Chapter 59: The Power of the Heart of Coexistence!

Gentle and natural, the feeling permeated his heart. The moment his consciousness began to awaken, through the hazy mist, he saw Lan Bing by his side. She was continuously channeling pale blue spiritual energy into Mo Xuan's body, attempting to suppress the sudden, abnormal aura. For now, the effect was quite good, and Mo Xuan had already regained consciousness.

"How could I have..." Mo Xuan had a very faint impression of what had just happened, but he knew he seemed to have done something wrong.

"You suddenly suffered a deviation in your cultivation! Fortunately, I arrived. You really are never a worry-free person. Come on, praise me—wasn't my timing just now impeccably timely?"

Of course, Lan Bing was merely making a joke!

"What time is it, and you're still joking!"

Mo Xuan hurriedly got up, scanning his surroundings with extreme vigilance, fearing that something else might happen.

Just as the two of them were speaking, a sudden fissure tore across the sky above the courtyard where they stood, and a figure emerged from within, standing proudly in mid-air.

This person was dressed in purple-black robes and wore a mask, concealing his appearance and build just as before. "Haha, that object really is with you. You still have the leisure to flirt at a time like this? Seeing as you are in such high spirits, let me send you on your way!"

"What object?!" Mo Xuan asked loudly, utterly perplexed.

Lan Bing stepped quickly in front of Mo Xuan, gazing up at the figure in the sky, and assumed a defensive posture. "Leave this person to me!"

"Heh, you don't need to know. You only need to know that you are about to become a corpse!" This was the formidable Heavenly Heart realm expert who had previously attempted to assassinate Mo Xuan, and he had no desire to waste breath on explanations.

With a flash of his figure, a powerful bolt of spiritual energy materialized out of nowhere and hurtled toward Mo Xuan. It was so fast that there was simply no time to react.

Lan Bing immediately shoved Mo Xuan out of the way, taking the brunt of the remaining force herself. She was knocked back a short distance, clutching her wound in acute distress.

"What a nuisance. Since you are so eager to die, I'll grant your wish!" The assailant redirected his attack toward Lan Bing, striking out with a single palm.

Though the strike appeared casual, it was extraordinarily powerful.

Lan Bing's reflexes remained sharp. She crossed her Black Gold Rose twin swords to block, yet she was still no match. Her body was sent flying entirely, landing dozens of meters further back.

A long trail was gouged into the ground where she slid—a sight that would pierce anyone's heart with pain.

"Huh?"

The man furrowed his brow slightly. During their previous encounter, it had been a sneak attack, so he hadn't gauged her true measure. But engaging her formally this time, he discovered that Lan Bing was unexpectedly resilient. The move he had just used was something even a high-level Earth Soul realm cultivator could not withstand, yet Lan Bing had taken it.

Although she was struggling, she did not appear to have suffered crippling injuries and was still capable of fighting.

The man cared little for such details; as an assassin, as long as the mission was completed, the methods were irrelevant. Following closely behind, he unleashed three consecutive heavy attacks. Every punch and palm strike was incomparably ferocious, accompanied by the faint wailing of fractured air currents.

Yet Lan Bing remained standing, occasionally even managing to evade his blows. This piqued the man's curiosity.

He appraised Lan Bing's aura for a moment and quickly discovered the clue. "So that's how it is! Heh! You've got decent stamina!"

"What!" Lan Bing hurried to dodge, but she failed to shift her stance in time, never expecting that her opponent would alter his strategy.

The man flicked his wrist, casting out an iron chain crackling with thunderous Qi, and slammed it forcefully into the ground.

The chain pierced straight through the earth, burying itself deep within as if fusing with the very ground beneath them.

Sensing immediate danger, Lan Bing sought to flee, leaping into the air!

However, time ran out. The earth erupted beneath her, laced with crackling bolts of lightning.

It was a chain of thunder.

Initially, she managed to dodge as the speed was manageable. But the moment her feet touched down upon a crumbling wall, a volley of iron chains shot out from the side wall, leaving her with insufficient momentum to evade.

Before a Heavenly Heart realm expert, Lan Bing's strength appeared entirely inadequate, leaving her with no choice but to absorb the blows passively.

With a careless slip, her ankles were bound, rendering her unable to move away. The chains rapidly coiled around her entire body. The violent, fierce might of the potent electrical currents instantly wrung a miserable scream from Lan Bing's lips before she lost consciousness and fainted dead away!

Clang!

Her twin swords dropped to the earth.

The man grabbed one end of the chain and dragged Lan Bing up into the air. Instead of finishing her off immediately, he turned his pursuit toward Mo Xuan.

Mo Xuan had indeed fled initially, but seeing that the man had not pursued him immediately, his mind had raced with anxiety. Overwhelmed by unease and unable to set his worries aside, he had turned back.

Hearing Lan Bing's agonizing cry, his heart was wrenched with pain, and he rushed frantically toward the source. Lan Bing had been injured because of him last time, and now it was happening again—with the distinct possibility of death.

"No, no!" Arriving at the battle site, he found it utterly devastated, reduced to ruins imbued with a scorching, oppressive heat.

Uncontrollable tears welled up in his eyes.

He dropped to his knees, an overwhelming sense of guilt crashing over him that he could simply not endure.

"Oh? You actually dare to come back!" The man, not yet far away, instantly locked onto Mo Xuan's aura and closed in. His gaze and tone were steeped in utter disdain, even mockery.

Mo Xuan stood up, glaring at Lan Bing, who was bound by chains beside the man, and burned with furious indignation. "Return my sister to me."

"Hah, just you?" The man looked at him with supreme contempt, a playful glint in his eye. "It seems she really is quite important to you!"

"What are you going to do?!"

With a wave of the man's hand, a three-meter-long stone pillar from the distance floated over.

With a heavy thud, it drove straight into the ground.

He flicked the thunder chain in his hand, lashing Lan Bing—still bound to the chain—against the stone pillar. "Before you die, watch with your own eyes as I tear her apart piece by piece, haha."

The man condensed a blade of energy, raised it high, and drove it fiercely into the chest of the bound Lan Bing.

Blood trickled down her chest, and her flawless skin began to ruin, fracturing layer by layer.

The ethereal sword Qi slowly sheared into the rest of her flesh, tearing her apart bit by bit.

Lan Bing, previously plunged into unconsciousness, was jolted awake by the excruciating agony. She let out a heart-rending shriek of unimaginable pain before lapsing into darkness once more.

Through the haze, she seemed to catch sight of Mo Xuan's figure. Even at this moment, her sole thought was to urge him to flee. "Run! Don't mind me!"

A towering fury ignited within Mo Xuan's heart, blazing like a raging inferno.

The Space of Time was on the verge of thawing—just a hair's breadth away.

Those two sun-like fireballs, one blazing hot and the other deep purple, hovered at opposite ends of the River of Time's clock face.

He cast his focus upon them. When the Three-Heart Mirage had opened, he had exercised restraint and refused to touch them. But this time, he had to save someone.

"Bastard! I won't let you off!"

Disregarding the state of his own body, Mo Xuan reached out toward one of the blazing fireballs. It was searingly, blisteringly hot—so hot it threatened to incinerate him utterly—yet he refused to let go.

Enduring unspeakable agony, he forced himself forward, walking the razor's edge between life and death over and over within the span of mere breaths.

Each time he neared death, the Space of Time would thaw by another fraction.

Only a single thought drove him: to draw forth this ball of fire.

For this, he could cast everything else aside.

With sheer willpower, he dragged the massive, blazing fireball out from within his own body.

The colossal, scorching orb emerged from Mo Xuan, radiating outward to envelop his entire frame.

This heavenly fireball, akin to a blazing sun, illuminated the surroundings as brightly as midday.

"What?!" The man stared in utter shock at the fireball, then back at Mo Xuan, a trace of panic finally creeping into his demeanor.

Bearing the fireball, Mo Xuan rushed to Lan Bing's side and unleashed his primordial energy. In an instant, a pillar of fire shot skyward, instantly incinerating the chains binding Lan Bing and neutralizing the sword Qi still rampaging through her body.

The sheer might of the fireball was extraordinary. Its wildly chaotic, raging power violently ruptured the defensive barrier enclosing the Bai family estate, tearing a massive gap in its perimeter.

The towering pillar of flame shocked the entire city of Luochuan and even rippled across the surrounding regions.

Caught in the massive blast radius, the man himself was struck by the overwhelming force.

Yet, being a Heavenly Heart realm expert, he managed to avoid critical injury despite facing an out-of-control cataclysmic attack.

Glowering viciously, the man stared at the chaotic scene before him. "What on earth is that thing?!"

For reasons unknown, the fireball seemed to resonate with Lan Bing. Just as it threatened to spin out of control and detonate, a gentle wave of spiritual energy welled up from within Lan Bing's body, subduing the volatile aura.

Ultimately, guided by this soft, nurturing power, the fireball flowed harmlessly back into Mo Xuan's body.

Meanwhile, the sudden, towering pillar of flame had alarmed Meng Yao, who was not far away. Because the teleportation array had malfunctioned, she had left Bai Mei behind to wait for repairs while she herself set out to find Mo Xuan.

At that moment, she was rushing toward the scene at top speed.

"What is going on here?!" For a fleeting second, Mo Xuan had believed the fireball would tear him to shreds, yet it had abruptly retreated into his body. Without sparing a moment, he immediately checked on Lan Bing behind him. Putting aside all else, he poured the finest medicinal elixirs he possessed into her body to mend her injuries.

Just as he was about to inspect the wound on her chest, he witnessed a bizarre phenomenon: a glacial blue light bloomed across Lan Bing's back, repairing the laceration on her chest at a miraculous speed.

In the sky, having regained his composure, the man decided to dispense with games. Although somewhat disheveled, the two interlopers before him had to be eliminated.

With a sweep of both hands, he unleashed the full might of his Heavenly Heart realm. An awe-inspiring, majestic pressure tore through layers of spatial ripples and blasted directly toward Mo Xuan.

Mo Xuan had just intended to lift Lan Bing and flee, but the instant he hoisted her onto his back, he felt an overwhelmingly formidable attack wash over him like a tidal wave. He tried his utmost to dodge, but the speed was too great and the radius too vast to escape in time.

At that critical juncture, a crimson rope suddenly lashed around Mo Xuan's waist and yanked him forcibly out of harm's way.

"Another meddlesome bastard! Damn it all!" The man felt on the verge of madness. He had initially thought this a simple task unworthy of real effort, yet a little indulgence had left him unable to secure the kill, repeatedly thwarted by outside interference.

Both Mo Xuan and the unconscious Lan Bing on his back were pulled safely to Meng Yao's side!

"Thank you!"

"What are you thanking me for? Save it for later." Meng Yao produced a gourd and chanted an incantation. The gourd promptly grew in size, swallowing the three of them whole and pulling them inside.