The fire pearl instantly transformed into a crimson wall of flames, shielding Qin Xiaoyao from all sides! Yet before the fire wall could fully take shape, hundreds of silver-white spears came hurtling over as though a hundred giants had thrown them with all their strength, their whistling through the air ear-piercing. Qin Xiaoyao had never been particularly strong; he could not even withstand Tongzhu Kingdom's Immortal Slaying Crossbow, much less the spears unleashed by these Golden Core cultivators.
"Puff, puff..." More than a dozen spears easily pierced through the fire wall and closed in on Qin Xiaoyao. His face turned ashen, yet there was no regret in his eyes. Instead, there was a sense of relief—the relief of one whose burden of guilt had finally been forgiven. Though Qin Xiaoyao did not look toward Princess Changling, who was fleeing toward Black Wind Ridge in the distance, the eyes Princess Changling, Granny Ji, and the others turned upon him no longer held their former faint rejection and disdain.
"Oh?" At that moment, a deeply surprised voice suddenly rang out. "What is going on here?"
The voice sounded somewhat ethereal, yet it was also resounding enough for the entirety of Black Wind Ridge to hear clearly. Along with it, thousands of tiny threads of lightning abruptly emerged in the air around Qin Xiaoyao. These lightning threads were not numerous, and their power did not seem impressive, but wherever they passed, the thousands of golden spears were instantly shattered. Lightning lingered over the silver-white fragments filling the sky, and in the blink of an eye, the fragments transformed into pure Primordial Qi!
"Senior... Senior Xiao!!!" Qin Xiaoyao was naturally overjoyed at surviving the calamity. He looked around almost unbelievingly, his voice carrying an indescribable hope.
"Xiao Hua??" Qin Qingyu's expression changed drastically when