"Buzz..."
The Four Spirit Generals had all been slain. Their shattered bodies began to collapse and disintegrate, their broken limbs transforming into millions of motes of spiritual light that reassembled into their original forms. Like phantoms, they slowly ascended before finally vanishing into the colorful Bagua radiance at the top of the hall.
The Divine Calculator gazed at the wondrous sight before him and sighed, "The Spirit Generals have completed their mission. Their divine power has ascended and returned to its place."
The Four Spirit Generals had finally been dealt with, and everyone could at last breathe a sigh of relief. Corpses lay strewn throughout the hall, filling it with the stench of blood. After that brutal battle, nearly half of the forces on both the righteous and evil sides had once again been killed or wounded.
The enormous hall fell into a tense silence. Everyone was on edge, and no one knew how many more killing mechanisms would appear.
Clang, clang...
The others made no move, but Le Wa ignored them completely. She did not advance either, instead using the notes of the Divine Dance Lyre to produce the clashing of metal, hoping to shatter the Mystic Ice Pagoda. The music transformed into a dragon and crashed into the pagoda, but its body was indestructible and did not budge in the slightest beneath the assault.
Seeing this, the Divine Calculator immediately used what he had learned in the Five Elements Sinful Heart Formation—the far more profound orthodox and reverse divination techniques of the hexagrams—to calculate a countermeasure.
Le Wa had failed to break the Mystic Ice Pagoda, and her competitive spirit was roused. She leaped into the air and played the Divine Dance Lyre, sending out blades that carried the might to shatter mountains and split peaks as they