High above the Nine Heavens Cloud Terrace, wind and thunder raged like a prelude to doomsday.
Ling Xiaofeng knelt on one knee at the center of the terrace. Shards of the shattered Magnetic Essence Star Disc dug into his palm, and blood dripped between his fingers, becoming scarlet flecks of starlight within the magnetic essence divine light. His nascent soul projection was riddled with cracks. Seventy percent of his half-step Deity Transformation power had been exhausted, and every breath sent agony through his internal organs.
Wen Qing leaned against her pipa with its broken strings. Most of her Star-Pattern Battle Armor had shattered, and Long Po's flood dragon reverse scale was embedded in her exposed shoulder. Demonic energy coiled around the wound as her star power struggled to force it out.
Four enemies at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Stage surrounded them, their auras like four gallows slowly tightening around their necks.
Wan Sangu's blood-red demonic dress snapped in the wind. The Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner spun above her head, its million tormented souls forming a Soul Whip. Each lash struck the Twin Saints' protective energy with the sharp clang of metal against stone. "Ling Xiaofeng, Wen Qing! Hand over the source essence of Magnetic Essence Mountain, and I'll grant you a quick death!"
Six Paths Extreme Sage's black robes billowed. Six Reincarnation Puppets flew out of the Six Paths Reincarnation Diagram, scarlet ghostfire dancing in their eye sockets. Wielding Reincarnation Halberds, they thrust at Ling Xiaofeng's vital points from different angles-this was the Six Harmonies Soul-Locking Formation, designed specifically to imprison half-step Deity Transformation cultivators.
Long Po's true flood dragon form coiled along the terrace's edge, water runes flowing across his blue-black scales. His dragon breath became a waterfall of Ten Thousand Waters Return to the Source, pouring down