Chapter 495: Killing Xing Tian!
"Huh? What is that?"
At that moment, a startled cry suddenly rang out from the crowd. Immediately afterward, more exclamations followed one after another.
"He is not dead. Li Yun is actually not dead."
"He is still alive."
Everyone’s eyes turned toward the deep crater.
There, they saw a figure drenched in blood slowly climbing out from the depths. His flesh was torn, his body looked mangled, and his appearance was utterly disheveled. Yet around him, blue lightning continued to flash.
Although his injuries were extremely severe, everyone could still clearly recognize him.
That person was none other than Li Yun.
"He actually did not die!"
Crown Prince Xing Tian’s expression completely changed, and his heart was filled with shock and fury to the extreme.
The Annihilating Profound Thunder was a great killing weapon equivalent to a full-force strike from an Earthly Core Realm expert. Yet even after using such a weapon, it had failed to kill Li Yun. How was this possible? How could such a thing happen?
"Crown Prince Xing Tian, you seem quite disappointed that you failed to kill me."
Li Yun’s injuries were extremely severe. The corner of his mouth twitched as he revealed a cold and sharp smile, one so icy and sinister that anyone could clearly see the killing intent hidden within it.
Just moments ago, he had truly experienced the feeling of hanging by a thread between life and death.
He had underestimated the thunder bead far too much. Even so, Li Yun had still managed to devour all the lightning within it and turn that power into his own.
This had truly been a brush with the gates of the underworld.
At this moment, the killing intent emanating from his entire body was intense to the extreme. It almost seemed to take physical form, lingering around him like a sinister and terrifying aura.
"Disappointed?"
Crown Prince Xing Tian felt terror surge in his heart, but his expression quickly turned ferocious. He sneered and said, "Li Yun, even if you luckily survived, what does it matter? You are already injured to this extent. Killing you will only take one more move from me. Why would I be disappointed?"
"Die! Violet Thunder Tribulation Eye!"
Crown Prince Xing Tian roared fiercely.
His eyes blazed like miniature suns, and fierce electric light shot out like a silver dragon, aiming straight for Li Yun’s heart.
"You are the one who will die."
Li Yun shouted loudly, and his body instantly erupted with three and a half times the speed of sound.
Boom!
His entire body shot forward like a violent bolt of lightning. With a single sword strike, he directly cleaved apart the purple electric light, then appeared before Crown Prince Xing Tian in an instant. Without the slightest hesitation, he threw a punch.
"Supreme Hegemony Fist!"
Thud!
With just one punch, Crown Prince Xing Tian was blasted apart, and blood sprayed across the sky.
Bang!
Facing Li Yun’s furious punch, Crown Prince Xing Tian did not even have time to react before his body was directly destroyed by a single blow.
A cloud of blood mist burst apart and splattered across the sky.
Crown Prince Xing Tian was dead.
At this moment, the entire audience was horrified.
"He is dead. Crown Prince Xing Tian actually died."
"The sky has fallen. It truly has. The dignified crown prince of the Starheaven Ancient Kingdom was actually beaten to death. A massive storm is bound to erupt from this."
"Li Yun actually dared to kill him."
Everyone was dumbfounded, barely able to believe their own eyes.
No one could believe that Li Yun had survived the Annihilating Profound Thunder, a killing weapon equivalent to a full-force strike from an Earthly Core Realm expert. No one could believe that Li Yun had actually dared to kill Crown Prince Xing Tian in broad daylight.
One had to understand that this was the dignified crown prince of a nation.
He was the crown prince of the Starheaven Ancient Kingdom.
How did Li Yun dare to strike?
By what right did he dare to strike?
"He actually killed the crown prince?"
At this moment, even Princess Yuehan was completely stunned. Her beautiful eyes widened as she looked at Li Yun as if he were a monster.
Princess Yuehan and the others were all shocked beyond words.
Crown Prince Xing Tian had actually died right in front of so many of them.
All of them had watched helplessly as Crown Prince Xing Tian was killed, unable to offer even the slightest resistance.
It was easy to imagine that once this news spread, all of them would be deemed useless by the Starheaven Ancient Kingdom. They would be forced to bear the full brunt of its wrath, and some of them might even be executed to accompany Crown Prince Xing Tian in death.
Li Yun then turned his gaze toward Princess Yuehan and the others.
He did not say anything, but that single glance carried an unmistakable warning. A moment later, blue lightning flashed around his body, and he disappeared from the battlefield.
"Miss, should we follow him?"
One of Princess Yuehan’s subordinates narrowed his eyes and sneered. "He is heavily injured right now. If we strike while he is weak..."
Princess Yuehan immediately understood what he was thinking, but she shook her head.
"That glance just now was his warning to us not to go after him. If I am not mistaken, even in his current condition, that man still has enough strength to kill us if he truly wants to."
After saying this, Princess Yuehan looked in the direction where Li Yun had disappeared. Her expression was complicated, but she did not hesitate for long.
"Let us go. We are leaving."
With that, her team turned around and walked away.
As for Li Yun, after leaving the battlefield, he found a hidden cave in a secluded area and entered it. Only after confirming that there was no one nearby did he sit down cross-legged.
With a thought, Li Yun directly took out one Life Creation Pill.
Without hesitation, he swallowed the Life Creation Pill in one gulp. Then, he closed his eyes, calmed his mind, and focused all of his attention on absorbing the medicinal power within the pill.
The Life Creation Pill was worthy of being a precious Earth Rank medicinal pill. The moment its medicinal power spread through his body, warm and vigorous energy flowed into his limbs, bones, meridians, and flesh. Wherever that energy passed, his torn flesh began to heal, his cracked skin started to close, and the damaged parts of his body recovered at a visible speed.
Only one hour later, the injuries on Li Yun’s body had completely healed.
Not even a trace of his previous wounds remained.
Compared to the blood-drenched and miserable state he had been in an hour ago, Li Yun now looked like a completely different person.
Seeing this result, Li Yun only gave a faint smile.
After recovering from his injuries, he did not waste the remaining medicinal power of the Life Creation Pill. Instead, he immediately guided that energy through his body and began using it to cultivate the Ninefold Origin Flesh Scripture.