"Heavens!"
"Sword Son, where in the world did you run off to?!"
"If I lose you again, where will I find another weak Sword Son to serve as my protector, so that I may rise along with you and become a Near-Immortal Grade powerhouse in the future..."
Yang Gu Heavenly Being roared like a madman, crying one moment and laughing the next.
When he cried, he wept bitterly, great scorching tears falling and burning the ground into magma pits. When he laughed, his wild laughter never ceased, the sound waves shattering the void and all laws within hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
The tens of millions of cultivators below, including several Void Refinement True Venerables, trembled in terror, afraid that this terrifying powerhouse might carelessly wipe them all out.
That could happen in a single breath. A slight exhale, and they would be gone.
No one knew how much time passed.
This terrifying powerhouse regained his sanity once more.
He looked downward and made a grabbing motion, flawlessly plucking out three people: Xi Ping'an, True Venerable Shuoyang, and Ming Guangzi, who had only just returned.
"You three carry the Sword Son's aura."
Yang Gu Heavenly Being sniffed them, then asked darkly, "Where is the Sword Son?"
The wrath of a Heavenly Being, held back but aimed solely at them!
The feeling was incomparably terrifying. The three instantly fell into darkness; heaven and earth vanished until only they themselves remained, sinking into profound despair as every defense in their hearts was utterly breached.
Thud!
"Senior!"
"Spare my life!"
Xi Ping'an instantly dropped to his knees, smoothly and without hesitation. "The sect's Great Sun Sword Son sent me to find you. He said that the Pure Yang Lineage and the Sun Inheritance lineage could protect me and let me survive."
"The Sword