Chapter 504: Heart Piercing
As the snow storm covered the sky, the heaven and earth was like a desolate waste.
Yi Yun had arrived beside Lin Xintong at the very moment she collapsed. He held up Lin Xintong’s thin body in his arms.
Her body was very light, and there was not a shred of body temperature in it. Her body was as cold as ice.
Life force was slowly pulling away from Lin Xintong’s body. She closed her eyes tightly as her long eyelashes were speckled with bits of ice.
Blood and ice crystals began forming on the surface of Lin Xintong’s body. She was like a ice fractal that was about to shatter at any moment as she was extremely weak.
Yi Yun held on to Lin Xintong as he silently stood in the snow-filled ground. He placed one hand on Lin Xintong’s meridians, as meridians were the channels that allowed energy to flow in a warrior. Using the Purple Crystal’s sensitivity to energy, Yi Yun could clearly understand the situation with Lin Xintong’s meridians.
This probe made Yi Yun’s heart sink.
Lin Xintong’s condition was terrible.
Only a very tiny bit of life force was left in her. Even in the Lin family, even with the best healing grounds in the Lin family with all sorts of good medicine that could be used to treat Lin Xintong’s meridians, they were unlikely to let her recover fully.
Besides, this was in the extreme frost icy plains. The chill from the wind was biting to the bone. Even Yi Yun found it difficult to heal here with a pure Yang body that could withstand the chilling winds.
If it was Lin Xintong, with her natural Yin Meridians, she was in a worse off state. The frost toxins had spread in Lin Xintong’s body, and her flame of life could be extinguished at any moment.
Seeing Lin Xintong’s pale and almost transparent, but beautiful face, Yi Yun felt a throbbing pain.
The God Advent Tower’s Item Spirit had already gone into her slumber and could not help them. They could only rely on themselves.
Thinking of Lin Xintong’s final moment with her confused look, Yi Yun did not know what to feel. If he could not think of a way, then that would become the last thing Lin Xintong saw of this world…
Yi Yun gently pinched Lin Xintong’s hand as he carefully injected pure Yang energy into her body to protect her heart.
This was the only thing Yi Yun could do.
However, Lin Xintong had burned too much of her life force. If he wanted to wake her up, just that bit of pure Yang energy was insufficient…
As he carried Lin Xintong, he remained silent in the snow. He had two options. One was to proceed forward and retrace the steps the ancient Great Empress had previously taken.
The second option was to retreat and leave this extreme frost icy plains, and return to the third level of the God Advent Tower.
If he chose to proceed, it was bound to be fraught with difficulties. With Lin Xintong having lost consciousness and with her life so vulnerable, Yi Yun had to continuously inject pure Yang energy into her body to maintain her life. Under these circumstances, the difficulty for Yi Yun to completely traverse the extreme frost icy plains was imaginable.
As for retreating…
Yi Yun knew how far the distance was if he retreated. He had taken four days himself to traverse the distance. If he carried Lin Xintong and walk the distance, it would take at least six days.
Yi Yun did not know if Lin Xintong could last another six days, and even if she lasted past that, what was he to do when he returned to the third level of the God Advent Tower?
She had lost her vitality, and there was still no way of replenishing it.
Yi Yun took a deep breath and sat cross-legged in the snow.
Regardless of which choice he decided on, he needed to recover his stamina now.
Just now, when Yi Yun slashed out that sword attack, that was his strongest strike. However, that strike had greatly expended Yi Yun’s stamina.
Yi Yun knew very well that the battle had not ended…
At this moment, in the sky a few hundred feet away from Yi Yun.
A pair of blood-red eyes was staring at Yi Yun like a vulture.
The swarthy youth was hidden in the void with his expression extremely ugly. Behind him, the door to Hell that he had summoned had shattered. Even he had received a backlash from the sword Qi!
Once a Yin specter lost its body, it would become extremely weak. Yi Yun’s final strike was devastating. Those snow monsters were connected to the swarthy youth’s soul. With them completely destroyed, without any residue left, it had dealt a severe blow to the swarthy youth!
“How could this be possible…”
The swarthy youth could not believe that Yi Yun’s strength had reached such a terrifying extent.
Even if Yi Yun had a pure Yang body, and had a great advantage fighting snow monsters on the snowy plains, he should not have been able to destroy more than twenty snow monsters in one strike, even causing the swarthy youth to be injured.
This had exceeded the swarthy yout