"Running?" Seeing the old man running away, Yun Wuji took a sword from his ste, it was a heavy purple sword. Then he swung his sword casually.

  Swoosh!

  A brilliant white light erupted, blinding everyone for a split sed.

  "Wh-what?!"

  "Impossible!"

  As their visiourned, Feng Qianhui, Gong Yuxian, and the other disciples were met with a sight they would never fet. Shock paiheir faces, eyes wide in disbelief, and some stood frozen, mouths agape in stunned silence.

  "Is this something a human go...?" One of the fairies, Murong Qiatered absentmindedly, her expression bnk.

  Yun Wuji swung his sword upward, and the sword light shot forth like a sharp bde through tofu. It cut through the earth, leaving behind a gaping, endless abyss that seemed to swallow all light. The sword light surged upward, splitting a t mountain ly in half, turning it into was looked like a valley.

  As the sword light tinued upward, the sky itself appeared torn open, a deep, glowing scar stretg across the heavens, as though the sky had been ripped apart, reag as far as the eye could see.

  'If he hadn't directed his sword to the sky, perhaps most of the Blue Wind Empire would have been split in two...' Gong Yuxian thought with a sigh of relief, patting her chest, her rge breasts boung slightly from the motion, then her eyes turo look at Yun Wuji.

  Watg him majestic back, Gong Yuxia her heart start to beat faster for the sed time in her life. It was a sensation she hadn't experienced in years, and it caught her off guard. Her froze began to crack. Behihe sect's disciples were also entraheir gazes were fixed on him, their hearts pounding in their chests as if awakening from a long slumber. It was as if his presence alone had ignited a spark within them, stirriions they had long fotten.

  "What is this? There's a cra the sky!" People across the empire saw as the sky seemed to be split open, a colossal rift stretg across the heavens as if a giant axe had cleaved the sky in two.

  Everyoopped what they were doing and looked up at the sky in shock.

  "I saw a white light! A white light split the sky!" Some people who happeo be watg the sky saw a blinding fsh, and then the sky was torn apart.

  "Is this a punishment from the heavens?" g Wahe emperazed up at the sky, his voice trembling with awe and fear.

  "Euh..?" Ye Guying, who had been fleeing, suddenly stopped. A small wound appeared on his forehead, blood trig down.

  Thud!

  Before he could react, his body lit ly in two. Both halves fell to the ground...

  At the same time in the Sun Moon Divine Hall...

  "Heavenly Monarch, you worry. Elder Ye Guying has been away for some time; he should have already tracked down the killer of the young master," the Divine Envoy Heaven's Equal said, p tea for the Heavenly Monarch, Ye Meixie, who sat across him.

  "Hmm, if this were merely a normal act, I wouldn't be ed about their failure to catch the killer. What worries me is the possibility that this might be part of a plot from another sacred ground," Ye Meixie said in a deep voice, pig up his teacup.

  "Now that you mention it, there is a strong possibility. Normally, no one would dare to attack a disciple from the Freat Sacred Grounds, let alohe young master... Could it be part of a scheme by Xuanyuaian?" Divine Envoy Heavens Equal asked in surprise, recalling how Xuanyuaian had deceived them into attag the Eternal Night Royal Family.

  g!

  "...!!!" Ye Meixie was about to sip his tea when suddenly his profound energy surged untrolbly, shattering the teacup in his hand.

  "My lord, what happened?!" Divine Envoy Heavens Equal excimed in surprise.

  "Ye Guying... he... he died!" Ye Meixie said, ign the tea spshed on his clothes.

  "How this be?! He's at the 7th Level Sn Profound Realm!" Divine Envoy Heavens Equal stood up from his seat.

  "..." Ye Meixie didn't answer him, he was still immersed i vision Ye Guying had seen. The sword strike had instilled a profound sense of fear in him.

  "Sigh, my frightening genius scared even this sword to death. " Yun Wuji gazed at the shattered bde with a sad expression, as if menting that nothing and no one could truly uand his brilliance.

  The silver light around him began to fade, along with his dragon transformation. The dragon scales retracted into his skin, the horns vanished from his forehead, and his dragon wings and tail slowly withdrew, merging bato his body.

  The same happened with his hair and eyes; they returo their inal dark color.

  "Although I used this teique hastily and it's still far from perfect, I'm satisfied," Yun Wuji said, feeling his strength fading wheopped the teique. Even though he hadn't reached the full 30 seds, he stopped to prevent further loss.

  The name of the teique is Deus Ex Maa.

  This teique forcefully increases one's profound strength by aire great realm. After which, the user will enter a weakeate for some time.

  Because Yun Wuji's veins aren't strong enough to perform this teique.

  (they were a half step away).

  He burned his dragon god's blood to enhance his physical strength whi turn temporarily strengthened his profound veins, which allowed him to be able to perform the teique.

  Yun Wuji was hesitant before because he was just a half step away from succeeding without the o burn his blood.

  (He would have succeeded in a week at most.)

  Now that he had burned his blood, Yun Wuji wouldn't be able to train on this teique again for at least two to three months, which would dey his progress in it.

  He also used Dragon Morph to boost his physical strength, which helped him perform the teique. Normally, when this teique is perfected, he wouldn't o rely on Morph or burn Dragon Blood.

  *I'm not a fan of info dumps, but it seems some people always misuand or miss importaails… Or maybe it's on me, I should've been more descriptive aailed.*

  "Shit! I feel weak..." Yun Wuji suddenly felt his head spinning and his body swayed. He used the dragon soul domaiensively, burned his blood, and used a forbidden teique like Deus Ex Maa. Now the aftereffects left him feeling weak, both physically aally.

  "Wuji!" He suddenly heard Chu Yue's anxious cry as she ran from the barrier toward him.

  The barrier blocked anyone from entering but allowed them to exit.

  "Yue..." Yun Wuji slowly turned around and was about to fort her, but she hugged him before he could say a word.

  "Why did you do something so dangerous?! I told you o take risks!" Chu Yue pulled him into her embrace, cheg his body with worry. Tears streamed down her face.

  "I guess... I overdid it, hahaha. Don't worry, I'm alright," he said, turning his head slightly to rest his fa her chest and chug softly.

  "Really?! But your profound veins are all destroyed!" Chu Yue excimed, her worry deepening as she found his veins were all ruptured.

  "That's no big deal. I'll be better in a few hours," Yun Wuji said, raising his hand to pat her head. However, his ha unusually heavy, and his eyelids began to droop. "...Eh?"

  "Wuji, don't scare me!" Chu Yue clutched his hand and cried once more.

  "Hey, don't worry. I'm just... I'm just tired. I... I want to sleep," Yun Wuji mumbled before his eyes closed, losing sciousness.

  "Wuji! Don't sleep, you 't sleep! Wake up!" Chu Yue cried out as she held him, tears streaming down her face when she saw him closing his eyes.

  "St. Let's first get him to a pce where we check his injuries first!" Gong Yuxiaivated the barrier and moved to her side. She scolded Yue, "Give him to me. I'll take him to the pace."

  She gently pulled Yun Wuji from Chu Yue's arms and carried him back to the pace.

  "Wait!" Chu Yue recovered some of her posure and followed her.

  The other disciples looked at their pace mistress with envious expressions on their faces.

  "..." Gong Yuxian ignored her and flew away, gng at Yun Wuji with a plex expression. her heart was beating fast and she felt her face burnihis was the sed time she'd been so close to a man. His current fragile state was a stark trast to his earlier domineering style.

  She felt she could crush him with a single blow if she wished.

  Of course, that was just her assumption. Yun Wuji had given many life-saving artifacts to his disciples, Chu Yue and g Yue, so it was only natural for him to carry some on his own body as well. In the event of fatal danger, he would be teleported back to Yun Pace.

  Far away, Feng Qianhui observed everything with a meaningful look in her eyes.

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  The name for the teique isn't final yet; I might ge it ter. Feel free to suggest any fitting names.