It seemed to be over.
At least, that was what Wei Qingye thought when he saw Li Ye swallow Senior Brother in a single gulp.
After all, though his battle intent burned fiercely,
the pressure truly had been immense.
If Li Ye had arrived even a little later, then even with Heartfelt Melody supplying him with spiritual power, he likely would have died from exhaustion.
Endless spiritual power was not the same as endless physical strength and stamina.
"Is it over?"
He planted his longsword in the ground and panted heavily. Sweat mixed with blood and dripped down his already scarred body. A dignified Golden Core Sword Cultivator, reduced to such a sorry state.
"No." Li Ye swallowed the purple abode in another gulp.
Once the abode entered his body, it swiftly surged toward his upper dantian.
He struggled to calm the agony of Compassionate Embrace's divine power being forcibly poured into him, while also enduring the swelling pain of this thing entering his upper dantian. He truly could barely take it anymore.
He sat down beside Wei Qingye and said softly,
"I knew Senior Brother wanted me to kill him—at the very least, to kill this incarnation. So I used the power of the Heart Soil Purple Mansion to imprison him within my Purple Mansion."
"That is my own exclusive heart soil. Once something enters it, it is equivalent to severing its karmic ties with this world. Naturally, that is no different from death."
"So I borrowed Compassionate Embrace's power to temporarily sustain Jianmu's existence and allow myself to break free. At last, I managed to do it."
But how could such a thing have been easy?
By chance, he had summoned the Xiang River and used the mud and sand from its riverbed to reconstruct the Xiang River