Thud!
Hua Yunfei, who had been sitting there, fell backward onto the ground. His eyes were tightly shut, his brow furrowed, and his face deathly pale. Though a trace of life still lingered in his body, his soul was gone!
"Yunfei!"
Xia Yun's face went white. She hurried forward in fright, but after just one step, a sudden weakness overcame her, and she fell to her knees. Blood kept spilling from her mouth.
Right after that, her soul, too, began to disintegrate, breaking into fragments.
She was a Primordial Soul, one with Hua Yunfei. His soul had suffered severe damage and shattered into pieces, so she naturally couldn't avoid being dragged into it.
"Primordial Rebirth!"
With no time to think, Xia Yun gritted her teeth and sat up. Using the Primordial Great Dao, she tried to transfer all her life force to Hua Yunfei to keep him alive!
Crack!
But as soon as she began, Xia Yun's body started to collapse. Her life force drained away, and blood covered her from head to toe!
Thump, thump!
A strange sound rang out: the beating of the Primordial Heart, echoing from within Xia Yun.
Her expression was resolute. She was willing to use the Primordial Heart, even destabilize her very being, if it meant she could help Hua Yunfei.
She knew the price would most likely be the utter destruction of her soul, but she didn't care. Hua Yun was more important than she was. He couldn't die. He absolutely couldn't die!
"How could this be..."
But what drove her to despair was that no matter how hard she tried—even offering up the Primordial Heart she shared with Hua Yunfei—she couldn't transfer her life force to him!
As Hua Yunfei's life force gradually faded and his soul fell utterly silent, Xia Yun