Chapter 1438 - 42: The
Outside, the wind and snow howled, while inside the ancient temple was dim.
Ao Ying lit a lamp of Primordial Fire, helping Xie Xuanyi and gently leaning him against the seat in front of the statue.
"This wound is far too severe..."
She took out a clean silk cloth, cautiously wiping the sweat that seeped from Xie Xuanyi’s forehead, her movements slow and extremely careful.
Ao Ying felt a sense of powerlessness.
Because Xie Xuanyi’s injuries were truly horrifying.
She could do nothing.
At this stage, wiping his sweat seemed the only useful thing she could do.
"It’s alright, being alive is enough."
Xie Xuanyi smiled self-deprecatingly.
"Would it be better to cut away this flesh?"
Ao Ying looked at Xie Xuanyi’s chest, pondering for a while before speaking through clenched teeth.
The flesh had already been burned to charcoal.
There seemed to be an invisible flame burning there.
She knew.
The Undying Spring in Xie Xuanyi’s body was preserving his life... Given that the Undying Spring Water Vapor was there, perhaps it would be better to cut away the flesh entirely. If the invisible flame continued to spread, the pain would only worsen, becoming more intense.
"No."
Xie Xuanyi shook his head, dismissing Ao Ying’s idea.
He lowered his head slightly.
His eyes fell upon the charred and blurred flesh of the chest.
The Palace Master’s sword had indeed struck deep...
The Sword Intent was rampaging in his chest, but what was truly lethal was the Karmic Fire from the Heavenly Phoenix Palace.
The Undying Spring Eye within his Dantian was still propagating.
The flesh would heal again, it was just a matter of time.
But the Karmic Fire clung to him like a bone ulcer and could not be dispelled.
This pain was indescribable.
It was a pain that transcended flesh and Divine Soul, constantly haunting him; even though Xie Xuanyi’s Divine Soul was extraordinary, it was on the verge of shattering.
"This is the Karmic Fire."
Xie Xuanyi looked up, smiling wistfully: "Removing this flesh, the Karmic Fire won’t vanish..."
"Karmic Fire?"
Ao Ying was puzzled.
She was, after all, a Mountain Wanderer with limited knowledge, hearing about such means of the Heavenly Phoenix Palace for the first time.
"Karmic Fire should be a divine skill derived from the Karma Dao."
Xie Xuanyi lowered his eyes and said slowly: "Cutting away flesh cannot cure it. If I guess correctly, this Karmic Fire will continue to burn until my Divine Sea collapses and my flesh is annihilated."
"Until the Divine Sea collapses, flesh annihilated..."
Ao Ying’s heart was gripped with fear.
What a terrifying divine skill, almost the cruelest torture imaginable!
"Is there no way to remove it?"
She looked at the young man in black before her with a complex expression.
Difficult to imagine.
At this moment, Xie Xuanyi could still casually laugh.
"Heh..."
Xie Xuanyi shook his head: "Perhaps there is, but that’s a matter for the future."
"You’re going to... endure the Karmic Fire and repair this flesh?"
Ao Ying felt her scalp tingle.
This Xie Xuanyi really isn’t normal; if it were her suffering the Karmic Fire from the Palace Master, she might find a cool place, adopt a comfortable posture, and quietly await death.
"Hmm."
Xie Xuanyi said calmly: "Though the Karmic Fire is painful, I can still survive."
With the Yuan Swallowing Boundary Stele.
His Divine Sea wouldn’t collapse because of it.
Plus, with the Undying Spring.
His flesh wouldn’t annihilate and rot.
For now, there’s no good method to deal with the Karmic Fire; he can only bear it, endure the painful burning, but he can still survive.
"A tough guy."
Ao Ying couldn’t help muttering, then curiously asked: "How did you escape to here?"
She truly couldn’t fathom it.
With the injuries Xie Xuanyi sustained, as the Harmonization pioneer of a millennium, he still had a significant gap with the Palace Master.
After a single confrontation, he was nearly beaten half to death.
The Palace Master isn’t someone known for mercy... When meeting him, he’d surely seize the chance to kill Xie Xuanyi!
So how did Xie Xuanyi escape?
If he was fleeing, why didn’t he flee to Great Chu, or another territory, but instead came near Lushui Cave Heaven?
"..."
Ao Ying’s voice fell.
Xie Xuanyi, leaning against the statue seat, slightly furrowed his brow.
He sank into long memories.
This escape.
Was indeed incredible.
In fact, upon confronting the Palace Master, Xie Xuanyi was already contemplating how to escape...
But various methods were severely suppressed.
Under the desert sands of the Ruins, when pierced by the Phoenix Fire Long Sword, a wave of despair surged within Xie Xuanyi’s Heart Lake.
But by sheer luck.
A bronze pillar flew amongst the wind and sand.
Others might not recognize that pillar, but Xie Xuanyi was too familiar with it—
It was the Bronze Immortal Gold of the Primordial Immortal Hall!
That sudden appearance of the pillar was perfectly timed, becoming his straw to clutch at for survival!
The Palace Master underestimated the strength of Bronze Immortal Gold, casually striking but not able to knock it away.
This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Xie Xuanyi naturally wouldn’t miss it.
At the moment of collision.
He activated the Primordial Swallowing Divine Power, briefly shielding the Palace Master’s Divine Soul, directly burrowing underground.
If it were only that... Facing the Palace Master’s overwhelming attacks akin to "digging three feet into the earth," Xie Xuanyi would still struggle to escape.
Yet as he was escaping, countless sands beneath the Ruins desert seemed to sense, transforming into a sea of sand that swiftly enveloped him, this vast sea of sand contained a potent, deep Taoist Intent that, in terms of aura intensity, was no lesser than the Palace Master.
Xie Xuanyi did not sense killing intent from this Taoist Intent... As his consciousness was about to shatter, the warm sea of sand enveloped him, sending him out of the Palace Master’s Dao Domain coverage.
And then.
He arrived here.
That profound Taoist Intent must’ve enveloped his body, sending him into the void, eventually traversing to here.
"Was it the Earth Abyss Inheritance..."
At this moment.
A notion formed in Xie Xuanyi’s mind.
The only thing that could toss such a bronze pillar would be the entities within the Primordial Immortal Hall.
Hong Er was only at the Yang God Realm, far from the Palace Master.
Thus, the one who acted could only be Hong Da...
Unexpectedly, what appeared as a scene of deathly silence actually had traces of living souls.
However, Treasure Transformation inherently possesses a longer lifespan.
If he guessed correctly, Hong Da was likely stationed silently like Senior Brother Xuan Ming in the Primordial Immortal Hall, not acting unless necessary, since the palace was meant to suppress the boundary fractures, Hong Da shouldered significant responsibility, every action depleting the palace’s strength.
He’d taken away the Primordial Holy Map.
Though he only realized the first layer now, Hong Da had already seen him as the primary heir to this legacy.
For the continuation of the Ancestor Saint Emperor’s will.
And for the future inheritance of the Primordial Immortal Hall.
This ancient heavenly being expended power to toss an ancient bronze immortal gold pillar...
Upon reflection.
That was the most reasonable explanation Xie Xuanyi could think of.
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(PS: This Chapter is slightly short, there will be an additional update at noon tomorrow.)