"No need to say more. Later, stay behind me. Even if I die, I'll keep you safe."
After saying that, Xiaoyao shielded Ye Yun firmly behind him.
"Stubborn to the end. Attack."
The three sea beasts in the sky had long since exhausted their patience. A thick tentacle pierced straight through space and stabbed toward Xiaoyao. Xiaoyao reacted with incredible speed, his entire body swiftly retreating.
"Sever."
Xiaoyao slashed with his sword, cutting the tentacle before him cleanly in two. A howl rang out from the sky, and the space beside Xiaoyao instantly shattered.
A massive claw reached out from the void and slammed him straight into the earth.
"Sword One, Sword Piercing the Firmament."
From beneath the ground came a loud roar. A razor-sharp streak of sword light appeared between heaven and earth, severing the enormous arm and sending it flying.
An incomparably dense sword aura lingered between heaven and earth.
Black energy coiled around Xiaoyao's long sword, the aura unique to the Sword Dao of Destruction.
"Kill."
With his hair disheveled, his body covered in blood, and a savage expression on his face, Xiaoyao charged directly at the three sea beasts in the sky. Streak after streak of sword light flashed across heaven and earth.
"Burning your life... Master, leave! Master, go! I'm not worth this—I'm not worth you doing this for me!"
Watching Xiaoyao's black hair gradually turn white strand by strand, Ye Yun knelt on the ground with tears streaming down her face. How could she fail to see that Xiaoyao was burning his own life to fight?
Though this could temporarily raise his combat strength, the price was also exceedingly steep.
At best, his cultivation would be utterly crippled. At worst, his soul would fall and his godhood perish.
Xiaoyao was truly staking his life