Sheng Zheng saw Daoist Qi's interception broken through in the blink of an eye, without buying even a moment's time. His expression turned cold, for this had thrown his plans and arrangements into disarray.
Moreover, judging from the direction Zhang Yu had charged in from, he was coming straight toward their position.
Councilor Chuan suggested at this moment, "I should deal with him instead. True Cultivator Qi likely cannot hold on any longer."
As one who cultivated the Dao of Seeking Wholeness, Daoist Qi likewise had only two external bodies that were truly suitable. Though he had another one here, it could only barely wield his fundamental Dao art and could not display much power. Going up against this man again would simply be sending it to its death.
Sheng Zheng rejected this. "No. You must guide and control the Dao-Suppressing Treasure. Without you, the Dao-Suppressing Treasure cannot contend with Celestial Xia through its own circulation alone. We must choose someone else."
Councilor Chuan said, "Then how are we to deal with this man? At present, our manpower is divided among three places, our spread too broad. We cannot spare anyone capable for the moment."
With the external bodies of Xu and Qi destroyed, it was practically equivalent to losing two cultivators of the Dao of Seeking Wholeness.
And after the Mechanism-Transforming Plume had been used earlier, although it had eliminated some of the golden sand, more golden sand had emerged afterward. It appeared that while this treasure had indeed destroyed part of the opposing Dao treasure, it had failed to produce the intended effect. Instead, it had left them one Dao-Suppressing Treasure short of what they could employ on the battlefield.
If they wished to maintain their advantage over Celestial Xia, it was impossible to draw away any additional