Life Ancient Emperor activated the strange fruit again. This time, its half brimming with vitality lit up, but what it released was not life force. Endless Life Vines, carrying the taint of paralysis and decay, surged like a green tide from every direction. They coiled toward Fang Chen, seeking to drain his life force and bind him in a cocoon.
Fire Phoenix Patriarch's Nirvana Phoenix Flame became seven small, nimble Fire Phoenixes. They sealed off every angle Fang Chen could dodge through and swooped at him with heat that could burn away the soul.
Blood Sea Patriarch's countless Blood-Shadow Demons feared death even less. They formed a tide of flesh and blood, battering madly against Fang Chen's protective Sword Light and the remnants of his Return to the Ruins Vortex.
Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor's Spear of Judgment took shape once more, poised to strike.
Fang Chen was plunged into a siege more dangerous and more precisely coordinated than before.
He was a lone skiff amid raging waves, seemingly about to be swallowed at any moment.
His wounds worsened. New cuts ran to the bone. Where the Holy Chains had grazed him, flesh split open and glimmered with purifying Golden Light. Where Life Vines had wrapped around him, his body rapidly withered and aged. The Fire Phoenixes burned him with pain that pierced his heart, while the Blood Demons' bites tainted his Vital Blood.
His aura surged and faded. At its strongest, it was a volcano on the verge of eruption; at its weakest, a candle guttering in the wind, as though it might go out the next instant.
His movements began to falter, and his Sword Moves grew slightly erratic. He looked like a spent crossbow at the end of its force.
"He can't hold on! Push harder!"
Excited howls