"If your physical body were not still holding up, Your Excellency, we would not have allowed those two to survive."
With these words, the Empress of Ten Thousand Demons slowly withdrew the shards of divine sense she had dispersed within Ye Tianxuan.
Recovering his composure, Ye Tianxuan staggered and collapsed, panting heavily as his gaze followed the receding figures of Ling Xueyao and Ye Poison until they vanished into the distance, prompting a soft sigh. He knew all too well that letting Ling Xueyao leave now would likely bring a cascade of further entanglements and troubles in the future. Yet he had been at the end of his tether just moments before. When the Empress of Ten Thousand Demons had gathered her strength for a fatal blow, he had distinctly felt as though his soul and primordial spirit were about to be completely drained dry. Fortunately, the Empress had reined herself in at the very last moment, averting a catastrophe.
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