Elsewhere.
Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan stared blankly at Su Chen before them, utterly bewildered.
"Huh, I haven't been eliminated yet..." Xu Xiaoyan blinked her lovely eyes in surprise.
Neither she nor Gu Yue had chosen to withdraw.
That was because Gu Yue had sheltered her beneath a stone shield.
Since Gu Yue hadn't withdrawn, she naturally wouldn't back down either. At worst, the meteor would smash her to pieces. It would be over in an instant, so it probably wouldn't hurt much.
She just hadn't expected to find Su Chen and Yuanen Yehui the moment she opened her eyes.
But she quickly figured it out.
Su Chen must have used spatial displacement to pull her and Gu Yue out of that heaven-shattering, earth-destroying explosion.
"You rotten senior brother! Were you here ages ago and only decided to act now? You deliberately wanted to watch me make a fool of myself, didn't you?"
Gu Yue froze for a moment, then caught on too. She grabbed Su Chen by the collar and spoke indignantly.
Su Chen must have seen every bit of her bedraggled state just now. How embarrassing...
"Of course not. We only just arrived. I was going to step in, but who knew you had a grade-six item and actually intended to take everyone down with you..."
Su Chen smoothly drew Gu Yue into his arms and gently stroked her slightly grubby face.
Several streaks of ash marked her cheeks, and a few strands of her hair were disheveled, but her eyes remained bright and captivating.
Su Chen smiled. "Well? Are you hurt? Shall I get revenge for you?"
Gu Yue had fought for so long that, although her battle armor had protected her from virtually all external injuries, internal injuries were inevitable. She had simply been gritting her