When a late-stage Heavenly Lord burned his soul and then detonated his golden core, the explosion was terrifyingly powerful—probably far stronger than an ordinary Godly Being's full-strength strike. Its blast radius was also enormous.
The instant he saw the man self-destruct, Ling Tian reacted. He ordered the God-level Stone Person beneath him to change direction at top speed, while he himself wasted no time casting the secret art of Time Imprisonment.
The energy from a Heavenly Lord's self-destruction was terrifying, but the secret art of Time Imprisonment was powerful too. It wasn't especially difficult to freeze that patch of space. The effect lasted only an instant, but it gave Ling Tian and the others enough time to escape a great distance.
The Gong Family Nine Envoys had primarily targeted Chi Xue; Ling Tian and the others had only been caught in the blast as an afterthought. On top of that, they had reacted quickly and used Time Imprisonment to delay the explosion for an instant. As a result, they weren't hit too hard. At the very least, protected by the God-level Stone Person, not one of them was injured.
Remembering the force of the explosion, Tan Tai Chang Feng still felt shaken. He murmured, "Heavens, I've never seen a Heavenly Lord-level expert self-destruct before. So that's how terrifying it is! This is far more powerful than the secret art the God-level Stone Person uses to compress space."
"Anyone caught close to the blast would probably be injured, even an ordinary Godly Being," Fairy Lei Ying said. She let out a long breath. "Good thing that man was still some distance away from us, and Ling Tian used Time Imprisonment to delay it for an instant. Otherwise, even if we survived, we'd have been badly hurt."
"Brother Ling Tian, was Chi