Just as Qing Chen burned the essence blood of his Second Brahma Aperture without hesitation, transforming into a five-colored blood rainbow that hurtled toward them-
Fallen Soul Slope, a hundred li outside Blackstone City.
This place truly lived up to its name!
The already scorched, withered vegetation lay broken and toppled everywhere, exuding bone-piercingly cold deathly energy.
A gray haze filled heaven and earth. Even the spiritual energy carried a foul, corrosive stench, so filthy that it was almost impossible to absorb and refine.
"Lord Li, are you certain reinforcements will come?"
Ji Jin held his Jade-Bone Folding Fan, outwardly maintaining the composure of an heir apparent, but the spiritual light on its handle had already dimmed considerably. A hairline crack had even appeared along its edge.
His left hand, concealed beneath his broad sleeve, frantically formed protective magic formulas, activating the Mysterious Heart-Guarding Pendant of Profound Heart at his waist, personally bestowed upon him by his father, the prince.
This jade pendant was one of the Eastern Prince's Household's secret treasures. Its defensive power surpassed that of ordinary high-grade defensive magic treasures, and it could even draw upon the power of heaven and earth on its own to protect its master, consuming little of the wearer's true essence. Its value was enough to make even great cultivators green with envy, no less than that of a supreme-grade magic treasure!
Yet now, beneath the tearing bites of wave after wave of resentful souls, the pale, hazy protective barrier emitted by this incomparably precious jade pendant flickered somewhat erratically, and traces of black corrosion appeared across it.
"Lord Li! I... I can't hold on!"
Beside him, Eunuch Ding was already frightened out of his wits and in an utterly wretched state.
Like Ji Jin, he possessed only pseudo-nascent soul cultivation, and