Long Hanyu arranged for the disciples he had just rescued and learned from them why they had managed to make it here safely.
It was because of the Snow Lotus in the girl's hand.
The light emitted by the Snow Lotus could temporarily keep those monsters at bay. As they fought their way here, whenever they were in the greatest danger, the girl had burned her Soul Power and pushed the Snow Lotus's strength to its limit, allowing them to hold out amid that black tide until Long Hanyu's rescue arrived.
Long Hanyu listened somewhat absentmindedly to the disciples' praise of the girl, his gaze fixed only on her face.
He did not remember who she was, but instinctively felt that she had to be very important to him. Otherwise, he would not have changed expression so drastically upon seeing that beam of white light, nor would he have successfully comprehended Heaven-Human Unity between life and death because he had been so determined to save her.
If he had been even one second later then...
Long Hanyu shifted his gaze to the youth in the air. Dai Yunze's figure still seemed frozen in place as he did everything he could to maintain the spatial barrier and keep the black tide of monsters outside.
However, compared to before, the area the spatial barrier could protect had shrunk considerably. It now covered only a five-meter diameter, reducing the space in which they could move.
All of this was because Dai Yunze had forcibly bought five seconds for him.
That youth was the only one among them who remembered everything. Perhaps precisely because of that, when Long Hanyu had wanted to save someone, Dai Yunze had stepped forward without the slightest hesitation.
It seemed that he, too, knew how important that girl was