Chapter 1502: Zhang Xuan Severely Injured

"Disappeared?"

His face turning pale, the Grand Elder involuntarily stepped back.

The other party could suppress Elder Qu with a single thought, rendering him unable to speak or move, and could silently enter the depths of the Icefield Palace to rescue Zhao Ya... Such strength, unparalleled through the ages, if it came to a fight, could she win?

Her heart turned cold.

No need to think; she definitely could not.

Her strength was roughly on par with Elder Qu's, and since the other party subdued Elder Qu so easily, killing her would be even simpler!

"Correct! I have this strength, and I have this ability! The reason I haven't acted is that I don't want to cause widespread suffering, and I don't want to turn saving people into killing!"

With his hands behind his back, Zhang Xuan stepped forward again. Though his cultivation could not be discerned, he exuded an overwhelming sense of pressure that left no openings.

With a flick of his hand, Zhao Ya appeared before them.

Zhang Xuan looked over: "You only need to help her resolve the shackles of the Heaven Binding Lock! As for activating the final layer of her constitution, I will personally handle it—you need not worry!"

Zhao Ya's constitution definitely needed to be fully activated. As for the method, he could think about it later. The urgent task was to undo the Heaven Binding Lock, relieve her suffering, and restore her strength.

"You can help her activate the final layer of her constitution?"

You Ruoxin was stunned.

"Indeed!"

Raising his head, Zhang Xuan revealed intense confidence: "In this world, if I cannot do it, I fear no one else can!"

This was not an exaggeration.

Possessing the Library of Heaven's Path, he held all possibilities in the world.

In this world, if he truly could not do it, then no one else could, not even Yang Shi!

"But..."

Her body swaying, You Ruoxin's face turned pale as she trembled incessantly: "The Icefield Palace's Heaven Binding Lock is forged from the Cold Heaven Ice Silkworm. Once it enters the body, it seals the meridians. To break it... there is only one path... that is to absorb pure yang qi, and no other method..."

"What did you say?"

Zhang Xuan's scalp tingled, and the ground around him cracked layer by layer, spreading like a spiderweb into the distance.

Beside him, Zhao Ya's delicate body also swayed, nearly falling.

She had thought that with the Grand Elder personally intervening, the current difficulty would be easily resolved. Unexpectedly, after all this circling, to solve this problem, they had to take that step!

"Given what happened to her mother, I had no choice but to take this step. I thought that after enduring a few days of pain, she would inevitably follow the agreed method to cultivate. All previous palace masters have gone through this experience—it's nothing. I never considered removing it..."

You Ruoxin swayed unsteadily: "The ice silkworm was raised and made into the Heaven Binding Lock precisely to force the palace master to cultivate the final layer of the technique. This thing itself is unsolvable..."

"You..."

Closing his eyes, Zhang Xuan clenched his fists, on the verge of exploding.

With his Eye of Insight, he could easily see that she was not lying.

In other words, aside from taking the Icefield Palace's method of dual cultivation, there was indeed no way to resolve the Heaven Binding Lock!

Damn it!

Pfft!

Suddenly, Elder Qu's face flushed red, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Under Zhang Xuan's emotional agitation and insufficient control over his true qi, Elder Qu had used a special method to forcibly expel the several strands of true qi that had merged into his body by incorporating them into his blood!

"Daring to poison me, even if I'm no match for you, I'll take you down with me!"

With a furious roar, Elder Qu struck out with his palm.

Winds and clouds churned, the sea of stars inverted.

A Nine-Star Master unleashing his full power felt as if it tore the sky apart. The hall before them groaned under the force of the palm strike, various formations ripped apart, and dust scattered down.

"Elder Qu, don't..."

She had just managed to stabilize this super-strong expert, and now Elder Qu flew into a rage, attacking like this. If he truly provoked the other party's displeasure and caused a massacre, wouldn't the Ice Abyss Palace vanish because of this?

Boom!

But her cry came too late. Elder Qu, poisoned to his face and with the other party impersonating Yang Xuan, was already about to explode with rage. Now striking with full force, his power was enough to tear heaven and earth apart, impossible to stop.

"What madness has seized you..."

Zhang Xuan, also not expecting this man to be so hot-tempered, striking without a second thought regardless of whether he could win, shrank his pupils and grabbed the Palace Lord's Token, holding it before him.

Bang!

The palm force penetrated the Palace Lord's Token and swept over him.

Pfft!

Blood sprayed wildly. Zhang Xuan felt as if the whole world was collapsing before his eyes, his soul nearly being knocked out of his body.

The other party thought he was a supreme expert and attacked with the conviction of certain death, far exceeding what Zhang Xuan could withstand. If not for the Palace Lord's Token blocking most of the attack, he would have been crushed into a meat patty and died instantly.

Even so, the violent force rampaged through his body, making him feel like a tattered sack about to fall apart.

"How can his strength be so weak..."

Then, Elder Qu's exclamation reached his ears.

A dignified Nine-Star Master, poisoned to his face, with the other party impersonating Master Yang Xuan, had been enraged. He had been prepared to die, hoping at least to wound the enemy even if he couldn't kill him, but he never dreamed that this fellow's actual strength was so weak!

Pathetically weak!

"Damn it, with such weak strength, you dare to impersonate a strongman? Disciples of Ice Abyss Palace, seize him!"

You Ruoxin, clearly also not expecting that this seemingly invincible super-strong expert was actually so weak, flushed red and couldn't help shouting loudly.

The Great Elder of Ice Abyss Palace, a figure renowned across the continent, had been scared into trembling by a mere kid at the Void Entry realm. If word got out, how could she continue living with any face?

As she shouted, Zhao Ya on the side watched the young man tumbling in the air, her body trembling uncontrollably, tears streaming down her fair cheeks.

"He... is not the Grandmaster, but... Teacher!"

Elder Qu's attack was aimed solely at Zhang Xuan; though she couldn't use her cultivation, she was unaffected. Seeing the figure in the air, too injured to maintain his disguise, she suddenly understood everything.

No wonder she had found it strange earlier—how could Teacher's soul enter and the Grandmaster come out?

No wonder she had felt the Grandmaster's true qi was so familiar...

So it really was Teacher.

That's right, only Teacher would rush over at all costs upon receiving her message; only Teacher would risk life and limb for her, even knowing his strength was insufficient, to seek a solution from the Great Elder...

Only Teacher would dote on her so much, risking his life just so she could follow her heart!

Teacher...

Your student cannot let you come to harm...

Her heart felt as if torn apart. Zhao Ya clenched her teeth, and the true qi within her body suddenly surged out, as if about to tear the sky.

"Don't use your true qi, you'll die..."

You Ruoxin's pupils contracted, and she couldn't help shouting loudly.