I alone am the Honoured One!

The slow winds howled through the rocky desert, carrying the desert sand with it.

The sky above was fractured into large shards like mirrors.

And two figures lay in the middle of this strange land amidst fractured boulders and soft glimmers of distorted space hovering in the air.

One is a man with a missing right arm and his skin is laced with gashes and bruises, dried blood painting his face and chest.

The other one is a woman cradled gently in his remaining arm, and her body trembled faintly as breath slowly returned to her lungs.

Zhao Tian blinked slowly as the blinding light rushed into his vision.

There was no sun, but some dull illumination existed, just enough to see.

In the next second, pain shot through his entire body, and he turned his gaze to look at his arm, which is missing.

Charred flesh, torn muscle, cracked bone. Blood still dripped sluggishly, seeping into the sand beneath him.

His robes are already shredded, and there is only thin cloth on him, leaving him almost naked.

A gentle yellow energy passed through his body as he used the light energy to quickly heal himself.

His muscles, tendons and bones regrew slowly as he turned his head to the woman on top of him.

Her robes are already torn; her skin is also torn in many places with dark clotted blood, just like him.

His eyes flickered to her thigh, and from mid-thigh down, there was nothing but scorched flesh and shattered bone, roughly cauterized by the rupture's chaotic energy.

Closing his eye, he placed a hand on her back and used his light energy to heal her.

Feeling the refreshing energy flow through her body, Yan Zijin's eyelashes fluttered, and raised her gaze.

The first thing she saw was Zhao Tian's face which is filled with dirt and blood, and his blood-clotted white hair is sticking to his face.

"Tian..."

She half-consciously looked at the energy flowing through her body.

'Light energy...?'

She closed her eyes for a moment as the pain on her leg and the overall pain began to quickly dim under his light.

"Master."

Yan Zijin's blurry gaze looked around, and she saw the desert surrounding her.

A wasteland of sand and fractured stone, bathed in a dull gray light that seemed to come from nowhere.

"Are...we alive?"

The question wasn't rhetorical.

She truly didn't know.

Because this place, felt more like the afterlife than the mortal world.

Hearing her hoarse voice, Zhao Tian nodded slowly, and the motion caused a splash of dried blood to fall from his jawline onto her bare shoulder.

"Yeah..we are."

"We are now in the core of the rupture... This place must have been swallowed by the rupture long ago."

Her severed leg is already restored by Zhao Tian's light energy, and as she tried to move away from him, another pain shot through her body.

"Augh-" She winced in pain as she felt like a thousand needles twisting inside her body.

Zhao Tian muttered "Don't move around much...the space energy must have rattled your entire internal body system."

"Light energy can only heal external wounds. It will take some time..."

His breath hitched slightly as he shifted his weight, his remaining arm trembling as he adjusted their positions.

He gently eased her off his body, cradling her with gentle care before laying her beside him on the strangely warm, grainy sand.

Yan Zijin let out a shallow breath as her back touched the sand, her body still aching but her consciousness now clear enough to register her surroundings.

The air was dry, filled with floating particles of dust and distortion.

She raised her gaze, looking at the fractured sky.

Feeling the wind brushing past her body, she muttered "I am naked."

Zhao Tian turned her gaze to look at her "That's the least of our concerns in this situation."

Yan Zijin had a stoic face as she continued gazing at the sky "Did you see my naked body?"

With a nod, he replied "Yeah, I did...your breasts are pressing against me, so I had to move you a bit."

As he spoke, his gaze flickered to her luscious body.

Though partially smeared with dirt and dried blood, the soft curves of her body still held their beauty.

Her red nipples, faintly hardened by the wind, peeked through strands of white hair and torn fabric.

"Don't stare at them, you immoral disciple."

"Sorry."

Yan Zijin just stayed silent with an expressionless face "Thank you for saving me in the rupture."

"I never knew you can actually survive a rupture."

Zhao Tian just lay there and muttered "I don't want to lose my only remaining Master."

Upon hearing this, Yan Zijin's gaze quivered slightly "I need a... little rest."

"Go on."

Yan Zijin closed her eyes and felt the faint relief washing over her body.

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A few minutes later, she woke up and glanced at Zhao Tian, who was sitting beside her, thinking about something.

She noticed that he had wrapped torn pieces of his robe around his waist, enough to cover himself in a makeshift cloth, though it barely reached past his knees

Then she looked down at her own torn clothes, which are torn in all the wrong places revealing her body, and she was sure it is not enough to hide both of her private parts.

'He is my disciple...'

She slowly pulled herself up but again groaned as the pain hit her.

Hm? Zhao Tian turned to look at her and frowned slightly "Need my help?"

Yan Zijin gave a faint nod, and he gently grabbed her hand to pull her up.

As she got up a little, a smooth rock appeared behind her, giving her something to lean on.

Huh? She turned her head in surprise as a rock suddenly appeared on the place she was resting.

Her gaze flickered back to him, suspicious now "That rock…?"

Zhao Tian met her eyes and showed a sheepish smile "I thought you could use something to lean on."

Her brows rose slightly. "First light energy… and now earth elemental? You can use all elementals?"

Zhao Tian smiled dryly and gave a nod "Yeah, pretty much."

She gave him a flat look "And you hid it from me..."

He tried to look away, but his gaze unconsciously fell on her breasts.

The soft swell of her breasts was partially covered by torn fabric, but not enough. The redness of her nipples stood out against the bruised skin, dusted with grime and faint traces of dried blood.

Seeing this, Yan Zijin closed her eyes and let out a sigh "I told you to stop looking at it."

"My bad. It's hard to focus when you are lying next to me naked."

"Then try harder."

"Yes Master."

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