Aftermath of Battle

The battle was finally over.

Lu Chen swayed, blood pouring more heavily from the wound beneath his ribs. Foreign energy rampaged within him, his left claw throbbed with bone-splitting pain, and his divine soul pulsed with agony from repeatedly driving the intent of the Godslayer Slash at such intensity.

He swiftly took several healing pills from his storage ring and swallowed them, then looked toward Yun Qingyue.

Yun Qingyue's face was somewhat pale as well. The backlash from blocking that blood arrow for Lu Chen had not been light.

She hurried over, a jade vial already in her hand. "Quick, this is Clear Rain Jade Dew. It works wonders on internal injuries and foreign energy."

Lu Chen accepted it and drank it. A cool, gentle force swiftly spread through him, working with the pills to suppress the deathly sword intent within his body and mend his injuries.

"How are you?" Lu Chen asked.

"I'm fine. I was just shaken up a little." Yun Qingyue shook her head and looked toward Ye Qingxuan's corpse and the place where the Ghost Envoy had vanished, lingering fear still in her heart. "It's finally dealt with... You're badly hurt."

"I can still hold on." Lu Chen's gaze swept toward Dragon-Locking Pool.

Above the pool, the dark-red three-dimensional array model had stopped rotating after the Ghost Envoy's death. Its light rapidly dimmed, and its structure began to collapse.

Yet it had not completely vanished. Its connection to the other nodes in the Capital City had weakened, but it had not been fully severed.

"The array hasn't been completely destroyed. The core should be at the bottom of the pool." Lu Chen said solemnly, "We have to destroy this main node completely."

Just then, the sound of air tearing came from afar as several formidable auras