"Damn it!"
Ye Yun's expression changed. He immediately let go of her, but it was still too late.
The woman in the black dress fell to the ground, but the black chains that had bound him remained. Even when he gathered his divine power to break them, he couldn't.
The chains wrapped around the woman in the black dress and him, like two black cocoons.
This also startled Xing Wu and the few disciples waiting above.
"Ye Yun/Master!"
Just as they were about to rush down, the black mist that enveloped Ye Yun and the woman in the black dress dispersed.
Everything seemed as if nothing had happened.
"Are you alright?!"
Xing Wu and Lin Xueyan rushed forward, asking about Ye Yun's condition.
Ye Yun, however, froze for a moment. Then, with a grim expression, he looked at the woman in the black dress on the ground and extended a hand, saying in a deep voice.
"It seems I can't get rid of this hot potato..."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Xing Wu frowned. Ye Yun sighed and revealed what was on his right hand.
He then discovered that his once clean skin now bore a peculiar black mark.
The woman in the black dress on the ground had the same thing on her hand.
Xing Wu immediately asked, "Do you recognize this thing?"
"No..."
Ye Yun shook his head and then said dejectedly.
"But this mark seems to have linked my divinity with hers in some way. I suspect that if her divinity perishes, I'll go down with her."
To him, it was a strange sensation, as if he and the woman were of one mind, with everything connected.
After this explanation, Xing Wu's expression also turned grim.
"Then how about we try cutting off your hand?"
"Cough, cough, wife, can you please not say such terrifying things so casually?"
Ye Yun was speechless. Xing Wu retorted unhappily,
"Don't we have any better options?"
"That's true, but that method won't work either."
Ye Yun shook his head and explained, "My connection with her is at the divine personality level. This mark seems to be just an external manifestation, or a symbol of it."
"Essentially, whether this mark exists or not doesn't affect the connection between her and me."
Now, Xing Wu was at a loss.
Fang Zhiwei, even more dejected, asked, "What do we do now?"
"What else can we do but wait and see."
Ye Yun looked dejectedly at the woman on the ground, wishing he could kill her, but the cruel reality only allowed him to say,
"After we save her, we'll ask if this connection can be severed."
Besides this, he couldn't think of any better solution.
With the methods of a High God, even the Star Lord of Lingluo Domain, Ye Yun felt there was little hope.
Now, all he hoped was to help her recover before her enemies arrived and to have her sever the special connection between them.
Until then, he had to protect her safety no matter what.
Afterward, Ye Yun carried the woman in the black dress to his residence. After changing her into new clothes, he began to examine her body.
A few minutes later, Ye Yun spoke with a sigh.
"Truly worthy of being a High God; it's amazing she's still alive..."
Honestly, he was shocked by her injuries.
Let alone the physical body, these numerous fatal wounds, even one of them would have been enough to kill!
That was the cracking of her divine personality. Yes, this High God's divine personality was cracked, only a hair's breadth away from complete destruction.
For any other deity, their divine personality would have long since shattered.
Xing Wu frowned and asked, "So, do you have a way to cure her?"
"Well... it should be fine."
Ye Yun smiled with confidence. The reason was simple.
What is needed for treatment? Pills, of course.
The more severe the injury, the better the pills needed.
And here, he was not short of top-tier healing pills!
Ever since he almost died last time, Ye Yun had given his disciples a large number of the best top-tier divine healing pills he could get.
Afterward, he received a large return of similarly precious healing divine pills that would be considered quite rare in the Great Thousand World.
Under such circumstances, there were not many people he couldn't save!
He immediately took out a high-grade divine pill from his spatial ring that nourished the origin and gave it to her.
As the medicinal power entered her body, coupled with Ye Yun's careful guidance, the vast medicinal power integrated peacefully into her entire body, even into her severely damaged divine personality.
Gradually, her body began to recover little by little under the nourishment of the medicinal power...
After doing all this, it was an hour later. Ye Yun breathed a sigh of relief and said,
"This is all we can do. Her further recovery will depend on herself."
"I don't think we should be worried about her right now."
Xing Wu looked at the woman on the bed with a grim expression, reminding Ye Yun.
"To leave such a special method on someone's body, she's probably not a kind person. Even if she recovers, she might not thank you, let alone let us go."
After all, forcibly establishing a life-and-death connection with someone else was clearly forcing that person to save herself.
It was fortunate that she encountered the inexplicably wealthy Ye Yun. If it were an ordinary cultivator without healing resources, it would have been a disaster from the heavens.
With such a person, Xing Wu didn't believe she could be a good person, at least not someone who would stop at nothing to achieve her goals, just like her from before.
Ye Yun naturally understood this and said helplessly.
"Then, wife, do you have any brilliant ideas?"
Hearing this, Xing Wu's face immediately turned cold, and she slowly said.
"According to my plan, let's just control her, help her recover a little, and then when she wakes up, force her to sever the connection, or reveal the method to do so."
Ye Yun spread his hands, "Are you so sure she'll tell us?"
"Hmph, then let her keep experiencing the feeling of life being worse than death!"
Xing Wu said coldly, her tone exceptionally frightening.
"As a female cultivator, I have plenty of ways to deal with her."
Clearly, in some ways, the saying "women understand women best" was true...
This time, it was Ye Yun's turn to roll his eyes.
"Let's forget about something like that. The risk is too great. What if she has some trump card that burns her life force?"
Putting aside whether the method was cruel or not, just trying to control an unknown High God was an extremely risky endeavor.
Hearing this, Xing Wu glared at him and said.
"Then, Mr. Ye, do you have any brilliant ideas? Ways to make this person obedient?"
Facing his wife's sarcasm, Ye Yun sighed and said.
"Let's wait until she regains consciousness and talk to her to assess the situation. Perhaps there's still room for a change in circumstances."