They Reunited Once More

Faced with the purple-robed youth's panic, a trace of disgust flashed through the blue-robed youth's eyes.

If the blue-robed youth hadn't been so far above him in status, he would probably have abandoned the other man long ago.

After all, losing one person would make them much faster.

But the blue-robed youth didn't have the nerve to leave the purple-robed youth behind.

His thoughts shifting, the blue-robed youth saw the pursuers drawing closer. Ignoring the purple-robed youth, he ordered the five people beside him, "What are you five waiting for? If they catch up and anything happens to my junior brother, you won't get away with it. Your families could be dragged into this, so hurry up and burn your Origin Cores to increase your speed!"

Burn their Origin Cores!

That was usually a technique used only when someone had been driven into a corner with no way out.

An Origin Core contained all the power within a cultivator. Any damage to it could affect their realm, cultivation, and strength.

Needless to say, burning one outright was even worse.

Burning an Origin Core could unleash tremendous power for a short time, but once it was completely burned away, even if the cultivator somehow survived by a one-in-ten-thousand stroke of luck,

all the strength and cultivation they had painstakingly built up would be gone.

No cultivator was willing to accept that.

At the blue-robed youth's words, the five Saint Lords' faces changed at once.

But the purple-robed youth seemed to have found a lifeline. His eyes lit up, and he shrieked at the five men, "Right! Burn your Origin Cores! You five, burn them now! If I die here, watch out—my father will make your families pay!"

The purple-robed youth's threat made the five men's faces darken again, but before long,