Princess Anping's Tomb, Ninth Layer.
The New Year's Watchers were swept back by the immense surge of qi and stumbled into the eighth layer together.
Apart from the blood and corpses strewn across the burial chamber, only Ren Ye remained, sitting cross-legged. His expression seemed free of sorrow or joy, yet tears slowly slid down both cheeks.
Beyond the collapsed wall to the north, hundreds of lights from Mystical Abilities flashed at once. Like a meteor shower, they poured into the burial chamber, heading straight for Ren Ye.
Though he sat alone with his eyes closed, he could sense everything happening outside. Countless Anomaly items were mixed among those hundreds of Mystical Abilities. Now they all came pouring toward him like a sky full of speeding arrows, leaving him nowhere to dodge.
In that instant, Ren Ye moved to take up his sword and rise.
Whoosh!
At that very moment, a slender red thread shimmering with fluorescent light rose from the ground and instantly wound around his left wrist.
"Focus your mind. Leave the rest to me."
Xu Qingzhao's ethereal voice rang out in his ears. "All your karma shall fall upon me."
Earlier, Ren Ye had not heard Xu Qingzhao's transmitted message and naturally knew nothing of her intentions. Hearing her now left him momentarily stunned.
Boom!
A Dao Body Projection suddenly appeared behind Ren Ye, radiating immense Star Source Fluctuations.
The Dao Body Projection wore flowing white robes, with a dab of cinnabar between her brows and her eyes gently closed. Her bearing was otherworldly, like an immortal banished from heaven. Her face was none other than that of the breathtakingly beautiful Xu Qingzhao.
The Dao Body appeared, blazing with divine light.
The hundreds of incoming Mystical Ability spells and Anomaly items all entered Xu Qingzhao's Dao Body