Inside the vortex, at the very instant Dongfang Qingxia's consciousness departed.
An unbelievable scene appeared. Those countless mist-like insects crawled over Lin Heng's back, then actually peeled themselves away on their own.
It was as if they regarded him as a fellow without the slightest nourishment of life.
Jiang Jingyi set him down to lie at one side, allowing the countless insects to infect her skin, even her eyes covered by Black Mist.
By rights, being covered by a calamity of this scale should have brought incomparable agony, yet Jiang Jingyi remained completely unmoved, not even making a sound.
An hour later.
The situation outside Five Severance Mountain was anything but optimistic. Under the siege of Chun and the others, Dugu Zixuan and her group were ultimately trapped in a low valley.
Their losses in this battle had been especially heavy. Dugu Zixuan had gone head-to-head against eight Dao Integration mighty figures, and she was already an arrow at the end of its flight.
Wu Ba, the strongest remaining combatant, had also suffered no light injuries.
Martial Man and Smoke Ghost had each lost an arm and a leg.
Dugu Feng, Shen Yeting, Shi Yuanzhou, and the others had all been wounded to varying degrees. Surrounded on all sides, they could not find the slightest chance to break through.
Likewise, the losses on Chun, Summer, Qiu, and Winter's side were not to be underestimated.
Just the Spirit Transformation great cultivators who had fallen, large and small, numbered no fewer than five hundred. They had almost been wiped out entirely.
Even no fewer than six Return to Void True Lords had died!
Toward the end, more and more people no longer dared to go up. After all, they all came from different forces and at most counted as alliance members.
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