Jiu Yuan had even lost every last ounce of strength to beat Lou Yunxiao.
Looking at the battered Ning Ke in the screen of light, he felt only a pain that pierced him to the bone.
It hurt so much that even his breath was stolen away.
"You should live..."
"Lou Yunxiao, you should live forever!!"
"You don't deserve to die! You don't deserve to meet the same end as A Ke!!!"
The screen of light slowly faded amid Jiu Yuan's choked, furious shouts.
Its final image froze on Ning Ke detonating himself, leaving the Qianyuan Continent without a trace of attachment...
Lou Yunxiao knelt silently where he was, his right hand already plunged into his chest.
His divine power stripped away the blood essence and the remaining power of the demon core, finally forming an incomplete quarter of the core in his palm.
The freezing rain washed the blood from his fingertips. Lou Yunxiao rose, walked over to Jiu Yuan, and returned the demon core to him. "Senior Jiu Yuan, A Ke's demon core... I want to make it whole again..."
After suffering one blow after another, Lou Yunxiao's mind was now on the verge of collapse.
He was like a walking corpse, thinking only that if he could make amends even a little, that would be enough.
Jiu Yuan's enormous fox eyes brimmed with tears.
He took the incomplete demon core, then abruptly sent Lou Yunxiao flying with his demon claw.
Lou Yunxiao fell, gravely injured.
Yet the wounds on his body once again healed beyond his control.
His expression grew even more numb.
The moment the pieces of the demon core fused, a faint light shone from it.
Reflected in Lou Yunxiao's eyes, it seemed to give him an impossible hope.
But in the end, that last