"Huh?"
The women of the Huan Kingdom did not give chase. Sweeping the area with their divine senses, they cried out in surprise and descended into the enormous crater directly below.
At that moment, the Huan King resembled a meteor fallen from the heavens. He had collapsed a sizable stretch of ground, and his entire body lay embedded in it.
"Phoenix Blesses All Life!"
Hua Qiandai swept her arm out and lifted Jian Shang, while Yu Ji swiftly cast her technique. Amid a rich pink radiance, a miniature, multicolored phoenix flew into his body...
A moment later, Yu Ji froze. Her cherry lips moved several times before she exclaimed in disbelief and obvious relief, "His Majesty is perfectly fine. He only fainted! At most, he used up some stamina and true energy. He isn't injured!"
"Uh..."
Li Yanyan, Di Wushuang, and the other women parted their rosy lips. Beyond their delight, they struggled to take it in.
They had felt the might of that heaven-cleaving axe blow firsthand. Even the dozens of Great Adepts present had been cowed by it, so when the Huan King disappeared, they instinctively assumed he had been cleaved into oblivion, leaving not even bones behind. Then the struggle over the blood axe had begun, and no one had thought to check his actual condition.
"Whew..."
After Hua Qiandai infused him with magical power for a short while, Jian Shang awoke and exhaled a long breath of stale air. Sensing the women's strange looks, he offered an embarrassed compliment. "What tremendous offensive power. It must have surpassed the Loose Immortal Realm, right?!"
The women were momentarily speechless, unsure how to answer. Only Di Wushuang pursed her lips and chided him with a sigh of mingled delight and astonishment. "The Blood Prince sacrificed half his life to