"Ahhh! Damn you, Xinyuan!" God King Lieyan's face twisted slightly, his eyes reddening as he let out a pained growl.
It hurt!
It was too painful!
The Eternal Heart Awl struck straight at the soul. Li Yuan had only cultivated the first form so far, and it was far from enough to shake God King Lieyan's soul, but it was like countless tiny burrs suddenly stabbing into a mortal's pores. It would not kill him, but it made him wish he were dead.
God King Lieyan was in exactly that state now. The severe pain in his soul caused his control over his divine body to plummet in an instant—
Simply put, for this extremely brief span of time, the strength he could unleash had sharply dropped to seventy percent of what it had been.
At seventy percent strength, he could still suppress Li Yuan in a head-on fight.
But with only seventy percent strength left against the abyssal suction, resisting it became far more difficult. One had to know that he had already been forced to split off thirty percent of his power to resist the abyssal pull.
Li Yuan's soul attack disrupted him, causing his flying speed to drop sharply once again.
And right now, to God King Lieyan, time was life.
"Xinyuan, your soul attack really is terrifying. You didn't reveal it at all earlier." God King Lieyan forcefully suppressed the fury in his heart.
He was still fighting for that sliver of hope. "I acknowledge your strength. You are qualified to stand as my equal. Give up attacking, and if we charge out together, we can both survive. I am willing to promise that as long as we escape the Endless Abyss, I absolutely won't hunt you again. I can swear an Eternal Oath."
"But if