"Little sister!" Wu Xing shouted when he saw this, lunging forward to save her, but several drops of heavy water attacked him at the same time. One struck him in the neck. With a sharp crack, it shattered his throat. Wu Xing had no time to react; pain and terror twisted his face as he was sealed inside the ice.
The heavy-water droplets around them grew more numerous by the moment. In the blink of an eye, they multiplied from a few to over a dozen, then to dozens. Some were illusions, but the real and false ones were so thoroughly mixed that no one could tell which were which.
The woman with the wooden hairpin was also furious and shocked, and several drops of heavy fire struck her in quick succession, leaving her struggling to keep up.
As for the bearded man, he was already injured and had successively activated defensive talismans. But the talismans could not hold out forever. After being struck several times by the heavy-water droplets, they burst apart. This happened repeatedly, until he had used up all the talismans on him. When a heavy-water droplet struck him again, he too was frozen inside the ice.
The other two, Old Huang and Zuo Xian, were somewhat weaker and did not escape death either.
In moments, only Lu Xiaotian and the woman with the wooden hairpin were left, struggling desperately to hold on.
As Old Huang and the others died one after another beneath the One-Origin Heavy Water Illusionary Formation, the heavy-water droplets attacking the woman and Lu Xiaotian multiplied several times over. Even with Lu Xiaotian's abilities, whenever he knocked away a few, even more surged toward him at once, leaving him flustered.
After slashing several more blue-black heavy-water droplets aside, Lu Xiaotian glanced over and