Sage Jieyin was so grief-stricken that his mind had begun to waver. Coupled with his fate being linked to Sage Zhunti's, he was affected as well, and his strength had already been greatly diminished.
Nuwa attacked without mercy.
After being smashed several times...
Sage Jieyin finally steadied his mind. Using the Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit to protect himself, he continued to battle Nuwa and the Queen Mother of the West, barely holding the situation together.
Sage Jieyin understood clearly in his heart:
The Ancestral Witches had already dealt with his junior brother. He would definitely be next. When the time came, with the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Nuwa, and the Queen Mother of the West joining forces, he too would be extinguished and return to the Heavenly Dao!
"Alas..."
"What wrong have my brother and I done?"
Zhunti had been running about in the east all this time. Perhaps he had done many things that others despised, things that disregarded a Saint's dignity, but had it not all been for the Western World?
If Hongjun had not left behind such a mess...
Why would the two of them have ended up like this?
Meanwhile.
Within the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array, a strand of Primordial Violet Qi wrapped around Sage Zhunti's true spirit, drifting gently through the formation. It seemed unaffected by the formation's spatial restrictions and vanished in an instant!
Not only that.
Figures tumbled out one after another, while many wandering souls rose up as well. Yet they were trapped within the formation, drifting about aimlessly, on the verge of being worn away by the baleful aura.
At that moment, Zhu Rong's voice rang out:
"Big Brother!"
"Th-this... these are disciples of the Intercepting Sect, right?"
The Ancestral Witches also emerged from the formation one after another,