After returning from gathering information, Tong Xuan briefly reported on Chi Xue and the others' situation. When they heard that the other side was taking on three God-level Stone People at once, Tan Tai Chang Feng and the others were slightly surprised. But once they learned that the Stone People they had subdued would need decades to recover completely, they breathed a long sigh of relief and couldn't help laughing. Ling Tian's analysis had been right.
"Helping those Stone People refine the foreign energy is a sensible approach, in its own way," Ling Tian murmured. Then his tone shifted. "But the Stone People they're facing now are still the weakest. As the guardians' ranks rise, the strange Law Power of Energy they wield grows purer, making it harder to refine. They also become harder to deal with, and the ordinary Stone People they've subdued pose almost no threat to them."
"All right, let's ignore them for now and keep working on the second guardian Stone Person," Fairy Lei Ying urged. She was getting excited. "We'll know the result in a thousand or two years. Heh, I'd like to see if Chi Xue and the others are still smiling then."
"They'll probably be crying their eyes out. Hahaha..." Dragon Turtle laughed heartily.
The group didn't waste any time. They continued attacking the second guardian Stone Person.
Perhaps they were growing more accustomed to working together; perhaps their cultivation and strength had improved slightly under the relentless assault. Either way, their attacks had grown stronger, and they would likely need less time to kill the second guardian Stone Person.
More than ten years later, they still hadn't killed it, but they had already broken one of its arms, and the other was hanging by a thread.
By then, Huan Xin, Little One,