After Ji Zhi agreed to leave,
Chu Youren immediately handed him a Sky Supporting Token, urging Ji Zhi to hurry and give it a try.
If the teleportation pillar had not churned his insides like an overturned sea earlier, leaving him afraid it might fail again this time, Chu Youren would have been the first to slip away long ago.
Seeing this, Zhang Jiuyi snatched the Sky Supporting Token midway, channeling spiritual energy into it to activate it. Until he was certain they could truly leave, he would not let his young master take the risk.
After the pillar of light descended, Zhang Jiuyi suppressed the deadly poison within him and wrapped it in origin spiritual energy. Only after Kong Ru Fu sensed that not a trace of its aura remained did he step into the pillar.
Profound spatial fluctuations spread out, shrouding Zhang Jiuyi from head to toe.
Everyone watched Zhang Jiuyi, his entire body bathed in golden light, with bated breath. Only when his figure vanished before them did they come back to their senses.
"It worked!"
Chu Youren was overjoyed. Since the deadly poison could be covered with spiritual energy and avoid the terrifying repulsive force of the pillar of light, why could his rare and precious swords not do the same? Without seeing it for himself, a single word—"difficult"—from Kong Ru Fu was clearly not enough to make him give them up completely. For all he knew, Kong Ru Fu had merely said it as an excuse to pocket the swords for himself.
With that thought, Chu Youren summoned down another pillar of light. He then selected a Sword Embryo from among the many treasured swords. After Lu Feng had drawn away most of its life energy, the Sword Embryo itself already carried far less of