Transforming into a stunningly beautiful fox spirit, leaving a scar on the heart of a prodigy.

Su Chang'an moved his pale lips.

Those two words were so soft they were almost swallowed by the wind and snow, yet they abruptly halted the movements of the two men rolling in the mud.

The howling wind was silenced amidst the surrounding ruins.

Gu Xiang's withered hand, stained with mud and blood, was still clasped around Bai Yin's nape, while Bai Yin's large, bony hands were gripping Gu Xiang's tattered blue shirt, whose color was no longer discernible.

They both looked up at the grayish-white remnant soul standing in the wind and snow, its light fading away at a visible speed.

Su Chang'an's rebuke drained the last bit of warmth from their bodies.

As they watched her increasingly transparent body, their clenched hands loosened as if all their strength had given way, and they scrambled to their feet, disheveled, from the muddy, icy ground.

The murderous intent in their eyes had completely vanished, leaving only the fear of watching the remnant soul about to dissipate.

Ignoring the blood and mud stains on his face, and the deep, bone-revealing wound on his back that was drawing blood, Bai Yin ignored it all.

He lunged forward, his knees slamming heavily onto the hard, frozen ground in front of Su Chang'an with a dull thud.

"I was wrong."

"I'm not playing anymore, I'll never play again."

Bai Yin's voice had a heavy nasal tone.

This Blood Asura, who had just recently been resisting the laws of a Quasi-Emperor, now held the bottle of Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Liquid, which was less than a third full, in his hands, his wrists trembling so much that he could barely hold the cork.

"Please don't leave, okay?"

"If you drink it, the pain will stop."

Gu Xiang staggered and knelt down on the other side.

As he watched Su Chang'an's increasingly transparent soul form, a suffocating pain welled up deep in his chest.

He shouldn't be arguing about titles that have already been predetermined at this time.

Despair and self-blame tore at his parched internal organs.

"Qing'er."

Two streams of hot, bloody tears slid down Gu Xiang's withered face, the tears flowing down his knife-cut wrinkles.

"It was my fault, I shouldn't have argued with him."

He suppressed his injuries and tried to gather his blood once more.

However, his meridians had already been severed, and his righteous spirit could no longer stir up even the slightest ripple.

He was powerless to do anything.

This realization caused him more pain than the physical injuries.

This once eloquent scholar experienced utter powerlessness for the first time in his life.

Su Chang'an looked at the two people kneeling on the ground with their heads bowed, and he almost lost all the strength to lift his hand.

The soul is rapidly dissipating.

The darkness at the edge of her vision grew thicker, and the emptiness in her limbs indicated that she was about to lose even her last moments.

She weakly lifted her eyelids, squeezing out the last bit of strength from the depths of her soul to forcefully maintain her clarity.

"Do they all want me dead?"

"In no mood!"

"In no mood!"

Bai Yin and Gu Xiang roared out almost simultaneously, their voices filled with panic.

After shouting, the two reflexively looked up and glared at each other.

But the hostility in their eyes lasted only half a breath.

The two of them met Su Chang'an's emotionless eyes at the same time.

The spark that had just ignited between the two was abruptly extinguished as they stared at each other.

They both lowered their heads simultaneously, not daring to look at her or each other anymore.

Looking at this absurd scene, Su Chang'an felt utterly exhausted.

She didn't have time.

She must pull these two combatants back from their emotional entanglement to the track of solving the problem before their souls completely dissipate.

Su Chang'an raised his transparent right hand, which had begun to radiate light, and pointed his fingertips at Gu Xiang, who was kneeling on his right.

"Use your righteous energy to protect the soul within a hundred feet around me."

"Sever this area of ​​spiritual energy from me."

Immediately afterwards, her finger turned to Bai Yin on the left.

"You used the malevolent energy of Geng metal to set up an array around the barrier of righteous energy."

"Slaughter any living thing that tries to approach, whether it is human, demon, or anything else."

Finally, she withdrew her finger and slowly swept her gaze over the two men.

"Anyone who dares to be slow or make any mistakes will be the first to face my wrath."

These words made Gu Xiang and Bai Yin turn pale at the same time.

They readily agreed.

Gu Xiang, struggling to stay upright, bit his tongue and spat a mouthful of blood onto the snow in front of him.

He used blood as ink and his fingers as a brush to swiftly draw a complex Confucian rune in the void.

"Heaven and earth possess righteous energy, which manifests itself in myriad forms!"

Accompanied by his hoarse chanting, a surge of righteous energy burst forth from his withered chest.

The golden aura of righteousness transformed into a soft light shield that rapidly spread outwards from Su Chang'an as the center.

Wherever the light shield passed, the soul-severing law that was constantly cutting away at the soul was forcibly pushed aside and purified.

A safe zone with a diameter of 100 zhang was formed instantly.

However, at the edge of the light shield where it touched Bai Yin, Gu Xiang deliberately increased the concentration of righteous energy.

The solidified golden light barrier exuded an undisguised sense of rejection and wariness.

On the other side, Bai Yin also made a move.

He remained kneeling on one knee, his bloodshot eyes devoid of any emotion, his blood-stained face displaying only ruthless decisiveness.

"Geng metal, moving in reverse, strangulation!"

He let out a low roar, and the Geng metal evil energy within his body transformed into dozens of fine, dark red energy blades.

These air blades flew out silently, spinning rapidly close to the outer wall of the golden light shield that Gu Xiang had set up.

A small strangulation array, formed by the will to kill, quietly took shape.

Any living being that attempts to approach within a hundred feet of the light barrier will be instantly sliced ​​into a bloody mist by this silent, malevolent blade.

Bai Yin's killing aura array left no room for retreat either; sharp blades of energy clung tightly to the golden barrier, threatening to pierce through the defenses and annihilate the impoverished scholar inside.

One inside, one outside; one gold, one red; one defensive, one offensive.

Two unparalleled powerhouses who had just been fighting to the death began their first collaboration in a strange yet efficient manner at Su Chang'an's command.

They were wary of each other, yet they had no choice but to do everything in their power to complete the task assigned by the woman.