As things stood now, it would only make the process of death longer and more painful.
And because of this one step, he would lose a duel he could originally have won.
Su Ye would only suffer even more in the future.
But Zhu Hanwei could not bring himself to say any of this.
In midair.
Neither Xuan Jiang nor Su Ye was faring well.
The former had suffered grievous injuries, yet still retained some strength.
He barely gathered his true essence and cultivation power, slowing his descent slightly even as he fell.
Su Ye, on the other hand, wore an expression of extreme agony. Though she relied on incomparably tenacious willpower and did everything she could to keep herself conscious,
she was utterly powerless to change the fact that she was plummeting rapidly.
In the blink of an eye.
The two drew close to the ground.
Xuan Jiang, who had been severely injured first and could no longer fight, desperately circulated his cultivation, keeping himself one position higher than Su Ye.
This sight made everyone within the Yun Ge Sect's Sect Protection Formation, led by Zhu Hanwei, clench their fists in furious indignation.
But with Lady Tianyun present, though they despised her actions, there was nothing they could do to change matters.
"No wonder... no wonder that fellow did not care. He had been planning to cheat from the very beginning!"
"Damn it! If we lose this battle, the Yun Ge Sect will have to cede its last remaining resource grounds and offer up the sect's supreme treasure.
"Without cultivation resources, the hundreds of thousands of sect members will either head toward destruction, or..."
"It is over!"
Sighs rose and fell one after another. Zhu Hanwei, at their head, slowly closed his eyes in anger.
Lady Tianyun, in