat did not merely consume true essence; it also drained mental power enormously. She had to remain at peak alert almost every moment, and the mental exhaustion was easy to imagine.

Such expenditure was usually nothing much, but in the midst of battle, it was practically a death warrant.

Ye Xiwen could hold on longer than she could, but not by much—at most, only several times longer. Li Hongxiu stopped to rest several times before recovering to her peak condition, and then the two tacitly switched