Sweep Them All (V)

Noon.

Atop the cliff.

As Chu Youwei watched Lu Feng's departing back, her heart felt empty, seized by a deep unease over what she might gain or lose.

She desperately wanted to call out and stop him, ask him to stay with her a little longer, yet the words reached her lips and would not come out.

She knew that the deadly poison within Lu Feng had still not been fully purged—at most, only a third of it had been neutralized. His life remained in grave danger; at any moment, the evil fire could consume his body and make him explode to death. To remove it completely, she feared it would take at least ten or twenty Soul Masters at the Heaven Soul Realm Late Stage like herself, sacrificing themselves to aid him...

She knew even more clearly that Lu Feng's hurried departure meant he had matters of his own to attend to.

As she stood lost in thought.

Lin Xiaowan suddenly spoke from beside her. "Sister Weiwei, do you feel a warm current inside your body too? It feels so comfortable, like I'm bathing in winter sunlight. Could this be the Heaven and Earth Profound Qi Brother Feng refined? Even wisps of it can bring such a feeling."

Chu Youwei nodded to herself. She had sensed the same wondrous change.

But her body still felt as though she had just fought a drawn-out, brutal battle, every part aching intensely. For the moment, she could not be certain whether that strange comfort truly came from some special Profound Qi.

After quietly sensing herself for a while, Lin Xiaowan suddenly sighed for no reason. "We feel warm and comfortable now, and there aren't any other dangerous circumstances threatening us... I just wonder whether Brother Feng can survive..."

The instant the words