"We can't hold on! Request reinforcements!"
Changle Heavenly Venerate controlled the sword formation, suppressing the gray mist, but his face grew increasingly pale and his expression anxious. "The gray mist has joined into one mass. It covers too much ground—my sword formation can't contain it anymore!"
The relaxed look vanished from Fu Ye's face as well. Sweat appeared on his forehead, and he shouted urgently:
"I've already notified the alliance! Reinforcements will be here soon!"
"Stop wasting words! Save your strength!" Red Crane maintained the red crane apparition, firmly bolstering the sword formation. Red flames surged ceaselessly, burning away the incoming gray mist, but resisting its onslaught grew more and more difficult.
"I wonder how things are going on the ninth layer?" Panting, Fu Ye glanced at the void. The earlier projection had disappeared, but terrifying fluctuations still rippled into the space around them.
"Forget about them! Let's hold out first!" Changle Heavenly Venerate said through gritted teeth.
Just then, an earthshaking roar rang out from within the gray mist. Immediately afterward, the mist rapidly contracted, and the pressure on the Great Array instantly eased.
"What's going on?"
All three were slightly startled, confusion flashing in their eyes.
Before their shock could subside, however, the gray mist condensed into an enormous winged dragon. Its body spanned a thousand miles and radiated a savage aura.
"Damn it! An evil being's will has descended through the gray mist, using the law of gray mist to form a manifestation!" Red Crane Heavenly Venerate's face darkened. Anything capable of sending even a sliver of its will through the seal and descending through layer after layer of space was unquestionably powerful.
Changle Heavenly Venerate's expression turned grave, and he shouted:
"Support my sword formation! Compress the space and suppress this abomination!"
"Right!" Fu Ye and