Watching Ling Xi Wanderer fall, Yu Ci let out a long breath and muttered, "This guy..."
Then he wanted to step forward, but his legs turned to jelly. He hurriedly steadied himself against the cliff wall nearby, yet still failed to support his sudden weight of ten thousand jun, slowly sinking down to sit on the ground. Worse yet, an irresistible wave of exhaustion assaulted him from every direction, his upper and lower eyelids fighting each other, while the thick layer of earth beneath him seemed to seduce him into lying back.
Shadow Ghost shouted a warning right in his ear: Don't you dare fall asleep, or you'll either die or severely damage your Yin Spirit!
"No kidding!"
Yu Ci practically ground his teeth, squeezing the two words out from his throat.
He had just used the Inner Scenery Outer Manifestation technique, employing the God Slaying Thorn for a swift victory, also because the paralyzing poison's potency had erupted inside his body. With a single sword stroke he beheaded Ling Xi Wanderer, and the moment his mind relaxed, his physical frame could no longer hold up, bringing him to the verge of unconsciousness.
Fortunately, he had the True Return Purple Smoke Warm Jade, its interior swirling with purple qi. Though it was somewhat "the wrong medicine for the disease," it could still flush out the residual poison and maintain his basic spiritual awareness from scattering.
He forced himself to think about things, such as this short yet fierce battle just now: he and Ling Xi Wanderer had each struck out with their most formidable methods, attacking without defending, taking solid hits from one another. The reason he managed to survive lay in the fact that his strikes went straight for life and death, making them more direct than Ling Xi