Ji Yuan actually had a choice when he was being attacked by the Iron Mountain Tie Da and he did not almost die as he had claimed.
He was only trying to tell Xiang Li and Anyang that he was a pitiful man that was neglected by his maidens.
However, he had scored 0 sympathy points with Anyang or Xiang Li who were both giggling when he got attacked.
And this annoyed Ji Yuan a little that he had earned 0 sympathy points from all his maidens.
When Ji Yuan was being attacked by the powerful profound energies that had detonated over him, he had two options to resist it.
The first option was to display one of his most powerful profound arts to an attempt to neutralize profound energies with profound energies.
The second option was more unreliable and that was to use the Golden Invincible Force that was imparted to him by the Great God Pangu.