Chapter 25 Heart

When Yun Tian realized what had happened he was furious. He was both furious with the Grand Elder and himself. He did not let his emotions control him though and calmed himself down as he thought about how to best handle this.

The Grand Elder tried pleading once more, "Yun Tian cripple your own cultivation and I will let you both go. I do not truly wish to kill you two. I will even die myself after the drawbacks hit so that will be considered as my consequence, but don't make me harm Shen Yu too."

In his grasp Shen Yu was scared, but she was mostly just blaming herself for being too weak. She screamed, "Tian don't worry about me. Do whatever you need to. It doesn't matter if I die."

When he saw this happening Yun Tian had no idea what to do. He thought, 'How can I do this without hurting Shen Yu?! I am still too weak! If only I wasn't so indecisive and went for the kill earlier! Do I really need to cripple my cultivation? I can't lose Shen Yu.'

'No even if I cripple my cultivation and protect her now. That means I can't protect her in the future. It will be the same in the future where I will be too weak. I need to overcome my weakness. I need to find a way to do this.'

So Yun Tian gave up on giving in to his demands and put his all into focusing on finding a way to kill the grand elder. He knew the main thing would be being able to be faster than the Grand Elder. If he was able to move faster than the Grand Elder then he wouldn't be able to hurt Shen Yu.

So instead of doing anything immediately he put his all into thinking of ways to instantly become faster. He was already faster than the Grand Elder by a little bit, but he needed to be even faster. He thought about all he had experienced including comprehending the wind, killing intent, demonic beasts, and his body.

‘Nothing can make me faster in just a moment!’

The Grand Elder himself was on a time limit because of the pill so he couldn't let Yun Tian draw this out for too long. So he said, "You have one minute to decide."

So they sat there staring at each other with one focused on the other's movements and the other trying to find a way to become faster.

When the Grand Elder was halfway done counting though, Yun Tian seemed to feel something inside his body. He was confused but carefully felt out the energy that seemed to mysteriously appear in his body. When he did, he realized it was extremely similar to the qi he absorbed from the demonic beasts. At first he thought, 'Oh no! Is the demonic qi attacking me from the inside!?'

When he calmed down though he realized it was not attacking him at all and then he thought, 'Can I use this qi somehow? I know demonic beasts use demonic qi to strengthen their bodies. Maybe I can do the same.'

He quickly tried to get the hang of it and he realized he really could control it. He let the qi flow through his body and strengthen his limbs. He instantly felt his body greatly increase in strength.

He was very happy, but did not relax and only hoped this would give him a great enough increase in speed. By now the Grand Elder had counted down to seven seconds left so Yun Tian had no time left to waste.

He quickly poured all the strength he could into his legs and used his movement technique the best he could. He seemed to reach another form of enlightenment in this life or death moment. It wasn't like before where he moved with the wind and had no air resistance. Now the wind moved with him and actively increased his speed.

He sped towards the Grand Elder with the fastest speed he had ever used in his life and before the Grand Elder could react Yun Tian had closed in and he was close enough to attack. The Grand Elder was not ready and his defensive technique was not ready. There was a massive amount of killing intent gathered into Yun Tian's blade and with his extreme speed using his greatly increased strength there was a flash of light that not even the Grand Elder could react to.

The next moment the blade against Shen Yu's throat fell to the ground and there was a thump. The next moment was silence. Shen Yu turned around and she saw the Grand Elder's headless body on the ground. A little further back Yun Tian could be seen on the laying ground exhausted.

Shen Yu was stunned, but immediately after she disregarded everything and went to make sure Yun Tian was alright. She ran towards him and called out "Are you ok Tian!"

She cried and jumped on him to hug him on the ground.

Yun Tian reassured her saying "I am alright Shen Yu, just exhausted."

Yun Tian had poured all his energy into that attack and even went beyond his limits.

They laid there for a while with Yun Tian comforting the crying Shen Yu. She said, "I am sorry, I am too weak. Just leave me behind. All I can do is cause troubles and hold you back."

Yun Tian was stunned and quickly replied, "I don't care Shen Yu. I will never leave you. I will always protect you. We are all we have left. It doesn't matter even if one of us is not that helpful, possibly even dragging the other down, no matter what the two of us will stick together. I would rather die than lose you too."

Yun Tian truly didn't care about this aspect and only wished for Shen Yu to be safe. He didn't blame her at all. Shen Yu though didn't see things the same way and inside her heart she blamed herself for being too weak. Even his words only made her more upset. Yun Tian waited for her to stop crying and said, "Let me recover for a while first. I used up all my strength before."

Shen Yu listened to him and got off him and gave him space. Yun Tian quickly sat up and started meditating to regain his energy.