She had once said that if she reached a point of no return, she would choose to forcibly devour the Heart of Heavenly Principles, and this was by no means an empty threat.
Tianli Xingwu, who knew everything, also understood her intentions.
However, she showed no intention of resisting. To Xingwu's surprise, she transmitted her voice faintly, saying:
"Don't you have a backup plan? What are you waiting for? Just devour this young lady."
Hearing her words, Xingwu revealed a look of surprise.
It was truly hard to imagine that the previously arrogant individual would now say such a thing.
Tianli Xingwu then let out a light snort and added:
"Don't overthink it. This young lady isn't doing this for you, nor has she been moved by anyone.
"It's simply that I feel being killed by that guy like this is worse than being devoured by you. At least it can help me teach that guy a lesson."
Her attitude was very firm, as if she had no lingering attachments to anything.
In fact, in this short time she had lived, what was there truly worth her lingering attachment for?
Xingwu raised an eyebrow and said, "Are you sure?"
"Nonsense, you are, after all..."
At this point, Tianli Xingwu stopped herself.
Then, she let out a cold snort and glared at her fiercely.
"Stop being so fake. If you're going to do it, then hurry up and do it!"
Xingwu paused briefly, then nodded and said:
"I will help you teach that guy a good lesson later."
As her voice fell, she raised her hand.
A golden light bloomed from her palm, transforming into mysterious runes that flickered.
On Tianli Xingwu's forehead, a similar pattern appeared. She herself seemed to sense something and pursed her lips indignantly:
"So that's how it is. You really are... clever."
After saying this, she suddenly smiled.
"No wonder such an intelligent self like me was born."
With these words, everything ceased.
Her delicate body transformed into golden light and was absorbed, becoming a golden crystal resembling a Rubik's cube. It then flew towards Xingwu.
Feng Chi watched this scene quietly, not intervening recklessly. Besides the fact that it was difficult to stop, he also didn't believe that the other party could instantly devour the Heart of Heavenly Principles.
Ye Yun, witnessing this, frowned and asked:
"Can that person still be saved?"
"Her... it depends on her fate."
Unexpectedly, Xingwu did not give a negative answer but instead said something ambiguous.
Ye Yun was stunned. Did this mean there was still a chance?!
Just as he was about to ask further, the Heart of Heavenly Principles had already flown into Xingwu's hand. She then said to him faintly:
"Husband, buy me ten seconds, no matter the cost."
"Uh... Huh?"
Before Xingwu had even finished speaking, or before Ye Yun could reply, let alone ask if he could do it,
she had already grabbed the Heart of Heavenly Principles and sat down. Then, vines wrapped around her body, enclosing her in layers of defense.
Following this, streams of golden and black light intertwined, surging out from within the vines, clearly indicating that the devouring process had begun!
At this, Ye Yun couldn't help but twitch his lips.
"Ten seconds? Is this trying to make things difficult for me, Ye Yun?"
He surveyed his surroundings: thousands of experts from the Divine Hall, more than a dozen quasi-emperor powerhouses, and Feng Chi, the Blade Emperor of Heaven Severing.
With his strength, let alone ten seconds, even three seconds would be the time for them to trample over his corpse.
However, even so, Ye Yun sighed and then raised the True Flame Shield, positioning himself to face Feng Chi. No matter what, he had to face them head-on.
Feng Chi, on the opposite side, glanced at Xingwu's location and then at Ye Yun, saying coldly:
"With no chance of survival, are you still coming to seek death?"
"What can I do? She called me husband."
Ye Yun spread his hands and said with a helpless expression.
"My wife is here. As a man, I must die before her."
He had initially thought of stalling for another two minutes, and the time would pass.
But Feng Chi was not a fool. After a sarcastic remark, he drew his sword and attacked.
"Then allow me to send you off, Heaven's Slash!"
He swung his blade again, a full-power strike as before.
According to Feng Chi's expectation, the power of this strike was enough to directly pierce through Ye Yun and Xingwu, whom he was protecting behind him.
However, Ye Yun, knowing he was no match for him, was not unprepared. On the contrary, he was thoroughly prepared!
Just a moment before Feng Chi attacked, Ye Yun quickly swallowed a batch of explosive pills and simultaneously channeled his internal mystic energy with all his might.
"Immortal God Transformation!"
In an instant, his body erupted with light as fierce as fire, and a scorching wave of energy wrapped around Ye Yun.
While the mystic skill Immortal God Transformation would severely overdraw the user's own body, the resulting enhancement was far beyond Ye Yun's imagination.
The mystic energy fluctuations emanating from his body directly surged from quasi-True Immortal to the first, second, and third levels of the True Immortal realm...
The advancement slowed down after reaching True Immortal sixth level, but at this moment, the explosive pills he had ingested also took effect.
And what he had eaten were super high-quality immortal pills that had been returned to him.
The slowed-down mystic energy surged again, escalating from True Immortal sixth level to the peak of True Immortal, and even breaking through that bottleneck.
The Quasi-Emperor realm!
Within the raging flames, Ye Yun appeared like a phoenix bathed in fire, his entire body engulfed in True Phoenix Flame.
The scorching heat distorted space, and even a True Immortal touching it would be reduced to ashes!
"Quasi-Emperor realm... it truly is a powerful feeling..."
Ye Yun was genuinely shocked. No wonder it had been so difficult to deal with quasi-emperors before; this improvement was truly immense.
However, he had no time to marvel. Feng Chi's attack was imminent.
Ye Yun's response was swift and decisive. He directly raised the True Flame Shield in front of him, activating the Heavenly Phoenix Domain simultaneously.
"I refuse to believe I can't block your strike!"
Ye Yun's eyes blazed with fire. He raised the shield, engulfed in flames, and charged towards Feng Chi.
Two streams of light, one red and one green, collided instantly, erupting with a deafening roar.
Rumble!
The turbulent power seemed as if it would shatter the very heavens and earth.
Even the experts of the Divine Hall waiting in the distance felt their hearts jolt at that moment.
Following this, dense spatial cracks spread out from where the two sides clashed, as if about to pierce into the void with a single blow.
"Such terrifying power, is this guy that strong?"
Everyone's hearts were filled with this question.
After the aftershock subsided somewhat, everyone could finally see the scene of the battle between the two sides.
Feng Chi was still in the posture of swinging his blade, while Ye Yun maintained his stance of holding the shield, blocking Feng Chi's downward slash!
The crucial point was, his defense had not crumbled!
"What the hell, this guy is going crazy!"
"Where did this monster come from? He actually blocked it??"
"How is this possible?!"
Everyone watched, dumbfounded. He had actually blocked Feng Chi's full-power strike!