Old Acquaintances Meet

Yuan lay in Yinling's arms with his eyes tightly shut, his face deathly pale. Not the slightest trace of aura could be sensed from his entire body; he looked like a corpse that had been dead for a long time.

In truth, if his current state had appeared in an ordinary person, it would have been no different from actual "death."

Xu's power had plunged his consciousness into eternal silence, while even his essence had been worn away in part by Taiyi World's "Chaos-Extracting Origin-Refining Truth-Seeking Ritual."

His mind was stilled, his body broken.

It was only because they were in the Sword Ancestor Hall.

Had they been outside, his eternally silent consciousness would have left him unable to control his damaged Truth Insight body, causing his essence to continually leak away.

By then, recovering would not merely be difficult.

"Me?" Confusion looked at Yuan.

Xu Xing gave a slight shake of his head.

"I'll do it."

With that, he raised his right hand, and a blazing Red Radiance lit at his fingertips, dazzling and brilliant.

Where the red radiance shone, sound, light, scent—everything, absolutely everything—seemed to be sliced into countless tiny pieces.

"W-What are you doing?!"

Looking at that point of red radiance kindling on Xu Xing's fingertips, Yinling felt as though the world before her had suddenly been cut into innumerable tiny fragments.

The World-Deriving Instrument, which had only recently fused into her body, buzzed and trembled, as if it were about to be split apart and severed from her.

The bizarre sensation made the hairs rise on the back of her neck.

"Of course, I'm going to wake Yuan up."

Bzzzz—!

A clear sword cry seemed to ring out!

Just as when he had directly snatched Yuan and Yinling away from the Chaos Sea, a thread of