Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1228 - 365: [Memories]_3

He saw the face of the pursuing soldier just inches away, the momentary change from surprise to panic on his face.

Then, with a bang, his palm pressed against the opponent’s chest, sending this pursuer flying backward, spraying blood from his mouth in mid-air, while the upper part of his chest exploded, flesh and blood splattering!

Chen Yan saw "his own" palm lift up and then suddenly reverse to grab the sword stuck in his back with force, pulling it out barehanded.

He felt an excruciating pain tearing through him, but after pulling out the sword and gripping it in reverse, he viciously threw it at the pursuer standing with a sword, alert and not far away!

The blade flashed a bit with light, shooting instantly like a meteor, the sword-wielding pursuer immediately swung his sword to block.

The long sword, controlled by a certain sword control technique, spun back and forth in the air, constantly striking at the sword-wielding pursuer.

After several clangs, the sword-wielding cultivator already looked defeated, clearly lacking the strength.

But then, seeing "himself" staggeringly stand up, the sword-wielding pursuer finally shouted loudly, desperately bursting forth a wave of primordial Qi, and slashed down the falling flying sword!

Yet he immediately made a move, not to press on with victory or fight for his life, but rushing forward to grab his fallen, bleeding companion by the hair, pulling him up, and escaping in the opposite direction!!

He ran!

Chen Yan could even see the panic and fear in his eyes!

He himself was too weak to give chase. As the opponent ran into the distance, Chen Yan saw his own body sway, and the view turned towards the Empress, as his body collapsed heavily on the ground!

It turns out, the fierce counterattack earlier was nothing but a last desperate struggle, forcibly sustaining himself.

He had already reached the point where his oil had run dry and his lamp flickered.

The funny thing is, that pursuer ultimately lacked a bit of courage. Had he persisted a few seconds longer, he probably would’ve seen Zhou Qingning fall to the ground.

Then, Chen Yan saw "himself" crawling on the ground for a long time, panting heavily, reaching out a hand, feeling around his body, pulling out a storage jade pendant.

From within, he took out a porcelain bottle, poured out an elixir and swallowed it.

The medicinal power of the elixir quickly dissipated under the influence of primordial Qi, seemingly contending with the trace of mana spreading through his wounds that were devouring his life.

Chen Yan soon felt a pulling force, but unfortunately, the medicinal power of the elixir was unable to completely eliminate the mana’s assault on his injuries, only barely slowing it down.

Life energy was still draining away, one fraction at a time!

The primordial Qi in this body was disintegrating, half the body was already immobile, one leg was unable to move.

After taking the elixir, "he" finally forced himself to crawl a bit, twisting his body, limping, inch by inch, moving in a certain direction.

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The next scene, Chen Yan "saw" himself lying by the riverbank.

"His" breath had weakened even further!

The vitality of this body had nearly reached a lingering state; the mana devouring and corroding his life energy had spread through most of the body.

He had almost lost control of most of his body, like a fish nearing death, lying by the river, sustaining his last breaths.

Then, the barely movable left hand lifted up, quickly forming several complex finger techniques.

A final surge of condensed primordial Qi rose!

Chen Yan knew, this was "himself", in the final moments before death, unleashing the last unique spell by condensing primordial Qi.

After the spell, a gray aura enveloped the body.

Then, Chen Yan "saw" his perspective slowly rising!

And then, he "saw" himself become a vague figure, floating up from the ground.

While on the muddy bank, "his own" body still lay!

Strictly speaking, at this moment, it had already become a corpse!

The appearance and countenance of that corpse were unmistakably Zhou Qingning!

Chen Yan immediately realized what that spell was: abandoning the flesh, Divine Soul leaving the shell!!!

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The soul that had left the body stared at the corpse on the ground, seemingly looking for several seconds, then leaned down again.

Chen Yan saw "himself" using Divine Soul’s mana to take out the storage jade pendant from the corpse.

Then, from the storage jade pendant, he retrieved one item.

Upon retrieving the item, Chen Yan’s heart suddenly pounded!!!

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A fist-sized, black crystal!!

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As this item came into view, Chen Yan’s heart leaped sharply, even his primordial spirit trembled slightly with it!

This item, he was more familiar with than anything else!

This was the first black crystal he ever acquired!

The black stone that taught him the spell to enter the "Mirror World"!

At this moment, the black stone still contained faint power fluctuations, those fluctuations were very weak, but what astonished Chen Yan was that the fluctuation didn’t seem like ordinary primordial Qi but some sort of power he couldn’t identify.

Though faint, a simple sense of it could make one’s mind shake!

Zhou Qingning’s soul silently enveloped the stone, then "absorbed" faint threads of power from the black stone.

But as this trace of power touched Zhou Qingqing’s soul, it immediately dissipated.

At this moment, Chen Yanting heard a sigh.

It was Zhou Qingning’s voice.

Strictly speaking, it was Zhou Qingning from the memory scene, sighing.

"Still can’t comprehend... for such a thing, leaving me in this state, I was foolish!"

After speaking, she gritted her teeth, a thread of power wrapped around the black stone, and she hurled it out viciously with a splash, it fell into the water!

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