When we saw Master get blasted to the ground again, all of us grew tense.
With things as they were, once Master fell—
All of us would lose our lives...
"Master!"
"Master!"
"Senior Song!"
"..."
We all cried out.
I charged forward desperately, but several mutated evil spirits blocked my path.
The fiend-eyed evil spirit had merely been forced back several steps, one of its claws shattered into black smoke.
The eye atop its head turned and glanced around. Then it grabbed a mutated evil spirit beside it with its other ghost claw. With a howl, it bit into the mutated evil spirit and devoured it on the spot.
Black energy began to spread from its severed claw, and it grew back.
My god, how were we supposed to fight this?
We had neither timing, terrain, nor numbers on our side.
Relying on Master alone really seemed far too difficult.
I fought desperately through the encirclement and rushed to Master's side.
Master slowly rose despite his grievous injuries. Blood continuously dripped from his nose and mouth, but his eyes remained resolute.
There was not the slightest trace of fear on his face.
"Master!"
I cried out in anguish. That damned Great Fiend Eye had injured my master so badly.
But Master said hoarsely, "It's fine. This Great Fiend Eye isn't as powerful as we imagined!"
Master was already injured like this, yet he still said something like that.
Before I could speak again, Master continued, "Xiao Jiang, your jade pendant has some ability to restrain the Great Fiend, doesn't it?"
Hearing that, I instinctively touched the Phoenix-Pattern Jade Pendant on my chest. "Yes, Master. Back at Iron Mountain, the pendant did indeed have some ability to restrain the Great Fiend.
But this thing needs to be used in close combat..."