Published: February 25, 2025
"Master is fine..."
Tan Yun lay on the ground, and as he spoke, blood surged from his mouth once again.
Tan Yun felt unbearable pain in his chest. He trembled as he looked up, discovering that his chest was deeply sunken in, with twelve broken ribs on the right side and three on the left!
Tan Yun sensed that his soul was undergoing a catastrophic blow. He gasped, biting his tongue to keep his foggy mind barely awake.
In this moment, he thought of many things!
He concluded that there was some powerful existence lying dormant within Shen Subing!
But he had no time to investigate because there were only a little over two hours left until the life-and-death battle began!
Subtracting the two hours needed to reach the Platform of Annihilation, he now had just over half an hour left to recover from his injuries!
Half an hour was far too short for him to reach the Meritorious Dojo and enter the Time-Space Scroll for cultivation!
"No, I must leave here!" After making a firm decision, Tan Yun's voice was extremely weak as he said, "Subing, don’t worry about your master. Your master is fine. I have matters to attend to and will leave first. I’ll come back to see you after a while."
Tan Yun's spiritual power surged as he wobbled and shot into the dark sky.
Shen Subing panicked. She knew that in a little over two hours, Tan Yun would have to participate in the life-and-death battle. She wanted to take him into the Time-Space Scroll to heal his injuries, but she knew there was simply no time!
Unaware of the extent of Tan Yun's injuries, Shen Subing, with a worried look, released her spiritual sense, enveloping the unsteady Tan Yun flying in the night sky.
Moments later, she suddenly let out a heart-wrenching scream, "No... Master!"
She saw Tan Yun, who had just flown a thousand miles, suddenly plummet from the void, falling towards the mountains below...
"Buzz—"
Panic-stricken, Shen Subing wrapped her entire body in spiritual power, increasing her speed to the limit as she flew towards Tan Yun...
After flying a thousand miles, Shen Subing landed at the foot of a mountain, only to see Tan Yun, covered in blood, lying motionless in the grass, his life unknown.
"Thud!"
Shen Subing knelt beside Tan Yun, whose face was streaked with tears like pear blossoms, trembling as she unwrapped the Turtle Breathing Cold Veil from his body.
She beheld the barely breathing Tan Yun, blood flowing from all seven of his orifices, his ribs broken and chest caved in, and his face as pale as paper. She let out a piercing cry, "Wuwu... please... wake up!"
"I'm sorry, I don't know what happened... wuwu... please wake up!"
Shen Subing cried heart-wrenchingly; she immersed her spiritual sense into Tan Yun's mind, discovering that his soul was damaged and he had fallen into a coma!
What terrified her even more was that Tan Yun's internal organs had all suffered severe injuries!
In deep sorrow, a glimmer of hope emerged in Shen Subing's tear-filled eyes as she stammered, "When Tan Yun was chased to the Azure Spirit Immortal Mountain and pretended to be dead, he was injured even more severely than now, but he still survived... Yes! This time, he will be fine too!"
Then, as if realizing something, the last glimmer of hope in her beautiful eyes extinguished!
Her face turned ashen, her head shook, and tears streamed down her cheeks, "In just two and a half hours, the life-and-death battle will begin. Even if he doesn't die, according to sect rules, if he retreats without fighting, he will be executed!"
"Even if he recovers his abilities, in just over two hours, he won’t be able to heal... wuwu... it’s all my fault..."
Shen Subing helplessly knelt on the ground, pounding her chest with her fists. She felt pain that made it hard to breathe, cursing like a madwoman, "Who is inside me, get out... get out!"
"Why did you hurt him? Why did you have to harm him... get out!"
While she continued to curse, she was unaware that deep within her mind, the Nine Phoenix Ice Coffin hidden there trembled slightly before returning to silence.