Five beams of light flared at once, carving out five separate spaces amid the towering floodwaters and shutting out the water pressing in on them.
Then the Law Fragments in the flood began to eat away at their defenses.
The fragments were tiny, smaller than a fingernail, but they were everywhere, too numerous to count.
Each fragment was a Great Dao Law compressed to its limit. They struck the five Saints' defenses from every direction at once, like countless tiny files rasping against a sheet of iron. The files were small, but there were so many that even the thickest iron could not hold.
The first crack appeared in Venerable Yuanshi's replica Three Treasures Ruyi.
Taishang Laojun's replica Taiji Diagram began to tremble violently under the flood's relentless assault. Its Yin-Yang Fish turned slower and slower.
Nuwa's replica Red Embroidered Ball was sliced again and again by the Law Fragments in the water, its protective glow growing dimmer.
The barriers of Buddhist light around Jieyin and Zhunti also thinned under the flood's erosion.
They could feel their magical power draining rapidly, their power over the Laws being canceled out bit by bit by the Great Dao Laws in the flood. What made it even more absurd was this:
They were Heavenly Dao Saints. Their magical power was inexhaustible, and their command of the Laws surpassed all things in the world.
But in this game world, they had to draw on the magical power inside their game bodies to wield it.
These bodies had only reached the Daluo Golden Immortal realm. The magical power stored within them was finite, and once it ran out, even the most exquisite command of the Laws was useless.
Venerable Yuanshi gritted his teeth and fought upward against the flood for who knew how long. At