At the final moment, Ox Head unleashed a burst of true qi, blasting all three of them away at once and sending them flying backward in three different directions.
Lu Chengwen hurriedly used his lightness skill. His was the weakest, and despite his efforts, the force of the impact was still tremendous.
Fortunately, he landed in a dense little grove.
On top of that, Ox Head's final true qi bomb reduced Lu Chengwen's horizontal momentum and redirected it into vertical force. He slammed into a large tree, then began to fall.
He crashed through branch after branch. The first two snapped cleanly at the trunk, but as his momentum weakened, the later ones caught against his chest and thighs, slowing him down. Lu Chengwen spun through the air before finally hitting the muddy ground with a bang. He coughed up a mouthful of blood and lay there for a long while, unable even to roll over.
Long Aotian and Ox Head had it even worse.
Though their lightness skills were better, their landing spots were terrible.
Long Aotian landed on a barren mountainside slope, with nothing but rough yellow earth beneath him. The instant he hit the ground, he spat out blood. He clearly heard the sound of his own bones breaking, then rolled down the mountain.
Ox Head had it worse still. He fell into a field of jagged rocks.
The soil on the mountainside had been washed away by monsoon winds and rain, exposing all kinds of rocks. After years of weathering, the stones had become uneven, sharp, and rugged. Ox Head roared and activated his Golden Body, using all his true qi to protect himself!
With a thunderous crash, he slammed into the rocks and rolled downward as well.
The three of them rolled away in three